{"id":165,"date":"2017-10-25T20:40:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T20:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/?p=165"},"modified":"2025-10-08T00:40:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:40:03","slug":"express-entry-eligibility-for-postdoctoral-fellows-towards-permanent-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/2017\/10\/25\/express-entry-eligibility-for-postdoctoral-fellows-towards-permanent-residency\/","title":{"rendered":"Express Entry Eligibility for Postdoctoral fellows; towards Permanent Residency"},"content":{"rendered":"

-by Senthil Kailasam<\/em><\/p>\n

Discalimer: Views expressed are of the author and not of ULPA. we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness or accuracy of opinions\/information on the website for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk.<\/h5>\n

There has been couple of changes to the eligibility and criteria set for Postdocs to be eligible for applying for PR and\u00a0 recievebetter Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS)\u00a0 score for skilled immigrants (Express Entry).<\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0A full time valid job offer supported by\u00a0 Labour market Impact Assessment was previously necessary to qualify under Skilled Worker Class. Postdocs used to lose\u00a0 Express entry CRS points since our job offer was LMIA exempted. Now, that has changed. A Postdoc’s job contract with University is consider as a Job offer and we can obtain additional points, even though we have LMIA exempt.<\/li>\n
  2. The word “Postdocs” got added to NOC skill Type A and our job code is
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    NOC<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\nSkill level or type<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
    4011<\/td>\nUniversity professors and lecturers<\/a><\/td>\nA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/li>\n
  3. We became eligible for Canadian experienced class category.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The following excerpt from CIC website answers the most common doubt raised by all Postdoctoral fellow before applying for Express Entry.<\/p>\n

    I have a PhD and am in a post-doctoral program. Do I qualify for the Canadian Experience Class?<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

    Work experience gained while you were on a study permit will not count towards meeting the Canadian Experience Class requirements.<\/p>\n

    But, you may still be eligible if you:<\/p>\n

    already gained one year of skilled Canadian work experience while you were not on a study permit, and<\/p>\n

    meet the language threshold for that occupation .<\/p>\n

    http:\/\/www.cic.gc.ca\/english\/helpcentre\/answer.asp?qnum=672&top=29<\/a><\/p>\n

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    –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    -by Senthil Kailasam Discalimer: Views expressed are of the author and not of ULPA. we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness or accuracy of opinions\/information on the website for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk. There has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-pre-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}