Ontario Just Published the Rules. Here Is Every Requirement.

On July 20, 2026, Ontario released the complete eligibility criteria for the Workforce Priority stream — the single pathway that replaced all eight OINP employer streams. This is the full breakdown: every hour threshold, every exception, and the entire points table.

Ravi has been a software developer in Waterloo for three years. In May, his Expression of Interest was sitting in the OINP pool with a score he had calculated to the point. In June, the pool was deleted. He has spent the last month with no idea whether the work he did to get there still counts for anything.

Grace is a personal support worker in a long-term care home outside Peterborough. Nobody ever told her the old In-Demand Skills stream had a future — she just knew her employer was going to sponsor her. Now the stream she was told to wait for does not exist.

Dr. Adeyemi is a family physician with an OHIP billing number and a practice in Timmins. He has no employer at all, and for a month it was unclear whether the redesigned program had a door for someone like him.

On July 20, 2026, all three of them got their answer. Ontario published the full eligibility criteria for the Ontario Workforce Priority stream — the first and largest piece of the OINP redesign that took effect on June 26. For the first time since the shutdown, every requirement, every threshold and the entire scoring table is public.

The short version: Ravi's pathway exists, but the bar moved. Grace's pathway exists, and it is more clearly defined than the stream it replaced. Dr. Adeyemi's pathway exists and is dramatically simpler than anyone expected. This article walks through all of it.

Ontario did not narrow the door. It moved the hinges — and told everyone at once that the queue they were standing in has been dissolved.

Sawubona Canada Immigration Inc., analysis of the July 20, 2026 OINP publication

• 8 → 1: Employer streams consolidated into one
• 3: Pathways inside the new stream
• 130: Maximum points across all scoring factors
• 17: Calendar days to apply after an invitation

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Section 1: What Actually Happened — and What Changed Yesterday

Two separate events, one month apart, that people keep merging into one

There have been two distinct moments, and conflating them is causing a lot of confusion.

June 26, 2026 — the shutdown. Ontario closed all eight of its former OINP streams. No further invitations will be issued under any of them. Expressions of Interest and job offers registered under the old streams that had not produced an invitation are being automatically withdrawn as the platforms are rebuilt, with direct notice to affected candidates.

July 20, 2026 — the publication. Ontario put the detailed eligibility criteria for the replacement stream on its website. These criteria reflect amendments to Ontario Regulation 422/17 under the Ontario Immigration Act, 2015, which came into force on June 25, 2026.

Important clarification

Applications already submitted are safe. Applications filed following an invitation under a former stream continue to be assessed against the eligibility requirements that were in effect when the application was submitted. The new criteria are not applied retroactively. What was lost was the un-invited pool — EOIs that had not yet converted into an invitation to apply.

It is also worth being precise about what the Workforce Priority stream is not. It is the first phase of the redesign, not the whole of it. Ontario has signalled that three further streams are expected to launch later in 2026. If your profile did not fit an employer job offer — a graduate without a job offer, an entrepreneur, a candidate relying on federal Express Entry alignment — the Workforce Priority stream is probably not your pathway, and you are waiting on phase two.

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Section 2: The Three Pathways at a Glance

One stream, three sets of rules — find yours before reading further

Everything in this stream flows from one question: what is the TEER category of the occupation in your job offer? TEER is determined by the second digit of your 5-digit NOC code. For NOC 13102 (payroll administrators), the second digit is 3, so the TEER category is 3.

Requirement	TEER 0–3 pathway	TEER 4–5 pathway	Self-employed physician
Job offer	Required — full-time, permanent	Required — full-time, permanent	Not required
Work experience	Four alternative routes (see Section 3)	9 months cumulative in past 2 years	Not applicable
Language	CLB 6 (CLB 5 for listed skilled trades)	CLB 4	Not applicable
Education	1-year post-secondary credential or equivalent	Canadian secondary school diploma or equivalent	Not applicable
Express Entry option	Available	Not available	Available

The physician exemption is the biggest story nobody is talking about

A self-employed physician who holds an OHIP billing number and the right class of CPSO certificate does not need to meet any of the other applicant requirements, and the employer requirements do not apply at all. No job offer. No language test. No ECA. No education assessment. This is, by a wide margin, the lightest-touch permanent residence pathway Ontario currently operates.

