AAIP invitations staff desiring to settle in rural communities

Alberta has retroactively revealed its ultimate draw of February, inviting staff holding job affords in rural in-province communities to use for provincial nomination.

This most up-to-date draw (February 26) adopted intently on the heels of a Tourism and Hospitality Stream draw happening simply two days earlier—and marks the province’s thirteenth draw of the 12 months total.

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Draw outcomes

On March 4, the Alberta Benefit Immigration Program (AAIP) up to date its draw web page to incorporate its tenth February draw.

This draw invited provincial nominee candidates by the Program’s Rural Renewal Stream:

This marks the province’s second draw beneath the Rural Renewal Stream in 2026, each of which occurred in February—with the primary seeing an identical rating cut-off (54), however a a lot greater variety of invites issued (212).

Rural Renewal Stream eligibility standards

To get everlasting residence by the AAIP’s Rural Renewal Stream, overseas nationals should meet the eligibility necessities listed beneath.

• Possess an Endorsement of Candidate letter from the group (“Designated Group”) they intend to settle in;
• Have a job supply from an Alberta employer, in an eligible occupation;
  • TEER 0–5 for staff already in Alberta.
  • TEER 0–3 for staff in one other province or exterior Canada.
• Exhibit not less than 12 months of full-time work expertise (in an eligible occupation), inside the final 18 months—gained inside or exterior Canada;
  • TEER 0 job affords: TEER 0–1.
  • TEER 1 job affords: TEER 0–2.
  • TEER 2/3 job affords: TEER 1–4.
  • TEER 3 job affords: TEER 2–4.
  • TEER 5 job affords: TEER 5, in the identical NOC code.
• Meet language proficiency necessities, depending on one’s job supply TEER;
  • TEER 0–3 job affords: Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB)/ Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadien (NCLC) 5, every language ability.
  • TEER 4/5 job affords: CLB/NCLC 4, every language ability.
• Have a Canadian highschool diploma or overseas equal;
• Present enough settlement funds based mostly on variety of relations and inhabitants measurement of settling group; and
  • Solely required for many who usually are not residing in Canada, or those that reside in Canada however usually are not working.

This stream is designed to help financial improvement wants and inhabitants development to Alberta’s rural communities, and operates on a community-endorsement mannequin.

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Provincial nomination figures

The federal authorities granted Alberta a complete of 6,403 nominations in 2026. On the time of this writing, the province has already used 822 nominations—leaving 5,581 nominations remaining.

A complete of 1,147 functions are presently awaiting processing within the AAIP’s stock.

Under is an in depth overview of how Alberta’s total 6,403 nomination allocation has been distributed by stream, the variety of nominations already granted and remaining obtainable areas, and variety of functions awaiting processing for every.

The Alberta Alternative Stream’s nomination allocation alone accounts for 53.5% of all nominations to be issued by the province in 2026. Up to now, 68.6% of all nominations issued (822) have been by this stream (564).

Employee Expressions of Curiosity figures

As of March 4, 2026, there are a complete of 45,390 Expressions of Curiosity (EOIs) in AAIP’s candidate choice pool ready to be drawn.

You’ll be able to view the desk beneath to see the EOI distribution by stream/pathway—most of which fall beneath the Alberta Alternative Stream (63.7%).

The province notes that candidates could also be invited to use beneath a distinct stream or pathway than the one they initially chosen of their Expression of Curiosity.

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