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AAIP Updates: New Guidelines For 4 Alberta PNP Streams/Pathways
Last Updated On 4 June 2024, 7:47 PM EDT (Toronto Time)
New AAIP Updates: The Alberta Provincial Nominee Program (PNP), officially known as the Alberta Advantage Immigration Program (AAIP), made 2 important guideline changes.
These AAIP updates confirmed that the province will resume accepting applications under the Alberta Opportunity Stream on June 11.
Furthermore, the program provided more clarity with new guidelines to manage nomination targets and processing times for 2024 in the context of the annual PNP allocation by the Canadian government.
The Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) annual nominations quota for 2024 is 9,750 nominations.
This is the maximum number of provincial nomination certificates that can be issued this year.
The province has already issued 4,337 nominations under various streams of AAIP as of May 29.
So the province is now organizing the rest of the nominations for the below-listed streams in almost equal numbers among the remaining 7 months in 2024.
Furthermore, only a set number of applications will be accepted into the pool of the above-listed streams or pathways on a monthly basis, as listed below.
The stream or pathway will stop accepting new applications into the pool once the monthly target is reached for that particular stream or pathway, until the next month’s opening date.
AAIP updates the targets below on their official website for the next 7 months.
Stream / pathway | 11-Jun | 09-Jul | 13-Aug | 10-Sep | 08-Oct | 05-Nov | 10-Dec |
Alberta Opportunity Stream | 430 > | 444 | 430 | 444 | 430 | 444 | 430 |
Express Entry Stream Accelerated Tech Pathway |
30 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
Rural Renewal Stream | 145 | 160 | 145 | 160 | 145 | 160 | 145 |
Tourism and Hospitality Stream | 130 | 143 | 130 | 143 | 130 | 143 | 130 |
Entrepreneur StreamsForeign Graduate, Graduate, Rural and Farm Streams | Business applications are being accepted currently, as timing for nomination eligibility varies, based on when requirements have been met | ||||||
Approximate application intake totals | 735 | 797 | 755 | 797 | 755 | 797 | 755 |
The AAIP update also informs and confirms that eligibility criteria have not changed for any of it’s PNP streams or pathways.
AAIP stream-wise nominations issued Vs. nominations still to be issued in 2024
The Rural Renewal Stream, Express Entry Stream, and Alberta Opportunity Stream are the three streams that have the most allocations left for the remainder of 2024 as of May 29.
What are the immigration streams or pathways offered by the Alberta PNP?
All The Alberta Express Entry Draws 2024
Date | Number of Notification of Interest letters sent | Draw parameters | Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score of lowest-ranked candidate who received a Notification of Interest letter |
---|---|---|---|
May 1, 2024 | 40 | Dedicated Healthcare Pathway with Alberta job offer | 305 |
April 17, 2024 | 49 | Dedicated Healthcare Pathway with Alberta job offer | 305 |
March 19, 2024 | 41 | Dedicated Healthcare Pathway with Alberta job offer | 304 |
March 5, 2024 | 34 | Dedicated Healthcare Pathway with Alberta job offer | 303 |
February 20, 2024 | 33 | Dedicated Healthcare Pathway with Alberta job offer | 311 |
February 6, 2024 | 44 | Dedicated Healthcare Pathway with Alberta job offer | 302 |
February 1, 2024 | 80 | Priority sector: construction occupation with Alberta job offer | 382 |
January 30, 2024 | 22 | Dedicated Healthcare Pathway with Alberta job offer | 312 |
January 16, 2024 | 22 | Dedicated Healthcare Pathway with Alberta job offer | 312 |
January 11, 2024 | 44 | Priority sector: agriculture occupation with Alberta job offer | 312 |
January 2, 2024 | 42 | Dedicated Healthcare Pathway with Alberta job offer | 309 |
Gagandeep Kaur Sekhon moved to Canada in 2010 on a study visa. She navigated through the ups and downs of her student life and gained her permanent residency in 2015. Today, she is a proud Canadian citizen residing in Calgary, Alberta. She is mother of 2 beautiful daughters and making her difference through writing and guidance at INC – Immigration News Canada.