1. Canadian Immigration Process

2. Immigration Programs - Skilled Workers and Professionals - Refugee
If you want to immigrate to Canada, there are a few different ways to apply. You will need to decide which immigration program will work best for you and your family.
3 main categories include:
- Skilled Workers and Professionals
- Sponsoring your Family
- Refugee
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3. Independent Skilled Workers and Professionals
Who Qualifies?
Skilled workers with education, work experience, knowledge of English or French, and other abilities that might help them establish in Canada
You must take a test to determine eligibility (must score 67+)
Why?
Canada needs skilled workers to fuel our economy, where our population falls short to fill these positions, the government looks to immigrants to keep the economy going
Requirements?
You must have at least one continuous year of full-time, paid work experience or the equivalent in part-time continuous employment
You must have had this experience within the last 10 years.

4. Sponsoring Your Family
Who Qualifies?
If you are a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada, you can sponsor your spouse, common-law partner, dependent child (including adopted child) or other eligible relative (such as a parent or grandparent) to become a permanent resident.
Why?
If you do not qualify as a skilled worker or other, but have family living in Canada, it is another way to apply
Requirements?
If you sponsor a relative to come to Canada as a permanent resident, you are responsible for supporting your relative financially when he or she arrives (making sure they will not seek government financial assistance)

5. Refugees Who qualifies?
Refugees are people who are outside their home country or the country where they normally live, and who are unwilling to return because of a well-founded fear of persecution based on:
race, religion, political opinion, nationality or membership in a particular social group, such as women or people of a particular sexual orientation
Why?
Canada offers refugee protection to people in Canada who fear persecution or whose removal from Canada would subject them to a danger of torture, a risk to their life or a risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment
Requirements?
Officers receiving your refugee claim will decide whether it is eligible for referral to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB), an independent administrative tribunal that makes decisions on immigration and refugee matters

6. Steps to the Process: Choose an Immigration category/program
Download an application from
Calculate and pay application fees online or at the Visa office
Check how long it might take to process
Have a medical exam or criminal check done (depends on application type)
Check your application status online
Await a reply
* Once your application has been approved you need to apply for a permanent resident card RPRF (it needs to be renewed every 5 years until citizenship has been obtained)

7. Application Fees Sponsor application $ 75.00
Principal applicant $
Family Member(s) over 22yrs $
Dependants less than 22yrs $
Skilled Workers
Principal applicant $
Investor Principal applicant $
Right of Permanent Residence RPRF $
Right of Citizenship $
A skilled worker applying for himself, his wife and two children would have to pay $ to apply!
Then $ to get Permanent Residence status and a test to become a Citizen!