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CANADA NEW NOC FOR EXPRESS ENTRY SET FOR NOVEMBER 2022

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) currently uses National occupation classification (NOC) 2016 to determine the eligibility of occupations under its temporary and permanent residency programs. IRCC will change to NOC 2021 starting in November 2022 as per Canadian law.

NATIONAL OCCUPATION CLASSIFICATION (NOC):  The National occupation classification (NOC) 2021 will come into effect in November 2022. A total of 16 occupations will become eligible for Express Entry, and three will become ineligible, according to an internal briefing memo.  

The express entry draws invite more applicants to submit permanent residence applications. Canada remains committed to accepting immigrants, temporary foreign workers, and international students as much as possible.  Read more: The Express Entry Draws

Canada's success is largely due to the contributions made by the new immigrants and one of the world's top immigration destinations with over 250,000 new immigrants arriving in Canada every year. The Canadian Immigration system is so progressive that the Canadian Government's statistics division foresees that by 2031 over half of all working age people in Canada will have been born overseas.

To facilitate the entry of Skilled Workers and Professionals into Canada for the economic and cultural development of Canada, the Human Resources Development Canada (Labor Department of Canada) has produced a list of occupations known as National Occupation Classification (NOC)

• Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) presently uses NOC 2016 to determine the eligibility of occupations under its temporary and permanent residency programs. Now, IRCC will change to NOC 2021 starting in November 2022 as per Canadian law.
• The NOC is accomplished by Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) and Statistics Canada, which revise the classification every 10 years. NOC 2021 will introduce new terminology and a revised classification structure that will affect IRCC programs.

The outcome of these changes, the following 16 occupations will become eligible under Express Entry:

• Payroll administrators;
• Dental assistants and dental laboratory assistants;
• Nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates;
• Pharmacy technical assistants and pharmacy assistants;
• Elementary and secondary school teacher assistants;
• Sheriffs and bailiffs;
• Correctional service officers;
• By-law enforcement and other regulatory officers;
• Estheticians, electrologists and related occupations;
• Residential and commercial installers and servicers;
• Pest controllers and fumigators;
• Other repairers and servicers;
• Transport truck drivers;
• Bus drivers, subway operators and other transit operators;
• Heavy equipment operators; and
• Aircraft assemblers and aircraft assembly inspectors.

There will also be 3 occupations that will become ineligible under Express Entry:

• Other performers;
• program leaders and instructors in recreation, sport and fitness; and
• tailors, dressmakers, furriers and milliners.

These three occupations will continue eligible for programs with wider occupational eligibility criteria, such as some streams of the Provincial Nominee Program.   

The key change to NOC 2021 is the present four-category “skill level” has been overhauled and changed by a new six-category system. The new system outlines the level of Training, Education, Experience and Responsibilities (TEER) required to enter each occupation.

The earlier NOC had four skill levels. NOC A represented jobs that tend to need university degrees, NOC B included jobs in the skilled trades or that need a college diploma, NOC C covered jobs that need intermediate skills or job-specific training, and NOC D was for labour jobs that need on-the-job training.

In September 2020, IRCC decided that the new TEER structure will be adopted as follows:

NOC 2021 will use a five-tier hierarchical classification to classify occupations. Also, occupations will now have a five-digit codification system in its place of the current four-digit system.The TEER system has six categories, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Also, Statistics Canada explains around two main reasons why the skill type model is being replaced by the TEER system.

• First, the TEER system aims to deliver more clarity on the level of education and work experience required to work in an occupation.
• Second, the skill type model generates artificial categorizations between low- and high-skilled jobs. Implementing TEER is intended to give stakeholders a better sense of the skills required for each occupation.
• This Statistics Canada tool allows how an applicant current NOC corresponds with NOC 2021.

Federal Immigration Minister advised that Canada will admit 341,000 permanent residents in 2020, 351,000 next year and 361,000 in 2022. By 2022, the year's new permanent residents in Canada will account for one per cent of the population.

• About 341,000 immigrants in 2020,
• About 351,000 in 2021, and
• About 361,000 in 2022.

Target number of newcomers come through Canada Federal Skilled Worker Program, Federal Skilled Trades program, and Canadian Experience Class program. Government aims to bring huge number of families to migrate mainly through Provincial Nominee Programs. Quebec aims to welcome more than 29,000 through economic programs, including the Quebec Skilled Worker Program. Read more about Visas for Canada

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