When you are skilled, you are always on the verge of meeting with the best possibilities, and this year things are shaping up in the best way for the immigrants. Now, if you are wondering about the best place that you can pick for visit, there is but one option that you can claim this year.

It is the Maple Leaf Country that has been harboring the maximum attention this year. In the past, due to the discrepancies and complacencies, the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) suffered a lot of drawbacks, so they emerged victorious with a truly revamped and rational immigration system that made news in 2015.

The system addressed as “Expression of Interest” or popularly known as “Express Entry” considers the movement of only skilled immigrants. For the very first time, the authorities are on the damage control mode to check all undue immigration that happened under the “first-come-first-serve” basis scheme. The “first-come-first-serve” basis backfired and created a lot of bogus immigration pressurizing the economy.

So, to amend for the wring committed, the authorities launched the “Expression of Interest” programme, and it has helped in the processing and acceptance of Skilled Worker Visa to Canada and the key requirements and benefits that it has helped fulfill and yield has definitely put the economy back on track.

This year so far, some 12,000 immigrants have moved to the overseas destination as skilled individuals under the programme and they are helping in filling the dearth in diverse sectors. At the same time, since the application, processing and selection is completely transparent, there is zero possibility of any complacency that could take shape in particular.

Hence, if you want to move to Canada and looking for Skilled Worker Visa, you must know its requirements and the benefits that it can provide to the bearer. In this piece, you will get to know about the application process, the requirements and the benefits that the Express Entry system can provide to the immigrants.

In the first place, you will have to make sure that you visit the Express Entry website and fill in all the credentials that it so demands. So, once you are done with that, the CIC would evaluate the right National Occupation List (NOC) and give you the code of that respective job.

The process is very simple, once you enter the age, experience, occupation and language proficiency, the application is evaluated. And once you are found eligible for the next level, you will have to go through the CRS calculator. The CRS or Comprehensive Ranking System evaluates the competency standards by awarding points for the skills and expertise shown.

Once you are done with the CRS that evaluates out of 1,200 points, you will be picked by the employer and the employer will sponsor you accordingly. In the CRS system, you are awarded for age, educational qualification, language proficiency and skill transferability. You are also awarded if your spouse could bring economic or social benefit to Canada.

The skilled movement can happen under the three broad categories:

• Federal Skilled Workers Programme (FSWP)
• Federal Skilled Trades Programme (FSTP)
• Canadian Experience Class (CEC)

Federal Skilled Workers Programme

Under the FSWP, those workers who have been able to find the place in the NOC list can avail the movement by meeting with these requirements:

• It is imperative to have at least one year (1,560 hours total/30 hours per week), continuous full-time or an equal amount in part-time,
• paid work is only considered (volunteer work, unpaid internships do not count),
• the work profile should match with the demand
• the last 10 years, and
• A skill type 0, or skill levels A or B of the 2011 National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Federal Skilled Trades Programme

It demands those trades that are in demand in the nation and one has to meet with these requirements:

• Plan to live outside the province of Quebec (Note: The province of Quebec selects its own skilled workers. If you plan on living in Quebec, you must see Quebec-selected skilled workers for more information),
• You must meet the required levels in English or French for each language ability (speaking, reading, writing and listening),
• You must have at least two years of full-time work experience (or an equal amount of part-time work experience)
• You must be in a skilled trade within the five years before you apply,
• It is imperative to meet the job requirements for that skilled trade as set out in the National Occupational Classification (NOC), except for needing a certificate of qualification, and you must have a full-time employment for a total period of at least one year.

Canadian Experience Class

For the CEC, one has to be involved in any work that they have done in the Maple Leaf Country and accordingly they must plan out the movement.

The benefits of the Skilled Worker Visa are innumerable, but the most promising thing is the Permanent Residency (PR) that one can claim once you move a skilled worker to the nation.