Provincial Nomination - New Brunswick

New Brunswick is an altogether positive and welcoming province when it comes to the Provincial Nomination Programme. The province attempts to provide a ‘complete package’ for successful applicants. A welcoming community, low cost of living and plentiful job market for skilled professionals are just some of the promises made by the provincial nomination board of New Brunswick.

Alongside the familiar path for applicants of having a pre-approved job offer from within the province, New Brunswick offers a second path that involves having a business plan approved that could mean an applicant will go on to open his or her own business from scratch, or some other specific business plan. The board looks at seven factors when considering applications. Age, education, language ability, ability to adapt, work experience, and then either business experience in the case of a business proposal, or skills shortage in the case of a job offer are all important.

New Brunswick publishes the points system it employs in attempting to determine how desirable an applicant may be. Accordingly, potential applicants can self assess themselves to ascertain the likelihood of a favourable response. The optimum age, abilities and experience is therefore publicly viewable and this transparency no doubt allows for less time to be wasted for both applicants and the board who judges their proposals.