Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) tool: skilled immigrants (Express Entry)

1) What is your marital status? Select... Annulled Marriage Common-Law Divorced / Separated Legally Separated Married Never Married / Single Widowed

2) i. Is your spouse or common-law partner a citizen or permanent resident of Canada? Select... No Yes

2) ii. Will your spouse or common-law partner come with you to Canada? Select... No Yes

3) How old are you?

Choose the best answer:

• If you’ve been invited to apply, enter your age on the date you were invited.
  OR
• If you plan to complete an Express Entry profile, enter your current age.

Select... undefined17 years of age or less18 years of age19 years of age20 years of age21 years of age22 years of age23 years of age24 years of age25 years of age26 years of age27 years of age28 years of age29 years of age30 years of age31 years of age32 years of age33 years of age34 years of age35 years of age36 years of age37 years of age38 years of age39 years of age40 years of age41 years of age42 years of age43 years of age44 years of age45 years of age or more

4) What is your level of education?

Enter the highest level of education for which you:

• earned a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate or
• had an Educational Credential Assessment (ECA) if you did your study outside Canada. (ECAs must be from an approved agency, in the last five years)

Note: a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate must either have been earned at an accredited Canadian university, college, trade or technical school, or other institute in Canada. Distance learning counts for education points, but not for bonus points in your profile or application.

Select... undefinedNone, or less than secondary (high school)Secondary diploma (high school graduation)One-year program at a university, college, trade or technical school, or other instituteTwo-year program at a university, college, trade or technical school, or other instituteBachelor's degree (three or more year program at a university, college, trade or technical school, or other institute)Two or more certificates, diplomas or degrees. One must be for a program of three or more yearsMaster's degree, or professional degree needed to practice in a licensed profession (see Help)Doctoral level university degree (PhD)

4b) Have you earned a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate?

Note: to answer yes:

• English or French as a Second Language must not have made up more than half your study
• you must not have studied under an award that required you to return to your home country after graduation to apply your skills and knowledge
• you must have studied at a school within Canada (foreign campuses don’t count)
• you had to be enrolled full time for at least eight months, unless you completed the study or training program (in whole or in part) between March 2020 and August 2022
• you had to have been physically present in Canada for at least eight months, unless you completed the study or training program (in whole or in part) between March 2020 and August 2022

Select... No Yes

4c) Choose the best answer to describe this level of education. Select... Secondary (high school) or less One- or two-year diploma or certificate Degree, diploma or certificate of three years or longer OR a Master’s, professional or doctoral degree of at least one academic year

5) Official languages: Canada's official languages are English and French.

You need to submit language test results that are less than two years old for all programs under Express Entry, even if English or French is your first language.

6) Work Experience