Core / human capital factors
How old are you?
Choose the best answer:
If you’ve been invited to apply, enter your age on the date you were invited.
OR
If you plan to complete an Express Entry profile, enter your current age.
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17 years of age or less
18 years of age
19 years of age
20 to 29 years of age
30 years of age
31 years of age
32 years of age
33 years of age
34 years of age
35 years of age
36 years of age
37 years of age
38 years of age
39 years of age
40 years of age
41 years of age
42 years of age
43 years of age
44 years of age
45 years of age or more
What is your level of education?
Enter the highest level of education for which you:
earned a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate or
had an Educational Credential Assessment (ECA) if you did your study outside Canada. (ECAs must be from an approved agency, in the last five years)
Note: a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate must either have been earned at an accredited Canadian university, college, trade or technical school, or other institute in Canada. Distance learning counts for education points, but not for bonus points in your profile or application.
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None or Less than secondary (high school)
Secondary diploma (high school graduation)
One-year degree, diploma or certificate from a university,college,trade or technical school or other institute
Two year program at a university,college,trade or technical school or other institute
Bachelor degree OR a three or more year program at a university,college ,trade or a technical school or other institute
Two or more certificates,diplomas or degrees. One must be for a program of three or more years
Master's or entry-to-practice professional degree
PHD/doctoral certificate
Have you earned a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate?
Note: to answer yes:
English or French as a Second Language must not have made up more than half your study
you must not have studied under an award that required you to return to your home country after graduation to apply your skills and knowledge
you must have studied at a school within Canada (foreign campuses don’t count)
you had to be enrolled full time for at least eight months, and have been physically present in Canada for at least eight months
Choose the best answer to describe this level of education.
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Secondary (high school) or less
One- or two-year diploma or certificate
Degree, diploma or certificate of three years or longer OR a Master’s, professional or doctoral degree of at least one academic year
Official languages: Canada's official languages are English and French.
You need to submit language test results that are less than two years old for all programs under Express Entry, even if English or French is your first language.
Are your test results less than two years old?
Which language test did you take for your first official language?
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IELTS
Enter your test scores:
Reading
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8.0 – 9.0
7.0 - 7.5
6.5
6.0
5.0 - 5.5
4.0 - 4.5
3.5
0 - 3.0
Writing
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7.5 – 9.0
7.0
6.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.0 - 4.5
0 - 3.5
Speaking
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7.5 – 9.0
7.0
6.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.0 - 4.5
0 - 3.5
Listening
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8.5 – 9.0
8.0
7.5
6.0- 7.0
5.5
5.0
4.5
0- 4.0
Do you have a second official language CLB score? If so, what is it?
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4 or less
5 or 6
7 or 8
9 or more
Work Experience
i. In the last ten years, how many years of skilled work experience in Canada do you have?
It must have been paid and full-time (or an equal amount in part-time).
Note: In Canada, the National Occupational Classification (NOC) is the official list of all the jobs in the Canadian labour market. It describes each job according to skill type, group and level.
"Skilled work" in the NOC is:
managerial jobs (NOC Skill Level 0)
professional jobs (NOC Skill Type A)
technical jobs and skilled trades/manual work (NOC Skill Type B)
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None or less than a Year
1 year
2 years
3 years
4 years
5 years or more
In the last 10 years, how many total years of foreign skilled work experience do you have?
It must have been paid, full-time (or an equal amount in part-time), and in only one occupation (NOC skill type 0, A or B).
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None or less than a Year
1 year
2 years
3 years or more
Do you have a certificate of qualification from a Canadian province, territory or federal body?
Note: A certificate of qualification lets people work in some skilled trades in Canada. Only the provinces, territories and a federal body can issue these certificates. To get one, a person must have them assess their training, trade experience and skills to and then pass a certification exam.
People usually have to go to the province or territory to be assessed. They may also need experience and training from an employer in Canada.
This isn't the same as a nomination from a province or territory.
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Yes
No
Additional points
Do you have a valid job offer supported by a Labour Market Impact Assessment (if needed)?
A valid job offer must be
full-time
in a skilled job listed as Skill Type 0, or Skill Level A or B in the 2011 National Occupational Classification
supported by a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) or exempt from needing one
for one year from the time you become a permanent resident
A job offer isn’t valid if your employer is:
an embassy, high commission or consulate in Canada or
on the list of ineligible employers.
Whether an offer is valid or not also depends on different factors, depending on your case.
Which NOC skill type or level is the job offer?
You can use our online tool to find out if you don’t know.
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NOC Skill Type 00
NOC Skill Level A or B or any Type 0 other than 00
NOC Skill Level C or D
Do you have a nomination certificate from a province or territory?
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Yes
No
Do you or your spouse or common law partner (if they will come with you to Canada) have at least one brother or sister living in Canada who is a citizen or permanent resident?
Note: to answer yes, the brother or sister must be:
18 years old or older
related to you or your partner by blood, marriage, common-law partnership or adoption
have a parent in common with you or your partner
A brother or sister is related to you by:
blood (biological)
adoption
marriage (step-brother or step-sister)
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Yes
No
Spouse or common-law partner factors
Spouse’s or common-law partner’s level of education
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None or Less than secondary (high school)
Secondary diploma (high school graduation)
One-year degree, diploma or certificate from a university,college,trade or technical school or other institute
Two year program at a university,college,trade or technical school or other institute
Bachelor degree OR a three or more year program at a university,college ,trade or a technical school or other institute
Two or more certificates,diplomas or degrees. One must be for a program of three or more years
master's or entry-to-practice professional degree
PHD/doctoral certificate
Spouse’s CLB score for first official language?
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CLB 4 or Less
CLB 5 or 6
CLB 7 or 8
CLB 9 or more
Spouse's Canadian work experience
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None or less than a Year
1 year
2 years
3 years
4 years
5 years or more