Between October 6 and 9, the New Brunswick Provincial Nominee Program (NB PNP) held three attracts and issued invites to over 500 candidates.
Invites have been issued by way of the New Brunswick Categorical Entry stream for candidates with employment within the province, and thru the Expert Employee stream for these working in precedence occupations.
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Abstract of New Brunswick October attracts
A complete of 522 invites to use have been despatched to candidates throughout the 2 streams.
The closing date and time for purposes submitted for all of the attracts was October 5, 11:59 pm Atlantic Normal Time.
The province additionally clarified that not all purposes submitted in response to those three attracts shall be processed by the provincial authorities in 2025.
No cut-off scores have been introduced for these attracts.
New Brunswick Categorical Entry Stream
| Date of draw | Pathway | Variety of invites issued | Sectors focused |
| October 8-9 | Employment in New Brunswick | 221 | All sectors |
The New Brunswick Categorical Entry stream is for expert international nationals within the federal Categorical Entry pool.
To obtain an invite by way of its Employment in New Brunswick pathway, one should
- Be working full time in a non-seasonal place for a New Brunswick employer in a Coaching, Eduation, Expertise, and Duties (TEER*) 0, 1, 2, or 3 occupation;
- Have a minimum of 12 months of full-time work expertise in a TEER 0, 1, 2, or 3 position in New Brunswick; and
- Have lived in New Brunswick for the previous 12 months.
*TEER is a classification system utilized by the federal government to group occupations collectively relying on the quantity of coaching, schooling, expertise and duty usually required for that occupation.
New Brunswick Expert Employee Stream
| Date of draw | Pathway | Variety of invites issued | Sectors focused |
| October 6-7 | New Brunswick Expertise | 91 | Well being care |
| October 6-7 | New Brunswick Graduates | 210 | – Well being care – Schooling and social & neighborhood providers – Development trades* |
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*Within the New Brunswick graduate pathway, the October 6-7 draw didn’t embrace the Nationwide Occupational Classification (NOC) Code 75101 – Materials handlers. The NOC is Canada’s nationwide system for describing and classifying occupations.
The New Brunswick Expert Employee stream is for international nationals who’re at present employed or have a job supply for a full-time, non-seasonal place with an eligible New Brunswick employer who’s prepared to assist their utility.
Aside from that, they should meet different standards:
New Brunswick Expertise
- Have a minimum of six months of full-time work expertise with the supporting employer; and
- Have been residing within the province for a minimum of six months previous to submitting an expression of curiosity.
New Brunswick Graduates
- The job supply have to be the direct results of a recruitment mission organized by the Authorities of New Brunswick;
- The place’s NOC should fall below one of many precedence NOC codes; and
- The candidate should have a minimal of 1 12 months of paid work expertise associated to the place.
New Brunswick attracts in 2025
New Brunswick has issued a complete of three,589 invites to use for provincial nomination in 2025, as of the time of writing.
New Brunswick was initially given 1,500 nomination spots for its Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) in February 2025. In June, the province efficiently negotiated one other 1,500 spots, growing its complete 2025 PNP allocation to three,000 nominations.
The variety of invites issued is often larger than the variety of nominations obtained to account for candidates who decline, withdraw, or fail to fulfill necessities.
Moreover, on account of processing instances for each the applying for nomination and the applying for everlasting residency, an invite for nomination issued in a given 12 months will usually contribute towards landings targets for the next 12 months.
As soon as a candidate receives an invite to use, they will submit their utility to the provincial authorities. If the applying meets all of the requirement, the province will them nominate the candidate by issuing a nomination certificates.
A candidate can use this nomination certificates to use to the federal authorities for everlasting residence (PR).
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