You are hereCanada, Atlantic Immigration Program. 8 steps. How long this takes: we do not know yet.
- 1See where you standYou are hereStart this route
- 2Get your papers outYou can start this now
- 3Pass your language testYou can start this now
- 4Win a job offerYou can start this now
- 5Get endorsed by the provinceCannot start yet: opens when a designated employer has offered you the job
- 6Show your settlement fundsYou can start this now
- 7Apply for permanent residenceCannot start yet: opens when the province has endorsed you
- 8Travel and arriveCannot start yet: opens when permanent residence is granted
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Open, checked 7 October 2026
Work in Atlantic Canada
For skilled workers and tradespeople with a job offer from a designated employer in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island or Newfoundland and Labrador. You can be living abroad.
Who it fits
1,560 hours of related paid work in the last 5 years; CLB 5 (or CLB 4 for TEER 4); a credential assessment; a job offer from a designated employer.
canada.ca, read 7 October 2026
CLB is the level an approved language test scores you at. This route asks CLB 5 for a job in TEER 0, 1, 2 or 3 and CLB 4 for a TEER 4 job, with a result less than 2 years old when you apply. Read on canada.ca, 7 October 2026.
TEER is the category Canada files a job under. A TEER 0 to 3 offer must run for at least 1 year from the day you become a permanent resident, and a TEER 4 offer must be permanent, with no set end date. Read on canada.ca, 7 October 2026.
Who pays. You pay; designation is free to the employer, and the employer offers the job. New Brunswick takes no new employer designation applications for the rest of 2026.
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- 1Start here
See where you stand
Five questions, about two minutes.
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No number comes from your answers on this route: no verified rule set grades it. Your answers set your first move.
The programme is "a pathway to permanent residence for skilled foreign workers and international graduates from a Canadian institution who want to work and live in 1 of Canada's 4 Atlantic provinces": Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. "You can be living abroad or in Canada as a temporary resident." Read on canada.ca, 7 October 2026.
Its lines: a job offer from an employer the province has designated; "at least 1,560 hours of related work experience over the past 5 years", not self-employed; a language result of CLB 5 for a TEER 0 to 3 job or CLB 4 for a TEER 4 job; an educational credential assessment; a settlement plan from a service provider organisation; and settlement funds, unless you already work in Canada on a valid work permit. CLB and TEER are canada.ca's own levels: CLB for your language result, TEER for the job. Read on canada.ca, 7 October 2026.
Source: canada.ca, who can apply for the Atlantic Immigration Program, read 7 October 2026.
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Answer five short questions about you. Nothing here gives you a number: your answers set your first move on the route.
Where the official answer lives: canada.ca's Atlantic Immigration Program eligibility page holds every line; its work experience, language testing and education assessment pages hold the detail.
- 2You can start this now
Get your papers out
Order your credential assessment from one of the five designated organisations, and get your work letters ready.
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"You must get an educational credential assessment (ECA) for immigration." It "shows that your foreign educational credential is real and equal to a Canadian one", and the report must be "less than 5 years old on the date you apply". The five designated organisations: Comparative Education Service, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies; International Credential Assessment Service of Canada; World Education Services; International Qualifications Assessment Service; and International Credential Evaluation Service. Read on canada.ca, 8 October 2026.
What you need it to show: for a TEER 0 or 1 job, the equal of "a Canadian one-year post-secondary (or higher) educational credential"; for TEER 2 to 4, the equal of "a Canadian high school diploma (or higher)". Read on canada.ca, 7 October 2026.
What an assessment costs and how long it takes: we do not know this yet. Here is the official page, canada.ca's education assessment page, checked 8 October 2026.
Your work: "at least 1,560 hours of related work experience over the past 5 years"; "Volunteer work and unpaid internships don't count", and it must "not be from a self-employed job". Ask each employer now for a letter with your dates, your hours a week and what you did, so your hours can be counted. Read on canada.ca, 7 October 2026.
