Scoring, tests & assessments
2–4 months
Language tests and credential assessments have their own queues; we sequence them tightly.
Permanent residence
Points-based PR
Canada's main skilled-worker route is competitive, not first-come-first-served: you submit a profile, receive a score based on age, education, language results, and work experience, and wait to be invited to apply. The strategy work is honest scoring and score improvement — the filing work is precision. Both matter.
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Complexity: Moderate
Who walks this path
This pathway usually fits when…
- You have skilled work experience and strong language test results
- You're finishing Canadian study or work experience and want to stay
- You've been offered a provincial nomination, or want to explore one
- Your score sits below recent invitation rounds and you want real options, not false hope
The route
5 waypoints, in order.
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Score honestly
We calculate your points the way an officer would — degrees assessed, language results current, work history verifiable. If your score is unlikely to be invited under recent rounds, we say so and map the credible ways to raise it.
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Build the profile
Education credential assessments, language tests, and reference letters take weeks to obtain — we sequence them so nothing expires while you wait for something else.
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Enter the pool — and consider the provinces
Your profile goes into the federal pool. In parallel, we watch provincial streams whose criteria you meet — a nomination effectively decides the federal invitation, and provinces open and close streams with little notice.
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Invitation → full application
Once invited you typically have 60 days to file a complete permanent-residence application. Because we built the document set in advance, this window is assembly and review — not panic.
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Confirmation and landing
Approval brings confirmation of permanent residence and, after landing formalities, your PR card. We review every document and stay on the file until the card is in your hand.
The paperwork
The documents that decide the file.
Reference letters sink more PR files than anything else — they must state duties, hours, and pay, not just dates. We draft templates your employers can adapt.
Read: Documents, done right →- 01 Valid passport
- 02 Language test results (within their validity window)
- 03 Educational credential assessment for foreign degrees
- 04 Reference letters proving each period of skilled work
- 05 Proof of settlement funds, where the stream requires it
- 06 Police certificates from countries you've lived in since 18
- 07 Medical exam confirmation
- 08 Provincial nomination certificate, if you have one
Timelines, told honestly
What we control, what the government controls.
In the pool
Unknowable — weeks to a year or more
Invitations depend on your score against cut-offs that change round to round. We monitor every draw and tell you plainly how your score compares to recent ones.
After invitation — government processing
Commonly around six months once filed
Published times move; we quote the current figure at each stage rather than the most optimistic number we've ever seen.
Anyone who promises you an invitation is guessing with your money. Scores and cut-offs are public — our job is to read them honestly with you and make every point you legitimately have count.
About complexity: The mechanics are exacting but well-mapped when your score is competitive. Borderline scores turn it into a strategy engagement — worth doing with someone who will tell you the truth about your odds of an invitation.
What it costs
Every service on this pathway has a published flat fee — and a plain list of what's never included, like government fees and translations.
See the permanent residence feesEducational only — not legal advice. Immigration law and processing times change with little notice, and small facts change answers. A consultation assesses your actual case, documents, and dates. Rules for this pathway have changed more than once in recent years — what you read anywhere (including here) can go stale quickly.
Other pathways
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01
Work permitsWorking in Canada
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Family sponsorshipBringing family home
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CitizenshipBecoming Canadian
Next waypoint
Ready to walk the permanent residence path?
One hour with a lawyer or regulated consultant, in your language — you leave with a written plan, the current published processing times, and the exact flat fee for your file.