CANADIAN IMMIGRATION TO BE EOI FROM 2015

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From Jan 2015 Canada will move to Expression of Interest(EOI)
Early preparation is the answer.

www dot cic dot gc dot ca/english/pdf/pub/eoi-summary-report.pdf

WHAT IS EXPRESSION OF INTEREST?

Historically, Canada’s immigration system has been characterized by the passive acceptance of
immigration applications, whereby CIC is obliged to process all applications it receives. Over
the years, Canada has received far more applications than can be accommodated within the
Cabinet-approved Immigration Levels Plan each year. Long wait times for applicants and large
application backlogs in some immigration categories have resulted, with limited ability to
ensure alignment to Canada’s economic needs. The 2008 Action Plan for Faster Immigration
gave the Minister the authority to better align overall application volumes to annual admissions
commitments, through the use of numerical caps and through the designation of priority
occupations. This has strengthened the immigration program’s ability to respond to specific
national, regional and sectoral labour market needs. Despite this progress, Canada still lacks the
levers to actively select applicants based on key economic needs.
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A modernized, efficient application management system – like EOI – would help address many
of the challenges with the current system. EOI is an automated two-stage process to
application management and represents a pre-screening of candidates for immigration. As
illustrated below, in the first stage, prospective immigrants fill in a form to indicate their
“interest” in coming to Canada. Based on a set of publicly-issued criteria that are clear and
transparent, the information collected determines whether candidates enter the EOI pool and
their relative ranking within the pool. The EOI form is not an application itself but a first stage.
In the second stage of the EOI system, candidates with attributes aligned to needs identified by
federal and provincial/territorial governments and employers (such as work experience,
language proficiency and educational assessment scores) are issued an “Invitation to Apply”
(ITA) for permanent residence. Under such a system, there would not be an obligation to
review all applications in the order received. Instead, candidates would be identified on the
basis of relevant qualifications and experience. Not all candidates who file an expression of
interest will be invited to apply for a permanent resident visa.

To the degree possible, access to the EOI pool will be an automated process: assertions made in
an EOI form will be verified if and when a candidate is drawn from the pool and invited to
submit a visa application with supporting documentation. In the case of skilled immigration
categories, a candidate’s expression of interest would include information that can be assigned
points, e.g., for language proficiency, age, educational or professional credential assessments,
occupation, work experience, a job offer, and/or a willingness to settle in a particular region.
Candidates must meet a minimum points threshold for their expression of interest to be eligible
for selection out of the EOI pool. Expressions of interest can then be electronically ranked by
points scores and sorted, (e.g., by occupation or desired destination, etc.) according to criteria
informed by needs identified by federal and provincial/territorial governments and employers.

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So you mean, if we want to apply for FSW program now, we have to wait till EOI is implemented?