Live and work in Canada

Since 1994, ABHINAV has provided guidance to thousands of prospects and clients on areas related to general skills and professional skilled worker category. Our expertise lies in careful assessment of the prospects credentials and advising the right immigration option. An applicant has a choice of filing his application under the Federal and provincial nominee programs (PNP’s). Most of the PNP’s required a confirmed job offer from local employers to apply.

The federal skilled worker program uses a point’s based system, where criteria such as education, work experience, age, language ability, and adaptability are used to evaluate the likelihood that an applicant will successfully settle in Canada. The current processing delays under the federal program from visa posts like China, India, Pakistan exceed 72 months.

For those not wishing to wait for too long, options exists to apply under the Provincial Nominee Programs (PNP’s)

All of the provinces have their own provincial immigration programs (known as Provincial Nominee Programs (PNP)), in order to promote immigration policies suited to a province’s particular needs. Most of these PNP’s except Quebec, which is the only province with the right to select its own immigrants, require a confirmed job offer to apply. All of the other provinces have the right to nominate immigrants. In 2008 and in the near future, the numbers of immigrants to be granted permanent residence under a PNP or selected by the Province of Quebec is expected to increase.

The process, when filed under the PNP’s is much faster and it takes around 9-18 months for applications to be processed. Under the PNP’s, qualified employers nominate a prospective worker and once the nomination/offer is approved by the province, it enables an application for permanent residence to proceed under a processing stream outside of the lengthy federal immigration selection process. The skilled worker based PNP’s with the exception of Quebec and Manitoba, generally require an employer to sponsor the application for admission to Canada. Without a government approved employer sponsorship, the application will either not be approved, or will be routinely passed over in favor of applications with an employer sponsored approval.

Immigrating to Quebec

The Quebec government admits immigrants under a unique two-step points based system (pre-selection and selection) which favors applicants who have a good knowledge of the French language, a sought after profession and who will adapt well to Quebec society. A successful applicant is issued a Quebec Selection Certificate. Once issued, the Federal government assumes sole responsibility for medical and security screening.