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Section 3: Work Experience — Where Most Files Will Fail

Four routes for TEER 0–3, one route for TEER 4–5, and a set of exceptions that matter enormously

TEER 0, 1, 2 or 3 — you need one of these four

This is the most important structural feature of the new stream: for higher-skilled occupations there are four independent ways to satisfy the work experience requirement. You need only one.

Route 1 — Six months consecutive, in the job offer position

• At least 6 months of consecutive, paid, full-time work in the specific employment position your employer is seeking approval for.
• Gained within the 12 months before you submit your application.
• "Full-time" here means the position requires at least 390 hours of paid work in a 12-month period and at least 30 hours of paid work per week.

Route 2 — Three months consecutive, for recent Ontario graduates

• Same position, same 12-month window, but only 3 months of consecutive full-time work is required.
• You must have graduated from an eligible Ontario institution within the last 3 years with one of: a post-secondary degree or diploma requiring at least 2 years of full-time study, an Ontario College Graduate Certificate, a Master's degree, or a PhD.

Route 3 — Two years cumulative, in the same NOC occupation

• At least 2 years of cumulative, paid, full-time experience within the 5 years before application.
• Full-time here means at least 30 hours per week amounting to at least 3,120 hours over a two-year period.
• Part-time equivalent also qualifies: one job at 15+ hours per week reaching 3,120 hours over 4 years, or more than one job totalling 30+ hours per week reaching 3,120 hours over 2 years.

Route 3 is also where Ontario built in occupational cross-overs — a genuinely useful concession that recognises how healthcare and engineering careers actually work:

If your job offer is for…	You may also count experience in…
An occupation in Sub-Major Group 223 (technical occupations related to engineering)	Sub-Major Group 213 (professional occupations in engineering)
NOC 33103 — Pharmacy technical assistants and pharmacy assistants	NOC 31120 — Pharmacists
NOC 33102 — Nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates	NOC 32101 (Licensed Practical Nurses) or NOC 31301 (Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses)

In plain terms: an internationally trained engineer, pharmacist or nurse taking a technician or aide role in Ontario can use their professional experience to qualify.

Route 4 — A mandatory licence instead of experience

If your job offer position legally requires a licence or authorization under Ontario or Canadian law, and you hold that valid licence from the appropriate regulatory body, you generally do not need to demonstrate work experience at all.

The transport driver carve-out

Route 4 and Route 2 do not apply if your job offer is for NOC 73300 (transport truck drivers) or NOC 73301 (bus drivers, subway operators and other transit operators). Candidates in these two occupations must meet the full 6 months of consecutive paid work experience requirement — being licensed or a recent Ontario graduate does not exempt you. If you are a driver, plan around Route 1.

TEER 4 or 5 — a single, stricter route

• At least 9 months of cumulative, paid, full-time work experience in the job offer employment position.
• Gained within the 2 years before you submit your application.
• "Full-time" is defined differently here: the position must require at least 1,170 hours of paid work in a 12-month period and at least 30 hours per week.

Note the asymmetry. TEER 4–5 candidates get no licence exemption, no graduate concession and no cross-occupational credit — but the experience is cumulative, so breaks in employment are permitted.

How the hours are actually counted

• Only completed experience counts. You cannot count work you expect to finish after submission — and you must already meet all stream criteria at the time you register your EOI, not just at application.
• Cumulative means gaps are allowed. The total simply has to reach the threshold within the window.
• Vacation, regular sick leave and standard short-term paid leave under a collective agreement, legislation or employer policy do not generally break full-time employment.
• Extended leaves do break it and must be excluded from the calculation.

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Section 4: Language, Education, Licensing, Status and Intent

The five remaining applicant requirements — and the exemptions hidden inside them

Language

Test results must be dated within 2 years before your application submission date, and you must hit the minimum in all four abilities.

Your situation	Minimum CLB required
TEER 0–3 job offer, not a listed skilled trade	CLB 6
TEER 0–3 job offer in a listed skilled trade	CLB 5
TEER 4–5 job offer	CLB 4
TEER 0–3 with an eligible Ontario credential from the last 3 years	No test required

That last row is a real exemption and it is easy to miss. If you graduated from an eligible Ontario institution within the last 3 years with a 2-year post-secondary degree or diploma, an Ontario College Graduate Certificate, a Master's or a PhD, you do not need a language test at all under the TEER 0–3 pathway.

