Immigration, Citizenship, and Refugees Canada (IRCC) will accept applications to the Agri-Food Pilot program from May 15th, 2020 to May 14th, 2023. The Agri-Food Pilot program provides a path to permanent residence for workers in certain industries:
- Greenhouse, nursery, floriculture, and mushroom production
- Farm supervisors and specialised livestock workers
- General farm workers
- Harvesting labourers
- Animal production, excluding aquaculture
- Farm supervisors and specialised livestock workers
- General farm workers
- Meat products
- Retail butchers
- Industrial butchers
- Farm supervisors and specialised livestock workersFood processing labourers
The program is aimed mostly at temporary foreign workers already in Canada. Existing COVID-19-related travel restrictions continue to apply. The Agri-Food Pilot program does not apply in Quebec.
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