Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot

Overview

Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot

The Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot is closed to new applications. It connected skilled refugees and displaced people with Canadian economic immigration routes and employers.

No new EMPP application can be filed

IRCC now lists the pilot as closed. Earlier federal and regional streams allowed eligible displaced candidates to use work experience, education and language to immigrate, sometimes with a Canadian job offer.

A partner organization or employer cannot create a new federal intake while the official program is closed.

Existing files remain economic applications

The pilot used facilitation measures to address displacement-related barriers, but candidates still had to meet the applicable federal EMPP or regional economic-program requirements.

IRCC continues processing submitted files in line with available admission space. Applicants should follow their account and respond to document, medical and security requests.

Employment claims still require verification

Employers should preserve recruitment, job-offer and business records. Candidates should keep identity, refugee or displacement, work, education and language evidence.

Report a withdrawn offer or material job change. The correct response depends on the stream through which the pending application was filed.

Refugee resettlement and asylum are different

EMPP was an economic pathway, not an asylum claim or government-assisted resettlement. A person outside Canada cannot self-apply for government-assisted refugee resettlement without referral.

Use the official refugee-protection pages for protection routes and current economic program pages for employment-based immigration.