Which occupations count as "listed skilled trades"

• Major Group 72 — technical trades and transportation officers and controllers (excluding Sub-Major Group 726)
• Major Group 73 — general trades
• Major Group 82 — supervisors in natural resources, agriculture and related production
• Major Group 83 — occupations in natural resources and related production
• Major Group 93 — central control and process operators (excluding aircraft assemblers and inspectors under Sub-Major Group 932)
• Minor Group 6320 — cooks, butchers, bakers
• Unit Group 62200 — chefs

Accepted tests — read this before you book

Language	Accepted	Not accepted
English	IELTS General Training; CELPIP General; PTE Core	IELTS Academic, IELTS One Skill Retake, CELPIP anything other than General, PTE Academic
French	TEF Canada; TCF Canada	—

A CELPIP booking detail that invalidates results When you book CELPIP, you must select "IRCC purposes" as the reason for the test and IRCC as the receiving institution. Without this, the OINP cannot confirm your results. This is a booking-screen decision that cannot be fixed afterwards — you would have to re-sit the test.

Education

TEER 0–3 — you need one of:

• A post-secondary degree or diploma requiring at least one year of full-time study from an eligible Canadian institution, or the foreign equivalent. "One academic year" means at least 15 hours of instruction per week across two semesters, including any workplace training component. Part-time study can qualify if equivalent to a full academic year.
• A Canadian secondary school diploma or foreign equivalent, if your job offer NOC is a listed skilled trade.
• For a NOC 33102 (nurse aide / orderly) job offer specifically: an Ontario college certificate requiring at least one year of full-time study from an eligible Canadian institution.
• A mandatory licence or authorization for the position — except for NOC 73300 and 73301 drivers, who cannot use this route.

TEER 4–5 — a Canadian secondary school diploma or its foreign equivalent.

Educational Credential Assessment If you studied outside Canada, you need an ECA report that is less than five years old on the date your application is made. Accepted assessing bodies are Comparative Education Service (University of Toronto), International Credential Assessment Service of Canada, International Credential Evaluation Service, International Qualifications Assessment Service, the Medical Council of Canada, the Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada, and World Education Services. Fees and turnaround times differ meaningfully between them.

Licence or authorization

If your position legally requires a licence, you must hold it at the time of application submission and maintain it throughout the entire nomination period — not just on the day you apply.

Legal status in Canada

If you are applying from inside Canada you must hold legal status when you apply — a visitor record, study permit or work permit. Applicants living in Canada without valid status at the time of nomination may not qualify.

Maintained status is accepted. If you applied to extend or renew your permit before it expired and are awaiting IRCC's decision, you may apply, and you can continue working or studying under the same conditions while you wait.

Intention to live and work in Ontario

Ontario assesses this through your ties to the province: current or past work in Ontario, job offers, applications or interviews, study, volunteering, leased or owned property, visits, professional networks and affiliations, family ties and personal relationships. It is an evidentiary requirement, not a declaration — build the file accordingly.

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Section 5: What Your Employer Has to Prove

The half of the file most candidates never see — and cannot control

Under this stream your nomination is conditional on your employer's separate application for approval of the employment position being approved. If theirs fails, yours cannot succeed. These requirements do not apply to self-employed physicians.

The employer must:

• Have been in active business for at least 3 years before submitting the application.
• Have business premises in Ontario where you will actually work.
• Have no outstanding orders under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 or the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
• Meet minimum gross revenue thresholds, which vary by the location of the job offer.
• Employ a minimum number of Canadian citizens or permanent residents full-time, again varying by job location.
• Demonstrate genuine recruitment effort to hire a Canadian citizen or permanent resident first — this applies only if you currently live outside Canada or are working outside Ontario.

The job offer must:

• Be full-time and permanent, located in Ontario.
• Be urgently necessary to the employer's business.
• Not affect a labour dispute.
• Meet the required wage level for the job's location.

Rural employers get lower revenue thresholds Revenue and staffing requirements are scaled to location, with lower thresholds for employers in rural communities — defined as a community in a census division with a population under 150,000. A smaller employer that could not qualify in Toronto may qualify in Timmins or Chatham-Kent.

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Section 6: The Process and the Deadlines

Employer first, candidate second — and the clocks are short

The sequencing is the single most misunderstood part of this stream. You cannot start the process yourself. Your employer initiates it.

