Can your provincial nomination (e.g. SINP) use a different NOC code than your Express Entry profile?

The group's consistent guidance: your National Occupational Classification (NOC) code should match between your Express Entry (EE) profile and your provincial nomination profile (e.g. Saskatchewan's SINP).

Key points:

1. If your EE profile lists one NOC (e.g. 41220 – secondary school teacher) and you try to create a provincial profile under a different, in-demand NOC (e.g. 43100 – teacher assistant), this mismatch is flagged as a problem, not a safe workaround — even if your work experience arguably covers both roles.


2. Members who had already created a provincial profile with a different NOC than their EE profile were advised this creates inconsistency in their file.


3. If you find yourself in this situation, the practical fix discussed was to reconsider or delete the mismatched provincial profile so it aligns with your EE NOC, rather than trying to maintain two different NOCs across the two profiles.

Bottom line: decide on the NOC code that best reflects your actual role and experience, and use that same code consistently across both your EE and provincial (PNP) profiles to avoid inconsistency issues during review.