8 Important Steps for Applying to Federal Skilled Worker Program
An individual in order to settle in Canada has to go through a legal process known as ‘Canadian Immigration provincial nominee program (PNPs) both at federal and provincial level. The PNP can be conducted through paper based process and express entry process where the latter process is more reliable and faster than the former.
The express entry system is an online system that allows immigration, refugees and citizenship aspired candidate to manage economic class applications through the formal process of Canadian experience class, the express entry federal skilled worker program, federal skilled trades program and through other provincial nominee classes.
The Canadian federal skilled worker program is a Canadian permanent residency program for skilled workers with certain degree of foreign work experience, language ability and education which are further shortlisted and tested under the specific requirement at provincial and federal level. The primary aim of this program is to gather interested foreign individual into the Canadian workforce, boosting their economy.
Those candidates interested for being a permanent member of Canada can apply for the express entry federal worker program with their spouse, partner and children keeping in mind the following instructions.
1. Eligibility Check
Foreign skilled workers program Canada requires meeting certain eligibility criteria i.e.
- Work experience of minimum 12 months of full-time work experience under national occupation certification (NOC) work classification of
a) Skill type 0: work as retail/ wholesale trade manager, food & accommodation etc.
b) Skill level A: professional job of IT occupation, engineering, lawyers and other legal occupation etc.
c) Skill Level B: technical jobs like college diploma, retail salesperson, general office worker etc.
- Language Proficiency in English, French or both helps an individual in Canadian job market. Here, he has to achieve 28 points in writing, reading, listening and speaking the language but it varies from language to language.
- Education of the candidate should be as per Canadian standard. It can be either Canadian high school diploma or an educational credential assessment.
- Sufficient Fund is a necessary element to consider supporting individual and their dependent one in Canada.
2. Obtain Documentation
To create ones Express entry profile, there should be proper and complete documents of the following things
- Identification like passport, ID proof
- Language proficiency
- Education certificate
3. Create an Express Entry profile:- Once he has all the valid documents, he can apply for PNP itself on the IRCC along with certain personal information, self-declaration and documents.
4. Improve profile ranking under CRS:- Comprehensive Ranking system (CRS) is a separate points system used for ranking all express entry profiles. All candidates must score a min of 67 points out of 100. #add if needed
5. Receiving invitation:- After 60 days of completing the application, if you receive invitation for permanent residency from federal and provincial level, go for applying into Express entry pool
6. Submit e-application:- All applicants will be screened for medical, criminal and security background check for submitting the e-application
7. Reviewing e-application:- The individuals’ e-application is than reviewed by a Canadian immigration officer.
8. Receiving confirmation of PNP status and PR Card.:- The applicant will receive their PNP status within less than six months. If application is accepted, he can apply for PR Card.
Thus, Canadian federal skilled worker program is an easy and effective way to receive permanent residency of Canada by going through these 8 steps, without references or connections in a much simple and easy format.
