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How to migrate to Canada as an Engineer?

Posted on 01/10/2021 by Brighton Leave a Comment

Here’s an easier way for engineers to migrate to Canada

Are you an engineering professional? Do you wish to migrate to Canada? Then the International Graduate Engineers’ Program of CanApprove is just for you! Under this program, we will assist eligible overseas graduate engineers for entering the Canadian job market through well-defined procedures.

As you might be aware, you need to obtain and maintain a license from Canada’s engineering regulatory authorities in order to practice as an engineer in the country. CanApprove assists you to initiate the application process for the same by following the appropriate standards of Canada’s provincial organizations for professional Engineers. Our clients also get opportunities to attend interviews for successful placements.

Are you eligible to migrate to Canada as an engineer?

The eligibility of a candidate to migrate to Canada as an engineer is determined on the basis of five sets of conditions. They are– academic qualification, work experience, professionalism and ethics as well as character and language proficiency. As you might be aware, English and French are the two official languages of Canada. Depending on the territory or the province in which candidates apply for licensure, they need to demonstrate their competence in one of these languages.

International Graduate Engineers’ Program

The International Graduate Engineers’ Program of CanApprove aims to help engineering professionals with certain level of work experience to obtain Professional Engineer certification/Red Seal certification in Canada and migrate to the country. The Program is designed in such a way that the participants will enjoy the assistance of Canada immigration experts at every step of the application process, which will make the whole migration process smooth and hassle-free for them.

The support our clients enjoy at each step of the Canada migration process can be elaborated as below:

1.Preliminary assessment

Once you register under the International Graduate Engineer’s Program of CanApprove, details about your qualifications and work experience will be handed over to our relocation service team in Canada. This is for a preliminary assessment of your abilities.

2.Evaluation of education

Since you must have earned your engineering degree from outside Canada, the next step in the process is ICAP course-by-course credential evaluation by Credential Evaluation authorities. You must provide the relevant certificates and mark lists to assess your educational credentials. It is to be proved that your educational qualification is equivalent to at least a four year bachelor’s degree in Canada. If you haven’t already submitted the documents for the purpose, CanApprove will help with the process of getting your educational credentials evaluated.

3.Guidance for Applying to the Member-In-Training Program

If you have a four year’s bachelor’s degree in Engineering, you are eligible to apply to the Member-In Training program of any of the Canadian provinces. CanApprove will help you apply to the program, guiding you through the correct procedure. We will assist you to prepare an application, get the final certification reviewed and register yourself with the provincial body of professional engineers.

We will help you with all the required documents including:

Resume
Credential Evaluation Assessment (Course by course)
IELTS

The application will then be sent to the provincial body of professional Engineers (including several provinces). The provincial body will evaluate the credential assessment documents and application. We make sure that the applicant submits sufficient information to demonstrate that they have the necessary degrees of technical engineering job experience and engineering theory and science application. Subsequently, the candidate will receive a registration number from the provincial professional engineer’s organization.

4.Employment Readiness Program

In order to practice as an engineer in Canada, you need to undertake some preparatory work. CanApprove goes an extra mile in this regard by offering you assistance to prepare for online/virtual interviews. You also get help for job search in the province where you are planning to practice.

Further, the International Graduate Engineers’ Employment Readiness Program Program entitles you for:

Assistance of a professional resume writer who specializes in guiding newcomers for writing resume and cover letters
Assistance for updating your LinkedIn profile to meet Canadian standards

5.Preparing documents

Under the International Graduate Engineers’ Program of CanApprove, applicants enjoy assistance for preparing their certificates as well as for submitting the documents to appropriate provincial professional engineering authorities in order to acquire a qualification letter.

6.Immigration Services

Several steps are involved in applying for migrating to Canada. The applicants under the International Graduate Engineers’ Program of CanApprove are provided with the support of experts to complete each of these steps successfully, which include:

Labour Market Impact Assessment
Work Permit application
Provincial Nominee Program submission
Express Entry submission
Spousal Open Work Permit application
Visit Visa/Study Permit for Children
Permanent Residence visa application

7.Canada Integration Plan

The Canada Integration Plan under the International Graduate Engineers’ Program is implemented in the final stage of the application process and the Plan includes the following services:

Complete the assessment of the relocation requirements of the applicant and family members
Consultation for each relocating individual and relocation timelines
Creating a list of required documents and records based on a oneon-one consultation.
The applicant will be provided with a requirements assessment questionnaire to ensure that all requirements and needs are met
Scheduling all destination services as per the laws and schedule. These include all government services and documents, orientation, housing and schooling as per itinerary confirmed.

Why CanApprove?

Canada has a thriving economy with industries having huge demand for engineers. However, because of the licencing and application process which appears complicated for common people, they give up the idea of migrating to Canada despite the country offering high living standards and better career opportunities. As the Canadian economy is fast recovering from the impact of COVID-19, the demand for engineers and other skilled workers has increased even further. It is in this context that CanApprove has rolled out the International Graduate Engineers’ Program with an aim to help engineers discover the infinite possibilities that await them in Canada.

CanApprove is a well-established immigration agency that has won the trust and goodwill of thousands of clients, with our expert immigration and overseas education services over the past 23 years. We are a multinational company with operations in Canada, India, UAE and Australia. Our highly trained professionals, with the support of state-of-the-art communication and management technologies, make sure that you receive the best services so that you are able to actualise your dream of a better future in Canada through a smooth immigration process.

Canada has high demand for engineers, which means, you will have numerous job opportunities. If you wish to migrate to Canada and enjoy better living standards and career opportunities, register for CanApprove’s International Graduate Engineers’ Program by clicking here.

How to spot fraud immigration consultants?

