Newfoundland PNP

When a province nominates you, it is saying it wants you to settle there. A nomination alone does not make you a permanent resident. Your next step is still an application to the federal government, since that is where you are granted the right to make Canada your home for the long haul.

Every province also has a yearly limit on how many people it can nominate. Canada's national totals come from the Immigration Levels Plan, which decides how many newcomers the country will welcome each year.

You can apply for permanent residence through the PNP in two ways. The province tells you which route you have to take:

• Going through Express Entry
• Applying outside Express Entry, an option often called the base stream

Express Entry is the federal online system for skilled workers. People create a profile, the system ranks them, and those near the top receive an invitation to apply.

Every profile in Express Entry carries a CRS score, a points number used to rank the whole pool. If a province nominates you, you receive 600 additional points, which goes a long way toward getting an invitation to apply for permanent residence.

Some Express Entry rounds invite only people who hold a nomination. Because those scores include the 600 bonus points, the lowest invited scores run high. The federal government publishes a full list of Express Entry rounds, and the figures in the table come from that list.

Counting every kind of round in 2026, up to 16 October, Express Entry has held 62 rounds and sent out 143,467 invitations.

The route you pick makes a big difference to how long Ottawa takes to decide your case. Here are today's figures, straight from the federal page on processing times.

Wait times move up and down. The federal government also says your wait can grow if applications outnumber the people it can admit.

No. The Atlantic Immigration Program is its own federal scheme, and it too takes in Newfoundland and Labrador. Right now its processing time is about 26 months.

Once you hold permanent resident status, a first PR card takes about 30 days to process at the moment. A renewal runs about 40 days, based on the federal processing times page.

This page offers general information rather than immigration advice. We are independent and have no connection to the provincial or federal government.