May 26, 2021
Applicants should be assessed against the established eligibility criteria below, based on the information and documents provided in their application.
Applicants must meet all of the following criteria to be approved based on the stream to which they are applying:
All principal applicants must reside in Canada with valid temporary resident status (or be eligible to restore their status) and be physically present in Canada when the application for permanent residence is received and when the application is approved. Foreign nationals who do not currently have temporary resident status in Canada, such as refugee claimants, are not eligible for this public policy.
The applicant must provide an original language test from a designated provider that shows the applicant meets the minimum language level in each of the 4 language skill areas for the stream to which they are applying, for either the
Note: The test results must be less than 2 years old on the date of application. For French-speaking streams, they must provide their NCLC.
English
French
The minimum language requirements for each stream are:
Workers in Canada: Health care and Workers in Canada: Essential non-health care | CLB/NCLC 4 (in either English or French) |
International graduates from a Canadian institution | CLB/NCLC 5 (in either English or French) |
French-speaking workers in Canada: Health care and French-speaking workers in Canada: Essential non-health care | NCLC 4 (must be in French) |
French-speaking international graduates from a Canadian institution | NCLC 5 (must be in French) |
See the language requirements section for information on providing evidence of language proficiency.
Principal applicants must be currently working in order to be eligible for this public policy. Current employment
The lock-in date to determine “currently employed” is the date the application is received by IRCC.
In determining whether an applicant was an employee or a self-employed individual during their period of qualifying work experience in Canada, officers should consider factors such as
Self-employed medical doctors in a fee-for-service arrangement with a health authority are considered to have eligible work experience.
Note: Current employment while under maintained status will be considered as eligible employment under the public policy, provided the applicant continued to work in Canada under the same conditions as their original work permit until a decision was made on their application for a work permit extension.
There are no requirements that the current employment be full-time or permanent.
Applicants do not need to remain employed throughout the processing of the application.
Principal applicants are requested to provide documentary evidence of their employment in Canada through a combination of
In all cases, the onus is on the applicant to establish that they meet the public policy eligibility criteria at the time of their application. All applicants are required to provide satisfactory evidence of their work experience in Canada, including the fact that they were in an employer–employee relationship during their period of qualifying work experience (unless they were a self-employed medical doctor in a fee-for-service arrangement with a health authority).
IRCC must be satisfied that the applicant intends to reside in a province or territory other than the province of Quebec.
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