Funding: Apprenticeship Completion Grant – Apply Closed

Change to the Apprenticeship Completion Grant

Application: If you completed your apprenticeship on or after March 31, 2024, your deadline to submit an ACG application was March 31, 2025. You had to submit an application by this date, even if you had not received supporting documents from your apprenticeship authority.

Supporting document: The deadline for submitting supporting documents was 12 months from your application deadline date but no later than March 31, 2026. The submission of supporting documents would have been made online, by mail or in person at a Service Canada Centre.

Other support

The Government of Canada will continue to support apprentices financially as they are unemployed and progress through their technical training. Eligible apprentices can access Employment Insurance benefits while attending technical training, and up to $20,000 in interest-free Canada Apprentice Loans.

Apprentices can apply for a Canadian Apprentice Loan as early as 3 months before the start of their technical training and can receive funding as early as day one of their training while they wait for their Employment Insurance claim to be processed for payment.

Project funding for organizations providing apprenticeship support to individuals is available under the Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy.

Visit Supports for skilled trades and apprenticeship for information.

The required supporting documents by province or territory were:

• Province of Alberta

  Journeypersons certified prior to July 20, 2022:

  • Copy of the Journeyman Certificate, or
  • Copy of the Occupational Certificate

  
  

  Journeypersons certified on or after July 20, 2022:

  • Copy of the Journeyperson Certificate.
• Province of British Columbia

  • Copy of the Certificate of Apprenticeship (except Welder A and B), and
  • Copy of the Certificate of Qualification

  Note: Welder A and B must submit a copy of the Certificate of Qualification and a copy of the Confirmation of Apprenticeship Completion letter.

  Gasfitter A must submit a copy of the Certificate of Qualification.

• Province of Manitoba

  • Copy of the Certificate of Qualification, and
  • Signed copy of the Confirmation of Apprenticeship Completion letter
• Province of New Brunswick

  • Signed copy of the Completion letter
• Province of Newfoundland and Labrador

  • Signed copy of the Confirmation of Certificate Issued letter
• Territories of Northwest Territories

  • Signed copy of the Completion of Apprenticeship Certificate, and
  • Signed copy of the Certificate of Qualification.
• Province of Nova Scotia

  • Copy of the Certificate of Apprenticeship
• Territories of Nunavut

  • Copy of the Completion of Apprenticeship Certificate, and
  • Copy of the Certificate of Qualification
• Province of Ontario

  • Copy of the Certificate of Apprenticeship, and
  • Copy of the Certificate of Qualification
• Province of Prince Edward Island

  • Signed copy of the Proof of Apprenticeship Completion letter
• Province of Québec – Commission de la construction du Québec (CCQ)

  • Copy of the Eligibility for the Apprenticeship Completion Grant letter.
• Québec – Emploi-Québec (E-Q) - Compulsory trades:

  • copy of the Certificat de qualification professionnelle and
  • copy of the Confirmation of your Eligibility letter ((document number 1009A) except Gasfitters). Note: Gasfitters from École Technologie Gazière must submit a copy of the Certificat pour le programme d'accès à la qualification TAG-1, TAG-2, TAG-3N or TAG-3P

  Note: All Gasfitters Class A or B must also submit a copy of their Certificat de qualification de Technique d'appareils au gaz TAG-1 or TAG-2 and a copy of their Certificat de qualification de Technique d'installation de tuyauterie de gaz (ITG). The Certificat de qualification ITG is not required for the Certificat de qualification TAG-3N or TAG-3P.

• Province of Quebec – Emploi-Québec (E-Q) Voluntary trades:

  • copy of the Vocational Qualification Process (document number 1002A), and
  • copy of the Certificat de qualification professionnelle
• Province of Saskatchewan

  • Copy of the Certificate of Completion of Apprenticeship.
• Territories of Yukon

  • Signed copy of the Confirmation of Apprenticeship Completion letter

Applicants who are permanent residents or have protected status needed to provide the following:

• Permanent Resident

  • If your Social Insurance Number (SIN) starts with any number other than 9, you do not need to provide any documentation; or

  If your SIN is a 900 series, you must provide:

  • a permanent resident Card, or
  • a Confirmation of Permanent Residence status document (IMM 5292, or IMM 5688, or IMM 5509) issued by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) that has not expired, or
  • a Verification of Status document (IMM 5716) issued by IRCC, or
  • a Verification of Landing document (IMM 5617) issued by IRCC, or
  • a Record of Landing document (IMM 1000) issued by IRCC, or
  • a Notice of Decision issued by the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB)

• Protected persons

  • 900 series SIN number, and
  • A Confirmation of Permanent Residence status document (IMM 5292, or IMM 5688, or IMM 5509) issued by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) that has not expired, or
  • A Verification of Status document (IMM 5716) issued by IRCC, or
  • A Notice of Decision issued by the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB)