Skilled Migration in Canada

The Federal Skilled Trades Program is built for you, but it needs a Canadian certificate of qualification in your trade or a job offer. Find out how the province you would work in certifies your trade.

It asks for two years of full-time trade experience in the last five years, and language at CLB 5 for speaking and listening and CLB 4 for reading and writing. There is no education requirement.

Certificates of qualification are issued by provinces, each with its own process, often including an exam that may have to be taken in Canada. It takes longer than people expect.

Provincial nominee programs are often the better route for trades: provinces nominate directly for the trades they lack, and a nomination makes an invitation close to certain.

Get employment references that set out your duties and hours against your occupation code. Vague references are the usual reason trades applications fail.

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