Canada PR (Permanent Residency) Creating Express Entry Profile

Creating Express Entry Profile:

Now that you have checked your eligibility to enter Express Entry pool and decided to go ahead and create Express entry profile, you need to two things for this step. IELTS Score card and ECA evaluation certificate. These two are mandatory.

IELTS: IELTS is an language assessment exam. This is very important factor for your PR application. This is how Canada Immigration officer is going to evaluate your ability to communicate. IELTS exam is conducted in two formats, academic and General training. For Canada PR application, you have to opt for General Training. This requires at least a month to prepare. Key to get good score in IELTS is understanding the format.

You can book your IELTS exam date here. It will cost you around Rs. 12,000/-. Once you book a date, you will get a booklet (along with CD) with practice papers. This booklet will help you understand different sections and format of the exam. Try to score all the sections above 7.5 out of 9 in the practice papers.

If you are not confident enough to prepare for IELTS yourself, there are so many online coaching websites available. ieltstestonline is one of the most trusted websites to prepare for IELTS online. There are different plans (Rs.3000 – Rs.6000) on website including a free plan. You can chose your membership based on your requirement. This site provides abundant material, guidance and a dedicated tutor for IELTS preparation. IELTS will take 1 to 2 months.

ECA Evaluation: An Educational Credential Assessment (ECA) is used to verify that your foreign degree, diploma, certificate (or other proof of your credential) is valid and equal to a Canadian one. If you have a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate, you do not need to get an ECA for that credential. In simple words, if you didn’t study in Canada, you have to get your education credentials assessed. This report determines whether your education qualifies for Doctoral (PhD), Masters, Bachelor’s or etc. in Canadian education terms. (I did an integrated course from BITS-Pilani (M.Sc + BE, 5 years). It is treated as Masters degree in Canada.). For more details you refer this link.

There are Designated organizations for ECA evaluation. Please refer to this link to find out which organisation needs to do your evaluation. If you have an engineering degree, you can go ahead with WES Canada. This will again cost you another Rs. 15,000 (Fee 13,000/- and 2,000/- courier fee). This evaluation will take around a month. You can start ECA evaluation parallel to IELTS preparation.

Once you receive both IELTS Score card and ECA Certificate, we need to calculate your Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) Score. The CRS is a points-based system that is used to assess and score your profile and rank it in the Express Entry pool. It’s used to assess your skills, education, language ability, work experience and other factors. You can calculate your score here. If your score above 400, go ahead and create an Express Entry Profile.

First you need to generate a reference number by checking your eligibility using “come to Canada tool“. This is official Canada website. The tool gives you a reference number at the end. The code looks like: JM1234567890. Use this number to move your information from the tool to your Express Entry profile when you build it. Provide accurate details to the details. This crucial to build your Express Entry profile.

You need keep following documents handy for creating Express Entry profile. Passport, IELTS Score card, WES evaluation certificate.

Now it’s time to create Express Entry profile. Click here and click “Continue to GC Key” button to proceed to sign up page.

 

From there it is normal process of signing up just like any other website. Accepting terms and conditions, choosing a username, setting password and security questions. After this will reach following requesting following details. Be extra careful and Fill details as per your Passport.

Next setup security questions. One on these questions will be asked every time you login. Please the question and answers simple. And it should be obvious for others.

After completing above step, you will see your account setup. And you will land on a page seen as below.

Here please click on Express Entry button. You will be asked to enter Personal Reference Code generated by checking your eligibility using “come to Canada tool“. If you don’t have Personal Reference Code, you can generate one.

Once you enter your Personal Reference Code and say continue you will land on below page. This is where you enter all your details. Please be careful while filling the details. This is the crucial part of Creating Express Entry profile. You will have 60 days to fill all details.

Now you have to fill all the details in each section. Each section will have subsections also. Now lets dwell into each section.

Personal details: In this section, you need enter your personal details. All details should be same as your Passport. Subsections are as follows.

1. Names: In this section, you need to enter your First Name and Last Name.
2. Personal Description: You need to fill general details like gender, date of birth, country of birth and city of birth.
3. Marital Status: This is self explanatory.
4. ID Documents Summary: This is where you enter all your passport details.
5. Immigration history and citizenships: This is where your previous immigration details and country of residence.
6. Family: Here you have to mention how many family members will be accompanying you to Canada. Based on that you need to fill the amount of money you will carrying to Canada to support yourself and family. Click here to get details about how money do you need to carry to Canada.
7. Relatives in Canada: Please fill the details if have any relatives in Canada.

Contact details: In this section, you will fill language for correspondence and email address.

Study and languages: This is the section where you need to keep your WES certificate (for Education History) and IETS (Official languages) score card handy. It has two subsections.

1. Education history: “Field of Study” for engineering will be “Science, Applied”. Rest all the details you need to enter are straight forward till Name of school/institution. When it comes to level of education, enter information according to your WES certificate (masters, bachelors, etc.). Was XXXXX awarded a Canadian degree will be NO unless you studied in Canada. Then you have to enter all ECA details precisely.
2. Official languages: This is the section where you will enter your IELTS details. All the details you have to enter here are self explanatory. Just enter details according to IELTS score card.

Application details: In this section, you can select provinces of your interest and enter nomination certificate details (if you have any).

1. Provinces of your interest: You can select as many provinces as you want. You can select All provinces to maximize your chances. But, I suggest select the provinces in which weather is not harsh and opportunities are good.
2. Nomination and selection: You have to mention if you have received any nomination certificate from any province or territory. 

Representative: This section will be no, unless you want any other person to take care of your profile.

Work history: In this section, you will fill your entire work history. It has many subsections.

1. Occupation: In this section you have mention your NOC for your job and you have started this job. Click here to find your NOC.
2. Canadian certificate of qualification: This is a NO, unless you have any certification from a Canadian province.
3. Intended work in Canada: If you already have job offer from Canada, enter the details. If you are offered a job in Canada, along with offer you will receive all details required. For most of the people this section is NO.
4. Work history: Here you have enter all your work history. Company details, dates, Locations and NOC for each employer. This section is also mostly self explanatory. You have to fill details about all your previous and current employer details. So keep them handy.
5. Research: This section NO. This is only to find if you have done research about jobs in Canada.

After you complete all the sections you will see as below image.

Click Continue to move to self declaration page. You have to agree for terms and conditions.

And at the end of the page you have to sign digitally (Just entering your name). 

Once you sign your application is submitted. You will see this final page to transmit your profile in to Express Entry pool. Just click on Transmit button.

Once you transmit successfully, you will see messages as below.

Just click on Exit Questionnaire and you will be redirected to your account page. From here you can check updates about your profile.

If you click on “Check status and messages”, you will see your final CRS score as shown below. The number against “Overall Score”, this very important. In this case it is 435. 

Hurray !!! You have successfully created your Express Entry profile. If you want to update your details in express entry profile, please check this link (this link is official Canada immigration help).

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Note: Above article is written to guide you through creating Express Entry Profile. I might not have covered all the steps and use cases. This is just an overview. If you still have any doubts, you can comment on this article and I can reply As soon As possible.