ARCHIVED – Immigrate through the Atlantic Immigration Program: Get a job offer – NOC 2016

You’ll need to seek job opportunities with designated employers. For more information, check the provincial websites:

• New Brunswick
• Newfoundland and Labrador
• Nova Scotia
• Prince Edward Island

The job offer must meet all of these requirements:

• The job offer must be full time.
• The job offer must be non-seasonal. In general, this means you have consistent and regularly scheduled paid employment throughout the year.
• For NOC 0, A or B skill type or level job offers, the employer must be offering you a job that will last at least 1 year (1 year from the time you become a permanent resident).
• For NOC C skill level job offers, the employer must be offering you permanent employment, that is, there is no set end date.
• The job offer cannot come from a company where you (the applicant) or your spouse is a majority owner.
• The job offer must be at the same skill level as, or higher than, the work experience that qualified you for the job (refer to the table below), unless you’re an international graduate from a recognized post-secondary institution in Atlantic Canada.
  • For certain health care sector jobs, you don’t need to have a job offer at the same skill level as, or higher than, the qualifying work experience.
    • Work experience in NOC 3233 (practical nurses) and NOC 3012 (registered nurses) can be used as qualifying work experience if you have a job offer in NOC 3413 (nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates) or NOC 4412 (home health care workers).

  NOC level job offer and qualifying work experience requirement

  NOC level job offer	Work experience requirement
  NOC 0	NOC 0, A, B, C
  NOC A	NOC A, B, C
  NOC B	NOC B, C
  NOC C	NOC C

When a designated employer offers you a job, they’ll give you an Offer of Employment to a Foreign National form [IMM 0157] (PDF, 317 KB) . You must

• make sure you meet the employment requirements listed in the National Occupational Classification
• sign the form titled Offer of Employment to a Foreign National and keep a copy for your records
  • You’ll need this form when you work with a service provider organization on your settlement plan and for your permanent residence application.