Express entry program is Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) new electronic system introduced to evaluate and manage the application for permanent residence. Potential candidates can complete their entire profile and anyone who is accepted into pool could receive an invitation for permanent residence. Candidates will be selected using following below economic immigration programs.

• Federal skilled worker program
• Federal skilled trades program
• Canadian experience class

How will express entry decide the candidates?

• Eligible candidate will be pooled for one year.
• Candidates are awarded with the points based on their information provided in the profile, and will get rank based on Comprehensive Ranking System.
• Candidate may receive an invitation for permanent residence, if he/she ranked high among the pool.
• Points are awarded based on candidate skills, work, language and education.
• Citizenship and Immigration of Canada (CIC) often holds a draw for majority of the candidates.

This express entry program was announced on 1^st Jan 2015, in order to make eligible persons to become  permanent residents in a very short time and hassle free manner by reducing the most paper work, it also makes an employer to get access to skilled immigrants in a much simpler way with no extra cost. In many ways, express entry system proves an advantage for both employee and the employer.

Citizenship and immigration of Canada (CIC) often takes a draw on a regular basis to decide and invite people to become permanent residents. So far, the first draw has taken place on 31^st Jan 2015, the latest 11^th draw took place on 25^th June 2015, thus inviting 1575 persons to become permanent residents in Canada.

However, express entry program is a special immigration program, but rather devised to help and evaluate candidate’s suitability for permanent residents electronically thus paving a transparent immigration system.