Current Points
System Grid
| Proposed Changes
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First Official Language:
Maximum 16 points
No official language ability required
| First Official Language:
Maximum 24 points
New Mandatory Minimum
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Basic
Approx. CLB/NCLC 4 or 5
| Minimum threshold in all abilities
Initially set at CLB/NCLC 7
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1 pt per ability to max. of 2
| 4 pts per ability
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Moderate
Approx. CLB/NCLC 6 or 7
| Threshold + 1 CLB/NCLC level
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2 pts per ability
| 5 pts per ability
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| CLB/NCLC 8
Understands technical conversations and reading material in their line of work; asks questions, analyzes and compares information in order to make decisions.
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High
CLB/NCLC 8 +
| Threshold + 2 or more CLB/NCLC levels
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4 pts per ability
| 6 pts per ability
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| CLB/NCLC 9
Participates in business meetings and debates; understands a broad range of general and abstract topics; writes formal and informal notes and summary documents.
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Second Official Language:
Maximum 8 points
| 8
| Second Official Language:
Maximum 4 points
CLB/NCLC 5 in all abilities
| 4
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Age:
Maximum 10 points
| | Age:
Maximum 12 points
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21 to 49 yrs
| 10
| 18 to 35 yrs
| 12
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20 or 50 yrs
| 8
| 36 yrs
| 11
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19 or 51 yrs
| 6
| 37 yrs
| 10
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18 or 52 yrs
| 4
| Less one point per year
| …
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17 or 53 yrs
| 2
| 46 yrs
| 1
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<17 or >53 yrs
| 0
| 47 and over
| 0
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Work Experience:
Maximum 21 points
| | Work Experience:
Maximum 15 points
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1 yr
| 15
| 1 yr
| 9
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2 yrs
| 17
| 2–3 yrs
| 11
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3 yrs
| 19
| 4–5 yrs
| 13
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4+ yrs
| 21
| 6+ yrs
| 15
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Education:
Maximum 25 points
| | Education:
Maximum 25 points
Points will be awarded based on an assessment of educational credentials by a designated organization, indicating the foreign educational credential’s equivalent in Canada.
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Master’s or Doctoral level (+17 yrs)
| 25
| Doctoral level
| 25
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Two or more credentials at the bachelor’s level OR 3-year post-secondary credential (+15 yrs)
| 22
| Master’s level or professional degree
| 23
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Bachelor’s (2 years or more) OR 2-year post-secondary credential (+14 yrs)
| 20
| Two or more post-secondary credentials, one of which is a three-year or longer post-secondary credential
| 22
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Bachelor’s (1 year) OR 1-year post-secondary credential (+13 yrs)
| 15
| Three-year or longer post-secondary credential
| 21
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One-year post-secondary credential (+12 yrs)
| 12
| Two-year post-secondary credential
| 19
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Secondary school
| 5
| One-year post-secondary credential
| 15
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Secondary school not completed
| 0
| Secondary school
| 5
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Arranged Employment:
10 points
| | Arranged Employment:
10 points
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| | In order to receive points for arranged employment, applicants will need to have a LMO from HRSDC, plus an indeterminate job offer. In some cases, applicants will be LMO exempt and will only require the indeterminate job offer. New measures, including introducing a labour market assessment and genuineness elements in the regulations, are expected to increase program integrity, improve labour market responsiveness, and streamline processing for employers.
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Adaptability:
Maximum 10 points
| | Adaptability:
Maximum 10 points
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Spousal/partner education
| 5
| PA Previous Work in Canada (min. 1 yr at NOC 0, A, B)
| 10
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Previous Study in Canada PA or spouse/partner
| 5
| Or a combination of…
Previous study in Canada — PA
| 5
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Previous Work in Canada PA or spouse/partner
| 5
| Previous study in Canada — accompanying spouse/partner
| 5
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Relative in Canada
| 5
| Previous work in Canada — accompanying spouse/partner
| 5
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Arranged Employment
| 5
| Arranged employment
| 5
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| | Revised:
Rel. in Canada (18 years or over)
| 5
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| | Added:
Accompanying spouse/partner’s official language (CLB/NCLC 4)
| 5
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| | Eliminated:
Accompanying spouse/ Partner education
| 3 to 5
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Pass mark
| 67
| Pass mark
| 67
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