IRCC is expected to implement NOC 2021 on November 16. The change in Express Entry-eligible occupations will consequently impact eligibility to Ontario’s Express Entry-aligned PNPs.
The following 16 occupations will become eligible for Express Entry through the proposed regulatory alterations:
Payroll administrators
Dental assistants and dental laboratory assistants
Nurse aides, orderlies, and patient service associates
Pharmacy technical assistants and pharmacy assistants
Elementary and secondary school teacher assistants
Sheriffs and bailiffs
Correctional service officers
By-law enforcement and other regulatory officers
Estheticians, electrologists and related occupations
Residential and commercial installers and servicers
Pest controllers and fumigators
Other repairers and servicers
Transport truck drivers
Bus drivers, subway operators and other transit operators
Heavy equipment operators
Aircraft assemblers and aircraft assembly inspectors
Conversely, these three occupations will hereby become ineligible specifically through Ontario’s Immigrant Nominee Program:
Other performers
Program leaders and instructors in recreation, sport, and fitness
Tailors, dressmakers, furriers, and milliners
The above occupations will remain eligible in other programs with broader job eligibility requirements, such as certain PNP streams.
Source: https://www.cicnews.com/2022/09/ontario-immigration-is-preparing-to-switch-to-new-noc-2021-0930666.html#gs.clmgb0