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Ontario Workforce Priority Stream: Complete OINP Guide 2026

The OINP has one stream now. On June 26, 2026, Ontario closed all eight remaining OINP streams and replaced them with the Ontario Workforce Priority stream, under amendments to Ontario Regulation 422/17. This guide explains every requirement in plain language. The EOI system is expected to reopen later this summer — use the window to prepare, and estimate your points with our free calculator.

What Changed — and When

This is the largest restructuring in the OINP’s history, delivered as Phase 1 of a two-phase redesign. The Entrepreneur and Regional Immigration Pilot streams were revoked earlier, on May 30, 2026 (O. Reg. 47/26). On June 26, 2026, the remaining eight streams closed permanently:

  • Employer Job Offer: Foreign Worker
  • Employer Job Offer: International Student
  • Employer Job Offer: In-Demand Skills
  • Express Entry: Human Capital Priorities
  • Express Entry: Skilled Trades
  • Express Entry: French-Speaking Skilled Worker
  • Masters Graduate
  • PhD Graduate

If you already have a file in the system: applications submitted under a former stream before June 26 continue to be assessed under the rules in effect at the time of submission. EOI profiles that never received an invitation are being automatically withdrawn — they do not carry over. When the new system opens, everyone starts with a fresh EOI.

 


One Stream, Three Pathways

The Ontario Workforce Priority stream covers every National Occupational Classification (NOC) occupation through three pathways, each with its own requirements:

  1. TEER 0–3 pathway — skilled workers with a full-time, permanent Ontario job offer;
  2. TEER 4–5 pathway — essential and intermediate workers with a full-time, permanent Ontario job offer (a major broadening: the old In-Demand Skills stream was limited to a short occupation list, while this pathway covers all TEER 4 and 5 occupations);
  3. Self-employed physicians — no job offer required.

Your TEER category is the second digit of your 5-digit NOC code. Confirm it on the Government of Canada NOC website before doing anything else — it determines every requirement that applies to you.


How the Stream Works

A provincial nomination is Ontario’s endorsement of you for permanent residence. In short: your employer registers the job offer, you register an Expression of Interest, Ontario invites the highest-scoring candidates, and your employer’s position approval and your nomination application are assessed together. If nominated, you apply to IRCC — which makes the final decision on permanent residence. The full timeline, with every deadline, is in Step-by-step process and deadlines below.


Applicant Requirements (Job Offer Pathways)

To be nominated you must clear every one of the following:

  1. An employer who has registered and applied for approval of your position — and whose application is approved, because your nomination cannot succeed without it.
  2. An invitation to apply, acted on within the deadline.
  3. Documentary proof of every scoring factor you claimed in your EOI.
  4. The stream requirements set out below (work experience, licence, language, education, legal status and intention to live in Ontario).

One principle runs through the whole stream: you attest first, prove later. Anything you claim at the EOI stage must be backed by documents at the application stage, and you must meet all criteria at the moment you register your EOI, not just when you apply.

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Work experience (or mandatory licence or other authorization)

“Job offer employment position” is a defined term: the specific position your employer is seeking approval for — same occupation, same employer, same location. Experience “in the position” means exactly that, not merely similar work elsewhere.

TEER 0–3 pathway — four ways to qualify

  • Option A — 6 months in the position: at least 6 months of consecutive, paid, full-time work in the job offer position (same occupation, same employer, same location) within the 12 months before applying — fits workers already employed by the sponsoring employer. Here “full-time” means the position requires at least 30 paid hours per week and at least 390 paid hours over a 12-month period.
  • Option B — 2 years cumulative in the occupation: at least 2 years of cumulative, paid, full-time work in the same NOC occupation as the job offer within the past 5 years — this is the only option where experience with other employers counts. “Full-time” means at least 30 paid hours per week totalling at least 3,120 paid hours over 2 years. Part-time equivalents also qualify: one job at 15+ hours per week reaching 3,120 hours over 4 years, or multiple concurrent jobs at 30+ combined hours per week reaching 3,120 hours over 2 years. Breaks between jobs are permitted — “cumulative” means the hours add up over the window.
  • Option C — 3 months for recent Ontario graduates: at least 3 months of consecutive, paid, full-time work in the job offer position within the last 12 months, if you graduated within the last 3 years from an eligible Ontario institution with a qualifying credential — a 2-year+ diploma or degree, Ontario College Graduate Certificate, Master’s or PhD. The same 30-hour / 390-hour full-time definition as Option A applies.
  • Option D — hold the mandatory licence: if your position legally requires a licence or authorization under Ontario or Canadian law and you hold it, you can qualify with no work experience at all.

