Experience Class Visa for Canada

Overview

The Canadian Experience Class Program is established for individuals of foreign citizens who have been working in Canada as impermanent workers and wish to become permanent residents. If you have been employed in Canada for one year as a full-time or part-time work in the past three years, then you can submit application for the Canada Experience Class and try to get a permanent residentship status. A permanent residence via the CEC program allows you to permanently move to Canada, as well as work and live in one of the provinces. After a few years, you will also be allowed to apply for Canadian Citizenship and get a Canadian passport. You will have the same aids as other Canadian permanent residents or nationals, counting medical assistance and the aptitude to study in Canadian universities if you or your children choose to.

Necessities

In demand to apply for the Canada Experience Class, you should first decide your admissibility. There are some necessities which you should accomplish, and you can choose if you do by taking a quick assessment or survey on the Canadian Immigration Website. By clicking “Check Your Eligibility”, you will go through the assessment which has several queries on your background. This assessment governs whether you satisfy the necessities and if you do, it will produce an application number which you can later use. The assessment will test you on:

• Job Experience and Profession Level: The job experience and profession level queries will ask you to confirm how long you have been working, and if you have any job experience in Canada. You should have a minimum of one year of job experience in Canada in the past three years to meet the requirements for the CEC Program. In adding, your job experience should be in a particular profession level. Canada has a National Occupational Classification (NOC) document which decides the level of skills for each job. Your job experience should fall in the Expertise Level 0 (administrative jobs), Expertise Level A (specialized jobs that generally need a degree from a university) or Expertise Level B (practical jobs and expert employments that generally necessitate a college certificate or training as an apprentice) for that experience to be suitable. It would be best if you showed that this work experience had involved all the duties in the description of the NOC. Furthermore, self-employment and job experience which you obtained if you were a full-time student in Canada do not meet the requirements for CEC. Similarly, if you worked in Canada but did not have lawful status, then your job experience will not be recognized.
• Language Skill and Educational Background: In adding to the job experience, you should also have language abilities in one of the certified Canadian languages, English or French. It would be best if you took language exams which will be transformed into a language skill scale that Canada has, the Canadian Language Benchmark. The exams should have writing, reading, listening, and speaking module and should be valid for two years after you obtain the test grades. To meet the requirements for the CEC program, you should have a Canadian Language Benchmark of 7 for Expertise Level 0 or Expertise Level A jobs or a Canadian language Benchmark of 5 for Expertise Level B jobs. As for your educational background, the Canada Experience Class does not have a minimum stated education requirement. Nevertheless, since you will have to submit your profile and be scored conferring to the Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) Calculator, then it is advantageous to have a high level of education to obtain more points.
• Admissibility: Lastly, you should also be allowable to Canada. Admissibility denotes that you accomplish the legal necessities to own a Canadian visa. This comprises issues such as a clean criminal record, for you to be fit enough to pass your medical examinations and not stance a risk to Canadian national security. You do not require a job proposal to apply for the Canadian Express Entry Program; but, you should plan to obtain a job in any region in Canada with the exclusion of Quebec, as this region has its own immigration rules.

How to Apply

When you decide through the assessment that you satisfy the necessities, then you can begin your application procedure. The Canada Experience Class Program, comparable to the other Express Entry Programs, does not admit direct applications and works equally to ranking application system. In demand to apply for the CEC, you should ensure that you are qualified and submit your profile for ranking. The resulting sections will take you via a sequence of steps to apply for the CEC.

Gather Supportive Documents: Prior you begin to fill out your profile, you should ensure these supportive documents prepared:

• A legal passport of travel document
• Language examination results (English or French)
• Education Credential Assessment Report (if essential)
• Job proposal letter from an employer in Canada (if you have one)
• Police clearance certificates to verify you have a clean criminal history
• Medical checkup
• Evidence that you have sufficient reserves to cover your stay in Canada if you are requested to apply

These documents will be supportive throughout the application procedure, and if you are invited to apply for eternal residency, you will need to submit these documents to the Canadian Consulate.

Conform Your Profile: The next stage is to create an Express Entry profile. You can do that by visiting the Canadian Government Website and create an account if you do not already have one. After creating the account, you should sign in and enter the reference code you received when you finished the admissibility assessment. The page will then display all the fields you should fill out to complete the profile. The profile will need your complete background record and any detail that can earn you points. You will also have a section to affix your supportive documents as evidence of your profile. Once you begin the profile, you will have sixty days to complete it. If you do not finish it within this duration, you will have to initiate all over again. If you are confident that you have finished your profile, you can then conform it.

Receive an Invitation to Apply: The submitted profile receives an assessment from the Canadian Government, which grades all the profiles conferring to their points. Those with the peak scores receive an invitation to apply for permanent residence.

Apply for Permanent Residence: When you admit the invitation, you will receive further directions and forms which you will have to fill and follow cautiously. You should gather all the needed supportive documents and submit everything within the given time duration. After you conform to the documents, you will also have to compensate for the visa charges for the Canadian Experience Class. The charges for all the Express Entry programs are charted below in Canadian dollars.

Type of Charge	Canadian Dollar
The Economic immigration application charge	1040 (Comprises processing fee of 550 and right of permanent residence charge of 490)
The Economic immigration application charge (without right of permanent residence charge)	550
Application charge counting spouse or common-law companion	1040 (Contains processing charge of 550 and right of permanent residence fee of 490)
Application charge counting spouse or common-law companion (without right of permanent residence charge)	550
Application charge with a dependent child – per child	150

 

The Canadian Government will then assess your appeal for permanent residence to decide whether you are qualified and allowable. They will then inform you of their decision via your account.