{"id":56064,"date":"2020-03-14T13:05:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T17:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/?p=56064"},"modified":"2020-03-14T13:05:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T17:05:54","slug":"alberta-to-target-startups-and-entrepreneurs-with-two-new-immigration-streams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/alberta-to-target-startups-and-entrepreneurs-with-two-new-immigration-streams\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta To Target Startups and Entrepreneurs With Two New Immigration Streams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alberta\u2019s provincial government will develop a new immigration<\/a> strategy including two entrepreneur streams to help plug labour market gaps and create jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Alberta Advantage Immigration Strategy, highlighted in the recently-released provincial budget, will include a new Foreign Graduate Entrepreneur Program alongside the new Startup Visa Stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both will work alongside the Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the biggest barriers to growth in Alberta\u2019s digital economy is a shortage of people with relevant skills and experience,\u201d the budget statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Although only preliminary details are available of the new initiatives, the budget statement did go into specifics about what candidates the government wants to attract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Startup Visa Stream, the budget said: \u201cThe startup visa will offer fast track processing for qualified graduates of top universities if they commit to launch a startup enterprise in Alberta, with a bridge to permanent residency through the Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The visa is initially expected to specifically target \u201cforeign student graduates in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the Foreign Graduate Entrepreneur Program \u201cwill offer similar fast track immigration opportunities for foreign nationals who have graduated from Alberta post-secondary institutions,\u201d the budget statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It added that the program would be \u201csupported by a renewed strategy to attract highly qualified foreign students to Alberta colleges and universities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, the only AINP offering for entrepreneurs is the Alberta Self-Employed Farmer Stream<\/a>, targeting applicants with farm management skills and sufficient financial resources to invest in a farming business in Alberta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The province also operates the Alberta Opportunity Stream<\/a> and Alberta Express Entry<\/a> for qualifying skilled workers and international graduates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The budget also introduced a new plan to help new immigrants find work at their skill level more quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immigrant immigration initiatives include speeding up and simplifying credential recognition in the province, already being tackled trough the Fair Registration Practices Act, passed in June 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alberta is calling its new policy the Fairness for Newcomers Action Plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alberta\u2019s provincial government will develop a new immigration strategy including two entrepreneur streams to help plug labour market gaps and create jobs. The Alberta Advantage Immigration Strategy, highlighted in the recently-released provincial budget, will include a new Foreign Graduate Entrepreneur Program alongside the new Startup Visa Stream. Both will work alongside the Alberta Immigrant Nominee…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[415,454],"tags":[5404,5402,5401,5405,5403],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Alberta_301924320.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8hnWW-eAg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}