Federal skilled worker eligibility calculator

Education

(Maximum 25 points)
If you went to school in Canada, you must have a certificate, diploma or degree from a Canadian:

• secondary (high school) or
• post-secondary school

If you have foreign education, you must have:

• an Educational Credential Assessment (ECA) report from an approved agency showing that your foreign education is equal to a completed certificate, diploma or degree from a Canadian:
  • secondary (high school) or
  • post-secondary school

You must include your Canadian credential or your foreign credential and Educational Credential Assessment (ECA) report when you apply.

Language Skills

(Maximum 28 Points)
Language testing
You must take an approved language test to prove your language levels. To measure your English or French levels, we use:

• Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) for English
• Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadien (NCLC) for French

You must get a minimum level of CLB 7 or NCLC 7 for your first official language in all four(Speaking,Listening,Reading,Writing) language areas. To get points for your second official language, you must meet the minimum level of CLB 5 or NCLC 5 in all four language areas.
You won’t get accepted into the Express Entry pool or be eligible to apply if you don’t include test results for either English or French.
If you want to get points for your skills in both English and French, you must provide your language test results for each language in your Express Entry profile.

Calculating Language Points First official language (Maximum 24 points) Points

Experience

(Maximum 15 points)
You can get points for the number of years you’ve spent in full-time paid work (at least 30 hours per week, or an equal amount of part-time).
National Occupational Classification (NOC)
The NOC is a system used to classify jobs in the Canadian economy. It describes duties, skills, talents and work settings for different jobs. We use the 2011 edition of the NOC to assess skilled worker applications.
Finding your NOC category This job code is referred to as a “NOC code” in your Express Entry profile. Find your NOC to find the information that best matches each of your past jobs.
You’ll need this information again, so make sure to save it with the other papers you need, such as your passport.
If the description and list of main duties match what you did at your last job(s), you can count this experience for points.
Use this chart to find the number of points based on your number of years of experience.

Age

(Maximum 12 points)
You’ll get points based on your age on the day when we get your application.

Arranged employment in Canada

(Maximum 10 points)
You can get points if you have a, full-time job offer of at least one year from a Canadian employer. You must get the job offer before you apply to come to Canada as a federal skilled worker.
A valid job offer has to be:

• for continuous, paid, full-time work that is:
  • not seasonal
  • for at least one year
• in an occupation listed as Skill Type 0 or Skill Level A or B of the NOC.

You can get 10 points for a valid job offer. To be valid, one of these cases must apply:
1.You currently work in Canada on a temporary work permit and

• your work permit is valid both when you apply and when the visa is issued (or you’re authorized to work in Canada without a work permit when your visa is issued)
• we issued your work permit based on a positive Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC). Your employer would’ve applied for the LMIA, which you then had to attach to your application to us
• you’re working for an employer named on your work permit who has made a permanent job offer based on you being accepted as a skilled worker

2.You currently work in Canada in a job that is exempt from the LMIA requirement under:

• an international agreement (such as, the North America Free Trade Agreement) or
• a federal-provincial agreement and
  • your work permit is valid both when you apply and when the visa is issued (or you’re authorized to work in Canada without a permit when your visa is issued)
  • your current employer has made a permanent job offer based on you being accepted as a skilled worker

3.You currently don’t:

• have a work permit, or
• plan to work in Canada before you get a permanent resident visa
  OR
  you’re currently working in Canada and a different employer has offered to give you a permanent full-time job
  OR
  you’re currently working in Canada in a job that is exempt from a Labour Market Impact Assessment, but not under an international or federal-provincial agreement
  AND
  an employer has:
  
  • made you a permanent job offer based on you being accepted as a skilled worker and
  • a positive LMIA from ESDC

Adaptability

(Maximum 10 points)
If you have a spouse or common‑law partner who will immigrate with you to Canada, they can earn points for adaptability too. You can only get points for each item once.