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What is Expression of Interest (EOI)?
Learn about EOI, requirement and more!
Designated Language Testing Organizations approved by GOV of Canada.
See which designated language testing facility you should use.
IETLS to CLB Calculator
The Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) are the national standards used in Canada for describing, measuring and recognizing the English-language proficiency of adult immigrants and prospective immigrants for living and working in Canada.
PNP Points Calculator By Province
Calculate your PNP points in your province. Check your eligibility
NOC Code Guide
| Skill Type/Level | Occupations |
|---|---|
| Skill Type 0 (zero) | Management jobs |
| Skill Level A | Professional jobs that usually call for a degree from a university |
| Skill Level B | Technical jobs and skilled trades that usually call for a college diploma or training as an apprentice |
| Skill Level C | Intermediate jobs that usually call for high school and/or job-specific training |
| Skill Level D | Labor jobs that usually give on-the-job training |
Express Entry Programs Criteria
| Eligibility Criteria | Canadian Experience Class | Federal Skilled Worker Program | Federal Skilled Trades Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language Skills (English/French) | NOC 0 or A: CLB 7 NOC B: CLB 5 | CLB 7 | CLB 5 for Speaking and Listening CLB 4 for Reading and Writing |
| Type/Level of Work Experience | Canadian Work Experience in NOC: 0, A or B | Canadian Work Experience in NOC: 0, A or B | Canadian or Foreign Experience in a Skilled Trade Under Key Groups of NOC B |
| Amount of Work Experience | One year in Canada in the last 3 years (either combination of full-time or part-time work) | One year continuous within the last 10 years (combination of part-time, full-time or more than 1 job in your primary occupation) | Two years within last 5 years (either combination of full-time or part-time work) |
| Job Offer | Not required | Not required (Extra Points for Having Valid Job Offer) | A Valid Full-Time Job Offer for Total Period of 1 Year or more. Or Certificate of Qualification in That Skilled Trade Issued by a Canadian Provincial, Territorial or Federal Authority. |
| Education | Not Required | Secondary Education Required (Extra Points for Having Higher Education) | Not Required |
Immigration Fee Lists
Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA)
Electronic Travel Authorization: $7 (CAD)
International Experience Canada participation
International Experience Canada participation: $156 (CAD)
Study permit
Study permit (including extensions) – per person: $150 (CAD)
Restore your status as a student: $350 (CAD)
Restore your status ($200) and a get a new study permit ($150)
Temporary resident permit
Temporary resident permit – per person: $200 (CAD)
Visitor visa
Visitor visa (including super visa) – per person: $100 (CAD)
Visitor visa – per family (1 fee per family of 5 or more people): $200 (CAD)
Extend your stay as a visitor – per person: $100 (CAD)
Restore your status as a visitor: $100 (CAD)
To be eligible to pay the maximum fee of $500 (in Canadian dollars): family members must all apply at the same time and same place your children must qualify as dependents.
Work Permits
Work permit (including extensions) – per person: $155 (CAD)
Work permit (including extensions) – per group (3 or more performing artists): $465 (CAD)
Open work permit holder: $100 (CAD)
Restore your status as a worker: $355 (CAD)
Restore your status ($200) and get a new work permit ($155)
Work permit maximum group fee: To qualify, you must be a group of three or more performing artists and their staff, and apply at the same time and place.If you also need visitor visas (temporary resident visas), you still need to pay for them individually. For visitor visas, the group fee only applies to families.
Business immigration
Apply to
- Quebec business immigration
- Self-employed people
- Start-up visa
Your application: $2075 (CAD)
Your application (without right of permanent residence fee): $1575 (CAD)
Include your spouse or partner: $1325 (CAD)
Processing fee ($825) and right of permanent residence fee ($500)
Include your spouse or partner (without right of permanent residence fee): $825 (CAD)
Include a dependent child – per children: $225 (CAD)
Caregivers
Apply to
- Live-in Caregiver Program
- Home Child Care Provider Pilot (without the work permit fee)
- Home Support Worker Pilot (without the work permit fee)
If you are applying for a work permit, you must pay for it separately:
- pay your caregiver fees and get your receipt, then
- pay your work permit fees and get another receipt.
Include both receipts with your application.
