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SELF ASSESSMENT
To qualify now under the Federal Skilled Worker Program, you or your spouse/partner must have at least one year of continuous full time paid work experience or the equivalent in part time continuous employment in the last 10 years in one or more of the 29 acceptable occupations listed under the link “Skilled Workers” on this website. If you do, you must then determine if you or your spouse/partner have a passmark of 67 in the six selection factors in the skilled worker points grid. The six selection factors are: 1) Your education. 2) Your abilities in English and/or French. 3) Your work experience. 4) Your age. 5) Whether you have arranged employment in Canada. 6) Your adaptability.
If you or your
spouse/partner qualify on the basis of work experience in an acceptable
occupation as explained above,write to me by e-mail at
Lsimcoe@immigrationattorney.ca for a questionnaire which you will complete and
return to me so that I can verify that you have a sufficient number of points (at least
a total of 67 points) to qualify under the Federal Skilled Worker Program. Processing time
to receive visas for permanent residence is 10 to 12 months if you qualify. Our expertise
and many years of professional experience will assure a successful outcome to your application.
If you are a professional and do not qualify under the Federal Skilled Worker Program you should consider
the Investor Program. Professionals such as doctors, dentists, pharmacists, accountants, lawyers and engineers etc.
who operate his/her own professional practices, which employ at least two full time personnel can now qualify
as investors.
To be eligible for the Investor Program:
1. The investor has, alone or with his accompanying spouse, including de facto spouse, net assets of at
least CAD$800,000 obtained legally.
Assets acquired through inheritance and gifts (provided they did not occur within six months prior to
the date of filing an application) are acceptable to meet the minimum net worth requirement of CAD$800,000.
2. The Investor must have management experience by assuming, for at least 2 years in the 5 years preceding
the filing of an application duties related to the planning, management and control of financial resources and
of human or material resources under the investor's authority.
The Investor has experience in management in a legal professional business where the staff, excluding the investor,
occupies at least the equivalent of 2 full-time jobs.
The Investor Program eliminates the requirement that the applicant have management experience in a business that
is profitable and also the requirement that the management experience have been full time. This should mean that
the Investor Program is now open to professionals, who manage their practice or a business enterprise and also
spend part of their work day practicing in their profession.
3. You must undertake to invest a minimum of CAN$400,000 for five years by signing an agreement with an approved
Canadian financial intermediary such as a Canadian bank or trust company.
At the end of the 5 year term, CAN$400,000 is repaid to the investor without interest.
There is a financing option available whereby investors can deposit CAN$120,000 and financing can be arranged
by a major Canadian bank to assist you in completing the balance of the CAN$400,000 investment requirement of
CAD$280,000.
Interviews under the Investor category take place in 4 to 5 months and the entire application process takes
approximately 12-15 months. Once approved, the investor receives an unconditional Visa for Permanent Residence
to Canada for himself, his spouse and dependent children.
For further details of the Investor Program refer to the link "Investors" on the home page of this website
and/or send an e-mail or telephone Leonard Simcoe at the contact details on the home page.
