Nova Scotia announces new immigration targets for 2022

Highlights:

• Nova Scotia welcomed 500 Ukrainians through Canada Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel.
• Atlantic Immigration Program allows Canadian employers to employ immigrants without Labor Market Impact Assessment.
• The 2022-23 budget for Nova Scotia includes 1 million CAD for the immigration and population growth marketing campaigns.

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Abstract: IRCC has increased the NSNP and AIP immigration targets for 2022.

The Bluenose province of Canada, Nova Scotia has announced an increase in its immigration targets for 2022. IRCC or Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada has increased the targets for two programs. It has added 5,340 allocations for the NSNP and 1,173 allocations for the AIP.

The province can welcome Immigrants through two programs. They are:

• NSNP or Nova Scotia Nominee Program
• AIP or Atlantic Immigration Program

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Immigration to Nova Scotia

The province invests much of its budget on immigration initiatives to promote economic growth. Nova Scotia had invited 9,025 immigrants for Canada PR or permanent residency in 2021. The figure had broken the record set in 2019 by 19 percent.

Nova Scotia budget allocation 2022-23

The budget of Nova Scotia for 2022-23 includes the following:

Budget in CAD	Utilised for
1 million	Market promotion for immigration and population growth
1.4 million	Settlement services in societies
8,95,000	For recruiting staff to participate in immigration programs

Nova Scotia had welcomed 500 immigrants from Ukraine under the CUAET or Canada Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel. CUAET applicants were not counted in the allocation of new immigrants.

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AIP of Nova Scotia

AIP was introduced in 2017. It was launched as a pilot program to promote skilled workers to immigrate to 1 of the 4 provinces of the Canadian Atlantic. The program went on to become successful and was converted to a permanent program in January 2022. This program has been influential in welcoming newcomers who chose to migrate to Canada.

The program encourages employers of Atlantic Canada to apply for the official designation of the province. They can hire an immigrant without the LMIA or the Labour Market Impact Assessment.

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If an Atlantic Canadian employee accepts a job offer from an international worker, the employer needs to connect them with the appointment settlement service provider. The provider will make an assessment of the immigrant and dependants arriving with them to devise a settlement plan.

In 2021, the AIP invited 1,564 immigrants for permanent residency in Nova Scotia. It helped them boost the population of the province and welcomed over one million immigrants for the first time in history.

Through the AIP more than ten thousand immigrants came between 2017 and 2021 the settle in the province.

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