Faster
Options: Short-term ways to increase your CRS score
Here
is our top recommendation for a fast way to improve your CRS score. This can be
completed in a matter of weeks, if you put in the time and effort required to
succeed.
Retake
your language test
If
you haven’t maximized your approved language test scores, then this option
could be the key to you getting a competitive CRS score.
Did
you know that language ability is worth up to 260 CRS points in total for a
single candidate, or up to 270 points for a couple? Not only is language
ability the most valued human capital factor under the Comprehensive Ranking
System, but it is also a factor where incremental gains can make a huge
difference.
Extra
points are accumulated for each improvement in test results across the four
language abilities (speaking, listening, reading, writing), but the magic
threshold is when a candidate achieves a Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB)
level of 9 in each ability. Why? Because in addition to the points gained for
improvements to that level, getting a CLB 9 in each ability also triggers a
jump in points under the skills transferability factors (the exact jump depends
on your levels of education and work experience). One small step in your
language ability, one giant leap for your CRS score.
Skill
transferability factors can result in a maximum of 100 points, so be sure you
get as many of these points as you can.
To
reach CLB 9 on the IELTS General Training exam, you have to achieve the
following minimum scores:
• Listening: 8.0
• Speaking 7.0
• Reading: 7.0
• Writing: 7.0
To
reach CLB 9 on the CELPIP general exam, you must achieve a minimum score of 9
in each of the four abilities.
Moving2Canada
readers can now take advantage of a seven-day free trial of online language
tutorials. Simply select to Learn English or Learn French and complete the
online form.
Slower
Options: Long-term ways to increase your CRS score
If
you have your heart set on immigrating to Canada through Express Entry, there
are some longer term options for improving your CRS score. Some of these
options may only take a few weeks or a few months, while others might require a
year or more of your time.
Gain
more work experience
If
you are working outside Canada but have less than three years of full-time (or
equivalent part-time) experience, keep working! While this work won’t bring
points under the human capital factors, it is nonetheless rewarded in the
skills transferability combinations.
The
goal of remaining in employment is even more important for candidates currently
working in Canada on a work permit, because more points are available for
Canadian work experience. Just make sure that if you are working in Canada, you
maintain legal work status the entire time.
As
long as you indicate that your employment is ongoing on your Express Entry
profile, your CRS score will automatically update when you reach a new
threshold of work experience.
Provincial
Nominee Programs
If
you want a 600-point boost to your CRS score, plus the knowledge that you are
being welcomed with open arms into your chosen destination province, it’s time
to learn about the Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs).
More
and more, IRCC is gradually giving additional allocations to the provinces for
the PNPs. In turn, the provinces are looking to the Express Entry pool in order
to welcome a portion of the newcomers who will arrive under these programs.
Over
recent months and years, provinces have been using their Express Entry-aligned
(‘enhanced’) PNP streams in innovative, dynamic ways. Ontario has targeted
specific occupation groups, notably in the Information Technology (IT) sector;
Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan have both reopened PNP streams for candidates
across a range of occupations (no job offer required!); British Columbia
continues to invite candidates to apply under its unique system; Alberta and
Manitoba have entirely new Express Entry-aligned streams; and other provinces have
also been on board, issuing nomination certificates to candidates in the
Express Entry pool.
Six
hundred points. That is the prize on offer to candidates who adopt a proactive
approach to the Express Entry system, follow developments, and prepare accordingly.
See our Provincial Nominee Program section for more, and don’t forget to keep
up to date with our PNP Live Tracker!
Complete
another educational program
This
is definitely a long-term strategy for improving your CRS score. Regardless,
gaining more education can result in a much higher CRS score. Not only do you
receive CRS points for your level of education, education is an important
component of the skill transferability factors section of the CRS.
You
can gain a maximum of 100 points through the skill transferability factors
section. In terms of education, to maximize your skill transferability points,
you must complete the following level of education:
• Two or more post-secondary credentials,
and at least one must have been for a program of three-years or longer.
If
you already have a bachelor’s degree, you can complete another one-year
program, and this will likely make you eligible for higher points under skill
transferability factors. Although it does require completing an educational
program, this might be a worthwhile investment if you have your heart set on
immigrating to Canada.
Get
a Canadian job offer
Note:
In order to claim points for a job offer through Express Entry, the job offer
must meet a strict set of conditions.
While
the value of a qualifying job offer with respect to your CRS score is not as
great as it once was — in most cases, down to 50 CRS points from a previous
value of 600 points — obtaining a job offer remains an important factor.
Obtaining
such an offer, particularly if you are not currently in Canada, may seem
difficult, but there are steps you can take that may increase your chances of
success.
Can
my spouse or partner improve my CRS score?
Spouse/Partner
factors
If
you plan on coming to Canada with your spouse/common-law partner, you should
both know that the spouse/partner’s language ability is worth up to 20 points,
while education level and Canadian work experience are worth up to 10 points
each. That’s a total of 40 points available based on your spouse/partner’s
factors.
Notably,
if you apply as a single applicant, these 40 points are redistributed into the
factors of your profile. Single applicants don’t miss out on these 40 points,
you simply claim them within your own abilities.
Think
outside the box
Imagine
the following scenario. A couple, man and wife, want to immigrate to Canada.
Neither partner has ever studied in or worked in Canada. He has years of
experience as a financial advisor, working with big international clients and
earning plenty of money along the way. He went to an internationally-renowned,
prestigious university, graduating near the top of the class. On the other
hand, she is an elementary/primary school teacher who got a Bachelor’s degree
at a smaller university before working in a local school for a few years. They
both have the same English ability.
Who
should be the principal applicant? Answer: whoever has the higher CRS score.
And who has the higher score? She does, because she is 29 and he is 35. She
gets full points for age, whereas he does not. Moreover, it should be noted
that IRCC doesn’t care where you came in your class, only that you completed
your course(s), and that financial advisor and elementary teacher are both considered
skilled jobs, neither of which is necessarily more valued than the other when
it comes to immigration to Canada.
Indeed,
there is nothing to stop both partners from each creating an Express Entry
profile, naming the other partner as the accompanying spouse on each other’s
profiles. Although one partner’s CRS score is likely going to be lower than the
other partner’s, the person with the lower score may have work experience in an
occupation in demand by a province under a PNP, so that person could shoot up
the rankings and carry the other person along with them to Canada.
That
said, you may only submit one final application for permanent residence per
couple. In the event both members of a couple receive ITAs at the same time,
only one permanent residence application may be submitted.
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