Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program

[malago yay ongot]

We have a provincial nominee waiting for the approval of his documents. We are planning on moving to another province and wondering how will this affect the application of our nominee. The move is due to job assignment. Will appreciate your advise on this.

 

[Leon]

If the employer moves to another province and the employee as well at any time before he gets his PR, he can no longer get PR under that PNP. You would have to sponsor him under the PNP of your new province. If the employer moves but the employee stays, he may have issues with the PNP if they find that he no longer has a job offer / sponsoring employer in his province depending on which provincial immigration class he is applying under.

A PNP applicant must intend to settle in his PNP province when he applies under PNP as well as when he lands. Anything else would be considered misrepresentation. However, moving out of the province after getting the PR is allowed.

If you are considering moving the employee with you, keep in mind that if he is on a closed work permit, it will not only specify your company but also your location. If the company moves, you should actually get him a new LMO and a new work permit in the new province. However, if he is on an open permit, then it's not a problem.

 

[malago yay ongot]

Thanks for the reply, but what we meant is that the nominee that we have is a family friend and we nominate them under MPNP General stream program. They have received confirmation of receipt of application and we already signed a supporting letter for them. The problem is that we need to move to another province because my husband's employer re-assigned to different province. How will this affect our friends' application if we (the sponsors) will be moving out of Winnipeg? Thank you

 

[Leon]

If MPNP finds out that his sponsors have moved outside the province, they can cancel his PR visa. There was even a case where they found out about a move after the PNP applicant already landed as a PR and they contacted him or his sponsor and said that they were cancelling his nomination. However, I think it would be hard for them to cancel it after he's landed. They could however get him on misrepresentation if he knew that his sponsor has moved and didn't notify the PNP before he landed.

If you can, try to delay the move until after he lands.