AAIP Updates: New Guidelines For 4 Alberta PNP Streams/Pathways

Last Updated On 4 June 2024, 7:47 PM EDT (Toronto Time)

New AAIP Updates: The Alberta Provincial Nominee Program (PNP), officially known as the Alberta Advantage Immigration Program (AAIP), made 2 important guideline changes.

These AAIP updates confirmed that the province will resume accepting applications under the Alberta Opportunity Stream on June 11.

Furthermore, the program provided more clarity with new guidelines to manage nomination targets and processing times for 2024 in the context of the annual PNP allocation by the Canadian government.

The Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) annual nominations quota for 2024 is 9,750 nominations.

This is the maximum number of provincial nomination certificates that can be issued this year.

The Premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith, wrote a letter to Justin Trudeau in March 2024 to increase the provincial nomination quotas, but it seems like she has not received any positive response yet.

The province has already issued 4,337 nominations under various streams of AAIP as of May 29.

So the province is now organizing the rest of the nominations for the below-listed streams in almost equal numbers among the remaining 7 months in 2024.

Furthermore, only a set number of applications will be accepted into the pool of the above-listed streams or pathways on a monthly basis, as listed below.

The stream or pathway will stop accepting new applications into the pool once the monthly target is reached for that particular stream or pathway, until the next month’s opening date.

AAIP updates the targets below on their official website for the next 7 months.

Stream / pathway	11-Jun	09-Jul	13-Aug	10-Sep	08-Oct	05-Nov	10-Dec
Alberta Opportunity Stream	430 >	444	430	444	430	444	430
Express Entry Stream Accelerated Tech Pathway	30	50	50	50	50	50	50
Rural Renewal Stream	145	160	145	160	145	160	145
Tourism and Hospitality Stream	130	143	130	143	130	143	130
Entrepreneur StreamsForeign Graduate, Graduate, Rural and Farm Streams	Business applications are being accepted currently, as timing for nomination eligibility varies, based on when requirements have been met
Approximate application intake totals	735	797	755	797	755	797	755

AAIP Targets

The AAIP update also informs and confirms that eligibility criteria have not changed for any of it’s PNP streams or pathways.

AAIP stream-wise nominations issued Vs. nominations still to be issued in 2024

The Rural Renewal Stream, Express Entry Stream, and Alberta Opportunity Stream are the three streams that have the most allocations left for the remainder of 2024 as of May 29.

Stream / pathway	2024 nominations issued	2024 total estimated nominations allocated (subject to change)
Alberta Opportunity Stream	2,245	5,393
Express Entry Stream	983	1,775
Dedicated Healthcare Pathways	228	320
Accelerated Tech Pathway	536	1,047
Priority Sector Draws and other initiatives	116	231
Family Connection and Occupation in Demand	103	177
Rural Renewal Stream	971	1,900
Tourism and Hospitality Stream	135	660
Entrepreneurial Streams: Foreign Graduate, Graduate, Rural and Farm Streams combined	3	22
Grand Total	4,337	9,750

AAIP Nominations Status

What are the immigration streams or pathways offered by the Alberta PNP?

Common immigration streams offered by the Alberta PNP are:
Graduate Entrepreneur Stream
Alberta Express Entry Stream
Accelerated Tech Pathway for Express Entry
Alberta Opportunity Stream (temporarily paused)
Tourism and Hospitality Stream
Religious Workers Eligibility program
Rural Renewal Stream
Rural Entrepreneur Stream
Foreign Graduate Entrepreneur Stream

All The Alberta Express Entry Draws 2024

Date	Number of Notification of Interest letters sent	Draw parameters	Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score of lowest-ranked candidate who received a Notification of Interest letter
May 1, 2024	40	Dedicated Healthcare Pathway with Alberta job offer	305
April 17, 2024	49	Dedicated Healthcare Pathway with Alberta job offer	305
March 19, 2024	41	Dedicated Healthcare Pathway with Alberta job offer	304
March 5, 2024	34	Dedicated Healthcare Pathway with Alberta job offer	303
February 20, 2024	33	Dedicated Healthcare Pathway with Alberta job offer	311
February 6, 2024	44	Dedicated Healthcare Pathway with Alberta job offer	302
February 1, 2024	80	Priority sector: construction occupation with Alberta job offer	382
January 30, 2024	22	Dedicated Healthcare Pathway with Alberta job offer	312
January 16, 2024	22	Dedicated Healthcare Pathway with Alberta job offer	312
January 11, 2024	44	Priority sector: agriculture occupation with Alberta job offer	312
January 2, 2024	42	Dedicated Healthcare Pathway with Alberta job offer	309

AAIP Express Entry Draw 2024

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Gagandeep Kaur Sekhon moved to Canada in 2010 on a study visa. She navigated through the ups and downs of her student life and gained her permanent residency in 2015. Today, she is a proud Canadian citizen residing in Calgary, Alberta. She is mother of 2 beautiful daughters and making her difference through writing and guidance at INC – Immigration News Canada.