Fitztorious said:
From the looks of it, international students expecting to get their PR should expect to do 5+ years of post-secondary schooling in Canada and then get 1+ years of Canadian working experience at a 0, A or B level. The student should also score at least 10/12 in all 4 categories in the CELPIP. That should get you PR in Canada. Example below.
- 4 Year Bachelors degree at Canadian University
- 1 Year post Grad certificate program at Canadian College
- Minimum 10/12 in all 4 categories in CELPIP
- 1 Year Canadian work experience at 0, A, or B level
You will have to apply for a 3 year PGWP after the 1-year grad program or 4-year bachelor degree. This will give you 3 years to get at least 1 year of Canadian work experience. 2 years is better though to increase your score
That will get you a CRS score of 462. Once you get 2 years of experience, your score will go up to 477. This should give you almost 100% change of getting PR with the current system. However, Canada could easily change their immigration programs which would alter everything.
I agree to the last points.
I am a international student who did get a ITA, also got a PNP nomination for paper based application.
I don't understand what the fuzz is all about , even before the express entry program a international student would have to work for at least 1 year in a 0,A or B job before applying for federal through CEC (or work for certain amount of time for some PNP nominations).
I also don't see why one needs a Canadian undergrad degree and post graduate degree is needed,
I have a foreign undergrad degree and an Canadian post grad , I had one work experience both outside and inside Canada.
also a good IELTS score.This in itself will secure a ITA under the current scheme.
It gets even better if you are married or on a common law relation, you get points for that as well.
I agree that people who do not have foreign work experience and just undergrad Canadian degree will find it hard to get to the points, but it was same in case of CEC as well (you would have still needed to get one year Canadian work experience). I also agree that they didn't make it easy for students to get a express entry ITA but they also have not made it hard. I feel its just fair.
Also there is always the PNP route(some of them have started to have more transparent process)