Hello! I want to talk about my experience with immigrating to Canada through Express Entry.
The note will be short, without water and bullet marketing =).
Express Entry is a Canadian assessment system for selecting immigrants. Launched in 2015, the system was created in order to select the best and most useful people for Canada and to offer them immigration for a number of immigration programs.
Express Entry is a fully electronic system used by the federal and provincial governments of Canada, as well as Canadian employers. The system allows you to select the most promising candidates, with knowledge of the language and having professions useful to Canada and allows them to communicate directly with employers.
Express Entry itself is not an immigration program, it is only an electronic system that is used by the Government of Canada to select candidates for immigration to Canada for the following immigration programs:
Federal Skilled Worker Class (for professionals);
Federal Skilled Trades Class (for workers)
Canadian Experience Class (for those with experience in Canada).
For people who have been praised by this system, there are enormous advantages and simplified acquisition of Canadian citizenship in three years. The only difference between a permanent resident and a citizen is that a citizen can vote, and a citizen can get a job in which secrecy is needed. Everything else - taxes, medicine, education is one and the same, and this is a huge plus: I know people in the USA who live for years on a work visa and cannot get the status of a permanent resident (green card). The whole process of immigration, from step 1 to step 10, took me 10 months, the sum of all costs was about 150 thousand rubles.
Go!
1. It is very important: the whole process takes place online, you create an account on the government website, scan documents, you do not need to send “pieces of paper!”
2. The most important thing is to pass the IELTS exam in English, at least 7.5, so that each of the items is Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking. The fact is that if you do not get enough points, then your application will be in the pool for a very long time and wait for an invitation to a permanent residence visa. With high IELTS, bonus points are given and this greatly speeds up the immigration process, as you’ll be prompted to apply for application (ITA).
3. You make an apostille for the diploma and translation of the diploma, then send the original and translation for accreditation to WES. This is the only step where you need to physically send paper documents.
4. Make a translation of 2-NDFL certificates and make a certificate of work in English (so as not to spend money on translation) in free form.
5. Take a bank statement in English. Many take a loan, this is normal. It is important to simply show that you have the required amount for the first time after arriving in Canada, this is $ 12,475 Canadian dollars.
6. Register your profile on CIC, and fill out information about yourself, you will be shown your score, and your application will be in the application pool for immigration.
Important: this is not the application itself, but an application for the submission of electronic documents. If something is indicated incorrectly, for example, an insufficient amount of free money, then your application will immediately fly out of the pool and you will see it.
7. Wait for ITA (invitation to apply for permanent residency) from CIC.
8. Once you have received ITA (hooray !! =)) immediately make a police certificate (with translation) + medical certificate (with translation), you can even do them in advance, before ITA, if you have a high score.
9. Scan all documents and send your application through an online profile, it’s convenient there, there is a checklist of all documents, and for each document that they require their own separate submit button.
10. You wait for approval, then send your passport for an entry visa through VFS to Moscow. A single-entry passport and COPR (confirmation of permanent residency) will be sent back to you. When you arrive in Canada you will exchange COPR for a beautiful permanent resident card.
Use my experience!