Human Capital Priorities – OINP

Ontario’s Express Entry Human Capital Priorities Stream is an immigration stream under the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP). The Human Capital Stream gives a foreign worker with the required skilled work experience, language abilities, and education the opportunity to apply to live and work in Ontario permanently. This stream does not require a job offer.

To qualify for Ontario’s Human Capital Priorities Stream, you must:

1. Create an Express Entry Profile
   • Have an Education Credential Evaluation
   • Have an IELTS Test Result
   • Have skilled work experience in NOC 0, A or B skill type
   • Qualify under one of the two streams
     • Federal Skilled Worker Class
     • Canadian Experience Class
   • Your CRS Score should ideally be on the higher side. Human Capital Priorities Stream Draws are based on your NOC Codes and the CRS Score, so a reasonably high CRS Score + Being the NOC Code of their choice will help you get a Notification of Interest.
2. OINP searches IRCC’s Express Entry pool to find candidates who may meet the criteria of Ontario’s Express Entry Human Capital Priorities Stream and will send out a Notification of Interest (NOI) through your IRCC online account, inviting you to submit an online application to the OINP.Once a candidate receives a Notification of interest he/she has 45 calendar days to apply OINP.

**For most current submission timelines, please visit OINP’s website.

MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS OF OINP – HUMAN CAPITAL PRIORITIES

1. Work experience in either
   •  Federal Skilled Worker Class
     • at least 1 year in the last 5 years of continuous paid full-time work experience (or equivalent part-time experience) in Skill Type 0, or Skill Level A or B
     • Same occupation as identified on Express Entry Profile
     • No breaks in employment over the 1-year period
     • The experience could be in Canada or Abroad
   • or Canadian Experience Class
     • at least 1 year in the last 3 years of continuous paid full-time work experience (or equivalent part-time experience) in Skill Type 0, or Skill Level A or B
     • Must be done in Canada while maintaining a Legal Status
     • in the occupation identified on the IRCC’s Express Entry Profile
2. Education
3. Language
4. Settlement Funds
5. Intention to live in Ontario
6. Legal Status in Canada