Nova Scotia 省提名2016年起将使用在线系统，纸质申请逐步被淘汰

加拿大签证与移民 NSNP新斯科舍省提名
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Nova Scotia 省的 NSNP 也将使用在线系统提高效率了。信息化无纸化是一种趋势，澳洲新西兰已经走在前面。在线申请给申请人带来便利也带来麻烦。秒杀式抢配额增加了申请的不确定性。

Effective today, Dec. 17, most prospective immigrants to Nova Scotia are able to apply to immigrate through a new online system.

“E-processing is more convenient for applicants, giving them immediate feedback on incomplete files,” said Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab. “It should speed up their completion of applications and will reduce our burden of paper-based files.”

The Nova Scotia Office of Immigration will continue to accept paper-based applications for its immigration streams until the end of June 2016.

The province is also making other changes to more effectively manage the immigration system.

Effective immediately, to help work through the applications caused by high demand, the province will temporarily halt taking new applications for its Nova Scotia Demand: Express Entry stream. Applications postmarked with today’s date, Dec. 17, will be accepted. The stream will reopen for applications later in 2016.

The Office of Immigration will also close the Family Business Worker stream at the end of 2015. Applicants who would have applied through that stream will be able to apply under the Skilled Worker stream which has the same requirements.

Nova Scotia was the first province to launch Express Entry streams in January 2015. The allocation for the Express Entry is nearly filled for this year. The allocation from the federal government was initially 350 and later increased by another 300 to a total of 650.

In total, Nova Scotia will nominate 1,350 immigrants under the Provincial Nominee Program in 2015, nearly double the 2014 cap of 700.

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在线申请大概什么时候会开始，1月开始可能性大吗？

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不大，上面说的是6月吧。

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NS pnp 确定提高到 1350 了：

The federal government has agreed to increase the number of immigrants Nova Scotia can nominate for permanent residence in 2016.

Nova Scotia Immigration Minister Lena Diab told The Chronicle Herald she successfully negotiated to increase the number of economic immigrants the province can take in under its provincial nominee program from 1,050 to 1,350 during meetings with the federal government in Ottawa Monday.

“We also agreed to keep working together to increase the number of immigrants coming to Nova Scotia and continue the positive momentum,” she said in an email.

The Nova Scotia government has been calling for an increase to its provincial nominee cap for some time, citing population growth and economic benefits.

Premier Stephen McNeil said last week that the federal government had “punished” the Atlantic provinces for over a decade with very low caps, especially when compared to the west. Federal Immigration Minister John McCallum said at the time that while the provincial program had been frozen for 2016, the government was committed to increasing those targets in future years.

The province was able to get its cap increased from 700 to 1,050 in 2015 and was later given a one-time top-up to 1,350 when it had filled its quota by mid-year.

Last week the federal government announced its targets for immigration in 2016. While the overall target was increased from the previous year, the target for the economic program — the stream from which provinces get their nominees — was decreased from 180,000 to 160,000 in order to accommodate for a higher number in the refugee stream.