{"id":2949,"date":"2020-05-20T21:18:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T21:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2021-09-15T13:55:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T19:55:35","slug":"agri-food-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/agri-food-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Agri Food Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has announced that effective May 15, 2020, IRCC will begin accepting applications to the Agri-Food Pilot. The 3-year pilot will test an industry-specific approach to help employers in the meat processing, mushroom and greenhouse production, and livestock-raising industries fill ongoing labour needs for full-time, year-round employees.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The occupations and industries eligible under the pilot include:\n<ul>\n<li>meat product manufacturing\n<ul>\n<li>retail butchers<\/li>\n<li>industrial butchers<\/li>\n<li>farm supervisors and specialized livestock workers<\/li>\n<li>food processing labourers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>greenhouse, nursery and floriculture production, including mushroom production\n<ul>\n<li>farm supervisors and specialized livestock workers<\/li>\n<li>general farm workers<\/li>\n<li>harvesting labourers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>animal production, excluding aquaculture\n<ul>\n<li>farm supervisors and specialized livestock workers<\/li>\n<li>general farm workers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Since Quebec establishes its own economic immigration\u00a0selection under the Canada-Quebec Accord, the Agri-Food Immigration Pilot does not apply there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A total of 2,750 applications will be accepted annually throughout the pilot, which applies primarily to people who are already in Canada. Existing travel restrictions continue to apply. It will provide a pathway to permanent residence for many temporary foreign workers already in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The Agri-Food Pilot complements Canada\u2019s already existing economic immigration programs, which include the Atlantic Immigration Pilot, the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot, the caregivers pilots, the Global Skills Strategy, a revitalized Express Entry and the Provincial Nominee Program.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact one of our lawyers at Borders Law Firm (filemanager@borderslawfirm.com) to learn more about the new Agri Food Pilot .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has announced that effective May 15, 2020, IRCC will begin accepting applications to the Agri-Food Pilot. The 3-year pilot will test an industry-specific approach to help employers in the meat processing, mushroom and greenhouse production, and livestock-raising industries fill ongoing labour needs for full-time, year-round employees. The occupations and&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/agri-food-pilot\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}