Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP)

The Federal Skilled Worker Program is Canada's primary economic immigration pathway and gives skilled workers, and their loved ones, the opportunity to become permanent residency in Canada.

Minimum Eligibility Criteria

Other nationals may start the procedure of migration under the Federal Skilled Worker Program by deciding if they meet the base prerequisites of the program. The bare necessities are:

  • One year of persistent full-time or equal paid work involvement in the previous 10 years in a gifted occupation grouped under the National Occupational Classification (NOC) aptitude level 0, An or B;
  • Approved language capacity identical to Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) 7 in English or French overall capacities (perusing, composing, tuning in, and talking); and
  • Canadian instructive qualification (testament, recognition, or degree) or outside certification and Educational Credential Assessment (ECA) report.

IRCC decides competitors' qualification for the Federal Skilled Worker Program dependent on its interesting focuses network. In any case, just the most noteworthy positioned competitors in the Express Entry pool are issued solicitations to apply for Canadian changeless home.

Applicant profiles in the Express Entry pool, which likewise incorporates Federal Skilled Trades and Canadian Experience Class hopefuls, are positioned dependent on the CRS.

So as to be qualified to apply under the Federal Skilled Worker Program, the people who are capable must meet the bare necessities for work, language capacity, training and acquire somewhere around 67 under the program's 100-point matrix. The program's choice variables network surveys competitors dependent on components that incorporate age, training, work involvement, masterminded business, language capacity, and flexibility.

Selection Factors

The Federal Skilled Worker selection factors are listed below. Click on each factor to learn more:

Factors Points
Education Up to 25 points
Language Skills Up to 28 points
Work Experience Up to 15 points
Age Up to 12 points
Arranged Employment Up to 10 points
Adaptability Up to 10 points
Settlement Funds

Whenever welcomed to apply, Federal Skilled Workers should demonstrate they can turn out to be monetarily settled in Canada with their needy relatives. The settlement finances necessity is postponed for outside nationals who are as of now approved to work in Canada as well as the individuals who have organized work in Canada.

Medical Examinations and Admissibility

IRCC energizes Federal Skilled Worker hopefuls and their wards to finish their therapeutic examinations when an ITA is issued. Therapeutic test results must be legitimate at the season of applying for perpetual home and while landing in Canada. Candidates should likewise acquire trusted status as a major aspect of the Canadian migration application procedure to demonstrate that they are acceptable to Canada.

Processing Fees

The table underneath frameworks the preparing expenses for the Federal Skilled Worker program:

Application CAD*
Principal applicant ($550 processing fee + $490 right of permanent residence fee) $1,040
Spouse or common-law partner ($550 processing fee + $490 right of permanent residence fee) $1,040
A dependent child of the principal applicant who is under 22 and is not a spouse or common-law partner, or is 22 or older who has been unable to be financially self-supporting since before the age of 22, due to a physical or mental condition Canadian Experience Class Immigration Program. $150 per child