Licensing exemption: Option D applies only to the TEER 0–3 pathway, and there is one carve-out — transport truck drivers (NOC 73300) and bus, subway and transit operators (NOC 73301) must still meet the 6-month requirement even if licensed, and even if they are recent Ontario graduates.

Alternate-occupation experience (relevant to Option B) is allowed only for combinations expressly listed in the regulation: engineering professionals (Sub-Major Group 213) toward engineering technical positions (Sub-Major Group 223); pharmacists (NOC 31120) toward pharmacy assistant positions (NOC 33103); and registered or licensed practical nurses (NOC 31301 / 32101) toward nurse aide, orderly and patient service associate positions (NOC 33102). Do not assume any other “related occupation” counts — verify the exact combination.

TEER 4 or 5 — one way only

At least 9 months of cumulative, paid, full-time work in the job offer employment position — meaning with the job offer employer — within the 2 years before applying. “Full-time” here means at least 30 paid hours per week and at least 1,170 paid hours over a 12-month period. There is no licensing shortcut, no graduate reduction, and no credit for the same occupation with a different employer.

Counting rules that decide close cases

Only experience completed by the time you submit counts — nothing prospective. Vacation, regular sick days and other standard paid short-term leave don’t interrupt full-time employment, but extended leaves do, and their duration must be excluded from your calculation. In marginal files — a maternity leave inside the 12-month window, a gap between contracts, hours that hover around 30 per week — these counting rules are where eligibility is won or lost. Have them assessed professionally before your EOI, not after a procedural fairness letter.


Mandatory Licence or Authorization

Separate from the work experience shortcut: if your position requires a licence or authorization under Ontario or Canadian law, you must hold it — valid — at the time you apply and throughout the entire nomination period. A lapsed registration mid-process can cost you the nomination. Check your occupation’s licensing body through Ontario’s jobs and employment resources or Skilled Trades Ontario.

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Language

Where a test is required, you need the minimum CLB in all four abilities — reading, writing, listening and speaking — on a test taken within the 2 years before you apply. One low band fails the whole test.

  • TEER 0–3 (general): CLB 6 or higher.
  • TEER 0–3 (listed skilled trades): CLB 5 or higher. The listed groups are Major Group 72 (technical trades and transportation officers/controllers, excluding Sub-Major Group 726), Major Group 73 (general trades), Major Groups 82 and 83 (natural resources, agriculture and related production), Major Group 93 (central control and process operators, excluding aircraft assemblers/inspectors under Sub-Major Group 932), Minor Group 6320 (cooks, butchers, bakers) and Unit Group 62200 (chefs).
  • TEER 0–3 (recent Ontario graduates): fully exempt from language testing if you hold one of the qualifying Ontario credentials described above.
  • TEER 4–5: CLB 4 or higher — no exemptions.

Accepted tests: for English, IELTS General Training only (not Academic, not One Skill Retake), CELPIP General (when booking, select “IRCC purposes” as the test reason and IRCC as the receiving institution so the OINP can verify your result), or PTE Core (not PTE Academic). For French, TEF Canada or TCF Canada. Booking the wrong test variant is one of the most common — and most expensive — mistakes we see.

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Education

  • TEER 0–3 (general): a postsecondary degree or diploma requiring at least one year of full-time study — meaning at least 15 hours of instruction per week across an academic year of two semesters, including any workplace training that is part of the program — from an eligible Canadian institution, or its foreign equivalent. Part-time study can qualify if the program equals at least one full-time academic year.
  • TEER 0–3 (listed skilled trades): a Canadian secondary school diploma or its foreign equivalent.
  • Nurse aides (NOC 33102): a specific rule — an Ontario college certificate requiring at least one year of full-time study from an eligible Canadian institution.
  • Licensed positions: the licence itself can satisfy the education requirement (transport truck drivers and bus/transit operators excluded).
  • TEER 4–5: a Canadian secondary school diploma or its foreign equivalent.

Foreign credentials need an Educational Credential Assessment (ECA) less than 5 years old on the date you apply, from an IRCC-designated organization: World Education Services (WES), Comparative Education Service (University of Toronto), International Credential Assessment Service of Canada (ICAS), International Credential Evaluation Service (ICES), International Qualifications Assessment Service (IQAS), the Medical Council of Canada (physicians) or the Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada (pharmacists). Fees and processing times differ — for Iranian documents in particular, ask us which assessor handles your credential type most smoothly before you pay.


