Highlights: Nurses can migrate to Canada via PASS
- Pass program helps to shorten the arrival time of international nurses who want to migrate to Canada.
- From March 2023 to January 2016, PASS benefited more than 1,425 internationally-international nurses from 90 countries.
- From April 2022 to March 2023, 205 international nurses joined PASS and accessed its benefits.
- Ontario is looking to hire 33,000 nurses by 2028.
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Details of PASS (Pre-Arrival Supports and Services):
The PASS program focuses on shortening the time for international-educated nurses for professional registration and employment, as most foreign nurses arrives from the Philippines, India, Nigeria, and the United States.
The PASS program is a no-cost registration program. To register in the PASS program, internationally-educated nurses have to provide certain documents to IRCC, such as:
- Must have a proof of graduation from a Nursing school
- A letter of confirmation proving their PR status
Besides that, the Toronto-based non-profit organization offers its Workplace Integration Program (WIP), which helps hire international educational nurses on staff.
As per the prediction, Canada’s nursing shortage will reach 117,600 nurses by 2030.
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Initiative to Make Foreign Credential Recognition Easier for Nurses:
- Canada is taking an initiative to make Foreign Credential Recognition Easier for Nurses.
- International-educated healthcare professionals are reducing the barrier to foreign credentials and, as the procedure, easy steps in providing increased benefits in the practice field.
- They facilitate internationally-educated healthcare professionals with Canadian work experience in related fields.
This initiative is providing funding to critical professions such as:
- Nursing
- Pharmacy
- Dentistry
- Laboratory technicians
- Respiratory therapists
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