Source: canada.ca, education assessment, read 8 October 2026.
Your clock: a count of the days left on your credential assessment, worked out from the date your educational credential assessment report was issued, which you enter in your plan: it must be less than 5 years old on the date you apply. Enter it in your plan
Open canada.ca's education assessment page, with the five organisations
canada.ca's work experience page
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Order a report from one of the five organisations canada.ca names that says your certificate equals a Canadian one (it must be under 5 years old when you apply), and ask every employer for a letter of your dates and hours.
Where the official answer lives: canada.ca's education assessment page names the five organisations and holds the ECA rule; its work experience page holds the hours; your school's records office issues your certificates and transcript.
- 3You can start this now
Pass your language test
Sit CELPIP, IELTS or PTE, and reach CLB 5, or CLB 4 for a TEER 4 job, on a result less than two years old when you apply.
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"CLB 5 for job offer in TEER 0, 1, 2 or 3"; "CLB 4 for job offer in TEER 4". Your result must be "less than 2 years old when you apply". Read on canada.ca, 7 October 2026.
The approved tests: in English, "CELPIP: Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program", "IELTS: International English Language Testing System" and "PTE: Pearson Test of English"; in French, TEF Canada and TCF Canada. Read on canada.ca, 8 October 2026.
Where the tests are sat in Nigeria and what they cost: we do not know this yet. Here is the official page, canada.ca's language testing page, checked 8 October 2026.
Source: canada.ca, language testing, read 8 October 2026.
Your clock: how long your test result stays valid, worked out from your test date, which you enter in your plan: the result must be less than 2 years old when you apply. Enter it in your plan
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Take CELPIP, IELTS or PTE and reach level 5, or level 4 for a TEER 4 job. The result counts for two years.
Where the official answer lives: canada.ca's language testing page holds the levels, the three English tests and the two-year rule.
- 4You can start this now
Win a job offer
Find a designated employer that may hire you from abroad, and apply to its own advert yourself.
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- 1Start from the official lists
Begin with the provinces' own designated-employer lists, linked on this step, and Job Bank's search for foreign candidates.
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Nova Scotia's list says what every list is: "This list does not indicate that these employers are hiring. Designated employers are required to advertise vacancies to be filled." Read on liveinnovascotia.com, 8 October 2026. Job Bank marks each job with an icon that "means you can apply", or one that "means you cannot apply". Read on jobbank.gc.ca, 7 October 2026.
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- 2Find the advert on the employer's own pages
Apply only to an advert the employer itself placed.
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An advert that exists only in a WhatsApp forward or an agent's message is not the employer's.
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- 3Apply yourself
You send your own application to the employer.
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You pay no one for a job. Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program and International Mobility Program bar employers, and the recruiters acting for them, from charging workers recruitment fees. Read on canada.ca, 7 October 2026. Rekoja's own rule stands on every route: no worker ever pays a fee for a job.
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- 4Write it the way they read it
A Canadian resume, in the shape Job Bank asks for.
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Job Bank asks for "Your name", "Where you live", "Your work experience" and "If you have a valid Canadian work permit". Read on jobbank.gc.ca, 7 October 2026.
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- 5Check the employer and the vacancy
Before you trust an offer, check the employer's name on its province's own designated-employer list.
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"Each province designates employers who can offer jobs under this program." Read on canada.ca, 7 October 2026. Nova Scotia's and Newfoundland and Labrador's lists are linked on this step; Prince Edward Island's and New Brunswick's: we do not know this yet.
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- 6Practise the interview
Practise saying your answers out loud.
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This predicts nothing; it helps you speak calmly.
On a paid file, the desk practises with you, once.
- 7Is this a real offer?
When an offer comes, check it before you sign or pay anything.
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A job cannot be sold, and nobody may charge you for one. The job must be "full-time (at least 30 hours a week)" and "non-seasonal (consistent and paid all year)", from a designated employer. Read on canada.ca, 7 October 2026.
