Ok, this is my question, im about to graduate on Occupational safety and health, and on July, im leaving to Canada for a year under IEC (im from Argentina), hopefully graduated. Im 30 years old, married (my wife is coming with me, she has her own work visa under IEC). I want to know if there is any chance to apply for the Canada Express entry while im there (i hope i can get a certificate as a OSH worker)? Guys from the embassy here dont have a lot of information regarding CEE.
Apply for Canada Express entry (while im on IEC)
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The quickest way to know whether you qualify or not is to read the CIC website on EE. Also, use the CRS calculator to find (it's on David Cohen's website also) how you are qualifying on various segments in terms of core human resource factor, education, work experience etc. Once you are passed these you would have good knowledge of your eligibilities for EE. For sure you can apply for EE from outside Canada. If you have specific questions, shoot and someone from the forum will help you.
There are various routes to get to permanent residency and you're asking a particularly broad question, so I suspect you haven't tried reading about Express Entry on the CIC website. You should start here:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/express/express-entry.asp
It's a points based system, you can read through the points structure and assess how many you and your partner could expect to receive. With a one year permit, you are not going to qualify via the Canadian Experience Class route. The other options are Foreign Skilled Worker, Foreign Skilled Trades or Provincial Nomination. You should do research on those
No one can really tell you whether it's possible for you at the moment as the only people who have qualified for Express Entry so far have either been sponsored by their work (via an Labour Market Impact Assessment LMIA) or by their province of residence (Provincial Nomination Program PNP). If you can get sponsored, then you have a very strong chance, but this involves proving that there is not a Canadian available to do your job.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/express/express-entry.asp
It's a points based system, you can read through the points structure and assess how many you and your partner could expect to receive. With a one year permit, you are not going to qualify via the Canadian Experience Class route. The other options are Foreign Skilled Worker, Foreign Skilled Trades or Provincial Nomination. You should do research on those
No one can really tell you whether it's possible for you at the moment as the only people who have qualified for Express Entry so far have either been sponsored by their work (via an Labour Market Impact Assessment LMIA) or by their province of residence (Provincial Nomination Program PNP). If you can get sponsored, then you have a very strong chance, but this involves proving that there is not a Canadian available to do your job.
Are you sure? I ask because of the new rules for the Skilled immigrants (Express Entry) program (cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/index.asp) as of January, 2015.
The minimum requirements being: cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-who.asp
So assuming an individual had a 40 hour job in an A or B NOC field, and scored more than 67 on selection factors, wouldn't they qualify? I see no mention of this work experience requiring any other qualifying factors aside from NOC.
Or am I missing something?
You need a year of work experience in Canada. I don't imagine many people work from the day they land until the day they leave; particularly on IEC visas where most people won't have a job in advance.OddSituation said:
I don't believe I have ever read anyone actually doing this.
I see. So seeing that a year is defined as 1,560 hours, under a 36 hr work week (which is average) they'd reach the minimum within <44 weeks of work. That leaves more than 8 weeks unaccounted to find the job, vacation days, sick days, stat. holidays.arowberry said:
So it might be theoretically possible, just not necessarily easy or yet observed. Yes?
The 1,560 hours tends to refer primarily to those who have not worked full time during their time in Canada. In particular for those who may have been in Canada for at least a couple of years, but did not work full time during that period.
If your total work experience falls within 365 days, then you need to have worked at least 50 of the 52 weeks. You are allowed to not work for two weeks and still qualify for CEC, only if those two weeks were paid vacation whilst you were employed in Canada during that period.
Source:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/tools/perm/econ/cec/work.asp
If your total work experience falls within 365 days, then you need to have worked at least 50 of the 52 weeks. You are allowed to not work for two weeks and still qualify for CEC, only if those two weeks were paid vacation whilst you were employed in Canada during that period.
Source:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/tools/perm/econ/cec/work.asp
Australians have a 24 month IEC visa, with previously unlimited participations so long as we met the eligibility criteria. I am in the EE pool under CEC and will also be FSW once I get my ECAs from WES - my IEC visa expires in May but thankfully I can do one final participation of 24 months!arowberry said:
Pretty sure Banff would collapse if Canada stopped being ridiculously friendly towards you Aussies!pziegler1986 said:
Hah! There are those of us who actually came to Canada to work in skilled positions as wellarowberry said:
Of course
Similarly, I think the fruit picking industry in Aus would struggle for a while without the Aussies pimping their working holiday visa folk into doing it to earn a second year visa.
Picking strawberries in Tassie suuuuucked!
Similarly, I think the fruit picking industry in Aus would struggle for a while without the Aussies pimping their working holiday visa folk into doing it to earn a second year visa.
Picking strawberries in Tassie suuuuucked!
Most definitely!
I also heard you can't work with the same employer for more than 6 months? Seems absurd to me.
I also heard you can't work with the same employer for more than 6 months? Seems absurd to me.
I guess it's to safeguard the Aussie job market a little. Though I do think the Canadian and Aussie programs have slightly different targets groups.pziegler1986 said:
The majority of people on WHV's that I met in Aus, were kids. Lots of 18-23 year olds doing the gringo trail of a month in Thailand getting plastered before heading up the East coast of Aus working in the occasional bar or hostel. The crowd were unsurprisingly far more about drinking, but I would say that Australia is generally a bit more fun than Canada (in the young, drunk and in the sun kinda way).
I find Canada a bit more conservative and the IEC folk tend to be a bit older and have come to Canada to look for work and to stay in one place who a decent amount of time.
Obviously this is purely my opinion, based on time primarily spent in Calgary and Melbourne. I do find it a bit sad that I can't have a beer in public whilst have a BBQ in Canada. Or a beer whilst sunbathing by a lake in the Rockies. Miss those lazy BBQ afternoons in Melbourne...
Where did you live in Melbourne? That's where I was born and raised.
Speaking of BBQs - I notice that the BBQs here are grill only - where are the bloody hot plates!!
Speaking of BBQs - I notice that the BBQs here are grill only - where are the bloody hot plates!!
I was at a backpackers place on King Street and Little Bourke Street for far too long (Melbourne Connection). But I did eventually find myself a nice house in Brunswick, just off Princes Park.
I love living in Calgary because it's on the doorstep to the Rockies; but if I had to choose a place to live purely based on the city, it would be Melbourne every time.
I love living in Calgary because it's on the doorstep to the Rockies; but if I had to choose a place to live purely based on the city, it would be Melbourne every time.