Before you start
- Use only your own government account.
- Never share government or email credentials.
- Confirm fees, deadlines and checklists when you act.
CHANGING CONDITIONS
Nova Scotia EOI validity, selection priorities, portal availability, stream criteria and allocations change; recheck live updates before every action.
REVIEWED STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE
Responsibilities, outputs and checkpoints
- 01RESPONSIBLEApplicant
Select the NSNP stream and live priority
Review current Skilled Worker, Graduate, Entrepreneur and Nova Scotia: Express Entry streams and the current EOI selection priorities before recording one stream.
- Expected output
- A dated NSNP stream and priority record.
- Checkpoint
- The stream and intake are current and no selection likelihood is claimed.
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Prepare Nova Scotia evidence
Prepare employer/job, language, education, work, status, provincial connection, settlement, business or Express Entry records required by the stream.
- Expected output
- An NSNP stream evidence index.
- Checkpoint
- All applicant, employer and profile facts agree and remain current.
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Submit EOI and provincial application
Complete the current Nova Scotia EOI or Notice of Interest response, then submit the invited provincial application and any official fee by the stated deadline.
- Expected output
- An EOI/NOI-linked NSNP application record.
- Checkpoint
- EOI is not nomination and the application matches the live selection notice.
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Verify the Nova Scotia nomination
Retain the nominee certificate and verify applicant, stream, destination, conditions and the current certificate validity period.
- Expected output
- A verified Nova Scotia nominee certificate.
- Checkpoint
- The certificate is valid and federal submission timing is recorded.
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Submit to IRCC within the required route
Use the nomination’s federal process, submit the PR application within the applicable certificate period and complete medical, security and criminal admissibility.
- Expected output
- A Nova Scotia nomination-linked federal decision file.
- Checkpoint
- IRCC, not the province, makes the final permanent-residence decision.
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DOCUMENT PREPARATION SUMMARY
What this procedure organizes
- Prepare the chosen NSNP stream and current-priority source, employer/job or business/Express Entry evidence, language/education/work/status/connection facts, EOI or NOI and provincial application, nominee certificate and validity, federal checklist, civil/family/police/medical records, AOR, requests and decision.