A useful guide to help you with Canada immigration through FSWP

Are you a skilled foreign national for Canada looking for Canada immigration in pursuit of better career opportunities and higher living standards? If yes, the knowledge of Canada immigration and its permanent residence pathways is necessary for you.

In that context, you must first be introduced to the 2 major pathways for selection to immigrate to Canada: Canada Express Entry and Canada PNP.

Understand Canada Express as a system of managing applications for Canada immigration of potential immigrants like you. You will create a profile in that system to be seen and accepted for immigration. Skilled professionals like you will be submitting all information about your skillset and other details like age, education, work experience, and English/French language proficiency to the Canada Express Entry candidate pool. When the draw happens, those who score the highest for their credentials will get invited to apply for a Canada PR visa.

Next is Canada PNP (Provincial Nominee Program). This is an immigration program specific to each Canadian province/territory. When a province needs foreigners with a certain skill set, they will check in either the pool of Canada immigration candidates belonging to Express Entry or take direct applications. It all starts when you show interest to immigrate to Canada and settle in a particular province. If you are an ideal candidate, the province will nominate you for permanent residence and grant you 600 points to help you advance in the selection of candidates during a federal Express Entry draw.

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In Canada Express Entry, there are 3 economic immigration categories under which candidates can apply for Canada PR:

• CEC (Canadian Experience Class)
• FSTP (Federal Skilled Trades Program)
• FSWP (Federal Skilled Worker Program)

Let’s see how immigration happens under the FSWP category, the most popular Canada immigration program.

FSWP (Federal Skilled Worker Program)

This program is aimed at helping skilled workers having foreign work experience in order to immigrate to Canada. These are foreign nationals who want to permanently immigrate to Canada.

The minimum requirements for you to apply for a visa under this program are related to:

• Language ability
• Skilled work experience
• Education

Without meeting these 3 minimum requirements, you cannot apply for a visa under this program.

Once you meet all the minimum requirements, the assessment of your visa application will be done on the basis of factors like:

• Age
• Work experience
• Education
• English and/or French language skills
• Whether you have a valid job offer
• Adaptability (how prepared you are likely to settle in Canada)

These factors are evaluated and given scores on a 100-point grid. The minimum points required to immigrate via FSWP is 67.

Besides the proof of all the factors mentioned above, you must also present the proof of funds to immigrate to Canada. This means that you have to show documents that prove that you have sufficient money to settle yourself and your family members if any in Canada. You aren’t expected to use money in Canadian government schemes to meet your living expenses in Canada.

You are required to collect and keep your essential documents to create a profile in Express Entry. They include:

• A valid passport/travel document
• Your language test results
• Proof of Canadian education you had or an assessment report for your foreign educational credentials for the purposes of immigration in one of these cases:
  • You want to score points for the education you received outside Canada
  • You are filing an application via the FSWP
• Your provincial nomination (in case you have one)
• A written job offer from an employer in Canada (in case you have one)
• Proof of work experience
• Certificate of qualification in a trade occupation issued by a province/territory in Canada (in case you have one)
• Proof of funds

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Once you create a Canada Express Entry profile, you can participate in Canada federal Express Entry draws. If you receive an invitation from IRCC to apply for a Canada PR visa, you can do so along with submitting the following documents:

• Police certificates
• Proof of funds
• Certificates of medical exams
• Birth certificate (if you’re declaring dependent children)
• A common-law union form (if your marital status is declared as “common-law”)
• A representative form (if you’ve hired a representative)
• Marriage certificate (if your marital status is declared as “married”)
• Death certificate (if your marital status is declared as “widowed”)
• Divorce certificate and agreement of legal separation (if your marital status is declared as “divorced”)
• Adoption certificate (when a dependent child is shown as “adopted”)

You have 60 days to file an application for Canada PR. The response to that application decides whether you can arrive in Canada.

If you are willing to migrate to Canada, talk to Y-Axis, the leading immigration and career consultant in the UAE.

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