Canada Immigration:
Agri-Food Immigration Pilot – Canada’s farming industry has throughout the years been attempting to keep up the important measure of representatives or better put, work deficiencies.
These deficiencies are recognizable to two or three reasons; competitive worldwide market and contracting country populaces.
In the meat handling industry, there are in excess of 1,700 butchers spot that should be filled.
These opening are converting into generally $750 million in lost deals. So as to battle this, the Canadian government has made the Agri-Food Immigration Pilot.
What is the Agri-Food Immigration Pilot?
The Agri-Food pilot program is another migration program propelled by the Government of Canada to address work deficiencies in the agriculture sector.
As indicated by the declaration on the central government site, beginning from March 2020 the various subtleties required for the application, will be accessible.
Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada dispatch such an industry-explicit migration stream for the first time.
The pilot will take three years to focus on its objectives. As per the Agri-food migration pilot, during the application procedure of three years, 2,750 applicants and their relatives will be acknowledged each year.
This program will focus solely on the agriculture and food industry giving permanent residency to successful applicants, thusly, covering the labour deficiency in the agrarian field which is relied upon to ascend to 114,000.
As per the Canada Immigration Ministry, the pilot could bring a sum of 16,500 new PR to Canada during these three years.
The Agri-food migration pilot is uncommonly intended to address work issues in the meat processing and mushroom segment in Canada.
Employers under this sector, as a piece of the new migration pilot, will be qualified for a two-year LMIA. On the off chance that you need to apply through the pilot as a temporary labourer, you will have the option to submit an application for the program beginning early 2020.
Qualification Requirements
To be qualified, a candidate must:
- Have qualifying Canadian work experience
- Have a valid employment proposition
- meet or surpass the base language prerequisites
- Meet or surpass the educational prerequisites
- Prove you have enough cash to settle in the community.
PR application through the Agri-Food Immigration Pilot
To apply for permanent residency through the Agri-Food Immigration Pilot, you need eligible Canadian work experience and an employment bid from a Canadian business or employer in one of the businesses and occupations recorded as qualified for the pilot.
Qualified businesses for the Agri-Food Immigration Pilot
- Meat item fabricating (NAICS 3116)
- Greenhouse, nursery and horticulture creation, including mushroom creation (NAICS 1114)
- Animal creation, barring aquaculture (NAICS 1121, 1122, 1123, 1124 or 1129)
Qualified employments for each qualified industry
For meat item producing (NAICS 3116), qualified employments are:
• Retail butchers-NOC B 6331
• Industrial butchers-NOC C 9462
• Farm directors and specific livestock labourers NOC B 8252
• Food processing workers NOC D 9617
For greenhouse, nursery and gardening creation, including mushroom creation (NAICS 1114), qualified employments are:
• Farm directors and specific domesticated animals labourers NOC B 8252
• General ranch labourers NOC C 8431
• Harvesting workers NOC D 8611
For animal production, barring aquaculture (NAICS 1121, 1122, 1123, 1124 and 1129), qualified employments are:
• Farm supervisors and concentrated livestock labourers NOC B 8252
• General ranch labourers NOC C 8431
Annual Application Limits by occupation
There are yearly cutoff points on the number of applications that are handled for every occupation. Beginning January 1 of every year, applications will be attended to on a first-come, first-served premise.
This pilot is expected to run for a period of three years from the date of commencement.
The quantity of applications that would be accepted yearly is caught underneath:
• Farm supervisor or specialized livestock worker (NOC B 8252) – 50
• Industrial butcher (NOC C 9462) or butcher (NOC B 6331) – 1470
• Food processing labourer (NOC D 9617) – 730
• General farm worker (NOC C 8431) – 200
• Harvesting labourer (NOC D 8611) – 300
IRCC would discount the charges for any candidate whose application is dismissed on the grounds that the cutoff points have been come to.