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Subtleties on the best way to apply to new Agri-Food Immigration Pilot will be accessible in mid 2020, IRCC says

Transitory outside laborers with involvement in Canada's agri-sustenance area will have another pathway to Canadian lasting habitation beginning in mid 2020.

The three-year Agri-Food Immigration Pilot will help hold experienced, non-regular remote laborers with qualified offers of employment in Canada's rural and agri-nourishments industry.

The Government of Canada says the business traded a record $66.2 billion in items in 2018 and underpins 1 out of 8 occupations the nation over, however ventures, for example, meat handling and mushroom creation "have encountered progressing trouble in finding and keeping new representatives."

As of now, vagrant homestead laborers who come to Canada through its Temporary Foreign Worker program for regular agrarian specialists get just restricted term work allows and have no pathway to changeless residency.

The occupations and businesses qualified under the new Agri-Food Immigration Pilot include:

• meat processing
  • retail butcher
  • industrial butcher
  • food processing labourer
• harvesting labourer for year-round mushroom production and greenhouse crop production
• general farm worker for year-round mushroom production, greenhouse crop production, or livestock raising
• farm supervisor and specialized livestock worker for meat processing, year-round mushroom production, greenhouse crop production or livestock raising.

Eligibility requirements

• 12-months of full-time, non-seasonal Canadian work experience in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, in an eligible occupation in processing meat products, raising livestock, or growing mushrooms or greenhouse crops;
• a Canadian Language Benchmark level 4 in English or French;
• the foreign equivalent of a Canadian high school education or greater;
• an indeterminate job offer for full-time, non-seasonal work in Canada, outside of Quebec, at or above the prevailing wage.

2-year LMIA for employers