Express Entry-FSW, CEC & FST
Express entry is one of your alternatives if your goal is to immigrate to Canada as a skilled worker under the permanent residence program. Clients having permanent residence status are required to uphold their status by spending 730 days in Canada every five years.
Under the Canadian immigration system, the phrase “express entry” refers to a fair turnaround time for processing immigration applications. In this point-based comprehensive ranking system, candidates are chosen at random from a pool of thousands of applicants on a regular basis. After receiving an invitation to apply from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, our government aims to complete and submit error-free electronic applications within a six-month processing window.
To be eligible for express entry, all potential applicants must fulfill specific requirements under the various skilled worker programs. Federal Skilled Worker, Federal Skilled Trade, and Canadian Experience Class are the skilled worker categories covered by express entry where candidates must fulfill the minimal general standards. A candidate cannot build an express entry profile if they do not match the minimal requirements of any one of these three programs.
In a recent development, in order to fill local labor shortages, certain provinces and territories participating in the Province Nominee Program (PNP) are now actively soliciting individuals through the Express Entry pool.
You must fulfill the following requirements to be eligible for express entry: job experience, a language other than English or French proficiency test scores, and education—which may be Canadian or international and must be evaluated by a Canadian approved organization. Interested applicants can establish an express entry profile to be included in the pool of candidates if they satisfy these broad prerequisites as well as certain additional criteria.
Under four main areas of express entrance, candidates are given points based on a thorough rating system. These include Additional Points, Spouse or Common-Law Partner Factors, Core Human Capital Factors, and Skill Transferability Factors. The total point value for these four criteria is 1,200. In addition to the candidates’ scores, the tie-breaking procedures are used to pick the winners.
This is a ranking system, so candidates who score highly and fall within the government’s biweekly cut-offs are sent Invitations to Apply (ITAs) for further processing, which marks a new step in the process of reaching your objective.
Candidates do have the option to accept or reject the invitation to apply once they get it. Candidate must submit an error-free online application to IRCC for additional processing in order to find out if they fulfill the requirements of the skilled program if they accept the invitation to apply via their express entry profile.
If a candidate declines the invitation to apply, they will immediately reappear in the express entry pool and wait for another draw by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. If their score falls inside the cut-off again, they will get another invitation to apply.
One of the well-liked immigration schemes to Canada accepted through the rapid entry system is this one. Among the more than eighty immigration programs run by Canada, this group receives the most allocations each year.
Candidates are evaluated based on six key criteria such as age, education, job history, language, pre-arranged employment, and flexibility are some of these variables. Candidate must receive 67 out of a possible 100 points in order to be eligible for this program.
You must have a minimum CLB 7 in each module for the language. IELTS General Training or CELPIP in English and TEF or TCF in French are accepted languages.
The NOC 0-Managerial Occupations, NOC A-Professional Occupations, and NOC B-Skilled Technical Occupations applications are being considered for work experience. These applications must have at least one year of continuous full-time employment or two years of continuous part-time employment (15 hours per week) in the last ten years.
A score is given based on the applicant’s age, with applicants between the ages of 18 and 35 receiving 12 points and those between the ages of 36 and 11 receiving 11 points.
It is necessary to provide proof of finances for the primary applicant and any accompanying or non-accompagnating family members. If your spouse or partner studies or works in Canada, you can earn more points. If the applicant or spouse has family members living in Canada—parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces, or nephews—they will receive a point.
If the applicant is employed under a temporary work visa, is presently employed under an LMIA exemption, or has a job offer from a Canadian company, the applicant receives an extra point for arranged employment.
The amount of admissions under this program is governed by directives from our immigration minister, and changes regularly take place without warning, therefore candidates are recommended to move swiftly.
It is controlled via express entry. These are for applicants who had at least one year of work experience in Canada during the three years prior to applying. This job experience must have been approved, but it need not have been ongoing. Experience at work must be NOC 0/A/B. It is required to pass a language exam, which may be at CLB 7 for NOC 0/A and CLB 5 for NOC B.
Quebec employment experience is taken into account. Working while enrolled full-time, such as during a co-op work term, is not considered job experience.
Self-Employed is not included. Work done while a refugee determination was pending is not considered.
No proof of funding is necessary. CEC has no educational prerequisites. The amount of admissions under this program is governed by directives from our immigration minister, and changes regularly take place without warning, therefore candidates are recommended to move swiftly.
For people who met the requirements for a skill trade after January 1, 2015, this is another program run through the express entry system. You must have a full-time employment offer from a Canadian employer that is based on the LMIA or a certificate of qualification issued by a Canadian provincial or territorial agency in order to be eligible for this class.
Although it may not be continuous, work experience must have been accumulated during the past five years after being qualified to use such trade abilities.
The language requirement is CLB 4 in writing and reading in either English or French, and CLB 5 in speaking and hearing.
The qualifying trade groups:
Major Group 72: industrial, electrical and construction trades.
Major Group 73: maintenance and equipment operation trades.
Major Group 82: supervisors and technical jobs in natural resources, agriculture and related production.
Major Group 92: processing, manufacturing and utilities supervisors and central control operators.
Minor Group 632: chefs and cooks.
Minor Group 633: butchers and bakers.
Note: Intent is critical here as you cannot reside in Quebec.
The amount of admissions under this program is governed by directives from our immigration minister, and changes regularly take place without warning, therefore candidates are recommended to move swiftly.