Those who have 3 year Bachelors and 1 year Masters degrees

[adnan_hsn]

In order to claim 25 points for education, an applicant has to have..


“Obtained a Master’s or Ph.D. AND completed at least 17 years of full-time education or full-time equivalent studies”


In some countries Bachelors (Honours) is only 3 years and then you are able to proceed to a one year Masters programme. So assuming someone has studied for 12 years prior to their Bachelors and Masters courses; that gives them a total of 16 years of education in which case they only partly fulfil the above CIC condition for education as they DO have a Masters degree but DO NOT have 17 years of full-time education. Some may say that in a situation like that an applicant can assess their education points under the second suitable option which is:


“Obtained two or more university degrees at the bachelor’s level AND completed at least 15 years of full-time or full-time equivalent studies”


..but that doesn’t sound very fair to me as it gives only 22 points and completely overlooks the fact that the applicant is educated up to a Masters level.

Please could anyone suggest how CIC is likely to score a case like that.

 

[rupeshhari]

The system is on qualifications and years. If it was qualifications alone, then the person would have gotten 25 points and CIC wouldn't have mentioned the years as a requirement. Unfortunately the years are a requirement.

So when someone doesn't qualify under the number of year criteria, but do qualify on the qualification criteria, OP6 says to go down the table until they get the number of year criteria. here is an example they use,

"If an applicant has a master's degree, but only 16 years of education, an officer would go
down to the category for which the applicant meets the total number of years and, using this example,
award 22 points;"

See page 18-19 on http://www.cic.gc.ca/EnGLIsh/resources/manuals/op/op06-eng.pdf

I don't have any experience on this, so maybe others can chip in as well. Good luck.

 

[adnan_hsn]

The system is on qualifications and years. If it was qualifications alone, then the person would have gotten 25 points and CIC wouldn't have mentioned the years as a requirement. Unfortunately the years are a requirement.

So when someone doesn't qualify under the number of year criteria, but do qualify on the qualification criteria, OP6 says to go down the table until they get the number of year criteria. here is an example they use,

"If an applicant has a master's degree, but only 16 years of education, an officer would go
down to the category for which the applicant meets the total number of years and, using this example,
award 22 points;"

See page 18-19 on http://www.cic.gc.ca/EnGLIsh/resources/manuals/op/op06-eng.pdf

I don't have any experience on this, so maybe others can chip in as well. Good luck.

Thanks for this mate. It was helpful.