Unsure which route to go for Canadian immigration.

Hello all,

I am curious about Canadian immigration but have an interesting set of circumstances. I visited Canada about 4+ years ago to see my then girlfriend, who during that visit became my wife and we had a daughter. I returned to the USA to work in order to get money to begin the immigration process, things did not go according to plan and we had a falling out but are still married and have been working things out in which has been going extremely well.

Here is the conundrum, my wife has five other children from previous marriages and has had to get on social services in order to get dental work done and to go after a deadbeat father of one of the children for support and is living in subsidized housing. I came back to the USA and got a pretty good job I have been working at almost four years now which falls under the Canada NOC list of 2281 Computer Network Technicians and it appears that I very well could attain residence via the skilled worker route but I am unsure about how my education qualifications would play along with that as I dropped out of high school and ended up with a GED. I plan on attaining a CCENT or CCNA certification and am wondering what this would set my education level to regarding the skilled worker process and qualifications.

I am unsure if me and my wife will ever fully come to terms but I have not seen my daughter since she was six months old and would like to be able to live in the same city to be able to get visitation at the least. Not sure if the family class sponsorship route is even viable with my wife on social services, provided she would still be willing to go that route, or if I would stand a better chance going the skilled worker route.

Any and all advice is welcome, thanks.