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IRPRPART 6 Economic ClassesDIVISION 1 Skilled Workers
r.80

Experience (15 points)

Economic Immigration
🍁 In Simple Terms

Work experience is worth up to 15 points, counted over the ten years before you apply: 9 points for one year, 11 for two to three, 13 for four to five, and 15 for six or more. Only paid TEER 0, 1, 2, or 3 work counts, and never a restricted occupation. Working 60 hours a week or holding two jobs at once does not double anything, it still reads as one full-time period. You have to name the NOC code for each job, because an officer is not obliged to look at work you did not list.

Affects: Foreign nationals and permanent residents in Canada
Legal Text: IRPR Regulation 80

(1)Points shall be awarded, up to a maximum of 15 points, to a skilled worker for full-time work experience, or the equivalent in part-time work, within the 10 years before the date on which their application is made, as follows: (a)9 points for one year of work experience; (b)11 points for two to three years of work experience; (c)13 points for four to five years of work experience; and (d)15 points for six or more years of work experience.

Work in excess

(4)A period of work experience in one occupation that exceeds 30 hours per week, or simultaneous periods of work experience in more than one full-time occupation, is to be evaluated as a single period of full-time work experience in a single occupation.

Classification code

(5)A skilled worker must specify in their application for a permanent resident visa the five-digit code in the National Occupational Classification that corresponds to each of the occupations that is engaged in by the applicant and that constitutes the skilled worker’s work experience.

Officer’s duty

(6)An officer is not required to consider occupations that have not been specified in the application.

(7)[Repealed, SOR/2012-274, s. 9]

Amendment History (1)
SOR/2012-274
In Practice
Official Source: Justice Canada: IRPR r. 80 (authoritative, may differ from this display)
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