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Leon
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« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2009, 06:17:46 am » |
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If you are planning to apply under the skilled worker program under category 1, you need to have at least 1 year experience in some occupation on the list of 38. Or if your wife does, then she can be the primary applicant. If neither of you has that, you have the option of trying with a job offer under category 2. If you can't get a job offer, you could go to Canada on a student visa, stay for one year and then apply under category 3, that is people who have been in Canada as students or workers for a year. To get a student visa, you will have to prove that you can support yourself and you will leave when your studies are done.
If you manage to qualify for a category that will let you apply for PR directly, as soon as you land in Canada, your time counts towards applying for citizenship. To apply, you need to have spend 3 out of the previous 4 years in Canada so if you never leave Canada for 3 years after you land, you can apply. If you come in on a student visa, your time before you become PR counts at a 50% discount so if you studied for a year, then apply for PR which takes maybe a year to process, then stay in Canada for another 2 years as a PR, to apply for citizenship, the previous 4 years, you would have had two years in Canada as a PR and 2 years as a student which counts as one so you would be able to apply for citizenship.
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