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The job must be "full-time (at least 30 hours a week)" and "non-seasonal (consistent and paid all year)": for a TEER 0 to 3 job, "for at least 1 year from the time you become a permanent resident"; for TEER 4, "for permanent employment with no set end date". It must be "at the same or higher skill level as your qualifying work experience", and it "can't come from a company in which you, your spouse or common-law partner are a majority owner". "Each province designates employers who can offer jobs under this program." Read on canada.ca, 7 October 2026.
Where the employers are: Nova Scotia's list is a PDF, current as of 1 July 2026, and Newfoundland and Labrador's a table of 650 rows, both linked on this step and read 8 October 2026. "This list does not indicate that these employers are hiring. Designated employers are required to advertise vacancies to be filled." Read on liveinnovascotia.com, 8 October 2026. Prince Edward Island's and New Brunswick's lists: we do not know this yet.
New Brunswick limits endorsements for people outside Canada to recruitment led by its government in health care, education and construction, and takes no new employer designation applications for the rest of 2026 (notices effective 14 September 2026, read on gnb.ca, 7 October 2026). Step 5 holds both notices and the other three provinces' own pages.
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Source: canada.ca, the job offer, read 7 October 2026.
Your clock: the day your job offer was signed, worked out from the date your employer signed your job offer, which you enter in your plan. Enter it in your plan
Search Job Bank's jobs open to foreign candidates
Nova Scotia's Atlantic Immigration Program page
Nova Scotia's designated employers (PDF, current as of 1 July 2026)
New Brunswick's immigration notices
Prince Edward Island's Atlantic Immigration Program page, as canada.ca links it
Newfoundland and Labrador's Atlantic Immigration Program page
Newfoundland and Labrador's designated employers (a table)
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Look for a full-time, all-year job with an employer its province has designated, on the provinces' own lists and Job Bank, and apply to it yourself. Never pay anyone for a job.
Where the official answer lives: canada.ca's job offer page holds the offer rules; each province's own list, linked on this step, says which employers it has designated.
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- 5Cannot start yet: opens when a designated employer has offered you the job
Get endorsed by the province
Get your settlement plan from a settlement service provider; your employer sends it with your signed offer to its province, which sends you a certificate of endorsement.
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"After you get a job offer from a designated employer, you need a settlement plan to apply for permanent residence." You get it from a settlement service provider organisation in your province; canada.ca lists them, 14 in New Brunswick, 3 in Newfoundland and Labrador, 5 in Nova Scotia and 3 in Prince Edward Island, and prints no price for the plan. Nova Scotia's providers call theirs "free", "At no cost". Read on canada.ca and liveinnovascotia.com, 8 October 2026.
The employer submits the endorsement application to the province: "The provinces are responsible for the endorsement process." The province will "send a Certificate of Endorsement to the candidate"; the endorsement page states no validity period and no fee. Read on canada.ca, 7 October 2026. The application carries your signed "Offer of Employment to a Foreign National [IMM 0157]" and your settlement plan. Read 8 October 2026.
A work permit while you wait, if you want one: "If the candidate is also applying for a work permit, you must request a referral letter from the provincial government when you're applying for endorsement", so ask your employer to request it. The permit "is valid for 2 years", "only allows you to work for the employer who offered you the job", and "Your spouse or common-law partner can apply for an open work permit". "Getting a temporary work permit doesn't automatically mean we'll approve your permanent residence application." Its fee: we do not know this yet. Read on canada.ca, 8 October 2026.
New Brunswick is limited for anyone outside Canada. Its notices, effective 14 September 2026, read on gnb.ca 7 October 2026: "Endorsement applications for any positions offered to foreign nationals residing outside of Canada are limited to recruitment initiatives led by the Government of New Brunswick in health care, education and construction." The same page: "The acceptance of employer designation applications under the Atlantic Immigration Program will remain on pause for the remainder of 2026." Who to ask on a New Brunswick offer: your employer, which makes the endorsement application, and Immigration New Brunswick through its notices page, linked on this step. If gnb.ca will not open on your phone, open it on a computer or another connection; your employer can tell you what the province told it.
