Help with immigration

[larina]

This is my first time posting on this site.

Me and my husband and two children are trying to immigrate to Canada and we keep hitting goal posts.

We have filled out the express entry form on the cic website and we fulfil all the requirements but it comes back saying not eligible.

We are going on my husbands credentials he is a fully qualified electrician with over 6 years experience. We both have completed the IELTS his scores were as follows. Speaking 8.5 reading 8 listening 8 and writing 6.

We will be selling our house so we have adequate funds to bring, so we are not sure why we are not being entered into the enrty pool.

Any help or advise would me much appreciated.

 

[thestunner316]

This is my first time posting on this site.

Me and my husband and two children are trying to immigrate to Canada and we keep hitting goal posts.

We have filled out the express entry form on the cic website and we fulfil all the requirements but it comes back saying not eligible.

We are going on my husbands credentials he is a fully qualified electrician with over 6 years experience. We both have completed the IELTS his scores were as follows. Speaking 8.5 reading 8 listening 8 and writing 6.

We will be selling our house so we have adequate funds to bring, so we are not sure why we are not being entered into the enrty pool.

Any help or advise would me much appreciated.

hi larina
did you complete WES evaluation of your degrees ? if no, you need that to be done before you are eligible...
and when did your husband write IELTS ? if it was in the recent past, then ask him to get his writing re-evaluated... if he gets over 7-7.5, he will probably get around 50 points more

 

[larina]

Hi
We haven't completed wes evaluation. Not sure how you go about doing this?
We sat the ielts two weeks ago. Didn't know you could get the results re evaluated.
Thank you for your help

 

[istari]

This is my first time posting on this site.

Me and my husband and two children are trying to immigrate to Canada and we keep hitting goal posts.

We have filled out the express entry form on the cic website and we fulfil all the requirements but it comes back saying not eligible.

We are going on my husbands credentials he is a fully qualified electrician with over 6 years experience. We both have completed the IELTS his scores were as follows. Speaking 8.5 reading 8 listening 8 and writing 6.

We will be selling our house so we have adequate funds to bring, so we are not sure why we are not being entered into the enrty pool.

Any help or advise would me much appreciated.

As far as I know, Electrician is a trade, so you will be applying under the Federal Skilled Trades Program, not FSW, right ?
The FSTP requires a job offer in Canada; does your husband have a job offer ?

 

[scylla]

As far as I know, Electrician is a trade, so you will be applying under the Federal Skilled Trades Program, not FSW, right ?
The FSTP requires a job offer in Canada; does your husband have a job offer ?

Either a job offer is required - or "a certificate of qualification in that skilled trade issued by a Canadian provincial or territorial authority".

 

[istari]

Either a job offer is required - or "a certificate of qualification in that skilled trade issued by a Canadian provincial or territorial authority".

Thanks for the clarification, Scylla.

 

[larina]

Thanks for the above.
We are looking to move to b.c, so I will get him to contact them to sit his red seal exam
Then we will try the application again.

 

[thestunner316]

Either a job offer is required - or "a certificate of qualification in that skilled trade issued by a Canadian provincial or territorial authority".

scylla - what exactly is federal skilled traders program ? can you give me a 1-2 line intro?
someone asked me this yesterday and i had no idea

 

[istari]

scylla - what exactly is federal skilled traders program ? can you give me a 1-2 line intro?
someone asked me this yesterday and i had no idea

It's the immigration stream for tradespeople (electricians, carpenters, mechanics, etc.). It has different eligibility requirements than CEC or FSW: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/trades/apply-who.asp