In the case of applicants who have listed a regulated profession as their primary occupation in their application, and where a professional body has been designated to conduct foreign educational credential assessments for FSWC purposes, the applicant must submit an ECA Report from that professional body concluding that their foreign educational credential is equivalent to the Canadian educational credential required to practice that occupation in at least one province/ territory where that professional body is recognized.
Should the ECA Report indicate that an applicant’s foreign educational credential is not equivalent to the Canadian educational credential required to practice the primary occupation, the applicant will not be eligible to apply in the FSWC under that regulated occupation. Educational credential assessments will need to have been issued by a designated organization no more than five years prior to when the application is received by CIC. Educational credential assessments issued prior to the designation of the organization by the Minister of CIC will not be considered for immigration purposes.
Source: http://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2012/2012-12-19/html/sor-dors274-eng.html
DEAR ALL REGULATED PROFESSIONALS,
PLEASE STOP SPENDING MONEY AS JUST READ THE LAST LINE OF ABOVE TWO PARAGRAPH THAT CLEARLY STATES THAT EVALUATION DONE PRIOR TO ANNOUNCEMENT OF DESIGNATED BODY WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
JUST STOP SPENDING MONEY..... AND ALL REGULATED PROFESSIONALS IT SEEMS CANADA IS NOT WILLING TO GET US THROUGH. WHY NOT TO TRY AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. ONE OF MY COUSIN IS PHARMACIST IN AUSTRALIA AND HE SAID THAT AUSTRALIA HAS GOT VERY TRANSPARENT PROCESS OF IMMIGRATION BASED ON EOI.
FURTHER, JUST REMEMBER AUSTRALIA ALWAYS SAID "PEOPLE, OUR BUSINESS"
I AM NOT AGAINST CANADA, ITS A GREAT COUNTRY IN WORLD, BUT THE WAY CIC IS ACTING IS TOTALLY UNPREDICTABLE. (CHANGE THE RULE IN MIDDLE OF THE GAME) I DON'T KNOW WHAT MR. KENNEY WANTS TO ACHIEVE......