Alberta invitations over 1,000 healthcare, tech, and rural community-bound candidates throughout 4 attracts

Over the course of Could 1–Could 13, the Alberta Benefit Immigration Program (AAIP) performed 4 choice rounds, inviting extra candidates to use for provincial nomination.

A complete of 1,051 AAIP candidates acquired invites, together with well being and tech professionals, and people planning to reside and work in rural Alberta communities.

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As of the time of this writing, Alberta has held a complete of 36 provincial immigration attracts in 2026.

Draw particulars

The AAIP’s newest 4 attracts issued invites beneath the next streams and pathways:

The best variety of invites have been issued by the Alberta Alternative Stream, accounting for about 79.2% of all Could invitations.

To view the cutoff rating and variety of invites issued by every draw, view the desk beneath:

These newest attracts align with established provincial nomination and draw priorities. On its official webpage, Alberta lists healthcare, know-how, and Rural Renewal Stream invites amongst its checklist of “highest priorities for 2026.”

Right here’s the final time the province performed attracts beneath these particular streams and pathways, with variety of invites issued per draw:

• April 13, 2026: Devoted Well being Care Pathway – Categorical Entry (62);
• April 8, 2026: Alberta Categorical Entry Stream – Accelerated Tech Pathway (146);
• April 10, 2026: Alberta Alternative Stream (447); and
• April 9, 2026: Rural Renewal Stream (74).

Up to now, Alberta has invited no fewer than 6,269 AAIP candidates to use for provincial nomination—most of which have been issued by the Alberta Alternative Stream (3,857).

Breakdown of Alberta’s provincial nomination figures

As of Could 14, Alberta had used 2,191 of the 6,403 nomination areas allotted to the province by the federal authorities — leaving 4,212 nominations remaining total.

The province has shared up to date nomination totals as of Could 14, detailing what number of nominations have been issued by every stream and pathway:

Separate from its common PNP allocation, Alberta has additionally used further nomination areas to draw practice-ready physicians (50) and francophone candidates (12) to the province.

Expressions of Curiosity and purposes awaiting processing

Alberta’s revealed knowledge additionally gives stream-by-stream breakdowns relating to the variety of EOIs and provincial nomination purposes it has in its stock awaiting a remaining determination.

As of Could 14, the province had a complete of 40,161 employee EOIs in its candidate pool—1,602 fewer than it did on April 29 (the date of the final knowledge replace). The vast majority of these (63.7%) are beneath the Alberta Alternative Stream.

No fewer than 1,303 purposes are at present within the AAIP’s stock awaiting processing.

*AAIP entrepreneur streams aren’t included within the employee EOI pool, as they’re topic to a separate consideration course of.

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