Legal Status in Canada (If Applying From Inside Canada)

If you’re in Canada when you apply, you must hold valid status — a work permit, study permit or visitor record. Maintained status counts: if you applied to IRCC to extend or change your status before your document expired and are awaiting a decision, you may apply to the OINP and continue working or studying under your existing conditions. But being in Canada without valid status at the time of nomination can disqualify you — if your status is fragile, fixing it comes before everything else.


Intention to Live and Work in Ontario

You must show you genuinely intend to settle in Ontario after permanent residence. The OINP weighs ties such as current or past work in Ontario, job applications and interviews, studies, volunteering, a lease or property, prior visits, professional networks, and family and personal relationships in the province. This is where the whole file tells a story — a job offer in Windsor alongside a lease, a spouse’s job and a child’s school registration in another province raises questions an officer will ask.


Employer and Job Offer Requirements

Your file cannot succeed on your merits alone — the employer’s application for approval of the employment position must itself be approved. The employer must have been in active business for at least 3 years, have a business premises in Ontario where you will work, and have no outstanding orders under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 or the Occupational Health and Safety Act. They must meet minimum gross revenue and minimum Canadian citizen / permanent resident full-time staffing thresholds tied to the job’s location, and — if you currently live outside Canada or work outside Ontario — show sufficient efforts to recruit a Canadian citizen or permanent resident before offering you the position.

The job offer itself must be full-time and permanent, in Ontario, urgently necessary to the business, unaffected by any labour dispute, and at or above the required wage level for the occupation and location.

Timing and conduct obligations: if you already work for the employer in the position, you must stay employed in it continuously until nomination and through the entire post-nomination period until IRCC decides your permanent residence application. If you don’t yet work there, the offer takes effect the day you get your work permit and start. Once you’re nominated and working, the employer must pay the approved wage and honour the approved terms — and any change to duties, wage, hours or term must be reported to the OINP immediately. A quiet raise, a new job title, a move to another branch: all reportable.

One exclusion to know: positions where the Ontario Public Service (or an OPS entity) is the employer are not accepted; other public-sector employers not staffed by OPS employees may participate if they meet all criteria. Full details are in the OINP Employer’s Guide and section 4 of O. Reg. 422/17. We advise employers on all of this — a willing employer who finds the Portal burdensome is a solvable problem.


Employer Requirements — What Your Employer Must Show

For both job offer pathways, the employer’s application for approval of the employment position must itself be approved. The employer must:

  • Have at least 3 years of active business operation and a business premises in Ontario where you will work;
  • Have no outstanding orders under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 or the Occupational Health and Safety Act;
  • Meet minimum gross revenue and minimum Canadian citizen / permanent resident full-time staffing thresholds based on the job location — under the former structure these were $1,000,000 (GTA) and $500,000 (outside the GTA), and the redesign introduces reduced revenue thresholds for rural communities (census divisions under 150,000 population); rural and Northern employers should confirm their location’s threshold under the amended regulation;
  • Offer a full-time, permanent position — no predetermined end date, at least 1,560 hours per year — that is urgently necessary to the business and not affected by a labour dispute;
  • Pay at least the required wage level for the occupation and region — generally the regional median wage, with one new exception: a job offer to a qualifying recent Ontario graduate under TEER 0–3 may meet the regional low-wage level instead;
  • Demonstrate recruitment efforts to hire a Canadian citizen or permanent resident first, if you currently live outside Canada or work outside Ontario.

Employer Portal note: employers already registered in the Portal do not need to re-register — but job offers and employment position approvals from the former streams do not carry over. Once the Portal reopens, a new job offer and a new application for approval must be submitted under the new stream.


Step-by-Step Process and Deadlines

  1. Employer submits the job offer in the Employer Portal. You receive a job offer ID.
  2. You register your EOI using that ID — within 30 calendar days of the employer’s submission, or the ID dies.
  3. If invited: the employer submits the application for approval of the employment position within 14 calendar days of the invitation; you submit your application and pay within 17 calendar days — and you cannot submit until the employer has. You can draft your application throughout the 17 days, so the practical rule is: have everything ready before the invitation arrives. Note your application file number differs from your EOI number.
  4. If approved: you receive a nomination approval letter, a nomination certificate, and — where applicable — a work permit support letter, and move to the federal stage.