• Step 1 — Employer: The employer registers in the Employer Portal and submits a job offer for your position. You receive a job offer ID.
• Step 2 — Candidate (30-day deadline): You register your Expression of Interest using that job offer ID. This must be done within 30 calendar days of your employer submitting the job offer. Miss it and the employer starts again.
• Step 3 — If invited (Employer 14 days): Your employer must submit their application for approval of the employment position within 14 calendar days of the invitation being issued.
• Step 3 — If invited (Candidate 17 days): You must submit and pay within 17 calendar days of the invitation — and only after your employer has submitted theirs. You can prepare during the full 17 days, but you cannot submit until they have gone first.

Self-employed physicians follow a different route Physicians do not use the Employer Portal. They contact the OINP directly to begin the EOI registration process, and if invited, must submit and pay within 17 calendar days.

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Section 7: The Full Scoring Table

Every point available under the Ontario Workforce Priority stream

Registering an EOI assigns you points across eleven factors. Two things to understand before reading the tables: scoring factors are not eligibility criteria — you must independently meet every stream requirement regardless of your score; and if invited, you must document every factor you claimed.

Employment and labour market factors

NOC TEER category — max 9

TEER	Points
TEER 0 or 1	9
TEER 2 or 3	6
TEER 4 or 5	0

NOC broad occupational category — max 10

Broad category	Points
Category 3 (health occupations)	10
Category 7 (trades and transport)	8
Category 2 (natural and applied sciences)	6
Categories 0, 1, 4, 8, 9	4
Categories 5, 6	2

Hourly wage — max 15

Wage in the job offer	Points
$40.00 per hour or higher	15
$35.00 – $39.99	12
$30.00 – $34.99	10
$25.00 – $29.99	8
$20.00 – $24.99	5
Under $20.00	0

Not applicable to self-employed physicians. Prepopulated from the employer's job offer — you cannot adjust it.

Ontario work experience — max 18

Time in the job offer position	Points
Over 24 months	18
13 – 24 months	15
6 – 12 months	12
Under 6 months, or not currently in the position	0

If you have under 6 months in the job offer position, a fallback scale applies based on total Ontario work experience: over 24 months earns 12 points, 13–24 months earns 9, 6–12 months earns 6, and under 6 months earns 0. Self-employed physicians are scored on cumulative medical practice in Ontario using the same 18 / 15 / 12 / 0 structure.

Canadian earnings history — max 8

Earnings in a year, per a CRA Notice of Assessment in the last 5 years	Points
$70,000 or more	8
$50,000 – $69,999	6
$30,000 – $49,999	4
Under $30,000	0

Legal status in Canada — max 10

Status	Points
Valid work permit	10
Valid study permit	5
No valid work or study permit	0

Education

Highest level of education — max 10

Credential (Canadian credential or ECA required)	Points
Doctorate, or degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or optometry	10
Master's degree	8
University certificate or diploma above bachelor level	6
Bachelor's degree or equivalent	6
Ontario College Graduate Certificate	5
University certificate or diploma below bachelor level	5
College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma	5
Apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma	5
Less than a college or trade certificate	0

Number of Canadian education credentials — max 10

Credentials from an eligible Canadian institution (1-year minimum each)	Points
More than one	10
One	5
None	0

Ontario publishes a specific list of eligible institutions covering Ontario colleges, universities and Six Nations Polytechnic, plus institutions in every other province and territory. Verify your school is named on the list — being accredited is not the same as being listed.

Language

Official language ability — max 15

Lowest CLB across all four abilities	Points
CLB 9 or higher	15
CLB 8	12
CLB 7	8
CLB 6	4
CLB 5 or lower	0

Scored on your weakest ability. If you took both English and French tests, the higher CLB result is used.

Knowledge of official languages — max 10

Languages	Points
Two official languages (requires CLB 6+ across all four abilities in both)	10
One official language	5

Regionalization

Location of the work in the job offer — max 15

Region	Census divisions included	Points
Northern Ontario	Muskoka, Haliburton, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Manitoulin, Sudbury, Greater Sudbury, Timiskaming, Cochrane, Algoma, Thunder Bay, Rainy River, Kenora	15
Eastern Ontario	Frontenac, Hastings, Kawartha Lakes, Lanark, Leeds and Grenville, Lennox and Addington, Northumberland, Ottawa, Peterborough, Prescott and Russell, Prince Edward, Renfrew, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry	10
Central Ontario (outside GTA)	Dufferin, Grey, Simcoe, Waterloo, Wellington	10
Southwestern Ontario	Brant, Bruce, Chatham-Kent, Elgin, Essex, Haldimand-Norfolk, Hamilton, Huron, Lambton, Middlesex, Niagara, Oxford, Perth	10
Inside GTA (except Toronto)	Durham, Halton, Peel, York	5
Toronto	City of Toronto	0

For physicians, region is determined by the Ontario practice address registered to your OHIP billing number.