The other three provinces endorse on their own terms, on their own pages, linked on this step. Nova Scotia endorses a position when the employer has shown "that efforts to hire locally have been unsuccessful", gives "a valid, full-time, non-seasonal job offer co-signed by the foreign worker" and "an individualized settlement plan co-signed by the foreign worker"; its expressions of interest are valid 12 months from 1 May 2026. Its designated employers are a PDF list, current as of 1 July 2026: "This list does not indicate that these employers are hiring. Designated employers are required to advertise vacancies to be filled." Read on liveinnovascotia.com, 8 October 2026. Newfoundland and Labrador publishes its designated employers as one table, 650 rows, the latest designated 28 August 2026: "Once designated, employers can submit applications for their existing or prospective hires to OIM for endorsement." Its programme office answers on aip@gov.nl.ca and 1-709-729-6607. Read on gov.nl.ca, 8 October 2026. Prince Edward Island's page is the one canada.ca links, read 8 October 2026. Its position and its designated-employer list: we do not know this yet. Who to ask on a Prince Edward Island offer: your employer, which makes the endorsement application, and Prince Edward Island's Office of Immigration through the page canada.ca links, linked on this step. If princeedwardisland.ca will not open on your phone, open it on a computer or another connection; your employer can tell you what the province told it.
Source: canada.ca, the endorsement, read 8 October 2026.
Your clock: the day your certificate of endorsement was issued, worked out from the date on your certificate of endorsement, which you enter in your plan. Enter it in your plan
Find a settlement service provider on canada.ca
Read how endorsement works on canada.ca
Nova Scotia's Atlantic Immigration Program page
Nova Scotia's settlement service providers
New Brunswick's immigration notices
New Brunswick's Atlantic Immigration Program page, as canada.ca links it
Prince Edward Island's Atlantic Immigration Program page, as canada.ca links it
Newfoundland and Labrador's Atlantic Immigration Program page
The work permit for candidates, on canada.ca
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Get a settlement plan from one of the providers canada.ca lists for your province. Your employer sends it with your signed offer to the province, which approves the offer and sends you a certificate. New Brunswick approves offers to people outside Canada only through its own government recruitment; the other three provinces have their own pages.
Where the official answer lives: canada.ca's endorsement page holds the federal rule and its settlement plan page names the providers; your employer and its province answer on your application: Immigration New Brunswick through its notices page, Nova Scotia through liveinnovascotia.com, Newfoundland and Labrador's office on aip@gov.nl.ca or 1-709-729-6607, Prince Edward Island's Office of Immigration through the page canada.ca links.
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Show your settlement funds
Save towards the funds for your family size; you show them, you do not spend them.
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CAD 3,815 for one person, CAD 4,750 for two, CAD 5,840 for three, CAD 7,090 for four, and CAD 1,028 more for each person after the seventh: about ₦3.6m for one, ₦4.5m for two, ₦5.5m for three and ₦6.7m for four, at ₦949 to the Canadian dollar, 20 October 2026 (the CBN's US dollar rate of 20 October 2026 divided by the Bank of Canada's of 20 October 2026). The page: "you can't borrow this money from another person", and "you can't use equity on real property as proof of settlement funds". "You do not need to show proof of funds if you're already working in Canada with a valid work permit." Read on canada.ca, 19 October 2026.
What counts as proof: "For proof, you must get official letters from any banks or financial institutions where you have an account." Each letter is printed on the bank's letterhead and gives the bank's address, telephone number and email address; canada.ca's proof of funds page lists what else each letter must show. Read on canada.ca, 19 October 2026.
Source: canada.ca, proof of funds, read 21 October 2026.
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Save the amount for your family size, about ₦3.6m for one person or ₦4.5m for two, and keep it in your own name. It cannot be borrowed.
Where the official answer lives: canada.ca's proof of funds page holds the table and the rules.
