Any candidates without an Arranged Employment job offer, or a nomination from a province or territory, must register with Employment and Social Development Canada’s (ESDC) Job Bank. Applicants are required and encouraged to promote themselves on the Job Bank as well as in any other relevant way, i.e. recruiters, job boards, etc. Job Bank advertising will help connect EE applicants with eligible employers in Canada. The Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) process and provincial/territorial nomination are no different under the EE regime as the focus remains upon ensuring employers made efforts to hire Canadians for the available positions, as well as facilitating provinces/territories’ ability to meet their specific labour market needsa

The first step would be to determine your eligibility by filling out our online assessment. Once your candidate profile is reviewed, if you are eligible, you can move on to the next step in the process. If you are not currently eligible, you may strive to become eligible by improving your core human capital factors in areas such as your skills, work experience, language ability, and education credentials. Becoming eligible for one of the federal economic immigration programs is the first step toward immigrating to Canada through Express Entry.

To create a profile, an applicant will have to provide information about their skills, work experience, language ability, education, and other details. Information provided at this stage is crucial and can either make or break a permanent resident application. Once a profile is created, the applicant is placed into a pool of candidates and the system will assign a score which represents the comprehensive ranking in the system. Those applicants who will rank higher than the required score as per the Ministerial Instruction, will be invited to apply to become a permanent resident of Canada.

Candidates in the Express Entry pool are ranked according to the Comprehensive Ranking System, which ranks candidates under the following components:

• Core human capital factors.
• Accompanying spouse or common-law partner factors, if applicable
• Skill transferability factors; and
• Factors relating to a provincial nomination, qualifying offer of arranged employment,
• Canadian study experience, a sibling in Canada, and/or French language ability.
• There is a total of 1,200 points available under the Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS).

There is a total of 1,200 points available under the Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS).

The government of Canada and provincial Governments, as well as Canadian employers, are able to select new immigrants from the Express Entry pool. The highest-ranked candidates (i.e. candidates considered to have the best chances for economic success in Canada), and those with valid job offers or provincial nominations, are then invited to apply for Canadian permanent residence. From this point, candidates have 90 days to submit an electronic application for permanent residence. IRCC aims to process applications within six months of the date of submission. Candidates must ensure that they complete all necessary forms and submit all supporting documents within this timeframe. On completion of the process, successful candidates and their dependents (spouse and children) will land in Canada as permanent residents. Candidates in the Express Entry pool who do not receive an Invitation to Apply for permanent residence in Canada after 12 months may resubmit their profile and re-enter the pool if they still meet the criteria of at least one of the economic immigration programs.