Hello experts,
I am fairly new to exploring Canadian immigration system. I am impressed with the wealth of information regarding this available online, particularly in this forum. Unlike the US, I find Canadian system relatively less complex but there are still a few questions itching me so I decided to seek your help in answering them.
First, my circumstances:
Experience:
I have more than 10 years’ experience, encompassing multiple NOCs. This includes financial manager (1 year), credit controller (1 year), senior executive (5 years), management consultant (5 years – overlapping with senior exec), corporate trainer (3 years – partly overlapping with management consultant and senior exec) and university teacher/AP (2 years). Most of my experience and postgrad education are from the UK.
Education:
Two master’s degrees.
Language:
I don’t have current/valid IELTS score at the moment but the last time I took this test was in ’07 or ’08. Back then I got 8.5 total, with minimum individual band 8.5 (in writing and listening I think). I would’ve only improved my language skills since then so hope to score better than that if I take the test in future.
Wife's experience:
She has 5 years’ experience in senior financial/investment analyst position in the US, UK, Singapore, 1 year’s top management (investment company) and 1 year pro-bono director (foreign scholarship programme) experience in Pakistan. 7 years in total.
Education:
She has O-levels, International Baccalaureate Diploma, a 4 years’ bachelor’s degree from the US, 6 months’ non-degree coursework from Egypt (though the courses level was that of a final year bachelor’s degree), and part-qualified CFA (i.e. completed Level I).
Language:
She hasn’t done IELTS either but she has better language skills than native speakers so I am sure she can get perfect 9.
Now here are my questions:
1. If I become the main applicant, which NOC should I specify?
2. Does my wife have 1 post-secondary qualification or more?
3. With my tiny knowledge about Canadian immigration, I have a feeling provincial nomination for us is unlikely since that will be open to people who’ve already been in Canada to work, study or be with their families. Is that a fair assessment or do we stand any chance of PNP?
4. Is there any realistic chance for us to get a job offer from Canada? Surely, CIC is saying that employers will be encouraged to pick candidates from the pool but how likely is it that an employer would put their finger on a foreigner whom they haven’t even met and then they’d wait for 6 months or so to fill their vacancies? Am I missing something?
5. If we neither get provincial nomination nor a job offer, how likely is it that we’ll be able to enter the pool with those 600 points foregone? I know it’s a difficult question to answer but perhaps if someone could answer these sub-questions:
5.a. How many places for immigration under economic classes will be there in 2015?
5.b. How many draws are expected in 2015? 1 in Jan plus 2 x 11 remaining months?
5.c. How many PNs will be given through EE? This could perhaps be achieved by adding the number of places in each of the 12(?) PNPs and estimating their proportion in EE.
5.d. How many non-PNP candidates will be applying from within Canada?
5.e. How many employers are likely to offer jobs to foreign applicants prior to their immigration? How many employers can normally wait for more than 6 months to complete their recruitment cycles?
5.f. Is there any limit on number of LMIAs to be issued in a year?
5.g. How will CIC ensure that they do not get too many of people in the same NOC? Surely, they have lifted the cap on applicants with any particular NOCs but they still wouldn’t want that they get too few data scientists but too many hairdressers in the country, especially after they have already exported Bieber to the US, hence less demand of locks’ nip tuck.
Thank you for reading such long message.
Best.
I am fairly new to exploring Canadian immigration system. I am impressed with the wealth of information regarding this available online, particularly in this forum. Unlike the US, I find Canadian system relatively less complex but there are still a few questions itching me so I decided to seek your help in answering them.
First, my circumstances:
Experience:
I have more than 10 years’ experience, encompassing multiple NOCs. This includes financial manager (1 year), credit controller (1 year), senior executive (5 years), management consultant (5 years – overlapping with senior exec), corporate trainer (3 years – partly overlapping with management consultant and senior exec) and university teacher/AP (2 years). Most of my experience and postgrad education are from the UK.
Education:
Two master’s degrees.
Language:
I don’t have current/valid IELTS score at the moment but the last time I took this test was in ’07 or ’08. Back then I got 8.5 total, with minimum individual band 8.5 (in writing and listening I think). I would’ve only improved my language skills since then so hope to score better than that if I take the test in future.
Wife's experience:
She has 5 years’ experience in senior financial/investment analyst position in the US, UK, Singapore, 1 year’s top management (investment company) and 1 year pro-bono director (foreign scholarship programme) experience in Pakistan. 7 years in total.
Education:
She has O-levels, International Baccalaureate Diploma, a 4 years’ bachelor’s degree from the US, 6 months’ non-degree coursework from Egypt (though the courses level was that of a final year bachelor’s degree), and part-qualified CFA (i.e. completed Level I).
Language:
She hasn’t done IELTS either but she has better language skills than native speakers so I am sure she can get perfect 9.
Now here are my questions:
1. If I become the main applicant, which NOC should I specify?
2. Does my wife have 1 post-secondary qualification or more?
3. With my tiny knowledge about Canadian immigration, I have a feeling provincial nomination for us is unlikely since that will be open to people who’ve already been in Canada to work, study or be with their families. Is that a fair assessment or do we stand any chance of PNP?
4. Is there any realistic chance for us to get a job offer from Canada? Surely, CIC is saying that employers will be encouraged to pick candidates from the pool but how likely is it that an employer would put their finger on a foreigner whom they haven’t even met and then they’d wait for 6 months or so to fill their vacancies? Am I missing something?
5. If we neither get provincial nomination nor a job offer, how likely is it that we’ll be able to enter the pool with those 600 points foregone? I know it’s a difficult question to answer but perhaps if someone could answer these sub-questions:
5.a. How many places for immigration under economic classes will be there in 2015?
5.b. How many draws are expected in 2015? 1 in Jan plus 2 x 11 remaining months?
5.c. How many PNs will be given through EE? This could perhaps be achieved by adding the number of places in each of the 12(?) PNPs and estimating their proportion in EE.
5.d. How many non-PNP candidates will be applying from within Canada?
5.e. How many employers are likely to offer jobs to foreign applicants prior to their immigration? How many employers can normally wait for more than 6 months to complete their recruitment cycles?
5.f. Is there any limit on number of LMIAs to be issued in a year?
5.g. How will CIC ensure that they do not get too many of people in the same NOC? Surely, they have lifted the cap on applicants with any particular NOCs but they still wouldn’t want that they get too few data scientists but too many hairdressers in the country, especially after they have already exported Bieber to the US, hence less demand of locks’ nip tuck.
Thank you for reading such long message.
Best.
