The Federal Skilled Worker class is for people who plan to live outside Quebec and can support themselves here. The entry ticket is at least one year of continuous full-time paid work, or the part-time equivalent, in the past ten years, in a TEER 0, 1, 2, or 3 occupation that is not on the restricted list. You must have actually performed the duties of that occupation, and a foreign credential needs an equivalency assessment from a designated organization. Miss this bar and your application is refused with no further assessment, so points never enter the picture.
(1)For the purposes of subsection 12(2) of the Act, the federal skilled worker class is hereby prescribed as a class of persons who are skilled workers and who may become permanent residents on the basis of their ability to become economically established in Canada and who intend to reside in a province other than the Province of Quebec.
(2)A foreign national is a skilled worker if (a)within the 10 years before the date on which their application for a permanent resident visa is made, they have accumulated, over a continuous period, at least one year of full-time work experience, or the equivalent in part-time work, in the occupation that they identified in their application as their primary occupation, other than a restricted occupation, that is listed in TEER Category 0, 1, 2 or 3 of the National Occupational Classification; (b)during that period of employment they performed the actions described in the lead statement for the occupation as set out in the occupational descriptions of the National Occupational Classification; (c)during that period of employment they performed a substantial number of the main duties of the occupation as set out in the occupational descriptions of the National Occupational Classification, including all of the essential duties; (d)they have submitted the results of a language test that is approved under subsection 74(3), which results must be provided by an organization or institution that is designated under that subsection, must be less than two years old on the date on which their application for a permanent resident visa is made and must indicate that they have met or exceeded the applicable language proficiency threshold in either English or French that is fixed by the Minister under subsection 74(1) for each of the four language skill areas; and (e)they have submitted one of the following:(i)their Canadian educational credential, or(ii)their foreign diploma, certificate or credential and the equivalency assessment, which assessment must be less than five years old on the date on which their application is made.
(5)The Minister shall make available to the public a list of the designated organizations or institutions.
(8)For the purposes of paragraph (2)(e), subsection (2.1) and section 78, an equivalency assessment is conclusive evidence that the foreign diplomas, certificates or credentials are equivalent to Canadian educational credentials.