Is Canadian PR decided solely on "ticking the stated boxes" (including getting the "67 points")? E.g

[gombo22]

Is Canadian permanent residence decided solely on whether the government official can "tick all the boxes" that are publicly stated? (In US English, "put a check mark in all the boxes").

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/tools/perm/econ/fsw/selection.asp says "If the applicant’s total score is equal to or greater than [67], the officer *will* (emphasis mine) make a positive selection decision". This suggests that the answer's yes, but that's what I need to check. (Of course, all the documents you supply also have to check out OK - e.g. police certificates with no criminal record and medical examination certificates showing good health. The link goes on to link to a page referring to these.)

To put my question in other words, if you tick all these boxes, is there still a significant chance of being denied once you've got your invitation to apply? For example, I'm currently unemployed (by choice, taking a break on savings), and want to know whether getting a job before I apply might help, even though it doesn't affect the publicly stated criteria. This is a practical decision I need to make soon. Do the officials make judgments of desirability like "someone who's been unemployed a while's undesirable"?

Naturally I'm not talking about extreme and rare cases like being on a terrorism watchlist, or Osama Bin Laden applying without having technically been convicted of a crime, so having a clean Afghani police certificate!


For other PR applicants who find this via Google, the 67 points are at http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-factors.asp

 

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Is Canadian permanent residence decided solely on whether the government official can "tick all the boxes" that are publicly stated? (In US English, "put a check mark in all the boxes").

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/tools/perm/econ/fsw/selection.asp says "If the applicant’s total score is equal to or greater than [67], the officer *will* (emphasis mine) make a positive selection decision". This suggests that the answer's yes, but that's what I need to check. (Of course, all the documents you supply also have to check out OK - e.g. police certificates with no criminal record and medical examination certificates showing good health. The link goes on to link to a page referring to these.)

To put my question in other words, if you tick all these boxes, is there still a significant chance of being denied once you've got your invitation to apply? For example, I'm currently unemployed (by choice, taking a break on savings), and want to know whether getting a job before I apply might help, even though it doesn't affect the publicly stated criteria. This is a practical decision I need to make soon. Do the officials make judgments of desirability like "someone who's been unemployed a while's undesirable"?

Naturally I'm not talking about extreme and rare cases like being on a terrorism watchlist, or Osama Bin Laden applying without having technically been convicted of a crime, so having a clean Afghani police certificate!


For other PR applicants who find this via Google, the 67 points are at http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-factors.asp

It doesn't *exactly* work that way.

Even if you meet the criteria on the Federal Skilled Workers (FSW) Eligibility Grid (the one to which you're alluding), you still have to be among the more highly ranked of all of the candidates under consideration. Once you submit your profile, you will receive a score (your comprehensive ranking system (CRS) score) that will rank you among all of the other candidates and determine your likelihood for being invited to apply for permanent residency.

If you are invited to apply based on your CRS Score, you have to submit all of your documents (as outlined by IRCC) to prove that everything you 'checked' on the FSW grid, and also everything that you claimed in order to get your CRS Score, are true (this is referred to as your 'eligibility'). If your eligibility assessment comes back positive (i.e. your documents and background check by IRCC revealed all of your claims in your application to be true), then you're pretty sure to be approved provided you (and any of your dependents):

• follow all instructions for submitting your application (a lot of applications get cancelled because of inadequate/incomplete documents and/or not following IRCC's instructions properly
• aren't found to be medically inadmissible
• aren't found to be criminally inadmissible
• don't have a background that reveals you to be a security threat to Canada

But to answer the question that seems to be really concerning you - no, having a job (or not having one) at the time of application won't increase or decrease your chances of getting PR. Your FSW eligibility and CRS Score are determined based on work experience already completed, not on your current employment status.