What the table is telling you

Add the maximums and the ceiling is 130 points. Notice how they are distributed: work experience (18), language (15 + 10), wage (15) and region (15) together account for over half the available points — and three of those four are decided by where you work and for whom, not by your credentials. Education tops out at 20 points combined. A Toronto job offer at $22 an hour starts 25 points behind an identical role in Thunder Bay at $40. This is a deliberately regional, deliberately wage-weighted system.

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Section 8: After Nomination — Express Entry, Conditions and Verification

Nomination is not the finish line, and it can be cancelled

What arrives if you are approved You receive a nomination approval letter, a nomination certificate, and a work permit support letter if applicable. From there you must apply to IRCC for permanent residence within 6 months.

The Express Entry option Available only if your application was based on a TEER 0, 1, 2 or 3 occupation — including self-employed physicians. If you choose it:

• You must meet the minimum eligibility criteria of a federal Express Entry stream and maintain a valid profile throughout the application period.
• Any change to your Express Entry profile number, or a decision to withdraw from this option, must be reported to the OINP in writing before nomination.
• Once nominated, you have 30 calendar days to accept or refuse the nomination in the Express Entry system.
• Accepting adds 600 CRS points, which effectively guarantees an invitation in the next round.
• You then have 60 calendar days to submit your PR application to IRCC.

Letting your Express Entry profile lapse restarts everything If you select the Express Entry route and your profile expires or lapses after nomination, you must begin the entire OINP process again — new EOI, new wait for an invitation. This is not a technicality that gets forgiven. Diarise your profile expiry date the day you are nominated.

Nomination conditions and post-nomination verification A nomination is conditional until your PR application is approved or refused. The conditions are set out in your approval letter, and failing them can result in cancellation.

The OINP's Post-Nomination Verification Unit actively follows up with nominees to confirm conditions are being met. If you or your employer are not meeting the approval conditions, the OINP is authorised to cancel the approvals — including your nomination.

If your employment in the approved position ends — whether your employer terminates it or you resign — and the approval is cancelled, your route back is a new Expression of Interest. There is no amendment process; the OINP cannot change an approved employment position after nomination.

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Section 9: Where That Leaves Ravi, Grace and Dr. Adeyemi

And what you should be doing before the portal reopens

Ravi has a TEER 1 job offer in Waterloo. His old EOI is gone, but nearly everything he built still counts — his three years in the position puts him at the top of the Ontario work experience band, his employer is established, his CLB 9 is worth 15 points. What has changed is that his Toronto-adjacent location earns him 10 points under Central Ontario rather than the 0 he would get in Toronto, and his employer must now re-submit a fresh job offer before he can even register. His action item is not about his own file. It is about getting his employer into the Employer Portal, ready to file on day one.

Grace is TEER 4. She needs 9 months cumulative in the position within 2 years, CLB 4, and a high school equivalent — all of which she has. But she should know two things: her TEER category scores 0 points, and the Express Entry route is closed to her. Her nomination will come, if it comes, from a direct provincial nomination with a lower total score. Her leverage is in the factors she can still move: her Peterborough-area location is worth 10 points, and pushing her language result from CLB 4 to CLB 6 adds 4 more.

Dr. Adeyemi has the simplest file in this article. OHIP billing number, CPSO certificate in an independent practice class, a Timmins practice address. No employer, no language test, no ECA, no work experience documentation. His regionalization score is the maximum 15, his education factor is the maximum 10, and he is eligible for the Express Entry route. He should contact the OINP directly to begin EOI registration — and confirm his certificate class, because a postgraduate education licence does not qualify.

The one timing risk everyone shares

The EOI system and Employer Portal remain closed while Ontario rebuilds them. Reopening is expected in late summer 2026, with no confirmed date. When it opens, everyone whose EOI was withdrawn returns simultaneously.

