Hi, I’m Dikshya Dhungana. I built RCIP Points in 2026 because finding clear information about the Rural Community Immigration Pilot was harder than it should be.
The program itself is a good idea: fourteen smaller Canadian communities get to recommend workers they actually need, and those workers get a path to permanent residence. The problem is the paperwork around it. Every community publishes its own scoring grid, usually as a PDF buried three clicks deep, each formatted differently, each updated on its own schedule. When I first tried to compare them, I had eleven browser tabs open and still couldn’t answer a simple question: “would I qualify, and with how many points?”
So I collected every 2026 grid, read them all, and turned them into calculators you can use in a couple of minutes. The eligibility checker covers the federal rules that apply everywhere. The points calculators mirror each community’s own grid, including the ones that don’t use points at all, because knowing that Moose Jaw is first come, first served changes your whole plan.
What this site is, and what it isn’t
RCIP Points is an educational tool. I am not an immigration consultant or a lawyer, and nothing here is immigration advice. The scores you get are estimates based on published grids, which communities revise during the year. Before you spend money on applications, language tests or credential assessments, verify everything against IRCC and your community’s official page. I link to those official pages from every calculator.
I keep the data current the honest way: by re-reading the community sites and updating the grids when they change. Every page shows when the data was last verified. If you spot something out of date before I do, please tell me through the contact page. Those emails genuinely help.
Why trust the numbers
Each calculator is built from the community’s own published scoring grid, not from a summary of a summary. Where a community publishes extra detail, like Thunder Bay’s monthly statistics or Sudbury’s pool entry score, I include that too, because the gap between “minimum score” and “score that actually gets selected” is exactly the thing most sites gloss over.
This is a personal project. It may grow into something bigger later, but right now it’s one person who cares about getting the details right. If that’s the kind of resource you find useful, I’m glad you’re here.