Ontario is changing the registration system of five of its economic-class immigration streams in the coming weeks.
Instead of the previous first-come-first-served model, the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) is moving to an Expression of Interest (EOI) system, a points-based system that ranks candidates based on human capital and labour market factors. Many other Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs) already use this type of system for managing new registrants.
The OINP will apply the new EOI system to the following streams:
• Employer Job Offer Category streams (Foreign Worker, International Student and In-Demand Skills);
• Masters Graduate stream; and
• Ph.D. Graduate stream.
While the OINP is changing the system, these streams are currently closed to new applicants. They will reopen when the new EOI system launches in the coming weeks. The OINP did not say what date that would be.
