Provinces Given 139 Days to Issue Tens of Thousands of Extra PR Spots

Provinces and territories have a strict March 31, 2027, deadline to issue tens of thousands of additional permanent residence nominations for workers already living in Canada, excluding Quebec.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) published the directive in a November 12, 2026 release, giving local governments roughly 139 days to pull from a pool of up to 100,000 economic permanent residence spaces. These extra slots stem from the 2027 TR-to-PR transition measures rolled out in the federal budget. They sit completely separate from the 95,000 annual PNP spots earmarked for applicants coming from outside Canada under the Immigration Levels Plan.

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Because these allocations are optional, individual provinces and territories will decide how many extra spaces they want to claim to support workers already embedded in local labor markets. Local authorities can distribute these nominations through both base PNP streams and Express Entry-aligned enhanced streams.

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The policy casts a wide net across different categories of applicants. Beyond standard provincial nominee streams, provinces can also identify workers who have already filed a permanent residence application and are stuck waiting for a decision. That covers applicants in the Atlantic Immigration Program, alongside several federal streams that are now closed to new applications, including the Start-up Visa Program, the Self-Employed Persons Program, the Agri-Food Pilot, and home care worker initiatives like the Home Child Care Provider Pilot.

If you’re already in the queue, you don’t need to panic or scramble for paperwork. IRCC confirmed that permanent residence applicants aren’t required to take any steps to be considered for these extra spaces. Provinces will handle the identification and processing on their end.

The broader federal push aims to transition up to 100,000 in-Canada workers and their families to permanent status by the end of 2027. It forms part of a larger 200,000-space package running alongside traditional admissions targets, which also covers applicants under Hong Kong pathways, the Ukraine Family Reunification Pathway, humanitarian grounds, and spouses or dependents of current permanent residents and Canadian citizens. IRCC now faces a tight turnaround to process all the resulting applications before the 2027 deadline wraps up.