Update (October 2026): The Yukon Community Pilot closed on June 22, 2025, and is no longer accepting applications. The information below is kept for reference only. Yukon community pilot program (YCP) was a program by Canadian government to meet the labor shortage in Yukon province of Canada. YCPP was a stream of provincial nominee program of Yukon province which is known as Yukon Nominee Program (YNP). This program accepted applications from January 2020 to June 2025. [Read also: Canada immigration without a job offer]
What visa will you get under Yukon Community Pilot?
You got an open work permit for two years initially. Not only an open work permit but also the permanent residence of Canada was granted to successful nominees. it means when you get an open work permit under YCP, the process of Canadian permanent residence is also initiated for you which generally, completes within two years. However, if process of PR is not completed within two years, you can extend your open work permit within Canada until you get PR.
Do you need to create express entry profile for YCP?
No, there was no need to create and submit express entry profile for YCP. Further more there was no any point system used for this program. So you could apply without creating any EOI and without any calculation of points. [Read this: Canada Easy Rural immigration program]
Do you need settlement funds for YCP?
No, you didn’t need to show any settlement funds for Yukon community pilot program.
Do you need LMIA for YCP?
This program was exempted from LMIA (exemption code A75), so you did not need to get LMIA for YCP.
Which occupations are eligible YCP?
There was no any restriction on occupations to be eligible for YCP. All skill level and all occupations were eligible for this program.
What is the major requirement of Yukon Community Pilot?
The first and foremost requirement was a full time non-seasonal employment offer from an employer of Yukon Province. To be eligible for YCP, you should have secured a job offer with at least 30 hours per week or 1560 hours per year working hours. To meet the requirement of working hours, you can get job offers for part time work from another employer as well or you can get more than one job offer from one employer for different jobs.
You can get more than one job offer like two or three employment offers from a single or more employers but all employers must be from a same community of Yukon province. Read below to read about communities.
Who can give you a job offer?
Canadian government had designated six communities of Yukon province for YCP program. You could get job offer only from employers of these six communities. The list of communities is as follows:
- Carcross
- Carmacks
- Whitehorse
- Dawson City
- Watson Lake
- Haines Junction
Jobs in Yukon for foreigners:
As described above, the job offer or employment offer is the major requirement of YCP. You can use any legal way to get it. However, Yukon immigration has suggested three website where you can look for your desired job, these three job search websites are given below, click any to visit:
Yukon Work Information Network
Job Bank (Government of Canada)
You can search for your desired job by using these websites. furthermore, these websites allows you to search job in any community. You have to enter or select location (community name) to find available jobs in any community.
Do you need IELTS for Yukon Community Pilot Program?
Yes, ielts or its alternative was mandatory for Yukon community pilot program. Canadian immigration did not specify any requirements of ielts and bands score yet you had to have valid ielts or its equivalent. Moreover, Canadian employers are not willing to offer an employment to those without knowledge of English language.
Educational Requirements for YCP:
Canadian immigration had not set any requirement of education for YCP. But each job position has its own requirements and of course Canadian employer would not give any job offer without proper qualification. So, candidates need to have appropriate qualification and experience for a prospective job.
Yukon Community Pilot Application Process:
First of all you had to obtain a job offer from an employer of any of six communities of Yukon province.
The next step is to get nomination from the immigration department of Yukon Province. You have to contact Yukon immigration through email or phone, Their contact details are available at their official website (click to visit). Yukon immigration will provide you with further details regarding application process for nomination.
Once you have secured nomination from Yukon immigration, now you can proceed to submit visa application. Only federal immigration of Canada issues all types of visa, so you have to apply for an open work permit at official website of Canadian immigration.
Spouse visa under YCP:
If you got your employment offer in occupation with skill level 0, A or B, you could get an open work permit for your spouse as well. The length of your spouse work permit will be same as yours permit, 2 years.
Other requirements of Yukon community Pilot:
This program used criteria of general work permit, so candidates had to meet those. More information on other requirements and application process are available at official website of Canadian immigration.
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