Maria: Prepare the next step

Shared consultation briefing · version 1

Shared 2026-10-26. Assessment released 2026-10-26. This saved version stays unchanged when your live assessment or saved opportunities change.

Sharing is for consultation preparation. It does not mean a lawyer has reviewed or accepted your matter.

Your goal

You’re aiming for: Permanent residence (become a permanent resident).

You’re aiming for: Permanent residence (become a permanent resident). We checked your answers against 26 requirements for your goal. Here’s what we found: 21 appear to be met, 2 may not be met, 2 need more information and 1 needs a lawyer to look closer.

Suggested pathways

• Express Entry: Canadian Experience Class: From what you told us, 6 of 6 requirements checked appear to be met.
• Express Entry: Federal Skilled Worker Program: From what you told us, 11 of 11 requirements checked appear to be met.

Deadlines and missing information

• Work permit expires: to keep your status, IRCC must receive any application to extend it, or for a bridging open work permit, before it expires (online, before midnight UTC on this date): 2027-07-26
• Reported expiry of your Canadian work permit: 2027-07-26
• Language test results reach two years old (submit your PR application before this date): 2028-02-10

• We need to confirm that at least one year of your Canadian work earns CRS points. Under the Ministerial Instructions, it must be full-time work (at least 30 hours a week) or the same amount part-time, done in Canada within the last 10 years while you had temporary resident status, and not unauthorized or done during full-time study. It must also be TEER 0 to 3 work for one or more employers, paid by wages or commission, or work as a physician (NOC 31100, 31101 or 31102) providing publicly funded medical services, which can count even if you were self-employed. Our questions do not ask about your temporary resident status during that work, so check it, and your weekly hours, against your records. If you told us that some of the work was done without permission to work or outside Canada, count only the periods in Canada while you were allowed to work. If you told us that some of the work was done during full-time study or was self-employment, count only the periods outside full-time study and, unless it was that physician work, outside self-employment: with 2 years or more of work, those periods may still add up to a year or more. Until then, treat the Canadian work points in your score as provisional.
• We need to confirm that your Canadian credential is eligible and that your studies met the conditions for additional CRS points. It must come from a Canadian public post-secondary institution, or a private one that operated under the same rules and regulations as a public one; a Quebec DEP or ASP from a program of at least 900 hours at a private secondary or post-secondary institution in Quebec, or a bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree from a private institution that a provincial statute authorizes to confer it, also counts. You must have studied at a Canadian educational institution located in Canada. You must also have studied full-time for at least eight months while physically present in Canada for at least eight months, with no more than half of the program by distance learning, unless your program was undertaken, in whole or in part, from March 1, 2020 to August 31, 2022. The credential does not count if English or French as a second language made up more than half of the program, or if you studied on a scholarship or fellowship that required you to return to your home country. An eligible one-year or two-year program earns 15 points; a program of three years or more, a university-level master’s or doctoral credential, or an entry-to-practice professional degree for a TEER 1 occupation that requires licensing by a provincial regulatory body earns 30.

Your questions and corrections

Which missing evidence should I gather first, and which pathway needs further assessment?

This is a fictional example. No additional personal information supplied.

Selected opportunities and scenarios

Assumptions and limits

• We checked your answers as they stood on October 26, 2026, against the rules in force then. A change announced after that day isn’t included here.
• You answered "not sure" or "not decided" to 11 questions, so we treated them as not yet known rather than as a "no": Have you completed at least 6 consecutive qualifying months in this exact offered position within the 12 months before applying; Do you qualify as a recent Ontario graduate and have at least 3 consecutive qualifying months in this exact offered position within the 12 months before applying; Have you completed at least 2 years of qualifying paid experience, or its permitted part-time equivalent, within the 5 years before applying; How does all of the experience counted for that two-year alternative match the offered job's NOC; and 7 more.
• You skipped 3 questions, so nothing here relies on them: Tell us a little about your background and what you hope to do in Canada.; What Ontario Workforce Priority application submission date are you checking; On what date did you actually take the language test used for this Ontario application.
• We took your language test results as valid on the day you apply. Key dates above says when it stops counting; after that date the result changes.
• 3 answers you wrote in your own words were not read by the rules: they only read the questions with set answers. A lawyer reads what you wrote.
• We used the family size you gave (1) for every amount of money a rule asks you to show.
• Selected scenarios use the rules and sources available at the capture date. They are conditional comparisons, not predictions or legal advice.
• A saved listing is not a job offer, admission decision or work authorization. Corrections below are statements for discussion and do not change the assessment.