A warning about representatives: applications submitted by self-appointed representatives are invalid — the OINP withdraws them, returns the file as incomplete and refunds the fee, and you lose your invitation. Only authorized representatives (an RCIC in good standing with the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants, or a lawyer or paralegal licensed by the Law Society of Ontario) may act on OINP files, appointed through the official process. Ghasedak’s principal is both an RCIC (R706857) and an LSO-licensed paralegal and can be properly appointed on your file.

Also note: self-employed professionals and contractors — anyone without a true employer-employee relationship — are not eligible under this stream, with the single exception of self-employed physicians.


Self-Employed Physicians

Physicians are the only applicants who need no job offer and are exempt from both the other applicant requirements and all employer requirements. To qualify you must hold an OHIP billing number (i.e., be eligible for payment for publicly funded health services under the Health Insurance Act) and be a member in good standing of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario holding a certificate of registration in one of three classes: independent practice, academic practice, or provisional. A postgraduate education licence does not qualify — those physicians need a job offer like everyone else. Physicians contact the OINP directly to begin an EOI and, if invited, submit and pay within 17 calendar days. Physicians in TEER 0–3 can also elect the Express Entry nomination route.


EOI Scoring Factors — the Full Grid

Points determine who gets invited. Every factor you claim must later be proven with documents, and scoring is separate from eligibility — a high score with a missing stream requirement is still a refusal. Estimate your score now with our free calculator: ghasedak.ca/oinp-points-calculator, or work through the grid:

  • NOC TEER category (prepopulated): TEER 0–1 — 9; TEER 2–3 — 6; TEER 4–5 — 0.
  • Broad occupational category (first NOC digit): health (3) — 10; trades/transport (7) — 8; sciences (2) — 6; categories 0, 1, 4, 8, 9 — 4; categories 5, 6 — 2.
  • Hourly wage (job offer applicants): $40+ — 15; $35–39.99 — 12; $30–34.99 — 10; $25–29.99 — 8; $20–24.99 — 5; under $20 — 0.
  • Ontario experience in the job offer position: over 24 months — 18; 13–24 — 15; 6–12 — 12; under 6 months — 0, but a fallback then scores general Ontario work experience: over 24 months — 12; 13–24 — 9; 6–12 — 6. Physicians score the same top bands on cumulative Ontario medical practice.
  • Earnings history (any CRA Notice of Assessment from the last 5 years): $70,000+ in a year — 8; $50,000–69,999 — 6; $30,000–49,999 — 4.
  • Legal status: valid work permit — 10; valid study permit — 5.
  • Highest education (Canadian credential or ECA required): doctorate or degree in medicine/dentistry/veterinary/optometry — 10; Master’s — 8; bachelor’s or a university credential above bachelor level — 6; Ontario College Graduate Certificate, other college or trades credentials, or a university credential below bachelor level — 5.
  • Canadian credentials (postsecondary, 1+ year full-time, eligible institution): more than one — 10; one — 5.
  • Language ability (lowest CLB across the four abilities; if you tested in both languages, the higher test counts): CLB 9+ — 15; CLB 8 — 12; CLB 7 — 8; CLB 6 — 4.
  • Both official languages (each test CLB 6+ across all abilities): 10; one language — 5.
  • Region of the work location: Northern Ontario — 15; Eastern, Central (outside GTA) and Southwestern Ontario — 10; GTA except Toronto — 5; City of Toronto — 0. For physicians, region follows the practice address on the OHIP billing registration.

Two strategic reads: a CLB 7→9 jump is worth 7 points on its own — often the cheapest points available — and the regional grid means an identical job pays 10–15 more points in Sudbury or Windsor than in Toronto.


Regional Definitions

Regions follow Census Divisions:

  • Northern (15 points): Muskoka, Haliburton, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Manitoulin, Sudbury, Greater Sudbury, Timiskaming, Cochrane, Algoma, Thunder Bay, Rainy River, Kenora.
  • Eastern (10 points): Frontenac, Hastings, Kawartha Lakes, Lanark, Leeds and Grenville, Lennox and Addington, Northumberland, Ottawa, Peterborough, Prescott and Russell, Prince Edward, Renfrew, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry.
  • Central, outside the GTA (10 points): Dufferin, Grey, Simcoe, Waterloo, Wellington.
  • Southwestern (10 points): Brant, Bruce, Chatham-Kent, Elgin, Essex, Haldimand-Norfolk, Hamilton, Huron, Lambton, Middlesex, Niagara, Oxford, Perth.
  • GTA except Toronto (5 points): Durham, Halton, Peel and York regional municipalities.
  • Toronto (0 points): the City of Toronto.

