Guide to immigrate to Canada from Saudi Arabia

Every year thousands of immigrants apply for a permanent residency visa for Canada. As a country, it is close to the United States of America and gives you the best level of education, healthcare and employment opportunities. Saudi Arabia has witnessed a steady growth of applicants interested to migrate to Canada. With its fast economic growth and in search of better career prospects, many aspirants have started applying for Canada immigration Saudi Arabia in recent years.

Canada has also been open to immigrants and has charted out its plan from immigration in future. In 2015, express entry system was introduced which streamlined the whole immigration process. Since then the invitations issued to immigration applicants has gone up every year. Canada expects its economic growth in future would be driven by immigrants, hence, lays special emphasis on its various immigration schemes.

1. Canada immigration is administered by Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) which has allocated a points system called Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score. If you are young, highly qualified, possess qualitative work experience and a decent language proficiency test score you will have a high CRS score. A score in the range of 400 to 450 increases your chances of getting an invitation from Canadian immigration authorities.
2. You have the option to apply for provincial nominee program in some of the Canadian provinces or apply under the Express Entry system. In some cases, provincial nominee program invites candidates with lower CRS score.
3. Canadian provinces invite entrepreneurs and businessmen to apply for business visas as well as a skilled professional whose visa can be sponsored by a Canadian employer. Canadian provinces introduce immigration programs as per their domestic job market demands.
4. After applying for immigration an applicant gets an invite from Canadian immigration authorities. You have 60 days to complete your profile on the online portal.
5. During the application, the process makes sure not to conceal any information regarding your candidature. You would be asked to provide supporting documents related to your personal details, educational qualification, professional experience and countries you have stayed in the past.
6. All your travel history must be disclosed and backed up with certified copies of travel documents. You would be asked to produce a police clearance certificate from the country of origin or residence.
7. You are required to pay the application fee and wait for the final decision of the immigration authorities.
8. If any discrepancy is found in your application or supporting documents then you could be asked for a Letter of Explanation (LoE) detailing all the information regarding the issue raised by the immigration department.

The advantage of applying for a permanent residency visa in Canada is that you can stay and reside in the country for the long term and your chances of getting citizenship in the country also increase.

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