Skilled workers and professionals:
Who can apply
Skilled workers are people who are selected as permanent residents based on their ability to become economically established in Canada.
Your application will be reviewed in three steps.
For your application to be eligible for processing, you must:
- include the results of your official language proficiency test, AND
- have a valid offer of arranged employment, OR
- have one year of continuous full-time paid work experience in at least one of the occupations listed here.
Work experience requirements
Your work experience must be:
- for at least one year, continuous, and paid (full-time or the equivalent in part-time), AND
- Skill Type 0 (managerial occupations) or Skill Level A (professional occupations) or B (technical occupations and skilled trades) on the Canadian National Occupational Classification (NOC) list, AND
- within the last 10 years.
If you meet the above minimum requirements, your application will be processed according to the six selection factors in the skilled worker points grid , which are:
- your education
- your abilities in English and/or French, Canada’s two official languages
- your work experience
- your age
- whether you have arranged employment in Canada, and
- your adaptability.
You must also show that you have enough money to support yourself and your dependants after you arrive in Canada.
You must also show that you have enough money to support yourself and your dependants after you arrive in Canada.
- Primary Production Managers (Except Agriculture)
- Professional Occupations in Business Services to Management
- Insurance Adjusters and Claims Examiners
- Biologists and Related Scientists
- Architects
- Specialist Physicians
- General Practitioners and Family Physicians
- Dentists
- Pharmacists
- Physiotherapists
- Registered Nurses
- Restaurant and Food Service Managers and Chefs
- Medical Radiation Technologists
- Dental Hygienists and Dental Therapists
- Licensed Practical Nurses
- Psychologists