Your application: $1000 (CAD)
Processing fee ($550) and right of permanent residence fee ($500)
Your application (without right of permanent residence fee): $550 (CAD)
Include your spouse or partner: $1050 (CAD)
Processing fee ($550) and right of permanent residence fee ($500)
Include your spouse or partner without right of permanent residence fee: $550 (CAD)
Include a dependent child – per children: $150 (CAD)
Economic immigration (including Express Entry)
Apply to
- Agri-food pilot
- Atlantic immigration pilot
- Canadian experience class
- Federal skilled workers
- Federal skilled trades
- Provincial nominee
- Rural and northern immigration pilot
- Quebec-selected skilled workers
Your application: $1325 (CAD)
Processing fee ($825) and right of permanent residence fee ($500)
Your application (without right of permanent residence fee): $825 (CAD)
Include your spouse or partner: $1325 (CAD)
Processing fee ($825) and right of permanent residence fee ($500)
Include your spouse or partner (without right of permanent residence fee): $825 (CAD)
Include a dependent child – per children: $225 (CAD)
Humanitarian and compassionate
Apply to
- Temporary Public Policy for Out-of-Status Construction Workers in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)
Your application: $1050 (CAD)
Processing fee ($550) and right of permanent residence fee ($500)
Your application (without right of permanent residence fee): $550 (CAD)
Include your spouse or partner: $1050 (CAD)
Processing fee ($550) and right of permanent residence fee ($500)
Include your spouse or partner (without right of permanent residence fee): $550 (CAD)
Include a dependent child – per children: $150 (CAD)
Permanent resident card
Your permanent resident (PR) card can only be delivered to an address in Canada. If you are outside Canada and don’t have a valid PR card, or if your card is lost or stolen, apply for a permanent resident travel document to return to Canada.
Permanent resident card: $50 (CAD)
Permanent resident travel document
Permanent resident travel document: $50 (CAD)
Permit Holders Class
Your application: $825 (CAD)
Processing fee ($325) and right of permanent residence fee ($500)
Your application (without right of permanent residence fee): $325 (CAD)
The Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship may grant permanent resident status to an inadmissible foreign national based on humanitarian and compassionate or public policy grounds.
Protected person
Your application: $550 (CAD)
Processing fee ($550)
Include your spouse or partner: $550 (CAD)
Processing fee ($550)
Include a dependent child – per children: $150 (CAD)
Right of permanent residence fee
Right of permanent residence fee: $500 (CAD)
For most permanent residence applications, you need to pay the right of permanent residence fee (RPRF) when your application is approved. You will have to pay it before you can become a permanent resident.
Adopted children and other relatives
Sponsor your relative (22 years or older): $1050 (CAD)
Sponsorship fee ($75), principal applicant processing fee ($475) and right of permanent residence fee ($500)
Sponsor your relative (22 years or older without right of permanent residence fee): $550 (CAD)
Sponsorship fee ($75) and principal applicant processing fee ($475)
Sponsor or include a dependant, adopted child (or child to be adopted) or orphaned relative – per children: $150 (CAD)
Sponsor only a dependent child ($75 sponsorship fee and $75 processing fee) or include one on an application with your relative ($150)
Sponsor your relative (under 22 years old and not your dependent child): $650 (CAD)
Sponsorship fee ($75), principal applicant processing fee ($75) and right of permanent residence fee ($500)
Sponsor your relative (under 22 years old and not your dependent child, without right of permanent residence fee): $150 (CAD)
Sponsorship fee ($75) and principal applicant processing fee ($75)
Include the spouse or partner of your relative: $1050 (CAD)
Processing fee ($550) and right of permanent residence fee ($500)
Include the spouse or partner of your relative (without right of permanent residence fee): $550 (CAD)
If you are applying under the Family Class, you can pay your fees when the sponsor files the sponsorship application.