- 7Cannot start yet: opens when the province has endorsed you
Apply for permanent residence
Apply online in IRCC's PR Portal, with your endorsement and your settlement plan inside, and pay the fees online.
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"You must apply online using the PR Portal." What you upload: your "Confirmation of Provincial Endorsement", your "Settlement plan", "Proof of language proficiency", "Proof of education", "Proof of funds", police certificates, your medical exam, your travel and identity documents and photos. "You have to pay your fees online". Read on canada.ca, 8 October 2026.
The fee: CAD 1,590 for you (a CAD 990 processing fee and the CAD 600 right of permanent residence fee), CAD 1,590 for a spouse or partner and CAD 270 for each child, plus biometrics of CAD 85 a person (CAD 170 for a family). About ₦1.51m each for you and a spouse or partner, ₦256,200 for each child and ₦80,700 a person for biometrics, at ₦949 to the Canadian dollar, 20 October 2026 (the CBN's US dollar rate of 20 October 2026 divided by the Bank of Canada's of 20 October 2026). Read on ircc.canada.ca, 7 October 2026.
After you apply: "you'll receive an automatic email confirming that we have received it"; "You have 30 days from the date on the letter to get your biometrics done."; "You and your family (partner and children) must have a medical exam before you come to Canada."; you can check your status online once processing starts. Read on canada.ca, 8 October 2026.
4,000 places a year for 2026, 2027 and 2028. Read on canada.ca, 7 October 2026.
How long it takes: we do not know this yet. Here is the official page, IRCC's processing times tool, checked 8 October 2026.
Source: canada.ca, apply for permanent residence, read 21 October 2026.
Your clock: the last day for your biometrics, 30 days from the date on IRCC's letter, worked out from the date on IRCC's biometrics letter, which you enter in your plan: you have 30 days from it. Enter it in your plan
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Apply online in IRCC's PR Portal with your endorsement certificate, your settlement plan and your proofs, and pay the fees yourself: about ₦1.51m for you, the same for a partner, and biometrics. Do your biometrics within 30 days of IRCC's letter.
Where the official answer lives: canada.ca's page on applying for permanent residence holds the uploads and the portal; IRCC's fee list holds the fees; IRCC answers on your own application.
- 8Cannot start yet: opens when permanent residence is granted
Travel and arrive
Land with your confirmation of permanent residence, get your social insurance number and your health card, and start the job.
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Approval comes by email, twice: "The first email will ask you to respond with some basic information. The second will let you know we're ready to confirm your permanent resident (PR) status." Then "you'll get an automated email when your electronic Confirmation of Permanent Residence (e-COPR) is ready", and the portal asks you for a photo for your first permanent resident card. "After your first landing in Canada, we'll start the process to mail your permanent resident (PR) card." "Your first card won't cost anything if you send your photo and address within 180 days of becoming a permanent resident." Read on canada.ca, 8 October 2026.
"The Canada Border Services Agency provides helpful tools to help you when crossing the border." Read on canada.ca, 8 October 2026.
What to carry in your hand luggage when you land on permanent residence: we do not know yet. Here is the official page to watch, canada.ca's page on settling in after approval, checked 8 October 2026; it links the Canada Border Services Agency's tools for crossing the border.
Your first week: your social insurance number, the number you work and pay tax under. "There is no fee to apply for a SIN." Apply online, or in person at a Service Canada Centre, where "you will get your SIN during your visit"; your signed confirmation of permanent residence counts "within one year of becoming a permanent resident", after which the card is needed. Read on canada.ca, 8 October 2026.
Your health card: "It may take up to 3 months for your health coverage to start." Settlement organisations help: "One of the first things they'll help you do is apply for a health card", and "It's a good idea to buy private insurance while you wait for your government coverage to begin." Their services are free: "Find newcomer services near you" is linked on this step. In Nova Scotia, "Your Health Card coverage usually starts on the date you become a resident of Nova Scotia if you're moving from outside of Canada", and "there's no fee to apply or renew". Read on canada.ca and novascotia.ca, 8 October 2026.
