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One more month of work in Canada and you should be able to qualify for Canadian Experience Class. Try then. Alternatively, get your educational credentials assessed for FSW class. Read the requirements for both programs and be sure you meet them before applying again for EE - you have to not...

His Mgr. is in teaching the English and Slovak languages. He's now finishing the second year in a 3-year Master's program in literacy and curriculum development at the University of Toronto. Since your degree is in the sciences, you may get full credit for the Master's - I hope so. I also think...

You will have to have your credentials assessed. I will tell you, though, that my Slovak partner, who is applying for permanent resident as my dependent, had his Master's degree - obtained in Slovakia as a primary degree following 5 years of study - assessed as being at the Canadian bachelor's...

I'm in the same boat, almost. I have an open work permit, and a job I love, which I have held for 15 months and hope to keep. But even though I have a full-time permanent job, I still registered for the job bank because I had to for EE. Honestly, I don't know if I would be interested in a job...

Not seeing how there will be many scores at that level. Someone with 0 scores for language, age, education, etc., but an LMIA will have 600 points. Most people without an LMIA are below 500. I think that between 500 and 700 there are mighty few people....

These answers indicate that the person is currently working in Canada in an LMIA - approved job on a work permit issued under LMIA guidelines. Then it indicates that s/he has a job offer from the same employer, for which no LMIA has been issued. If that is the case, then the answers seem...

No, it doesn't say that. They are talking about employers who hire foreigners for LMIA-exempt jobs.

I don't believe it will help. For open work permit holders, it just means an extra fee to pay. For others, such as NAFTA, employers will have to fill in a form and pay a fee. This will discourage some of them from offering jobs, but those jobs will not become LMIA-approved, because employers...

1) But that isn't how the government is characterizing what it is doing. If it had said, "We want people from across the world to take those difficult, messy, back-breaking, low-paying jobs with long hours that Canadians won't take", then I would have said, "OK, Canada doesn't want me here."...

Actually, I don't see why you can't do both. Apply through your partner, but enter the pool without the 600 points, and see which gets you in faster.

Yes, I noticed this too. With the exception of some very highly skilled jobs such as those in medicine and IT, it is much easier to get an LMIA for lower skilled, low-paid jobs that Canadians simply don't want. I think one of two things is happening. Either EE is simply not working the way CIC...

Some trades (cosmetician or hairdresser, plumber, electrician for examples) require licensing before you can legally work in them. The idea is that working in these trades requires some skill to prevent harm - an unlicensed person wiring their own home could burn it down, an untrained...

Are you sure about your points? You don't get 600 points for having a job - it has to be a job with a labor market impact assessment (LMIA), and most NAFTA jobs don't require or have that. If you don't have an LMIA, you will have fewer than 600 points total, and applying through your partner...

New on the CIC website: "A fee of $100 will be collected, also starting February 21, 2015, from open work permit applicants. This fee will be paid at the same time as the work permit processing fee and can be paid online. The fees collected will offset the cost of new initiatives to improve...

You are absolutely right, and all of us in the same boat have every right to be scared. No matter what you do, how young you are, how good your English and education, and how much experience you have in Canada, you cannot get more than 600 points without an LMIA. In the first two draws, those...

I can only hope you're right, but I'm afraid they are drawing small numbers now, hoping that more LMIAs enter the pool as time goes on.

The comments at the ends of the stories are despicable. But I find Canadians a little like that. In person and face to face, you cannot find more polite, sympathetic, apparently good-hearted people. But when commenting anonymously, or behind the wheels of their cars, they spew venom like...

Bad news. Application was returned to day (arrived at CIC December 1) as being above the 8000 limit.

Mailing application this Thursday, November 27. NOC 1123, paying by credit card. Country of residence: Canada Country of origin: USA