On Feb 05, 2025, NB acting post-secondary education minister announces the reduction in 2025 PNP allocation for New Brunswick. Also, the minister stated that it will be challenging for the province to fill its job vacancies and meet its economic needs. As a result, this brings us to the update, “New Brunswick to issue 2750 nominations in 2025.”
Besides, after getting a reduced allocation of 1750 from the Canadian federal government, New Brunswick is adopting tighter measures to tackle the new issue. The province will be selecting applicants from key sector areas such as healthcare, construction and education. However, it will also offer additional support to certain other sectors.
Besides, New Brunswick’s plan the 2750 nominations in 2025 will be split between New Brunswick Provincial Nominee Program (NBPNP) and the Atlantic Immigration Program (AIP).
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Moreover, with the PNP nomination allocation, the limit following will be the effect on the NB PNP streams as stated below:
| NB PNP Stream | Status | Details |
| Applicants Streams | ||
| New Brunswick Express Entry | Accepting new applications in the coming week under 2 pathways. | NB accepting NOIs under: |
| The Employment in New Brunswick Pathway | ||
| New Brunswick Interests Pathway | ||
| New Brunswick Student connection stream not running in 2025. | ||
| New Brunswick Strategic Initiative | Not accepting new EOIs at the moment. | Note – Not seeking new applications as inventory is sufficient. |
| Private Career College Graduate Pilot Program | Accepting EOIs. | Pilot program closure deadline: Autumn 2025. |
| New Brunswick Skilled Worker | Starting to accept new EOIs | NB accepting NOIs under: |
| New Brunswick Work Experience Pathway | ||
| New Brunswick Graduates Pathway | ||
| New Brunswick Priority Occupations Pathway | ||
| Business Stream | ||
| New Brunswick Business Immigration Stream | Accepting EOIs. | Apply for PNP nomination if your business has been running for the past 6 months. |
| Employer Streams | ||
| New Brunswick Critical Worker Pilot | Accepting applications. | NA |
| Atlantic Immigration Program (AIP) | Accepting new applications. | NA |
This stream will be accepting new EOI applications under 2 sub-streams such as:
Also, NB will not be processing applications from the following occupations. As they do not qualify to get nominations out of 2750 nominations in 2025:
Besides, the province is no longer continuing the New Brunswick Student Connection stream in 2025. Thus, these applicants can further apply to:
This stream is not accepting new applications as they have sufficient PNP applications to process. Also, the ‘In-person exploratory visit to NB” connection under this stream has been on pause since 2024. Also, the same is applicable for 2025.
New Brunswick Skilled Worker Stream
The stream will start accepting EOI applications in the coming weeks. So, you can apply under any 1 of the sub-streams such as:
Besides, applicants whose job profiles come under the following NOC codes, do not qualify to apply to this stream or its sub-streams:
New Brunswick is feeling the brunt of the slashed PNP allocations to 2750 nominations in 2025. However, it is too early to state whether this may change in the upcoming months.
Unlike NB, Newfoundland and Labrador also received a 50% reduction in PNP allocation. However, they were able to negotiate with the federal government and agreed to take in 290 humanitarian immigrants for the next three years. As a result, they can recover the PNP allocation loss. Besides, it is estimated that the province can reduce this loss by 2.3% in comparison to 2024.
So, as a Canada PR aspirant, there is no need for you to shy away from applying for a PNP nomination. Because if you have the skills that the Canadian province needs then you will surely get a nomination.
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Mr. Kalyan Paul, President & CEO is the founder of GVI, an MBA in Finance and also a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) from Canada. Mr. Paul has more than 18 years of experience in immigration consulting that made him one of the preferred & valued immigration consultants in the immigration industry. He is a licensed member of the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants (CICC) [Previously known as Immigration Consultants Of Canada Regulatory Council (ICCRC)] (Membership ID: R417119) which is a professional body of licensed immigration consultants recognized by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
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