For the education factors, “eligible institution” lists are set out in full below, and the authoritative version is on the official stream page — check yours by name before claiming Canadian-credential points.


Master’s and PhD Graduates — and Everyone Else Without a Job Offer

The Masters Graduate and PhD Graduate streams — which required no job offer — are permanently closed. Under Phase 1, international graduates generally need a qualifying full-time, permanent job offer to access the OINP, though recent Ontario graduates get real advantages within the TEER 0–3 pathway: a 3-month experience option, a full language-test exemption, and the low-wage-level exception for their employers. Candidates without a job offer should assess federal options such as the Canadian Experience Class through Express Entry.

Phase 2 of the redesign may introduce additional streams — a Priority Healthcare stream, an Exceptional Talent stream and a redesigned Entrepreneur stream have been signalled — but none has confirmed eligibility rules or a launch date. Do not build a strategy on an unconfirmed stream.


Document Preparation Checklist

Gather these before the EOI system reopens so your file is submission-ready the moment an invitation lands. Not every item applies to every applicant — a self-employed physician, for instance, skips the employer and job-offer group.

Identity and status

  • Valid passport (and any prior passports covering your work-experience period);
  • Current Canadian status document if you’re inside Canada — work permit, study permit or visitor record — plus proof of maintained status if your extension is pending;
  • Marriage, birth and family documents if you’re including a spouse or dependants at the federal stage.

Job offer and current employment

  • The signed job offer showing the position, NOC, wage, hours, location and that it is full-time and permanent;
  • Your employer’s job offer ID from the Employer Portal;
  • If you already work there: recent pay stubs, your employment contract and a letter confirming your continuing employment.

Work experience

  • Reference letters on company letterhead stating your job title, dates, hours per week, duties and salary — the hours and duties are what prove the requirement, so vague letters get files refused;
  • Pay records, T4s or foreign equivalents, and any contracts covering each period you’re claiming;
  • For part-time or multiple-job claims, enough detail to show the hours add up to 3,120 over the window.

Education and licensing

  • Degrees, diplomas and transcripts;
  • An Educational Credential Assessment (ECA) for foreign credentials, dated within 5 years of application;
  • Your valid Ontario or Canadian licence or authorization, if your position requires one.

Language

  • An approved test result (IELTS General Training, CELPIP-General, PTE Core, TEF Canada or TCF Canada) dated within 2 years — with IRCC selected as the receiving institution where the test asks;
  • Recent Ontario graduates relying on the language exemption: proof of the qualifying Ontario credential instead.

Scoring-factor evidence

  • CRA Notices of Assessment for any earnings-history points you’re claiming;
  • Documents supporting every other point you selected in the EOI — status, education count, regional work location, second-language test.

Ties to Ontario

  • Evidence of your intention to settle in Ontario: a lease or property documents, prior Ontario work or study, volunteering, professional memberships, and family or community ties.

We provide clients a tailored version of this list once we’ve confirmed which pathway and scoring factors apply — a generic checklist over-collects for some files and under-collects for others.


Eligible Ontario and Canadian Institutions

Canadian-credential points and several education requirements depend on your credential coming from an institution on the official eligible list. The Ontario institutions are below; eligible institutions in every other province and territory are also recognized, and the full authoritative lists (which the government updates from time to time) are on the official stream page — always confirm your institution by name there before relying on it.

Ontario colleges

Algonquin, Cambrian, Canadore, Centennial, Collège Boréal, Conestoga, Confederation, Durham, Fanshawe, Fleming, George Brown Polytechnic, Georgian, Humber Polytechnic, La Cité collégiale, Lambton, Loyalist, Michener Institute of Education at UHN, Mohawk, Niagara, Northern, Royal Military College of Canada, Sault, Seneca Polytechnic, Sheridan, St. Clair, and St. Lawrence.

Ontario universities

Algoma, Brock, Carleton, Lakehead, Laurentian, McMaster, Nipissing, OCAD University, Queen’s, Toronto Metropolitan (formerly Ryerson), Trent, Université de l’Ontario français, University of Guelph, Université de Hearst, Ontario Tech (University of Ontario Institute of Technology), University of Ottawa, University of Sudbury, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, University of Windsor, Western, Wilfrid Laurier, and York.

Ontario Indigenous institute

Six Nations Polytechnic.

