OP 6 Federal Skilled Workers 2010-12-14
Settlement funds
The applicant must clearly demonstrate that they have sufficient and available funds to meet the
requirements or that they have arranged employment as defined in R82.
The funds must be:
available and transferable;
unencumbered by debts or other obligations.
The amount of funds are assessed according to the applicant‘s family size using 50% of Statistics
Canada‘s most current Low Income Cut-off (LICO) for urban areas with populations of 500,000 or
more.
Note: In terms of funds required, the number of the applicant‘s family members includes both
accompanying and non-accompanying dependants.
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Extract from OP-6, Section-12.1