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The submission of a clear, complete, and accurate immigration application is the key to the quickest possible processing and successful conclusion of your case. Proper management of your case throughout the process will ensure that your application stays on track. Finally, access to current and useful information will give you insight into your case's progress and will give you the ability to best handle the process of Canada immigration. This web site makes it easy for you to do it all for yourself with the following Canada immigration tools:

Get an expert assessment of your eligibility to work in Canada. You can also use our interactive immigration scoring tool to obtain a free detailed assessment of your eligibility to immigrate to Canada in the Skilled Worker program. Instantly receive your Canada immigration score (including a separate score for your spouse or partner, if applicable), as well as the calculation of your scoring on each of the selection factors.

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Permanent Resident Status

Skilled workers for the purpose of immigration are those who have working experience in an eligible occupation which requires skill, training, or education, and who meet other requirements which make them likely to be successful as a Canadian. Canada's Skilled Worker immigration is based on a selection system, defined by the laws of the country, which allocates a certain number of points to applicants on a number of factors.

Canada's permanent resident immigration process is much more lengthy than the process to temporarily work in Canada. Applicants should budget between one and four years on for successful conclusion of an application. These delays are based largely on the region in which the applicant lives. Some regions which have higher caseloads may be subject to much longer delays than other regions. By law, an application can only generally be submitted to the Canadian visa office which is responsible for an applicants region of legal residence or of citizenship.

Immigration to Quebec

The province of Quebec has a separate immigration system. This province maintains its own immigration selection criteria, its own immigration offices, and its own immigration officers. Quebec's skilled worker program has a different selection system which is based on similar factors as the federal system, but which does place more emphasis on an applicant's French language abilities. Other important factors include the applicant's working experience and education.

Without a Certificat d'acceptation du Québec from Quebec's immigration authorities, Canada's immigration officials cannot issue a permanent resident visa. This highlights an important difference in the Quebec procedure: applicants must apply to both the Quebec and the federal immigration authorities to receive a permanent resident visa and must pay applicable fees to both sets of officials. When successful in the Quebec procedure, however, the federal immigration authorities will only evaluate medical and security issues, not their own selection factors. If approved, the candidate receives a Canadian permanent resident visa and is entitled to the same rights of mobility as any Canadian.

Provincial Nominee Programs

At present, some of Canada's provinces have enacted agreements with the Canadian immigration department to allow them to nominate their own candidates for approval. As with Quebec, nomination by a province is a separate application process and requires that the successful nomine then apply to the federal immigration authorities in their region in order to obtain a permanent resident visa. The nominee programs are not an entirely separate immigration system as with Quebec, however. They do not maintain immigration offices or officials abroad.

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