If you are a plumber then you are on the magic Federal Skilled Worker list - http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigra...plications.asp - so you should be able to apply under this stream.

If you take a look at this - http://www.cic.gc.ca/app/ctcvac/engl...come-to-canada - it will tell you if you are eligible to apply under this stream.

Ditto this info, we just found it a few days ago and its added a new dimension to the property searching ;-)

I thought this questionaire was questionable! most members here failed using this, even those who are eligible

no probs ;-)

Are you sure you're not thinking of the old one? This is a new version, only introduced 2 or 3 weeks ago and seems pretty good to me.

I just ran through it and it says we are not eligible to apply under federal route. Hubby is NOC 7215.
it suggests applying under PNP route.

yeh i tried that come to canada test and it said i was eligable under a skilled worker??

I must have missed this in the excitement of moving over here

That's very odd. I tried it with various difference permutations when it was introduced, and it worked fine for me everytime. Wonder if it's calculated your points differently or something?

Brilliant, so there's your visa route sorted. Short of marrying a Canadian, it's the quickest and easiest too, and you don't need a job offer for it.

Okay, so you need to read up a little more on that - check out the Wiki in the blue bar at the top. Very first thing to do - look at getting booked into do the IELTS English General test - they book up quickly now and you cannot submit a Federal Skilled Worker Application without these results.

Good luck!

We came to Canada on an LMO and were told categorically that to come to Canada before the LMO was approved by HRSDC would be a no no and may be detrimental to the companies application process. However looking at the HRSDC website it seems that they have relaxed the length of time for advertising to 3 months so that's not too bad. I think the discussion with unions would take the longest time.

If it works out for you da iawn.

Only 2 weeks advertising is required for a LMO (in the previous three months).

And lots of forum members have gone as visitors and had the company apply for a LMO whilst they were there, it's certainly no problem these days.

Diolch yn fawr! (that all the welsh I know lol)

I'm the class of 2007 and I live in Saskatchewan so things were different in the old days and we came on a pilot program that had only been running 12 months - as I said earlier each Province seems to have different criteria.

A friend of mine has just gone through the process as an employer and it took them a lot longer than the 14 days advertising in a 3 month period. The person they now employ came from Thailand.

I don't know much more Welsh only the bits I learned in school.