Your first payslip: check it against your offer. Never sell what you live on, and never borrow against your first payslip.
Source: canada.ca, settling in Canada after approval, read 8 October 2026.
Your clock: a count of your first days in Canada, worked out from the day you land in Canada, which you enter in your plan. Enter it in your plan
Your clock: the last day to send your photo and address for a free first permanent resident card, 180 days after you land, worked out from the day you land in Canada, which you enter in your plan: your first card costs nothing within 180 days of becoming a permanent resident.
Read what happens after approval on canada.ca
Apply for a social insurance number
Health care for newcomers, on canada.ca
Apply for a Nova Scotia Health Card
Find newcomer services near you
Your first permanent resident card, on canada.ca
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Fly after your permanent residence is confirmed, carrying your confirmation and your job papers. In your first week get your social insurance number (free) and apply for your health card, which can take up to 3 months to start. Send your photo and address within 180 days so your first card is free.
Where the official answer lives: canada.ca's page on settling in after approval; Service Canada on your social insurance number; your province's health card page; your employer's start letter.
The employer board
Refreshed weeklyEach row: employer, job, province, the salary as written, a mark for whether you can apply from abroad, the designation or LMIA tag, the closing date, the date it was checked and the board it came from.
No open vacancy on the lists today, read 8 October 2026.
- Nova Scotia endorses a position when the employer has shown "that efforts to hire locally have been unsuccessful", gives "a valid, full-time, non-seasonal job offer co-signed by the foreign worker" and "an individualized settlement plan co-signed by the foreign worker"; its expressions of interest are valid 12 months from 1 May 2026. Its designated employers are a PDF list, current as of 1 July 2026: "This list does not indicate that these employers are hiring. Designated employers are required to advertise vacancies to be filled." Read on liveinnovascotia.com, 8 October 2026. Nova Scotia's Atlantic Immigration Program page Nova Scotia's designated employers (PDF, current as of 1 July 2026)
- New Brunswick limits endorsements for people outside Canada to recruitment led by its government in health care, education and construction, and takes no new employer designation applications for the rest of 2026 (notices effective 14 September 2026, read on gnb.ca, 7 October 2026). Its designated-employer list: we do not know this yet. New Brunswick's immigration notices
- Prince Edward Island's page is the one canada.ca links, read 8 October 2026. Its position and its designated-employer list: we do not know this yet. Prince Edward Island's Atlantic Immigration Program page, as canada.ca links it
- Newfoundland and Labrador publishes its designated employers as one table, 650 rows, the latest designated 28 August 2026: "Once designated, employers can submit applications for their existing or prospective hires to OIM for endorsement." Its programme office answers on aip@gov.nl.ca and 1-709-729-6607. Read on gov.nl.ca, 8 October 2026. Newfoundland and Labrador's Atlantic Immigration Program page Newfoundland and Labrador's designated employers (a table)
Read from the designated-employer lists, 8 October 2026; Job Bank and the provinces' lists open on their own sites. Rekoja lists, it does not introduce.
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Cost. About ₦3.6m in settlement funds to show for one person. Read on canada.ca, 21 October 2026.
Who pays. You pay; designation is free to the employer, and the employer offers the job. New Brunswick takes no new employer designation applications for the rest of 2026. Read 7 October 2026.
How long. How long this takes: we do not know yet. The official page to watch: IRCC's processing times, checked 7 October 2026.
Who it fits. 1,560 hours of related paid work in the last 5 years; CLB 5 (or CLB 4 for TEER 4); a credential assessment; a job offer from a designated employer. canada.ca, read 7 October 2026.
Family. Settlement funds rise with each person: CAD 4,750 for two. canada.ca, read 21 October 2026.
The official page for this route. Checked 7 October 2026. Naira at the official rate of 20 October 2026. Canadian figures are a cross rate through the US dollar.
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