Posted on 14/09/202118/01/2023 by Venkat Karky 30 Comments

With the pandemic wreaking havoc on economies across the world and affecting the jobs and livelihoods of many, the number of those who would be exploring the possibility of migrating to Canada would increase multifold. So would be the fraudsters, who would act as immigration consultants and cheat gullible people of their money by promising that they would help them to move to Canada .

It was only recently a New Delhi-based service provider was penalized for falsely claiming that they have a representation in the ICCRC. So, if you are planning to immigrate to Canada, you need to make sure that your immigration consultant is genuine and is registered with the ICCRC.

What is ICCRC?

The Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council(ICCRC) is a national regulatory body which operates with the purpose of serving and protecting the public by overseeing regulated immigration and international student advising professionals. According to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act as well as the Citizenship Act of Canada, anyone who provides immigration or citizenship advice for a fee or any other consideration must be a member of ICCRC. The licensed immigration consultants are known as Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultants (RCICs).

How to check if an immigration consultant is genuine

ICCRC registration

One of the most effective ways to find out whether an immigration consultant is genuine or not is to check whether they have registered with the ICCRC. You may enter the RCIC’s name, registration number or the company name into the ICCRC website and find out whether they have an immigration professional page on it.

Not having a company email

Is your immigration consultant sending you mails from a mail id of a common email domain, like consultancy@gmail.com or consultancy@yahoo.com instead of something like xyz@canapprove.com, you need to suspect about the authenticity of the company.

Payment requests via a chat app

A genuine agency would never ask you for a payment through a chat app like the WhatsApp. The request for payment will be done through an official email id and you will also receive an acknowledgement and proof for your payment.

Take a closer look at the website

Fraud immigration consultants would most probably have a fake website. The domain name of the site would completely different from the actual company name. Furthermore, the domain would not be secure, indicated by a padlock icon in the URL bar.

Besides the website would not have any contact information or information about the credentials of the company or the representative. Further, the website would not be regularly updated and the content would be having a lot of spelling and grammatical errors. Sometimes, the website would also be a copy of some other website. So, when you check on an immigration consultancy, you must take a closer look at their website.

Too good to be true deals

You need to be cautious if the consultant is offering you too good to be true deals like guaranteed entry to Canada, a high-paying job and faster processing. The decision on allowing entry for a foreigner to Canada purely rests on immigration officials. So you need to be cautious before falling for these false promises.

Placing your trust on a fraud immigration consultant can cost you money, peace of mind, your career and even your future prospects of migrating to Canada. So, do a good research on the immigration consultant before choosing them. Being a registered Canada immigration consultancy service provider with more than 23 years of history in helping our clients to fulfil their immigration and overseas education dreams, CanApprove can be the right choice for you. To know more about our services and your options for Canada immigration, please connect with CanApprove now.

Benefits of obtaining a Canada Green Card

Posted on 24/05/2018 by Venkat Karky Leave a Comment

A Green Card is a status document issued by the US government that allows an individual to legally enter, work and reside in the US. Though Canada does not issue a green card, the permanent resident card issued by Canada can be called Canada green card and it is very much similar to US green card. Like the US Green Card, the “Canada green card” allows individuals to live and work in Canada.

But there are also certain remarkable differences between Canada green card and US green card. While the US green card gives the bearer permission to live and work in the US, a Canadian permanent resident card or Canada green card gives the bearer right to live and work in Canada. While in the US, permanent residence is a privilege, in Canada, it is a legal entitlement

Benefits of having a Canada Green Card

Canada Green Card or Canada Permanent Residence card offers a number of benefits and rights to its holder.

1. As per the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom, a permanent resident have the right to live and work anywhere in Canada.

He/she can move freely throughout the country and work in any Canadian province.
A permanent resident can sponsor their family to live in Canada.
If a permanent resident’s child is born in Canada, the child will be conferred with Canadian citizenship
A permanent resident has access to the universal healthcare services of Canada

How to keep your Canada Green Card or Permanent Residence Card valid?

While a Canada permanent resident card or Canada green card holder is free to leave the country, he/she has to physically reside in Canada for a minimum of 730 days during a period of five years. The days need not be consecutive. The permanent residence card or Canada green card will be revoked if the holder does not stay in Canada for the allotted time.

While returning from another country, the permanent resident will have to present his permanent residency card or Canada green card to the visa officer. So it is important to carry this card while travelling.

Canada Permanent Residence Card and US Green Card: Differences

While a US green card gives the holder permission to live and work in the US, a Canadian permanent residence card gives the holder right to live and work in Canada.
US green card holders must show their cards to US authorities anytime they demand. But Canada permanent resident cardholders need to show their card only while re-entering Canada after an international travel.

How to obtain Canada green card?

Canada green card or permanent resident card can be obtained through one of the following ways or streams:

The Independent/Skilled Worker Category

To qualify for permanent residence card or Canada green card under this category, the applicant must have the educational qualifications, skills and work experience, which will be assessed using a point system. Points are also given for various other credentials such as age, language proficiency, work experience and education and the applicants require minimum 67 out of 100 points to qualify.

Business Immigration

This category is for investors and self-employed persons to obtain the “Canada green card”. The investors must invest a specific amount of money in a Canadian business and must have enough experience in running a business. The self-employed applicants must be able to purchase or establish a business in Canada.

Family Class

Under family class category, a permanent resident or citizen of Canada can sponsor their close relative or spouse to become permanent residents or Canada green card holders in the country.

Canadian Experience Class

Under this category, individuals who have come to Canada for studies or with the temporary work permit can apply for a Canada green card or permanent residence in Canada. But the applicant must be proficient in one of the two official languages of Canada and have work experience in Canada.

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