Skilled workers with post-secondary education and test results
The federal pool covering the Federal Skilled Worker, Federal Skilled Trades and Canadian Experience classes. You are ranked against everyone else by a Comprehensive Ranking System score, and rounds of invitations are issued against a cut-off that moves. We estimate your score, show which factors are holding it down, and tell you which are worth the effort to change.
Anyone weighing up the routes to staying for good
Permanent residency is the destination, not a single application — federal economic streams, provincial nominations, family sponsorship and humanitarian grounds all end there. We start by working out which doors are actually open to your profile, because applying to the wrong one costs a year.
People who are flexible about where in Canada they live
Each province and territory nominates people for the skills its own economy is short of, and a nomination is worth a decisive number of Express Entry points. Streams open and close on their own timetable, so the useful question is which province wants what you do — not which province you had in mind.
Workers willing to settle in Atlantic Canada, a rural or a francophone community
The Atlantic Immigration Program, Rural and Community Immigration Pilot, Francophone Community Immigration Pilot and Caregiver pilots run outside the main streams with their own thresholds, usually lower ones. They almost always require a job offer from a designated employer in a participating community first.
People who need to be working in Canada now
Employer-specific permits tied to an LMIA, open permits that are not tied to anyone, the open work permit for vulnerable workers, the Post-Graduation Work Permit, and spousal open work permits. We also handle the part people get wrong: keeping status while an extension is pending.
Students, and parents bringing school-age children
New study permits, extensions, and the conditions that quietly govern them — attendance, hours you may work, and how a permit interacts with a later PGWP. Provincial attestation letters are now part of most applications, and getting one wrong restarts the process.
People seeking protection, and groups sponsoring them
Inland protected-person claims, Refugee Appeal Division matters, and private sponsorship by groups of five or sponsorship agreement holders. These are time-sensitive and evidence-heavy; the first consultation is about deadlines before anything else.
Families who want parents to visit for long stretches
A multi-entry visa letting parents and grandparents stay for years at a time rather than months. It requires medical insurance and proof that the host meets an income threshold — the two things most refusals turn on.
Permanent residents with a card expiring, lost or stolen
Renewals, replacements, and permanent resident travel documents when you are already outside Canada without a valid card. Where your residency days are short, we look at that before you file rather than after a report is issued.
Permanent residents who have been here long enough
Counting physical presence correctly, the language requirement, the test, and the ceremony. Miscounted days are the most common reason a citizenship application comes back, and they are entirely avoidable.
Founders, investors and self-employed professionals
The federal Start-Up Visa with a designated organisation behind it, the self-employed persons class, and provincial entrepreneur streams with their own investment and job-creation commitments. We are candid about which of these are realistic for a given business.