Re-opening of Northwest Territories Nominee Program postponed…

The federal government of the Northwest Territories has introduced that it’ll not be re-opening the Northwest Territory Nominee Program (NTNP) on January 16, 2025, as had been deliberate.

Previous to this announcement, the NTNP had been set to open on January 16 and had deliberate to simply accept 100 functions for territorial nomination for Canadian everlasting residence within the first consumption interval.

The territory mentioned that it is dedicated to re-opening the NTNP, and that it intends to announce the revised re-opening date “as quickly as doable.”

International nationals searching for Canadian everlasting residence by means of the NTNP should wait till this system re-opens previous to submitting functions for territorial nomination.

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The territory attributed this postponement to the Canadian federal authorities having minimize the allocation to the NTNP. Final 12 months, the NTNP had been allotted 300 nominations for everlasting residence by the federal authorities. On January 15, the territory acquired notification from the federal authorities that its allocation for 2025 had been lowered to 150 nominations.

The territorial authorities has determined to postpone re-opening the NTNP so it may well re-assess its plans for this system for 2025, bearing in mind the decreased allocation of nomination from the federal authorities.

The federal authorities’s discount of allocations to the NTNP align with its total discount of allocations to everlasting resident landings targets for the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) in 2025.

In the latest Immigration Ranges Plan, introduced on October 24, 2025, the federal authorities set a goal of 55,000 landings for the PNP program, a 50% discount from the goal of 110,000 landings allotted to the PNP in 2024.

The federal authorities minimize the PNP program considerably greater than it minimize total immigration ranges, which it lowered by solely 20%.

On the identical time, the federal authorities elevated the landings allocation for the federal financial immigration applications managed by means of Categorical Entry, as much as 124,680 for 2025, in comparison with 110,770 for 2024. The federal authorities intends to allocate the majority of those federal financial everlasting resident admissions to the “In-Canada Focus” and “Federal Financial Priorities” classes.

The “Federal Financial Priorities” class contains French-speaking immigrants, and immigrants with occupations in healthcare and within the trades.

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