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Confused freelance translator - can anyone help?

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dri

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Apr 21, 2012
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Hello there, I've just seen the news about the altered skilled worker requirements, but it hasn't helped with my confusion.

I am a freelance translator (with an existing solid flow of international clients) who would love to move to Canada. But when I used the Come to Canada "calculator" at the beginning of this year, it indicated that I would not be eligible unless I had a job offer (which I don't actually want as I'm very happy with my existing clients). So I didn't bother to apply at that point.

Now I look at the revised regulations, and they indicate that I would possibly be eligible (68 points at least, possibly a minimum number of additional points for basic French and spousal adaptability). So I went back to see how many points I would have got under the last system and it seems like I would have been even stronger at 72 at least. So I'm not quite sure why the Come to Canada calculator was rejecting me?

My mother tongue is English, I have a PhD, and 14 years of work experience as an economist. It seemed to me that the calculator was rejecting me because my profession was not on the priority list, yet what I'm seeing now is that you just have to have (at a minimum) experience in a NOC-classifed occupation, which I do. (I'm now a translator as I made a radical career change last year.)

I'd love to know what I'm missing vis a vis the existing system, ie. why it rejected me, so I can have an idea of how I would be placed under the new system. Can anyone enlighten me? Above all, if anyone can point a way for me to move to my beloved Canada, I would be forever grateful!
 
The calculator only takes into account programs that are currently active.

You should review the requirements for the new FSW (federal skilled worker) program that will come into effect early next year. You might qualify under this program.

Read through the following thread on this forum for detailed information and discussions about this program:

http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/new-fsw-points-criteria-announced-new-federal-skilled-trades-class-fstc-t115576.0.html
 
Hello there scylla, thanks so much for answering (sorry I didn't see your response before, I thought I was on automatic notification).

I read about the details of the new program, but I was still confused, as although I calculated a passing grade for the previous (current) scheme, the Come to Canada calculator rejected me. I think with a bit more trawling just now, though, I've worked out what the problem is.

It's that I have to have a job offer, right? Unless I'm in one of the 29 preferred occupations, which I'm not.

I was confused by the fact that if I did a manual calculation of my points under the current scheme it asked whether I had an offer of employment. Even though I said not, I was still getting more than a passing mark.

But now I see that the first step is having a job offer. That allows you to apply. Only then do you calculate your points to see if you would be accepted.

Sorry if that is very basic, I just assumed that if in the points calculation the issue of arranged employment came up, it was fully dealt with there. I don't understand why they'd even ask that if it's a precondition for applying.

I would appreciate it so much if you could just confirm I'm understanding right. Thank you!
 
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