Federal Skilled Worker

A federal skilled worker is defined as a person who has the following basic requirements:

  1. The ability to become economically established in Canada
  2. To have at least 1 year of full-time work experience or its equivalent in part time in the last 10 years
  3. To have sufficient proof to indicate that they have performed all the action described in the lead statement of the NOC and the majority of main duties described in the applicable NOC
  4. To meet the language benchmark of CLB7
  5. To have Canadian education or its equivalent obtained in other countries assessed by educational credential assessment (ECA)

You get scores based on different factors such as age. education, work experience, language ability and adoptability. You score must be at least 67. After that you will be ranked in CRS (Comprehensive Ranking System).

After calculating your comprehensive ranking score, you can open an express entry profile and stay in the express entry pool for 12 months to be selected. If your score exceeds the CRS cut-off score, you will be selected in the next draw which means receiving an invitation to apply. Afterwards, you have 60 days to upload the required documents. If your eligibility, security, and admissibility is passed you will be granted permanent residency status. The last stage of examination is completed at the port of entry when you are landing as an immigrant to Canada.

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