What do you need to do?
Some of these routes are the same ones your candidate will read about. Where that is the case we point you both at the same page rather than telling you different things.
Hiring in Nova Scotia
What the province asks of you as an employer: registration, wage, recruitment evidence, and the documentation that decides these files.
Explore →Hire someone already in Canada
Open permit holders, recent graduates, and workers changing employer. Often faster than you expect.
In preparationKeep someone whose permit expires
Extensions, bridging, and the provincial routes that turn a temporary worker into a permanent one.
In preparationMove staff between offices
Intra-company transfers and the routes opened by trade agreements.
In preparationBecome a designated employer
Designation under the Atlantic Immigration Program, and community pilot recommendations.
In preparationStay compliant
Your obligations once someone is working for you, inspections, and record keeping.
In preparationActing for both sides. Where an applicant and their employer both want it, and both give informed consent, we can act for the two of you together on the immigration file. One strategy, one timeline, one set of documents. Where a joint retainer would not be appropriate, we say so at the outset and set out the alternative.