You must:
- Show that while working in your primary occupation, you performed the duties set out in the lead statement of the occupational description in the NOC. This includes all the essential duties and most of the main duties listed.
- Your skilled work experience must be in the same type of job (have the same NOC) as the job you want to use for your immigration
- application (called your primary occupation). Skilled work experience means that you’ve worked in 1 of these National Occupational Classification (NOC) TEER categories: TEER 0; TEER 1; TEER 2; TEER 3.;
- have been obtained within the last 10 years, in Canada or abroad;
- be paid work (you must have been paid wages or earned commission—volunteer work or unpaid internships don’t count); be at least 1 year of continuous work or 1,560 hours total (30 hours per week).
Student work experience
- Work experience gained while you were studying may count towards your minimum requirements if the work: was paid by wages or
- commissions
- was continuous (no gaps in employment), and meets all the other requirements of the Program.
If you meet all the minimum requirements, we’ll assess your eligibility for the Federal Skilled Worker Program based on:
- age
- education
- work experience
- whether you have a valid job offer
- English or French language skills
- adaptability (how well you’re likely to settle here)
- Based on how well you do in each of the 6 factors, we’ll assign you an overall score out of 100.
- The current pass mark is 67 points.
You must know:
- take approved language tests in English or French for
- writing; reading; listening; speaking
- meet the minimum score required in all 4 abilities
- enter the test results in your Express Entry profile
Your language tests are valid for 2 years after the date of the test result. They must be valid on the day you apply for permanent residence
If you went to school in Canada, you must have a certificate, diploma or degree from a Canadian.
- secondary institution (high school) or
- post-secondary institution
- If you have foreign education, you must have
- a completed educational credential and an Educational Credential Assessment for immigration purposes that is from a designated organization and shows your education is equal to a completed certificate,
- diploma or degree from a Canadian secondary institution (high school) or post-secondary institution.
You may also need:
- provincial nomination (if you have one)
- written job offer from an employer in Canada (if you have one)
- proof of work experience
- certificate of qualification in a trade occupation issued by a Canadian province or territory (if you have one)
- You must show that you have enough money for you and your family to settle in Canada, unless you
-are currently able to legally work in Canada
-have a valid job offer from an employer in Canada - An immigration medical exam (IME) from a panel physician is a requirement for permanent residence. Your family members must also have a medical exam, even if they aren’t coming with you.
You must include police certificates when you apply for permanent residence. Online system will ask for a police certificate for: you and your family members who are 18 years or older and every country you (or a family member) stayed in during the last 10 years for 6 months or more in a row. You don’t need to give us police certificates for any period of time before you were 18 years old or for time spent in Canada.
Other additional documents:
- birth certificate, if you’re declaring dependent children
- Use of a Representative form (PDF, 137 KB), if you’ve hired a representative common-law union form (PDF, 2.22 MB), if you’ve declared your marital status as “common-law”
- marriage certificate, if you’ve declared your marital status as “married”
- divorce certificate and legal separation agreement, if you’ve declared your marital status as “divorced”
- death certificate, if you’ve declared your marital status as “widowed”
- adoption certificate, when a dependent child is listed as “adopted” proof of relationship to a relative in Canada
- digital photos to confirm your identity
- other name to confirm aliases authority to release personal information to a designated individual form (PDF, 1.74 MB)
- any other documents that you feel are relevant to your application