Today, the Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship announced that category-based selection for Express Entry will begin, today, with 500 Express Entry candidates with backgrounds in Health Care occupations to be invited to apply for Permanent Residence and 1,500 on July 5, 2023. Also, on July 5, 2023, the Government of Canada will be inviting candidates with STEM expertise – including data scientists, software developers and programmers, mathematicians, statisticians and actuaries, and electrical and electronics engineers – with a view to help Canada’s science and technology sector, by bringing in the skilled talent that businesses need to drive innovation and achieve their growth potential.
To be eligible for Category-Based Selection, an applicant must
- have accumulated, within the past 3 years, at least 6 months of continuous work experience (in Canada or abroad) in a single occupation listed in the table below
- meet all of the requirements in the instructions for that round
Full eligibility details will be available in the instructions for each round.
The full list of Health Care occupations appears below:
| Audiologists and speech language pathologists | ||
| Chiropractors | ||
| Dentists | ||
| Dieticians and nutritionists | ||
| Education counsellors | ||
| General practitioners and family physicians | ||
| Instructors of persons with disabilities | ||
| Kinesiologists and other professional occupation in therapy and assessment | ||
| Licensed practical nurses | ||
| Massage therapists | ||
| Medical laboratory assistants and related technical occupations | ||
| Medical laboratory technologists | ||
| Medical radiation technologists | ||
| Medical sonographers | ||
| Nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates | ||
| Nurse practitioners | ||
| Nursing co-ordinators and supervisors | ||
| Occupational therapists | ||
| Optometrists | ||
| Other assisting occupations in support of health services | ||
| Other practitioners of natural healing | ||
| Other professional occupations in health diagnosing and treating | ||
| Other technical occupations in therapy and assessment | ||
| Paramedical occupations | ||
| Pharmacy technical assistants and pharmacy assistants | ||
| Physician assistants, midwives and allied health professionals | ||
| Physiotherapists | ||
| Psychologists | ||
| Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses | ||
| Respiratory therapists, clinical perfusionists and cardiopulmonary technologists | ||
| Specialists in clinical and laboratory medicine | ||
| Specialists in surgery | ||
| Therapists in counselling and related specialized therapies | ||
| Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners and acupuncturists | ||
| Veterinarians |
The full list of STEM occupations appears below:
| Architects | ||
| Architecture and science managers | ||
| Business systems specialists | ||
| Civil Engineers | ||
| Computer and information systems managers | ||
| Computer engineers (except software engineers and designers) | ||
| Computer systems developers and programmers | ||
| Cybersecurity specialists | ||
| Data scientists | ||
| Database analysts and data administrators | ||
| Electrical and electronics engineers | ||
| Engineering managers | ||
| Industrial and manufacturing engineers | ||
| Information systems specialists | ||
| Land surveyors | ||
| Landscape Architects | ||
| Mathematicians, statisticians and actuaries | ||
| Metallurgical and materials engineers | ||
| Natural and applied science policy researchers, consultants and program officers | ||
| Software developers and programmers | ||
| Software engineers and designers | ||
| Urban and land use planners | ||
| Web designers | ||
| Web developers and programmers |