Alberta Immigration

Alberta is one of Canada’s three grassland provinces. It located in western Canada. Nowadays Alberta is the fastest-growing province of Canada. It has Canada’s major urban centers, Calgary and Edmonton. Alberta’s terrain varies from towering mountains to glacial lakes, from vast boreal forests to fertile prairies and desert badlands. This province has natural resources like natural gas, oil, coal, minerals, and the famous Alberta oil sands. And this makes Alberta Canada’s energy province.

Alberta Immigration Nominee Program

The Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program (AINP) is for individuals who have the skills and abilities to fill labour shortages in Alberta.

The AINP accepts skilled worker’s applications under the Alberta Opportunity Stream (AOS) and also under the Express Entry system. It also operates two business programs, the International Graduate Entrepreneur Immigration Stream and the Self-Employed Farmer Stream. 

The third business stream is the Foreign Graduate Start-Up Visa Stream.

This program is run by the Alberta government with the partnership of the Federal Immigration Department, Immigration Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). 

The Interested applicants must follow a two-stage process:

1. – First, apply for a nomination to the provincial government, and then, 
2. – if you get nominated, then apply for permanent residence to the Federal Government.