Nursing Jobs in Canada – PNP Pathway to Permanent Residency
Canada PR for Nurses via PNP – Step-by-Step Guide 2025
Canada suffers from a severe shortage of registered nurses that is expected to worsen over the next few years. Since the time of the pandemic, the Canadian government is recently boosting programs under express entry and provincial nominee programs to persuade nurses to live and work in the maple leaf.
Important Steps taken by various cities to develop Canada are:
- Ontario is setting up to give a grant of 342 million dollars to employ 13,000 healthcare workers in 5 years.
- British Columbia committed to assist foreign medical students using covering their application charge, language test, and higher education expense by offering 16,000 CAD$
- Quebec aims to contribute 65 million dollars to invite, train and employ nurses from all over the world.
Eligibility Criteria to Immigrate to Canada as a Nurse
- No age limit
- Diploma in nursing• 4 years Degree (Bachelor’s) from an approved university or college
- Applicant has to appear for NCLEX-RN (National Council Licensure Examination) for those applying for a Registered Nurse or the CPNRE-Canadian Practical Nurse Registration Examination for those applying for a Licensed Practical Nurse.
Benefits to working as a Nurse in Canada?
Canada is an independent country in everything and people want to live here because of this. In recent years, the healthcare sector has grown rapidly thus relocating to Canada as a nurse will open doors to countless opportunities.
NOC Code for nurses is:
- NOC 3012 - Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses fall under NOC skill level A
- NOC 3233 - Licensed practical nurses to fall under skill level B.
List of Immigration Programs for Nurses in 2025
1. Federal Skilled Worker Program – candidate must have one year of experience in the required field in the last 10 years, 7 CLB (Canadian language benchmark) score, and medical and legal proof.
Express Entry applicants obtain points based on their skills, work experience, age, education, and language skills. Top-scoring applicants will be invited to apply for permanent residency in fast-track draws every two weeks. In 2022, Canada’s Minister Sean Fraser announced the express entry draw will start the early July.
Provincial Nominee Program
List of several PNP pathways for nurses.
- Ontario: invite via Human Capital Priorities Stream.
- British Columbia: has a Healthcare category under express entry categories.
- Saskatchewan: launched International Health Worker EOI pool exclusively for nurses.
- Nova Scotia: occasionally invites nurses through drawing.
- New Brunswick: Designed Internationally Educated Nurses (IEN) to invite nurses.
- Quebec
Quebec supervises its immigration system. Although Canada still has the Quebec Immigration Application Closing Statement, some programs such as PCP and Express Entry are not available in Quebec.
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