 and welcome back to my YouTube channel. I'm Shereen Kapoor, a Canadian immigration lawyer from Ace Law Baristas and solicitors. And today I'm going to tell you about the program, a new program which has actually just recently been in the market and I'm sure that you have heard about it. The government of Alberta has recently announced some changes to the Alberta Express entry system in which there is a program called tax-clarity tech pathway under the Alberta advanced immigration pathway system. So in a broader category, this is a system, this is a program that has come under the express entry of Alberta and there are certain key requirements which we were able to evaluate and you know that is why I've made certain pointers and come out with this video and here it is in front of me and I'm going to discuss those pointers today with you of the program, how it is going to speed up your immigration and what is the direct way of getting permanent residency through it and how it actually works, what are the tips and tricks for the program that you have to be careful about. So firstly, let's discuss about the eligibility of this program who can apply. Now to apply under the advanced tech pathway, obviously as the name suggests, it is not tech fields, it is also non-tech fields which is very surprising that even though the name says accelerated tech pathway, there are certain knockouts which are not related to tech. The thing is that the whole program has been involved because Alberta government was unable to hire high skilled workers or high wage LMI workers from federal system because of the draws being held. That is why Alberta thought that their economy needs such kind of highway people and that is why they've come up with this program. The eligibility criteria clearly states that you need to have first, you need to have this federal express entry profile, you should be able to qualify under CEC, FSW or any of the one of the streams FSW, FS3 or CEC. Your CRS should be a minimum of 300 and that is the basic criteria that you need. You need not obviously be a refugee claimant in Canada and all those kind of criminality and medical checks of course you need to have. These are the kind of eligibility requirements that is the program is wanting. The second thing is that there are adaptability factors when it comes to a province. Now adaptability factors can be from a friend and family to living there or it can be various province to province. It can be that you have a job offer, it can be anything like that. Now Alberta tech pathway is basically more streamlined for people who are currently working for Alberta employers or who are getting a bonafide job offer from a Canadian employer. Now what do you mean? This is my whole thing about now what do you mean by a bonafide job offer? The bonafide job offer basically means that the job offer is full continuous 30 hours given to you if you require LMI because you are a foreign national then it's LMI approved and all these things that are not impacting the market negatively. So the job offer basically has to be a genuine job offer and there is a check for genuineness which in law is there for every kind of LMI job offer under section 200 of IRPF. So genuineness besides the genuineness factor who can be your employer? You also surprisingly can be your employer but you have to keep in mind that not more than 10% of the voting shares should be of your name in the company. You can only be a shareholder of 10% voting shares and voting in non-voting shares or whatever you have to just be mere 10% holder not more than that and the job offer obviously as I told you it has to be full continuous and given to you for at least 30 hours per week it has to be a full-time job offer and you need to keep one very important thing in mind that the whole profile in your express entry submitted should be the primary occupation that you're putting of yours in your express entry profile should be relevant and should be matching to the job offer that you've got. Now for example let's discuss the list of NOC codes that we have here. Now if one person Mr X person is a civil engineer has a profile of civil engineer in his express entry making a minimum of 300 CRS code has now used his primary occupation under NOC code 2131 which is for civil engineers we need to show that the job offer from Alberta is also from the similar NOC. So if it is a different NOC your profile will not be evaluated and will not be assessed you will not get a nomination interest or expression of interest or nomination from that particular province and that is what from Alberta and that is what you have to be very particular in mind. The second thing is that you have to fill in the form of this AIP and this tech pathway form you have to submit after that you are going to submit after that they're going to evaluate your profile from federal skilled worker from the sorry the express entry system and that is when they will issue you a nomination. The third thing is very important that you have to keep in mind is that there is a certain criteria list of NOC codes that are eligible and this list you can find we will share the link in the description box of eligible it has one double NOC position of senior manager in financial communication and other business services rest other are middle managers NOC 0, NOC B these are the kind of categories they have given a list of classification of the occupations that are eligible for tech pathway and remember the tech pathway is for Alberta only so your job offer should be from Alberta. One of the other trips that I can give you and I'm pretty sure by way of experience I can tell you that your file will not be picked by the Alberta government if it is more than three months old it's so if it's less than three months left for it to expire so as you know in the system your file is there for one year but if it is expiring within three months you need to keep it updated it is your responsibility to keep it updated and you need to renew it otherwise your profile can be jeopardized just because of the fact that it does not have any kind of validity left for them to issue you anything because nomination and all will take three to six months right so these are my tips and tricks and these are this is a very wonderful program that has come it's like Alberta's own owner operator program and it is very good it is very promising you can get more details from us we are we are working on it your profile will we will evaluate your profile we will tell you if this program works for you and yeah what else do you want that in cover this whole processing time when it is getting taking a backseat and Canada welcome welcoming all refugees Ukrainians everything from war crisis they are well welcoming so obviously that means there is going to be a delay in processing times however this program since it is province province and employer driven hence it is more streamlined and it is more promising in terms of timelines so cheers to all of you and if you have any other question about this program do put in the comment section I love to personally answer this you can follow us on our social media handles and yeah so we keep coming with all these videos and immigration tips and tricks thank you