How does my spouse or de facto partner impact my CRS score?

Does my spouse or de facto partner impacts my CRS score?

• The Canadian Immigration system is sensitive to the needs of immigrants willing to bring along their dependents.
• Having a spouse or a de facto partner positively affects your CRS score.
• Your CRS score depends on human capital factors that concern you and your partner.
• Dependents like a spouse or a common-law partner must be mentioned in the application form even if they do not accompany the applicant.

 

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Canada’s Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS)

 The Canadian immigration system considers newcomers willing to bring their dependents to Canada. A spouse or common-law partner directly impacts the CRS score an applicant receives.

 

Generally, the CRS score of a person has a positive impact when applied with a spouse or de facto partner. However, mentioning your spouse or common-law partner is mandatory even if they are not accompanying you to Canada.

 

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Factors affecting CRS scores

The Comprehensive Ranking System allows scores based on human capital factors like age, level of education, language proficiency and Canadian Work Experience for both the applicant and their partner.

 

Following are the subcategories concerning the applicant and the maximum CRS scores that can be obtained for each:

Factors concerning the applicant	Maximum Points for applicants with an accompanying partner	Maximum Points for applicants without  an accompanying partner
Age	100 points	110 points
Level of Education	140 points	150 points
First Language Proficiency	32 points per skill	34 points per skill
Second Language Proficiency	22 points per skill	24 points per skill
Canadian Work Experience	70 points	80 points

 

You can get a maximum of 460 points if your spouse or common-law partner accompanies you to Canada. However, if you have a spouse or a de facto partner not accompanying you to Canada, you can get a maximum of 500 points.

 

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Impacts on CRS scores while having a partner

It may seem that having a spouse or joint law partner always affects CRS scores negatively. However, Canadian Immigration ensures that the scores are balanced equally by providing another category of points.

 

Following are the subcategories concerning the spouse or common-law partner and the maximum CRS scores that can be obtained for each:

Factors concerning the partner	Maximum points for the applicant
Level of education	10 points
Language Proficiency	20 points
Canadian Work Experience	10 points

 

Applicants with a spouse get additional points under Category B, which concerns the spouse's human capital factors. However, the maximum points an applicant can get under the CRS score calculator is 500, regardless of having a spouse or common-law partner.

 

The maximum number of points in Category A and B under the CRS remains unaffected with or without an accompanying spouse. Applicants can enter their profiles in the IRCC pool to improve each other's CRS score.

 

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