EXPRESS ENTRY

Express Entry is a selection process based on the designation and skills of a person who is looking to migrate to Canada. It is entirely an electronic Canadian immigration pathway involving the federal government, provincial governments, federal government, and Canadian employers.

Want to Immigrate(Candidates)?

Express Entry for candidates:

Gets you to Canada faster
Access links with employers
Reduce your paperwork

Want to hire (Employers)?

Express Entry for employers:

Helps to select skilled international candidates
Get your employees immigrated to Canada sooner
Provides you a crucial role in Canadian immigration

EXPRESS ENTRY: CANDIDATES

The Express Entry process is a simpler and quicker process for candidates.

This process is not an immigration program as such but a system used by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to hire candidates with required skills and select them for immigration using economic immigration programs.-

Process

Determine Your Eligibility

The first step to immigrating to Canada is the determination of eligibility for the same. Candidates eligible to immigrate under federal economic immigration programs may enter the Express Entry pool.
If you are eligible, you can proceed with your application. If not, work on other capital factors like your skills, work experience, language ability, and education credentials to become eligible.

Complete your an online Express Entry profile

The interesting candidates who are eligible for the economic immigration programs need to show their expression of interest (EOI) by creating a profile online. This profile exhibits their skills, work experience, language ability, educational qualifications, and personal information.

These candidates are placed in a pool of candidates who are ranked according to their skills in a comprehensive ranking system(CRS). Candidates having no job offer from a Canadian employer may register in the Canadian Job bank. However, as of June 6, 2017, it is not mandatory, but the registration makes the candidate visible to the Canadian employers.

Improvise your profile and ranking

The CRS ranking of candidates in express entry pool depends upon-

Their core human capital factors
accompanying spouse or common-law partner factors, if applicable
skill transferability factors
factors relating to a provincial nomination, qualifying job offer of arranged employment, Canadian study experience, a sibling in Canada, and/or French language ability.

CRS is a system accommodating 1200 points in total. Candidates strive to improve their ranking to maximize their chances of selection from the pool by the Canadian government and obtain a permanent residence.

Receive an Invitation to Apply and submission of your application for permanent residence

The government of Canada and provincial Governments, as well as Canadian employers, short-list,new immigrants from the Express Entry pool. The highest-ranked candidates in CRS and those with valid job offers or provincial nominations receive an,invitation to apply for Canadian permanent residence. These candidates have 90 days to submit their electronic applications for permanent residence (PR). IRCC process these applications within six months from the date of submission. Candidates must fill all the necessary forms and submit all their documents within this time limit.Successful candidates and their dependents can land in Canada as permanent residents, once this process is completed.

Candidates in the pool who haven’t received an invitation to apply for permanent residence after 12 months may re-enter the pool and re-submit their profile if they still meet the eligibility criteria.

EXPRESS ENTRY: EMPLOYERS

Express Entry is a selection system for Canadian immigration is a simpler and quicker hiring process for employees to hire skilled workers approved by the Government of Canada, responding to the needs of the Canadian labor market.

Process

Potential candidates make an expression of interest in immigrating to Canada

Candidates seeking permanent residence in Canada are required to exhibit such interest by creating an online profile shows their skills, experience, language skills, educational qualifications, and their personal information. Candidates having no job offer from a Canadian employer or a provincial nomination can register themselves with Canadian job banks. Eligible candidates may find their way to express entry pool from where the employers might access their profiles.

The government selects candidates from the Express Entry pool

. Canadian employers have access to the profiles which are pre-screened by the government to allow immigration in express entry pool. They can send them a job offer. Candidates receiving job offers are awarded additional points in CRS, which increases their chance to get an invitation to apply(ITA) for permanent residence. Candidates have 90 days to submit their electronic application for a permanent residence once they get a job offer. The government processes the application within 6 months from the date of submission.

Candidates must ensure that they have completed the submission of documents required within this time frame so that they or their dependents can land here as permanent residents.
The candidates need to be a skilled worker to express their interest in immigration through this stream. The profile of candidates should be up-to-date as each profile exists for only 12 months.