Specific eligibility criteria for international students–Skilled workers and professionals
Note: As of May 4, 2013, CIC is re-opening the Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP) to 24 eligible occupations, in addition to applicants with a qualifying job offer or those applying under the PhD stream. As of this same date, all applications are subject to the new FSWP selection criteria.
Important:
We will accept 5,000 applications in total from May 4, 2013 to April 30, 2014, in the eligible occupations stream.
Within the 5,000 applications, we will only accept 300 in each priority occupation.
In the PhD stream, we will accept 1,000 applications from May 4, 2013 to April 30, 2014.
There is no cap on applications with a qualifying job offer.
As of May 4, applicants must use the new application kit and meet the new requirements in order to apply.
Applications received by CIC on or after May 4 that do NOT include the necessary Educational Credential Assessment (ECA) or do not meet the minimum language threshold requirements will be returned as incomplete.
There will be a new 1000-cap from May 4?