Frequently Asked Questions and basic mistakes

•  Education

In order to receive recognition of your education, you must have a degree and must also have the correspondent years of education. For example, you have a Mater's degree, but you have studied 16 years in total (this is the whole period from 1 st grade to University). In this case, Immigration Canada will not recognize your diploma as Master's degree and you will not obtain 25 points. You will receive only 22 points because you would not have 17 years of full time studies. Moreover, if you are studying at the moment and you have not obtained your diploma yet, the relevant degree will not be accepted.

•  Age

Concerning your age, this program is very liberal – the age limit is very high, and if you are between 20 and 50 years old - you have a chance. If you are at age which is exactly on the limit point (for example 49 years), the immigration officer will count your age as of the moment of the submission of the documents, so do not worry, you can grow up till the moment of the interview.

•  Work experience

This is the main reason for the evaluation of many self-prepared applications as unacceptable. Explanations like “I am an Engineer, but I work as a Manager of a store” are extremely inappropriate for the immigration officers. There are a lot of specific issues and details concerning the work experience; moreover, they are specific for each one of the candidates, so we can not explain them briefly. This is one of our major engagements to the clients: to represent you as an experienced specialist with the relevant experience and education which are compatible with these in Canada . Another peculiarity concerning the work experience is the existence of a list with occupations in demand. If your profession is not in this list, your application will be automatically refused. The list of these professions can be found here

•  English and/or French proficiency

According to some changes in The Immigration Law taken into effect in 2002, it is obligatory for the candidates to pass a language test. The only recognized by Immigration Canada tests are IELTS ( www.ielts.org ) for English language and TEF ( http://www.fda.ccip.fr ) for French language. The candidates must pass the tests; furthermore, they have to pass them with very high results because this is a crucial factor for obtaining the sufficient number of points. (It is preferable to pass the test within the limits of 7 to 9 points for two or more of the indices). From the experience that we have with our clients, we can definitely say that the test is not easy, and you have to find time for the adequate preparation even if you are proficient in the English (French) language. You will have the chance to pass without language test only if you are born in an English-speaking country; English is your mother tongue or if you obtained your educational degrees in English (of course the same is valid for the French language, if you apply with French).

•  Job offer approved by HRDC

The most frequently asked question of the immigration candidates is whether we can ensure them with such job offer. The answer is definitely NO, and we will explain you why. In order to receive this document, there must be a Canadian firm whishing to hire you as its employee. After that, the firm must make a request in HRDC where the offer must be approved and certified. HRDC of its turn must announce publicly this job position (two-week period) among the registered unemployed Canadians and Canadian permanent residents. If there is no Canadian citizen or Canadian permanent resident who is qualified for this job position, then the HRDC may approve and certify this job offer. HRCC usually do not approve these offers with the exception of some specific fields like astronautics, gene engineering, specific chemistry fields etc. The above explanations are the reason because of which we can not promise these job offers approved by HRDC to our clients.

•  The education of your spouse

For this program, there is no difference whether you are alone or with a spouse – you have to pass the required points limit. So, if you do not have a spouse, you will have to compensate his/hers 5 points with one of your personal indices (for example you may pass the IELTS exam with excellence)

•  Relatives who can bring you additional 5 points are: parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, sister, brother, niece, nephew, child or grandchild, spouse or common-law partner who is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident living in Canada