Amending Immigration Rules: Provincial Nominee Program
Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 159, Number 8:
Regulations Amending the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (Provincial Nominee Program)
Amendments
1 (1) Subsections 87(2) to (4) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations footnote 1 are replaced by the following:
Member of class
(2) Subject to subsection (5), a foreign national is a member of the provincial nominee class if they are named in a nomination certificate that is
- (a) issued by the government of a province under a provincial nomination agreement that is in force between that province and the Minister at the time of nomination;
- (b) made in accordance with the provincial selection criteria that have been approved in writing by the Minister; and
- (c) made on the basis of the foreign national’s ability to become economically established in Canada and their intention to reside in the province that has nominated them.
Evaluation by province
(3) The government of a province that issues the nomination certificate has the sole responsibility to evaluate, according to the provincial selection criteria that have been approved in writing by the Minister, both the foreign national’s ability to become economically established in Canada and their intention to reside in that province.
(2) The Regulations are amended by replacing “paragraph 2(a)” with “subsection (2)” in the following provisions:
- (a) the portion of subsection 87(5) before paragraph (a); and
- (b) subsection 87(10).
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Coming into Force
2 These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are registered.