Choose the best answer:

• If you've been invited to apply, enter your age on the date you were invited
• If you plan to complete an Express Entry profile, enter your current age

Enter the highest level of education for which you:

• earned a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate or
• had an Educational Credential Assessment (ECA) if you did your study outside Canada. (ECAs must be from an approved agency, in the last five years)

Note: a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate must either have been earned at an accredited Canadian university, college, trade or technical school, or other institute in Canada. Distance learning counts for education points, but not for bonus points in your profile or application.

Note: To answer yes:

• English or French as a Second Language must not have made up more than half your study
• You must not have studied under an award that required you to return to your home country after graduation
• You must have studied at a school within Canada (foreign campuses don't count)
• You had to be enrolled full-time for at least eight months
• You had to have been physically present in Canada for at least eight months

Note: Test results must be less than two years old.

Note: Test results must be less than two years old.

It must have been paid and full-time (or an equal amount in part-time).

You must have been physically in Canada and working for a Canadian employer. This includes remote work.

"Skilled work" in the NOC is TEER 0, 1, 2 or 3 category jobs:

If you aren't sure of the NOC TEER category for this job, you can find your NOC.

It must have been paid and full-time (or an equal amount in part-time).

"Skilled work" in the NOC is TEER 0, 1, 2 or 3 category jobs:

If you aren't sure of the NOC TEER category for this job, you can find your NOC.

Note: A certificate of qualification lets people work in some skilled trades in Canada. Only the provinces, territories and a federal body can issue these certificates. To get one, a person must have them assess their training, trade experience and skills to and then pass a certification exam.

People usually have to go to the province or territory to be assessed. They may also need experience and training from an employer in Canada.

This isn't the same as a nomination from a province or territory.

A valid job offer must be:

• full-time
• in a skilled job listed as TEER 0, 1, 2 or 3 in the 2021 National Occupational Classification
• supported by a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) or exempt from needing one
• for one year from the time you become a permanent resident

A job offer isn't valid if your employer is:

• an embassy, high commission or consulate in Canada or
• on the list of ineligible employers.

Whether an offer is valid or not also depends on different factors, depending on your case. See a full list of criteria for valid job offers.

Note: to answer yes, the brother or sister must be:

• 18 years old or older
• related to you or your partner by blood, marriage, common-law partnership or adoption
• have a parent in common with you or your partner

Note 2: A brother or sister is related to you by:

• blood (biological)
• adoption
• marriage (step-brother or step-sister)

Note: To get the correct number of points, make sure you choose the answer that best reflects your case.

For example: If you have TWO Bachelor's degrees, or one Bachelor's AND a two year college diploma, choose - "Two or more certificates, diplomas, or degrees. One must be for a program of three or more years."

Note: It must have been paid, full-time (or an equal amount in part-time), and in one or more NOC TEER category 0, 1, 2, or 3 jobs.

Note: Test results must be less than two years old.