New Brunswick PNP

There are two streams: one for skilled workers and one tied to Express Entry. Both streams split into a few pathways, but you only pick a stream, not a pathway.

Two terms show up in both streams. CLB stands for Canadian Language Benchmarks, the national scale used to measure English or French in four areas: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. TEER, meanwhile, is the label the national job list assigns to every occupation, reflecting the training and education the role requires.

For the full rules, see the official pages for the Skilled Worker and Express Entry streams.

This stream fits people who already work in New Brunswick or hold a full-time, year-round job offer from an eligible employer. That employer must have run a business inside the province for the last two years, and the requirements of your occupation must be ones you can satisfy.

• New Brunswick Experience: you hold a full-time, non-seasonal position with the employer backing your application. On top of that, you need six months of full-time employment with that employer, six months of residence in New Brunswick, and a high school diploma or better.
• New Brunswick Graduates: you completed a program at a designated New Brunswick school that makes you eligible for a post-graduation work permit. A full-time, year-round role with the employer supporting you is also required, whether you are already working in it or have only agreed to take it.
• New Brunswick Priority Occupations: you were offered a full-time, year-round job that came straight from a recruitment effort run by the Government of New Brunswick. You must also show a year or more of paid work in a related field, and the guide's priority list must include the job.

Express Entry is the federal system. You build an online profile there, and the system gives every profile a score. If your profile is active in the Express Entry pool, New Brunswick will consider your request for a nomination. A nomination gives your score a lift, and IRCC then invites you to apply for permanent residence.

• Employment in New Brunswick: you hold a full-time, year-round TEER 0, 1, 2, or 3 job with an employer that has run a business in the province for 24 months. On top of that, the last 12 months must have been spent living and working full time in New Brunswick while authorized to work in Canada.
• Letter of interest: New Brunswick sent you a letter of interest through your Express Entry profile, and the federal proof-of-funds requirement is one you meet.

In a 13 October 2026 IRCC draw, held for provincial nominees, invitations went to 752 people, and the cut-off score was 772.

If a New Brunswick PNP stream invites you to apply, you have to pull back any other applications you have filed. The rule covers the Atlantic Immigration Program too. When your endorsement application there is picked for processing, every expression of interest you hold must be withdrawn.

Applications are heavy right now, so New Brunswick warns that its assessment can run for several months. It may also request extra documents from you. If you cannot prove you qualify, the application gets refused.

Once you are nominated, IRCC takes over the permanent residence application. Here is what IRCC currently estimates:

Your certificate tells you whether you go through Express Entry or the other route. You are expected to submit your IRCC application before the certificate runs out. Every family member belongs on your application, marked either as traveling with you or staying behind. A nomination also closes other doors: you and your family cannot turn to any other New Brunswick program or stream.

Use form NB-021 to reach Immigration New Brunswick when you need to:

• report a change in your job
• correct a mistake on your certificate
• request a work permit support letter
• ask for an extension of your certificate

If you want out of the program, use form NB-011.

If you are nominated, you can request a work permit from IRCC as your permanent residence case is decided. Immigration New Brunswick must issue you a support letter, and your employer must supply an offer of employment number. That number starts with the letter A and then seven digits, like A1234567.

Your employer gets the number by registering on the Employer Portal and settling a compliance fee. The employer pays that fee. It can never be charged to you.