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Important Terms
Accompanying Dependent: A spouse or dependent child of the principal applicant who intends to immigrate to Canada. For more information, see Who Is Included With Your Application under "Are You Eligible?".
Application: Package including all forms, supporting documents and information provided to the MPNP to request consideration by the MPNP.
Assessment Stream: An eligibility category under which an application will be considered for approval by the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program.
Affidavit of Support: A form completed and signed by a close relative, distant relative, or friend of the applicant indicating their intention and ability to support the successful settlement of the applicant in Manitoba.
Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants (CSIC): A self-regulating association of paid immigration representatives who are citizens or permanent residents of Canada. CIC and the MPNP will not release information to any paid immigration representative who is not a member in good standing with CSIC or a lawyer in good standing with a law society in Canada.
Certificate of Nomination: A certificate issued by the MPNP directly to a CIC visa office indicating that an approved provincial nominee is eligible to apply to that office for a permanent resident visa.
CIC: Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
CIC Visa Office: Citizenship and Immigration Canada office at a Canadian embassy, high commission or consulate that issues visas, including permanent resident visas.
Close Relative: For purposes of the MPNP, a close relative in Manitoba is defined as a mother/father, son/daughter, sister/brother, aunt/uncle, niece/nephew, grandparent, or first cousin (your aunt/uncle’s son/daughter) of the applicant.
Common-law partner: A common-law partner is a person who has been living with the principal applicant in a conjugal relationship for at least one year. The term refers to both opposite and same-sex relationships.
Community Support Agreement: An agreement between Manitoba and an eligible community organization allowing that community to submit a Letter of Support for an applicant to the MPNP and based on the community’s ability to assist an applicant to settle successfully in Manitoba.
Dependent Children: A dependent child is either a biological or an adopted child of the principal applicant, spouse or common law partner. For more information, see Who Is Included With Your Application.
Designated Representative: An individual, not necessarily a paid immigration representative, named by the applicant and authorized to receive information about an application. The MPNP will only release information to one named and authorized representative.
Distant Relative: A relative of the applicant who does not meet the MPNP definition of a close relative.
Employer Direct Stream: A priority assessment stream for applicants who are currently employed full-time in Manitoba with a permanent job offer or who have received a Pre-approved Job Offer of Employment.
Family Support Stream: A priority assessment stream for applicants who meet minimum age, education, work experience and language ability criteria, and have a close relative in Manitoba who has signed an Affidavit of Support form included with the application.
Family-Like Support: Support demonstrated by two or more distant relatives or friends of the applicant in Manitoba, who have each completed and signed the Affidavit of Support form included with this application package.
Guaranteed Employment Offer: A written offer of full-time, permanent employment from an employer in Manitoba. An employment offer will only be considered eligible if the employer has first submitted an employer direct application form that has been approved by the MPNP, or if the applicant has already been issued a temporary work permit for that job offer.
HRSDC: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
Immigration Representative: An immigration representative is a person who receives a fee to act on behalf of an applicant of the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program.
Intended Occupation: The occupation in which a Manitoba provincial nominee plans to work in Manitoba. All applicants must declare an intended occupation which is consistent with the applicant's training and experience within the past 10 years.
International Students Stream: A priority assessment stream for international students who have completed a post-secondary program in Manitoba (not including English or French language programs) and are currently employed on a post-graduation Work Permit.
Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program: A nomination program that allows the Province of Manitoba to assess and nominate applicants who can demonstrate their ability to establish successfully and permanently in Manitoba (commonly referred to as the MPNP).
Manitoba Provincial Nominee: A person whose application to immigrate to Manitoba has been approved and to whom the MPNP has issued a Certificate of Nomination.
National Occupational Classification (NOC): The NOC is a classification system that describes duties, skills, talents and work settings for occupations in the Canadian economy. NOC can be found on the internet at http://www23.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/2001/e/generic/welcome.shtml.
Nominate: A term used by the Province of Manitoba for applicants who have been approved by the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program.
Occupational Requirements List: The Occupational Requirements List is described in the section Occupational Requirements and is available in its complete and current form on the MPNP website. Applicants whose only work experience in the past five years is in an occupation on this list will only be considered if they meet the specific requirement(s) listed for that occupation on the MPNP Occupational Requirements List current at the time of assessment.
Permanent Resident: A person who is legally in Canada as an immigrant or refugee, but who is not yet a Canadian citizen.
Post-Graduation Work Permit: A Work Permit issued to eligible international students who have graduated from a post-secondary program in Manitoba, have received a job offer in writing for employment related to their field of studies and have applied to Citizenship and Immigration Canada within 90 days of completing all degree or program requirements.
Pre-approved Job Offer: A guaranteed offer of employment that has been pre-approved by the MPNP based on a separate application submitted by the employer to the MPNP.
Principal Applicant: The person (you or your spouse) who is most likely to be approved according to the information provided in the Assessment Streams section. The other person will be considered a dependent on the principal applicant's forms.
Settlement Funds: The amount of financial or transferable assets in the name of the Principal Applicant and/or Spouse available to the applicant to pay the costs of Government of Canada immigration fees, relocations costs to Canada and the costs to settle successfully in Manitoba.
Skilled Worker Immigrant: An economic immigration category under Citizenship and Immigration Canada. A skilled worker immigrant is a person with specific occupational skills, experience and personal qualifications who meets Canada’s selection criteria and is accepted to immigrate to Canada.
Spouse: A person to whom the principal applicant is legally married. The term refers to both opposite and same-sex relationships.
Temporary Work Permit: A permit issued by a CIC visa office or case processing centre allowing the holder to work temporarily in Canada according the conditions indicated on the permit. An approved provincial nominee may be eligible to apply for a temporary work permit without requiring HRSDC validation, if he/she has a job offer in his/her assessed occupation and a supporting letter from the MPNP
Training: For purposes of assessment under the MPNP, training refers to a combination of formal (high school, university, college), vocational and/or apprenticeship education, related to and required by a particular occupation.
Witness: A witness can be any person, including a friend or family member and need not be a lawyer or notary.
Contact:
Manitoba Labour and Immigration
Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program
7th floor, 213 Notre Dame Avenue
Winnipeg Manitoba R3B 1N3 Canada
Telephone: (204) 945-2806
Fax: (204) 948-2256
E-mail: immigratemanitoba@gov.mb.ca
Web Site: www.immigratemanitoba.com