Did you know that Canada actually wants to invite 1 million more immigrants by 2022? As a matter of fact, the total allotment for 2019 is 330800, 2020 is 341k and 2021 is 350k. And for those who are yet to land in Canada soon, I wish nothing but the best in your application. Let's jump into the top 4 ways to immigrate to Canada.
The Family Class Category: If you are married to a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident who is 18 years of age, then you can migrate to Canada through a spouse visa.
Just remember that there are certain conditions that you need to meet in order for you to be eligible under this type of visa. The first one is that you and your spouse must have lived together for 12 months continuously, and second One is you must provide a proof that you have set up a household together.
The second way to immigrate to Canada, which is one of the easiest and one of the fastest is to become an international student. All you have to do is to choose a school. Now that school is to be a DLI (Designated learning institution). once you find a school, you can apply for a study permit. And then you can study in Canada for like two years so that you can get a three year PGWP or postgraduate work permit. Once you have obtained this work permit, you are allowed one year work experience in Canada after which you can apply for permanent residence.
The third way is to apply for Express Entry. Express Entry is one of the simplest and most straight forward way to become a Canadian permanent resident, and the very first step that you should take is to compute for your CRS score. To find out your score, all you have to do is to go to this link
In this tool, all you have to do is to answer a series of questions, and based on the answer you provide, it will calculate your total crs score.
As of November 27 2019, the current cut off score is actually 470.
The next thing to do is to compare your total CRS score to the cut off score. If your crs score is higher than the cut of score, you are going to get invitations to apply for which you can proceed for applying for permanent residents.
The Fourth way to immigrate to Canada is through PNP or Provincial Nominee Program. now that you know Your crs score, if you really can't make it to the cut off score or you have really hard time to clear the cut off score, there are no worries because there are ways to get around with this, and one of which is to apply for pnp. When you apply for a pnp, your goal is to get a nomination letter from the province, and that will definitely give you additional 600 points. Once you have that 600 points, For example, we have a crs score of 300, so 600 plus 300 will give you 900 points, and definitely that will get you an ITA or invitation to apply in the next draw.
Now there's about 80 provincial streams that you can apply to, and it all depends on your profile. For example, guys, you really have low crs score of lets say 300 or 320, then you can apply under the Alberta express entry stream. Now if you have a relative like a cousin, and aunt or an uncle in Canada, especially in Manitoba, then you can apply under the MPNP or Manitoba provincial nominee stream because that can actually give you additional or higher points.
If you have really low IELTS score, for example, 5.0; 4.0, Then you can apply under SIMP or Saskatchewan immigrant nominee program. in order to get a nomination from a province, all you have to do is to apply in a specific province. now take note that you can actually apply to multiple provinces at a time.