If you have an active Express Entry (EE) profile and are wondering whether you also need to apply separately to a Provincial Nominee Program (PNP), the group's guidance was:
- Select all provinces in your EE profile. Some provinces search the Express Entry pool directly for candidates matching their labour needs and can issue a Notification of Interest (NOI) without you applying anywhere else. Selecting every province you'd consider gives you the best odds of being picked up this way.
- Some provinces expect you to show specific intent. For programs like the Alberta Advantage Immigration Program (AAIP), there was a suggestion that selecting that province specifically (rather than just 'all provinces') can matter for demonstrating genuine intent to settle there — though thread participants weren't fully certain on this point, so it's worth double-checking on the province's own website.
- Beyond the EE-linked stream, several provinces (e.g., Saskatchewan's SINP, Manitoba's MPNP) run their own separate points system and require you to create a distinct profile/Expression of Interest directly on their provincial portal — this is separate from anything happening inside your EE profile.
Bottom line: keep your EE profile fully open to all provinces as a baseline, but check each province of interest individually, since some (like SINP/MPNP) require their own standalone application in addition to Express Entry.