Yukon Nominee Program

You need a full-time, year-round job offer from a Yukon employer taking part in the program, and it is the employer who submits the application, not you. The program is clear on this point: foreign nationals cannot apply by themselves.

The program does not recruit workers, nor does it maintain a list of qualifying employers. Without a Yukon job, you cannot take part, since the whole thing runs on employers who have vacancies they were unable to fill.

An employer must never charge you a fee or profit in any way, directly or indirectly, from nominating you. The Yukon government treats this as a strict rule.

Every Canadian job gets a National Occupational Classification code, and each code belongs to a TEER category. TEER is just a number from 0 to 5 showing what training, education, experience and responsibility a job requires. The federal government has relied on these TEER categories since 16 November 2022, and your job's TEER decides the stream your employer picks.

• Critical Impact Worker, for entry-level TEER 4 or 5 roles
• Skilled Worker, for TEER 0 to 3 roles
• Express Entry, for TEER 0 to 3 roles when the worker also has an Express Entry profile

A Food Counter Attendant, for instance, carries NOC code 65201, a TEER 5 job, so it goes through the Critical Impact Worker stream. To find your own code and TEER, use Find my NOC.

What the worker needs depends on the job's TEER. CLB stands for Canadian Language Benchmarks, Canada's scale for measuring how well someone speaks English or French. You can use the CLB calculator to turn a language test result into a CLB level.

The table shows the Yukon criteria. Anyone using the Express Entry stream also has to reach IRCC's own language benchmarks, which may be set higher.

The business must have operated for at least one year and be registered in the Yukon, with an office located there. Before it applies, the employer has to advertise the job within Canada for four weeks minimum, in three or more places, two of them local, proving that no Canadian or permanent resident was ready to take the job.

After your nomination, the employer must pay you no less than the Yukon median wage for your NOC, cover the employer compliance fee owed to IRCC, and offer free health coverage until you are eligible for the territory's health care plan. They exist to protect you, so it is worth knowing them before you accept an offer.

IRCC set the Yukon's 2026 cap at 282 nominations. The territory expects many more applications than it has room for, so rather than going in order, it ranks submissions against its 2026 priorities.

Priority goes to workers with at least a year of living and working in the Yukon, and to anyone who was given a Temporary Measure Letter of Support during 2024 or 2025.

Employers begin with an expression of interest, a short statement saying they want to apply, and then they wait to find out whether they are invited to send in the complete application.

You must send IRCC your permanent residency application within six months of approval, since the nomination expires after that. IRCC will then assess your file according to its own rules, and a Yukon nomination does not replace that review.

Hiring an immigration representative or consultant is not required. The Yukon government says the choice is yours: use one or apply on your own. If you are thinking about a consultant, you can check a licence using a name, a company or a College ID at immigration consultant check. The information on this page is general, not immigration advice.