Canada's Provincial Nominee Program (PNP)

breech · Sep 20, 2009

wow! breech i have been reading this thread from page 1, you're experience is really inspirational! I am still choosing which region it easier/faster to enter, I'm thinking Saskatchewan or Manitoba since it's the least popular part of Canada compared to BC. Im also still contemplating which way to go, through PNP or immigrant visa as federal skilled worker , the PNP takes 8-12 months average, the Immigrant visa way longer but I recently attended this orientation seminar by a certain consultancy firm, they said that the CIC would expedite the processing of Nurses for Immigrant visa since nurses are included in the top 38 professions, the CIC would shell out Immigrant visas for nurses as early as 9 months, according to the consultancy firm,I don't know if this is entirely true. Did the CIC give you a hard time with your documents? coz the consultancy firm said that the CIC is very strict with the required documents, that's why we need their expertise so everything would be smooth sailing.

Hey boardshorts!

Actually, I didn't had any hard time in complying all the requirements the embassy gave me. It went very smooth more than I expected. As long as your papers are well prepared and you reviewed them before you submit then you'll be fine.

Thanks for taking the time to read all the threads. Drop by if you have any questions.

Good luck and wish you all the best. :up:

boardshorts · Sep 20, 2009

Hey boardshorts!
Actually, I didn't had any hard time in complying all the requirements the embassy gave me. It went very smooth more than I expected. As long as your papers are well prepared and you reviewed them before you submit then you'll be fine.
Thanks for taking the time to read all the threads. Drop by if you have any questions.
Good luck and wish you all the best.

Really? Thanks for your reply breech! So how is it like there in creston? what their hospital environment like? Did you work immediately upon arriving? as GN first right?

breech · Sep 20, 2009

Really? Thanks for your reply breech! So how is it like there in creston? what their hospital environment like? Did you work immediately upon arriving? as GN first right?

Im working here in East Kootenay Regional Hospital in Cranbrook. About 1 month before I left from the Philippines, I received an email that I will be transferred to a bigger hospital. We had our 1 week orientation and had 9 shifts of supervised work as RN

boardshorts · Sep 22, 2009

Wow that's great! Did you undergo the SEC assessment?

breech · Sep 22, 2009

Wow that's great! Did you undergo the SEC assessment?

No, they didn't.

boardshorts · Sep 23, 2009

I think I read somewhere online but correct me if I'm wrong that new intl applicants to the CRNBC are required to undergo the SEC assessment, is this true? and one more thing breech, hehe, are IEN's still in demand there in BC?

breech · Sep 23, 2009

I think they would prefer hiring BC graduates first before IEN's. It would be expensive in their part to hire international nurses.

Fiona59 · Sep 23, 2009

I think the IENs reading this thread would be wise to read up on some of the issues affecting working Canadian nurses in the Cdn. forum.

Alberta Health Services no longer is hiring period.

Ontario is having financial issues.

Read what Breech said, if they can hire local new grads first they will.

Although some posters are saying there is still a demand for nurses in the Maritimes, this could change rapidly. Many nurses follow their partners to the jobs. I know of two nurses who left to return to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia because their men found work back home.

Much of Canada's population is mobile and will move to where there are jobs. Military and RCMP wives/husbands do it every few years. Oil rig workers, skilled tradesmens wives/husbands do it as well.

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Sep 23, 2009

To answer boardshorts' question about SEC... the requirement to undergo SEC depends on your educational preparation and how it compares with Canadian nursing education. Some countries have curricula and clinical components very similar to Canadian schools and their graduates will not have to do the SEC. The purpose of SEC is to ensure that new-to-Canada nurses are going to be able to work to the same scope of practice as Canadian-educated nurses.

whatchamackallit03 · Oct 27, 2009

BC PNP (Dual Intent)

V.O. - LRP

TWP

08/06/09 - Docs picked up

08/14/09 - AOR & Med.Referral

08/20/09 - Medicals completed

09/01/09 - Medicals forwarded to MCE

09/22/09 - PDOS

10/19/09 - VISA stamped*

10/23/09 - VISA received

target flight - January 2010

V.O. - CSP

PR

09/08/09 - Docs picked up

09/14/09 - AOR stamped

10/12/09 - AOR, No Med.Referral, Request for RPRF, E-CAS acct. created

718077 · Nov 18, 2009

HELP!!! I need to find an employer in BC ASAP. Any suggestions?

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Nov 18, 2009

Tim Hortons? Seriously, it will virtually impossible to find an employer in BC in anything less than several months. In the cities there are very few posted vacancies and in the outlying areas many of the vacancies are for managers, educators, ICU or NPs, or are casual or part time. You could move to Cranbrook or Kamloops, I suppose. They have some vacancies. But ti will still take some time, weeks likely, from the time you apply until you're offered the job, and then more weeks before your orientation is arranged and you're actually on the job.