The Canadian Experience Class is for skilled workers who have Canadian work experience and want to become permanent residents. And, have gained your work experience by working in Canada while under temporary resident status with authorization to work
To be eligible to apply under this program you must be able to meet the minimum requirements for:
- Language levels needed for your job for each language ability
Canadian Language Benchmark 7 for National Occupational Classification 0 or A jobs, which means managerial and professional jobs with a university degree, and Canadian Language Benchmark 5 for National Occupational Classification B jobs, which means, technical jobs and skilled trades college/technical school education or apprenticeship training.
- Have least 1 year of skilled work experience in Canada, in the last 3 years before you apply—you can meet this in a few different ways:
- full-time at 1 job: 30 hours/week for 12 months. Or equal amount in part-time work: for example, 15 hours/week for 24 months.
- Or work as many part-time jobs as you need to meet this requirement.
Full-time work at more than 1 job: 30 hours/week for 12 months at more than 1 job = 1-year full time (1,560 hours).
- There is no education requirement for Canadian Experience Class. However, if you have a Canadian diploma or foreign education degree that will improve your rank in the Express Entry pool.
- Must be admissible to Canada.
- Live outside the province of Quebec. The province of Quebec selects its own skilled workers.
