In-demand skills
 7. For the purposes of subsection 16 (2) of the Act, the following criteria are prescribed for an applicant for a certificate of nomination in the in-demand skills category: 0.1  The applicant must have been issued an invitation to apply for a certificate of nomination from Ontario and have applied for the certificate within the deadline determined by the director, which will be published on the Ministry’s website. 0.2  The applicant must have demonstrated that they had the qualifications to which they attested under section 3.1 of Ontario Regulation 421/17 (Approvals Under the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program and Other Matters) made under the Act, and on the basis of which the director ranked their expression of interest and issued to the applicant the invitation to apply for a certificate of nomination. 1.  The applicant must have obtained a job offer for an employment position that has been approved by the director in accordance with the Act in one of the following occupations listed in the National Occupational Classification under Training, Education, Experience and Responsibilities (TEER) Category 4 or 5: i.  44101 – Home support workers, caregivers and related occupations ii.  65202 – Meat cutters and fishmongers – retail and wholesale iii.  Revoked: O. Reg. 597/22, s. 1. iv.  75110 – Construction trades helpers and labourers v.  84120 – Specialized livestock workers and farm machinery operators vi.  85100 – Livestock labourers vii.  85101 – Harvesting labourers viii.  85103 – Nursery and greenhouse labourers ix.  94141 – Industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers and related workers 1.1  Despite paragraph 1, if the applicant will work at a location outside the Greater Toronto Area, or will work at more than one location but report to work at a location outside the Greater Toronto Area, the applicant must have obtained a job offer for an employment position that has been approved by the director in accordance with the Act in one of the occupations listed in paragraph 1 or in one of the following occupations listed in the National Occupational Classification under Training, Education, Experience and Responsibilities (TEER) Category 4 or 5: i.  94100 – Machine operators, mineral and metal processing ii.  94105 – Metalworking and forging machine operators iii.  94106 – Machining tool operators iv.  94107 – Machine operators of other metal products v.  94110 – Chemical plant machine operators vi.  94111 – Plastics processing machine operators vii.  94124 – Woodworking machine operators viii.  94132 – Industrial sewing machine operators ix.  94140 – Process control and machine operators, food and beverage processing x.  94201 – Electronics assemblers, fabricators, inspectors and testers xi.  94204 – Mechanical assemblers and inspectors xii.  94213 – Industrial painters, coaters and metal finishing process operators xiii.  94219 – Other products assemblers, finishers and inspectors xiv.  95102 – Labourers in chemical products processing and utilities 2.  The applicant must have accumulated, within three years before the date of making the application and while lawfully residing and working in Ontario, a period of at least nine months of paid full-time work experience, or the equivalent paid part-time work experience as described in section 16, in the same occupation listed in the National Occupational Classification as the employment position to which the application relates. 3.  The applicant must have obtained a Canadian secondary school diploma or credential, or equivalent credential from another jurisdiction that is supported by an educational credential assessment report that is less than five years old on the date the application is made and that was produced by a designated educational credential assessment organization indicating that the applicant has authentic foreign educational credentials that are equivalent to completed Canadian educational credentials. 4.  The applicant must have obtained a licence or other authorization to engage in the activity required by the employment position to which the application relates if the law of Ontario requires that licence or other authorization for engaging in the activity. 5.  The applicant must have demonstrated, within two years before the date of making the application, English or French language proficiency at or above the level of Canadian Language Benchmark 4, as set out in the Canadian Language Benchmarks, in all four proficiencies based on a test administered by an institution described in section 15. 6.  Revoked: O. Reg. 329/20, s. 1 (2). 7.  Neither the applicant nor any of the applicant’s family members hold or have held equity in the employer’s business, either directly or indirectly, unless it was obtained as part of their remuneration as an employee and the total amount of equity held by the applicant and his or her family members is less than 10 per cent of the equity in the employer’s business O. Reg. 422/17, s. 7; O. Reg. 248/18, s. 4; O. Reg. 243/19, s. 5; O. Reg. 329/20, s. 1; O. Reg. 192/21, s. 4; O. Reg. 528/22, s. 2; O. Reg. 597/22, s. 1, 4.