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Alberta Advantage Immigration Program – Updates
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March 17, 2025: Updating Express Entry Profile
If you submitted your Express Entry application on or after September 30, 2024, and your profile expires before a decision is made, you can update it. The AAIP may ask you to submit a new profile that meets program requirements.
Likewise, if your profile has expired or is about to expire you may proactively update it in the portal. The updated profile must meet AAIP criteria.
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March 17, 2025: Participation in the Public Policy to Facilitate Work Permits for 2025
Alberta is not participating in the federal government’s "Temporary Public Policy to Facilitate Work Permits for Prospective Provincial Nominee Program Candidates’ in 2025".
Participation would constrain Alberta’s ability to address provincial economic needs with the limited allocations granted to us for 2025.
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March 17, 2025: Update to Family Connection and Occupation in Demand Selections (Alberta Express Entry Stream)
Effective March 17, 2025 AAIP will no longer invite candidates under the family connection and occupation in demand pathway.
Applicants can continue to claim points for a qualifying family connection (parent, sibling, child) in Alberta who is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident over 18 under the Expression of Interest System launched September 2024.
Study permits: Assessing study permit conditions
This PDI provides processing instructions for assessing study permit conditions. This includes, but is not limited to: study permit extensions, re-entry of study permit holders to Canada and investigations into study permit compliance.
Per subsection 220.1(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR), study permit holders in Canada are subject to both of the following conditions:
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They shall enroll at a designated learning institution (DLI) that is named in their permit and remain enrolled at a DLI until they complete their studies.
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They shall actively pursue their course or program of study.
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Update on 2025 Parents and Grandparents Program
Ottawa, March 7, 2025—Family reunification is an important part of Canada’s immigration system, helping Canadian citizens and permanent residents sponsor their loved ones to live and work alongside them in Canada. Through the Parents and Grandparents (PGP) Program, the government is committed to reuniting as many families as possible.
This year, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) intends to accept up to 10,000 complete applications for sponsorship under the PGP Program.
Given there remains a number of interest to sponsor forms in the pool from 2020, IRCC plans to send invitations to apply to randomly selected potential sponsors from that pool instead of accepting new forms. This is the same approach taken for the intakes conducted from 2020 to 2024.
As of February 5, 2025, processing times for PGP Program applications were approximately 24 months for those destined outside Quebec. They are 48 months for Quebec-destined applicants due to the province’s more limited family class admission targets.
To minimize wait times for clients, IRCC strives to strike a balance between the number of PGP Program applications received with the number of PGP Program spaces available through the Immigration Levels Plan in future years. Changes to the levels plan, such as the overall reductions to our immigration targets in the 2025–2027 Immigration Levels Plan, require IRCC to recalibrate the number of new applications that are accepted for processing.
IRCC understands this approach will have an impact on the families who have not had an opportunity to submit an interest to sponsor form. For those interested in reuniting with their parents and grandparents for extended periods of time, the super visa remains available. This allows parents and grandparents to visit their children or grandchildren for 5 years at a time and provides multiple entries to Canada for up to 10 years. IRCC recently made the super visa more accessible by implementing a change to the health insurance requirement.
More details about the 2025 PGP Program intake will be made available in the coming months, including information about when the invitations to apply will be sent.
Immigrate to Canada
How to immigrate to Canada through one of our permanent residence programs for skilled workers, family, entrepreneurs and more
Eligible individuals can apply to be nominated to work and live in Alberta permanently.
Express Entry
Immigrate as a skilled worker
Provincial nominees
Immigrate by being nominated by a Canadian province or territory
Family sponsorship
Sponsor your relatives, including your spouse, partner, children, parents, grandparents, and others to immigrate
Caregivers
Immigrate by providing care for children, the elderly or those with medical needs, or work as a live-in caregiver
Atlantic Immigration Program
Immigrate by graduating from a school or working in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, or Newfoundland and Labrador
Quebec-selected skilled workers
Immigrate as a skilled worker in the province of Quebec
Start-up visa
Immigrate by starting a business and creating jobs
Refugees
Immigrate as a refugee or become a sponsor
Rural and Francophone community immigration pilots
Immigrate as a skilled worker to rural or Francophone-minority communities across Canada
Francophone immigration
Live, work or study in French in a Francophone community outside Quebec
Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot
Immigrate through economic permanent residence pathways as an eligible skilled refugee
Permanent residence pathways for Hong Kong residents
Two pathways to permanent residence for eligible Hong Kong residents who are currently in Canada
Family-based humanitarian program for Colombians, Haitians and Venezuelans
Migrate as a national of Colombia, Haiti or Venezuela, living in Latin America or the Caribbean, with family in Canada
Immediate or extended family or de facto dependant of a resettled Yazidi or survivor of Daesh
Some family of resettled Yazidis and survivors of Daesh in Canada may be able to immigrate here
Families of victims of flight PS752
Some family members of victims of Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 (or their spouse or common-law partner) may be able to immigrate to Canada
Home care workers (caregivers)
As a caregiver, you can come to Canada to become a permanent resident or work temporarily.
Home Care Worker Immigration pilots
How to apply for permanent residence through the Home Care Worker Immigration pilots.
Work temporarily as a home care worker (caregiver)
How to work temporarily as a home care worker.
Home Child Care Provider Pilot and Home Support Worker Pilot Closed
The last day to apply was June 17, 2024.
Live-in Caregiver Program Closed
Closed to new applicants unless you had already received a work permit under this program based on a labour market impact assessment submitted before December 2014.
Caring for Children Pilot Closed
The last day to apply was June 17, 2019.
Caring for People with High Medical Needs Pilot Closed
The last day to apply was June 17, 2019.
Interim Pathway for Caregivers Program Closed
The last day to apply was October 8, 2019.
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2025-04-14