Residence Permit by Non-Investment – Canada

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1 Canada – Express Entry Program
2 🧭 Express Entry Stages
3 Comparison Between FEDERAL SKILLED WORKER, FEDERAL SKILLED TRADES & CANADIAN EXPERIENCE CLASS
4 🗣️ Language Skills – CLB & IELTS
5 🔢 CRS – Comprehensive Ranking System

Want to work and live permanently in Canada?

Canada is known as one of the countries with the best quality of life in the world. Its immigration system is open and structured, offering a fast track to Permanent Resident (PR) through the Express Entry program. With a highly tolerant multicultural environment, ample job opportunities, quality education, and strong social security—Canada is an ideal choice for those looking to build a stable and prosperous future abroad.

Canada – Express Entry Program

✅ Three Programs Under Express Entry

  1. Federal Skilled Worker Program
  2. Federal Skilled Trades Program
  3. Canadian Experience Class

🛤️ 2 Registration Paths

  • Express Entry Directly
  • Through the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP)

🧭 Express Entry Stages

Step 1: Initial Eligibility Check

  • Read the terms and conditions of each program.
  • Answer the initial questions to see if you qualify:
    Check here

Factors to be checked:

  • Citizenship
  • Age
  • Language Skills (English/French)
  • Education
  • Work experience
  • Available funds
  • Job offer (if any)

📌 For Federal Skilled Worker, minimum value: 67 out of 100 points based on 6 selection factors.

Step 2: Calculate Your CRS Score

  • CRS is a points-based scoring system (max. 1,200).
  • Use the calculator: bit.ly/CRS1200-Test
  • The candidate with the highest score will get ITA (Invitation to Apply).

Step 3: Prepare Documents for Profile

Documents do not need to be uploaded immediately, but the information is needed:

  • Passport
  • Provincial Nomination (if any)
  • Job Offer (if any)
  • Proof of work experience
  • Technical expertise certificate (if any)
  • Proof of funds

Step 4: Fill in your Express Entry Profile

  • Once you meet the requirements, you will be entered into candidate pool and get CRS score.
  • Profile is valid for 60 days.

👉 While you wait, you can:

  • Improving language scores
  • Register with job banks & look for job offers
  • Apply for PNP in certain provinces
  • Add experience or certification

Step 5: Get an Invitation to Apply (ITA)

  • IRCC will invite candidates with the highest scores.
  • After getting ITA, you have 60 days to submit complete documents.

⏱️ Processing time: ± 6 months.

General Documents:

  • Police Certificate
  • Proof of Funds
  • Marriage / Divorce / Death Certificate
  • Child Birth Certificate
  • Other supporting documents from IRCC

Comparison Between FEDERAL SKILLED WORKER, FEDERAL SKILLED TRADES & CANADIAN EXPERIENCE CLASS

FEDERAL SKILLED WORKER PROGRAM: 
There are 2 types of assessment:

  1. 6 Selection Factors.
  2. CRS (Comprehensive Ranking System) 

Meanwhile, the Federal Skilled Trades and Canadian Experience Class only need to calculate the CRS Score.

6 Selection Factors, minimum 67 out of 100 points:

  1. English/French language proficiency, maximum 28 points.
  2. Education, maximum 25 points.
  3. Work Experience, maximum 15 points.
  4. Age, maximum 12 points.
  5. There is work in Canada, maximum 10 points
  6. Adaptability, maximum 10 points.

🗣️ Language Skills – CLB & IELTS

  • IELTS scores refer to CLB (Canadian Language Benchmark)
  • Validity of test results: 2 years
  • The higher the CLB value, the greater the chance of getting additional points in CRS.

🔢 CRS – Comprehensive Ranking System

  • Assessment based on Human Capital Factors:
    • Age
    • Education
    • Language
    • Work experience
  • Additional points:
    • Spouse
    • Job Offer
    • Nomination from the province
  • Detailed info: bit.ly/CRS-Points

4 CRS COMPONENTS:

  1. A set of core components of Human Capital Factors that drive economic success:
    • Age
    • Level of education
    • Official Language Proficiency
    • Canadian Work Experience
  2. Partner or Common-Law Partner factor.
  3. A set of transferable skills or interaction factors that strengthen the core components.
  4. Additional points are awarded to those who have job offers from companies in Canada

Maximum Points: 1,200

  1. NATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL CLASSIFICATION (NOC)
    NOC – Job Groups
    Jobs are grouped based on the type of : Job duties & Work a person does
    • Skill Type 0 (zero): Management work. 
    • Skill Level A: Professional jobs – University graduates: Doctors, dentists, architects.
    • Skill Level B: Technical & skilled trades jobs- college diploma or internship training: Chefs, plumber, electrician.
    • Skill Level C: Intermediate jobs  – High school graduates and training job-specific : industrial scale butchers, container truck drivers etc.
    • Skill Level D: Labor jobs / Manual Workers – on-the-job training: fruit pickers, cleaning staff, workers in oil fields.
      Jobs are grouped by type: Job tasks & The work a person does.
  2. PNP – EXPRESS ENTRY STREAM
    There are 11 Provinces and Territories that have PNP Programs:

QUEBEC & NUNAVUT do not have a PNP program associated with Express Entry. Quebec has its own program.

Atlantic Immigration Programs

Canadian Permanent Resident Pathway for Skilled Workers and International Graduates to live and work in one of the 4 provinces: NEW BRUNSWICK, NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR, NOVA SCOTIA & PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

PNP – Express Entry Stream for 4 provinces in the Atlantic region (Eastern Canada).

Requirements: There must be a JOB OFFER before registering for the AIP Program.

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