Immigrants: PNP Immigrants

Retention Rates Dept: Just 37 per cent of PNP immigrants who arrived on P.E.I. before 2008 were still living on the Island at the end of that year. Newfoundland and Labrador was the only province with a worse record: 23 per cent. Retention rates in Alberta and British Columbia were over 95 per cent, according to CBC. The report concludes employment may be a factor in immigrant retention and p.E.I. has one of the worst records in the country for retaining immigrants from the provincial nominee program, says a report from Canada Immigration. Does the low number of immigrants staying on P.E.I. worry you? The retention issue for PNP immigrants was particularly problematic for P.E.I., which relied on the program for 95 per cent of its immigrants. Nationally immigrants arrived through a broad range of programs, with PNP making up just 17 per cent of immigrants. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.