Other provinces and territories

Eligible colleges and universities across Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Yukon also qualify. Because these lists are long and change, confirm a non-Ontario institution against the official list rather than assuming.


After Nomination: IRCC, Express Entry, and Conditions

A successful application brings a nomination approval letter, nomination certificate and, where applicable, a work permit support letter by email. You then have 6 months to apply to IRCC for permanent residence.

The Express Entry option (TEER 0–3 and physicians): if you elected it, you must meet a federal Express Entry program’s minimum criteria and keep a valid profile throughout — Ontario enters the nomination into the system, you accept or refuse within 30 calendar days, an accepted nomination adds 600 CRS points (effectively guaranteeing an invitation in the next round), and you then have 60 calendar days to submit your permanent residence application. Let your profile lapse after nomination and you start the OINP over from a new EOI. Any change to your profile number, or a decision to abandon the Express Entry route, must be reported to the OINP in writing before nomination.

Nomination conditions — read them like a contract: your nomination approval letter states conditions that bind you until IRCC decides your application, and breach can mean cancellation. The approved employment position is the foundation of the nomination and cannot be changed after you are nominated. If your employment in the approved position ends — whether the employer terminates you or you quit — and the approval is cancelled, your only route back through this stream is a brand-new EOI. The OINP’s Post-Nomination Verification Unit actively follows up with nominees and employers to confirm conditions are being met, and can cancel approvals, including your nomination, where they aren’t. If your job situation changes after nomination, get advice before acting, not after.


What To Do Before the System Reopens

  1. Confirm your NOC code and TEER category on the federal NOC tool — and pressure-test it against your actual duties, since a misclassified NOC unravels everything;
  2. Book the correct language test (General Training / General / Core variants only) and target the band that maximizes your points, not just the minimum;
  3. Order your ECA now if you studied abroad — and confirm any existing report will still be under 5 years old when you apply;
  4. Audit the employer against the revenue, staffing and wage requirements before anyone relies on the job offer;
  5. Assemble proof for every scoring factor: reference letters that state hours and duties, pay records, CRA Notices of Assessment, status documents;
  6. Watch the OINP Program Updates page for the reopening announcement — the 30-day EOI clock starts from the employer’s submission, and prepared files will dominate the first draws.

The Numbers Behind the Urgency

Ontario’s 2026 federal nomination allocation is approximately 14,119 — against a national PNP admissions target that rose to 91,500 for 2026. Part of Ontario’s allocation was already consumed by nominations issued under the former streams before June 26, and the remainder flows through this single stream. When the EOI system opens, the first rounds of invitations will favour candidates who are fully prepared.


Frequently Asked Questions

No — pending EOIs from the closed streams are automatically withdrawn. Everyone registers fresh under the new stream.

Applications already submitted are assessed under the rules in force when you filed. Your file continues; the closure affects new EOIs and invitations.

No. Without a genuine employer-employee relationship the stream is closed to you — self-employed physicians are the only exception.

No — they solve different problems. The nomination supports permanent residence; a work permit (LMIA-based or LMIA-exempt, including one supported by the nomination’s work permit support letter where issued) keeps you working while IRCC processes your application. The two tracks run in parallel.

Generally no — the work must occur in Ontario at your employer’s Ontario business premises, and the employer must meet the Ontario operating-history, revenue and staffing requirements.

Not without consequences. The approved position can’t be changed post-nomination, and any change to duties, wage, hours or term must be reported to the OINP immediately. Handled wrongly, a routine promotion can cost a nomination — get advice first.


How Ghasedak Immigration & Legal Services Can Help

The new stream concentrates risk in three places: pathway selection (your TEER category dictates everything), employer compliance, and the sprint of deadlines once invitations start — 14 calendar days for the employer, 17 for you. We work with applicants and Ontario employers in English and Farsi on eligibility and scoring assessment, transition strategy for files built around the closed streams, Employer Portal and employment position approval applications, EOI registration and full application preparation, and the federal permanent residence stage including the Express Entry route.

Ghasedak Immigration & Legal Services is operated by a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC R706857) and licensed Ontario paralegal. Book a consultation at ghasedak.ca or call 647-409-2220.

This page is general information current to July 20, 2026, not legal advice. The stream is governed by the Ontario Immigration Act, 2015 and Ontario Regulation 422/17 as amended, which prevail over any summary.


Related Resources (Official Government of Canada Links)


Professional Support

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A licensed immigration consultant or lawyer can guide you through the process and improve your chances of success.

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