Language tests take weeks to book and return results. ECAs take longer. Employer revenue and staffing documentation takes time to assemble. And your 30-day EOI clock starts the moment your employer files — not when you are ready. The candidates who move first will be the ones whose slow-moving documents were already finished before the doors opened.

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The Sawubona Canada View

Ontario Told You Exactly What It Wants. Build For That.

Read the points table as a statement of intent rather than a scoring mechanic, and the redesign becomes legible. Health occupations score highest of any broad category. Trades score second. Northern Ontario is worth three times what the inner GTA is worth. Wage is weighted as heavily as language. Education — the factor most candidates spend the most money on — is capped at 20 of 130 points.

Ontario is not selecting for the most credentialed applicants. It is selecting for people who will be well paid, in a shortage occupation, outside Toronto, in a job they are already doing.

That is uncomfortable if you are a highly qualified candidate in a saturated GTA sector. It is a significant opening if you are a nurse, a PSW, a licensed tradesperson, a physician, or anyone willing to consider Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Windsor or Kingston as seriously as they considered Mississauga.

The other thing worth saying plainly: this stream makes your employer a co-applicant in everything but name. Their three years of business history, their revenue, their compliance record, their willingness to file within 14 days — all of it is now load-bearing for your permanent residence. If you have not had a direct conversation with your employer about the Employer Portal, that conversation is more urgent than anything on your own document checklist.

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How We Help

How Sawubona Canada Helps You Navigate the Workforce Priority Stream

An update only matters once you know what it means for your specific file. At Sawubona Canada Immigration Inc., led by Vishal Kapoor, RCIC (No. R707177), we give you a written, file-specific action plan — not a generic summary.

• If your EOI was withdrawn in June: we re-score you against the new 130-point table, identify which of the four TEER 0–3 work experience routes fits your history, and tell you where your points are actually recoverable.
• If you have a job offer lined up: we assess your employer against the 3-year business history, revenue, staffing and compliance thresholds before they file — so a preventable employer gap does not end your file after your EOI clock has started.
• If you are TEER 4 or 5: we map the 9-month cumulative requirement against your actual pay records and hours, which is where these applications most often come apart.
• If you are a physician: we confirm your CPSO certificate class and OHIP registration qualify, and manage the direct EOI registration route with the OINP.
• If you are an Ontario employer: we prepare your Employer Portal registration and job offer documentation to the new regulatory standard, and build the 14-day filing plan around your candidate's deadline.

Sawubona. We see you. The EOI system reopens in weeks, not months — and everyone returns to the queue on the same day. Whether your EOI was withdrawn, you are holding a job offer, or you are still deciding whether Ontario is your province, let our RCIC-licensed team review your file before the doors open.

Book a free consultation +1 647-558-9000 | info@sawubonacanada.com | Free eligibility assessment Vishal Kapoor, RCIC · Founder & Principal Consultant · RCIC #R707177

Reviewed by RCIC Licensed Consultant Content reviewed for accuracy and IRCC compliance by Sawubona Canada Immigration Inc. (RCIC #R707177). Immigration policies change frequently — book a consultation for advice specific to your situation.

Sources and references: Government of Ontario, Ontario Workforce Priority stream (ontario.ca), published and updated July 20, 2026. Ontario Regulation 422/17 under the Ontario Immigration Act, 2015, as amended and in force June 25, 2026. Government of Ontario, OINP Employer Guide and Ontario Workforce Priority stream applicant document checklist. Fragomen Del Rey Bernsen & Loewy LLP, Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program Redesign: Phase 1 Launches Workforce Priority Stream, June 2026. Retail Council of Canada, Ontario's new labour program: the Ontario Workforce Priority, July 7, 2026. Immigration News Canada, New Ontario Workforce Priority Stream 2026, July 20, 2026. All information current as of July 21, 2026.

Disclaimer: The information on this page is intended as a general guide and does not constitute legal advice. The OINP is governed by the Ontario Immigration Act, 2015 and its regulations; in the event of any inconsistency between the Act, its regulations, and this article, the Act and its regulations take precedence. Immigration laws and policies change frequently, and the Expression of Interest system for this stream had not yet reopened at the time of writing. Final decisions on all immigration applications are made solely by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and the Government of Ontario. No outcome can be promised. For advice specific to your situation, please book a consultation with our RCIC-licensed team.