A SINP nominee (family-support stream) landed in Saskatoon in October 2022 with a PR card, spent two months finding only survival-job referrals, then got a qualified job offer in Manitoba through a relative's company. The dilemma: does leaving the nominating province jeopardize a PNP-based PR?
How the thread weighed it:
- PNP movers are common and PR isn't revoked for it. One member had seen many cases of nominees who couldn't find work moving provinces — 'it's all fine' — and advised against settling for a survival job outside your field just to stay put.
- But the commitment to the province is real, even if moral rather than criminal. The most careful answer framed it: the obligation to settle in the nominating province is 'moral, not law' — yet at PR renewal (card valid 5 years, with members mentioning a possible check-in around 2 years for PNP landings) or citizenship, you may be asked to show you honoured it.
- If you move, document why. The consensus safeguard: keep clear proof of not finding suitable work in Saskatchewan — job applications, rejections, the settlement agency's survival-job referrals — so a later officer sees a genuine attempt, not a nomination used as a side door into another province.
- A return plan helps. The poster's own family advice — take the Manitoba job now, come back to Saskatchewan when a good job appears — matched what members considered reasonable conduct.
Canadian PRs have Charter mobility rights, so the move itself is legal; the risk members flagged is the appearance of never intending to settle in the nominating province. Evidence of effort is the protection.