A computer science graduate working 5–6 years as a store manager (NOC 0621) in a family business asked whether the education/experience mismatch blocks SINP. The thread's answer: for Saskatchewan, yes, this is a real problem.
- SINP expects your education, work experience, and intended NOC to line up. As one member summarized: under SINP, "the Education, Experience and Intended NOC shall be in line with each other." The eligibility questionnaire directly asks whether your work experience is in the same field as your education — a mismatch (engineering degree, retail management job) fails that gate.
- You're not alone — and there's no easy workaround. Another member in the identical situation (agriculture engineering degree, retail manager NOC 0621) confirmed they could not apply to SINP for the same reason.
- Your Express Entry primary NOC must match your intended SINP NOC. You can list multiple NOCs in an Express Entry profile, but when targeting Saskatchewan, the primary NOC on the EE profile should be the same as the NOC you intend to use for SINP.
- What to do instead. The thread didn't offer a fix for SINP specifically — the practical implication is to target provinces or federal streams that don't impose the education–experience alignment requirement, or build experience in your field of study first.
A side warning from the thread: one member called out a specific "global citizenship" consultancy as a fraud — vet any consultant independently.
Historical note: NOC 0621 is a pre-2021 NOC code and SINP criteria evolve — verify current requirements on the official Saskatchewan immigration site.