Does an Atlantic Immigration Program job offer need to be full-time and permanent?

A job offer under the Atlantic Immigration Program generally needs to reflect genuine, ongoing employment rather than short-term or seasonal work, though the exact criteria IRCC applies around the nature, duration, and hours of the offer are set separately from the employer's provincial designation and are worth confirming directly rather than assuming. A designated employer's status alone does not automatically make any job offer from that employer qualify.

A nuance that often gets missed is that provincial designation and the individual job offer are assessed on two different tracks: an employer can be properly designated, and the position itself can still fail to meet IRCC's own criteria if it is not structured the way the program expects. Seasonal or clearly temporary arrangements are generally the kind of offer that raises concerns under a program built around longer-term economic settlement rather than short-term labour needs.

Because these criteria are set through IRCC guidance that can be updated, and because what counts as sufficiently full-time or permanent has not stayed static over the life of this program, do not rely on assumptions from a past application or something read some time ago. Confirm the current job offer criteria with IRCC's published guidance or with an immigration lawyer before treating any specific offer as qualifying.