The List of Priority Occupations and Organizations Designated to Conduct Educational Credential Assessments for Federal Skilled Worker Program is now availabe. The news release from Citizenship and Immgration Canada was posted at CIC website few minutes ago.
To summarize, the folowing are the major changes and impotant elements that will have an effect on the application process of the new Federal Skilled Worker Progam:
- A new eligible occupations list, with a total of 24 occupations;
- An overall cap of 5,000 new applications for all eligible occupations, including a sub-cap of 300 new applications for each eligible occupation;
- Four organizations have been designated to conduct educational credential assessments (mandatory for applicants submitting foreign educational credentials); and
- Applicants must show proof that they meet the minimum threshold of Canadian Language Benchmark 7 in all four language skill areas: speaking, reading, writing and oral comprehension.
