Applications for Community Recommendation are CLOSED for the Claresholm Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot. Applications will not reopen as the pilot has officially and permanently ended (as of August 31, 2024).

Claresholm was one of eleven communities in Canada approved for the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP) program, and was the only community to be selected in Alberta. The Claresholm RNIP supported economic development by attracting qualified newcomers to fill vacant, full-time, permanent jobs within Claresholm and the 25km boundary. The information below and on the Info for Foreign Skilled Workers and Info for Businesses in the Claresholm Area pages has been left up for reference purposes only. 

Eligible employers could recruit and hire foreign skilled workers to fill local job vacancies. Since February 2020, Claresholm has issued 100 community recommendations for employment at 40 different businesses in Claresholm. For more information on how employers could participate, please visit: Info for Businesses.

Qualified candidates that wished to live and work in Claresholm, and who met the federal criteria, could apply for jobs in Claresholm in order to obtain an offer of employment. Candidates that received an offer of employment and a community recommendation from the Claresholm Economic Development Committee, could apply for permanent residency in Canada. For more information on how newcomers were able to immigrate to Claresholm please visit: Info for Foreign Skilled Workers.