Parents and grandparents
Sponsor your parent or grandparent: $1050 (CAD)
Sponsorship fee ($75), principal applicant processing fee ($475) and right of permanent residence fee ($500)
Sponsor your parent or grandparent (without the right of permanent residence fee): $550 (CAD)
Sponsorship fee ($75) and principal applicant processing fee ($475)
Include the spouse or partner of your parent or grandparent: $1050 (CAD)
Processing fee ($550) and right of permanent residence fee ($500)
Include the spouse or partner of your parent or grandparent (without the right of permanent residence fee): $550 (CAD)
Processing fee ($550)
Include a dependent child of your parent or grandparent – per children: $150 (CAD)
Spouse, partner or children
Sponsor your spouse or partner: $1050 (CAD)
Sponsorship fee ($75), principal applicant processing fee ($475) and right of permanent residence fee ($500)
Sponsor your spouse or partner without right of permanent residence fee: $550 (CAD)
Sponsorship fee ($75) and principal applicant processing fee ($475)
Sponsor a dependent child – per children: $150 (CAD)
Sponsorship fee ($75) and processing fee ($75)
Include any dependent child – per children: $150 (CAD)
Include any dependent child on an application with your spouse or partner ($150)
Citizenship - application fees
Adult (18 and over): $630 (CAD)
Processing fee ($530) and right of citizenship fee ($100)
Stateless adult (18 or over) born to Canadian parent: $100 (CAD)
Right of citizenship fee ($100)
Minor (under 18): $100 (CAD)
Processing fee ($100)
Other citizenship fees and services
Citizenship certificate (proof of citizenship): $75 (CAD)
Search for your record of citizenship: $75 (CAD)
Resume your citizenship (18 and over): $530 (CAD)
Resume your citizenship (under 18): $100 (CAD)
Renounce your citizenship: $100 (CAD)
Right of Citizenship: $100 (CAD)
Authorization to return to Canada
Authorization to return to Canada: $400 (CAD)
Rehabilitation
Inadmissible on the grounds of criminality: $200 (CAD)
Inadmissible on the grounds of serious criminality: $1000 (CAD)
Repay your removal expenses
U.S.A. and St. Pierre and Miquelon: $750 (CAD)
Any other country: $1500 (CAD)
Temporary resident permit
Temporary resident permit – per person: $200 (CAD)
Biometrics
If you are a citizen of certain countries or territories, you have to give your biometrics (fingerprints and photograph) when you apply for a:
- visitor visa
- study permit or
- work permit.
Biometrics – per person: $85 (CAD)
Biometrics – per family (2 or more people): $170 (CAD)
Maximum fee for a family of 2 or more people applying at the same time and place
Biometrics – per group (3 or more performing artists): $255 (CAD)
Maximum fee for a group of 3 or more performing artists applying at the same time and place
The biometrics fee covers:
- collecting fingerprints and a digital photo
- moving your documents between our visa office and the VAC where you gave your biometrics
If your children qualify as dependants and need to give their biometrics, you can pay the family fee.
Employer compliance
Employer compliance fee: $230 (CAD)
Employer compliance fee – group of entertainers (3 or more): $690 (CAD)
To be eligible for the group fee, you must make your offers of employment to a group of three or more foreign nationals, consisting of performing artists and their staff, at the same time.
Verify your status or replace an immigration document
Verify your status or replace an immigration document: $30 (CAD)
Pay your passport fee – Canadians outside Canada and the United States
5-year adult passport (age 16 or over): $190 (CAD)
10-year adult passport (age 16 or over): $260 (CAD)
Child passport (0 to 15 years of age): $100 (CAD)
Pay your passport fee – Canada
5-year adult passport (age 16 or over): $120 (CAD)
10-year adult passport (age 16 or over): $160 (CAD)
Child passport (0 to 15 years of age): $57 (CAD)
Canadian travel documents for non‑Canadians in Canada
Travel Documents
Adult refugee travel document (age 16 or over): $120 (CAD)
Child refugee travel document (0 to 15 years of age): $57 (CAD)
Adult certificate of identity (age 16 or over): $260 (CAD)
Child certificate of identity (0 to 15 years of age): $141 (CAD)
Expedited services (available only in person)
Urgent pick up (by the end of the next business day): $110 (CAD)
Express pick up (within 2 to 9 business days): $50 (CAD)
Standard pick up (on or after 20 business days): $20 (CAD)
Services
Additional administrative fee for replacing a valid lost or stolen travel document: $45 (CAD)
Certified true copy of a travel document: $45 (CAD)