Employers and overseas nationals can now not submit purposes on to the Yukon Nominee Program (YNP).
All purposes to the YNP should now undergo an Expression of Curiosity (EOI) system.
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Beneath this new pool-based system, an employer should obtain an invite from the YNP earlier than having the ability to submit an software for territorial nomination for a overseas employee.
Previous to this variation, employers might submit purposes to the YNP instantly.
Beneath this new EOI system, it will likely be harder to acquire a territorial nomination for Canadian everlasting residency (PR) from the YNP.
The brand new EOI consumption will open at 9am Yukon Commonplace Time (YST) on March 31, 2025, and can stay open till 4:30pm YST on April 22, 2025.
How does the brand new system work?
Beneath the brand new EOI system, employers should submit a easy net kind with details about the overseas employee they need the YNP to think about for nomination.
The YNP will then evaluation the EOIs, choose its top-pick candidates, and invite these to submit full purposes to the YNP.
What candidates is the YNP prioritizing?
The YNP will prioritize candidates within the following conditions for 2025:
- Candidates dwelling and dealing within the Yukon for at the least one 12 months;
- French-speaking candidates;
- Yukon College graduates; and
- Non permanent Measure Letter of Help recipients.
Non permanent Measure Letter of Help
Some candidates can apply for Yukon-supported work permits, which could be issued for as much as two years.
To be eligible, a overseas nationwide should
- Have been dwelling and dealing in Yukon on Could 16, 2024;
- Have a piece allow that has expired since January 1, 2025, or which is able to expire earlier than December 31, 2025;
- Have a Yukon employer who plans to appoint them for PR by way of the YNP in 2025 or 2026.
Yukon will present eligible candidates with letters of help to incorporate of their work allow purposes.
Consumption for this work allow program opened on 19 March, 2025, and can stay open till 4:30pm YST on April 2, 2025.
Candidates can discover extra info on Yukon’s web site.
Rationale for the change
The federal authorities has lowered YNP’s allocation of nominations in 2025.
The 2025 allocation is 215 nominations, about half of what the YNP obtained in 2025.
The YNP expects there to be extra demand than there can be found nomination spots.
The YNP has established the EOI system to allow it to give attention to the best precedence candidates, somewhat than to function on a first-come, first-served mannequin—because it must do if it had been to permit direct purposes to the YNP and shut consumption after the cap had been reached.
The discount of allocations to the YNP aligns with the federal authorities’s discount in landings targets for everlasting residents by way of the PNP underneath the 2025-2027 Immigration Ranges Plan, which minimize total PR landings targets by 20%, and landings targets underneath the PNP by 50%.
