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Federal Skilled Trades Program (FSTP)

Canada is a visionary country and reveres skilled trade personnel. If you know you are skilled in a particular trade, you must immediately apply for the program, considering the eligibility criterion. A skilled trade is any trade or craft that requires hands-on work to produce something or offer a service. It needs you to have a theoretical and practical knowledge of the work and the skills and abilities to do it.

A skilled person, to be called so, needs a certain amount of experience. S/he must be able to carry out the skilled trade independently. So, if you call your profession a skilled trade, you must back it up with certification.

FSTP is different from FSWP because it seeks occupations that do not require much education, such as construction workers, chefs, butchers, electricians, welders, etc.

The Federal Skilled Trades Program is another kind of Permanent Resident option available if you want to settle down in Canada.

The Federal Skilled Trade program requires you to demonstrate plausible English language skills with commendable scores in all four modules of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

The federal skills trades program is one of the programs that can get you into the express entry system. Keep in mind, everybody who can get into the Express Entry System, even if you are able, need not qualify for the PR.

Once you apply through the Express Entry Pool, you need to wait to see your score on the Comprehensive Ranking System.

Here are some eligibility conditions for the Federal Skilled Trades Program:

  • The Program stipulates a minimum of 2 years of experience in a skilled trade.
  • This experience should be within five years, exactly from the date of application.
  • The aspirant should meet all the requirements classified under the skilled trades program requirement with an offer from a firm in Canada that recognizes this skill as a highly specialized one or a certificate of qualification issued by a Canadian provincial, territorial or territorial, or federal authority. 
  • The skilled trade that you possess must be licensed by the Labor Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) criteria. At least for a year. It means your employer needs to be authenticated by the LMIA.
  • If you have had two work experiences, then both employers should fall under the LMIA.  And the minimum range of employment with them is one year.

Skilled trades for the Federal Skilled Trades Program are organized under these groups of the National Occupational Classification (NOC):

  • Industrial, electrical, and construction trades
  • Maintenance and equipment operation trades
  • Supervisors and technical jobs in natural resources, agriculture, and related production
  • Processing, manufacturing, and utility supervisors and central control operators
  • Chefs and cooks
  • Butchers and bakers

These are the major groups, and they are subdivided into various occupations that are called B Skill type.

There are certain things to bear in mind when you plan for a Canadian PR under the FSTP Category:

  • You need to prove that you are well experienced in the given trade, as spelled out in greater detail by the NOC.
  • The work experience you possess must enable you to practice the occupation independently. In a nutshell, it means that your qualification and experience should be par excellence.

As far as the other eligibility conditions are concerned, the Federal Skilled Trades Program doesn't give credence to Education. Nevertheless, there is a scope of being invited through the Express Entry Pool if you have certifications from Canadian Educational/Vocational Institutions.

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If you are in possession of a certificate from an accredited organization (in that case) which can be equated with the similar type of technical qualification provided in Canada.

The Educational Credential Assessment will be done on a set of criteria that would either deem your qualification fit or not.

For the Federal Skilled Trades Program, your Language Skills should be at par with Benchmark 4 for reading and writing assessed according to Canadian Language Benchmark and 5 Benchmark for Listening and Speaking. Your IELTS score for this core should not be more than two years old to apply for this Program.

Deciding where to live is necessary for this Program. Until and unless the selection committee of this Program officially authorizes you, you cannot live inside the Quebec Province.

It would help if you made prior arrangements to live outside the Quebec Province and at the same time show adequate funds to the commission as proof of your sustenance and your family's upon landing in Canada.

Under this program, you can see your skill-suitability under various Provinces. You might want to know about various provinces in Canada that appreciate the Federal Skill Trades Program. Click here to gain an in-depth understanding of all the Provinces mentioned below:

Upon understanding the things mentioned above, there are so many technical nuances and subtleties that you need to learn further. You cannot take the risk by applying to Programs like these without an expert consultant's assistance. Consult with the top counselor in VisaMint, who will handhold you through the Federal Skills Trade Program. The processing time for the FSTP Program is between 6 and 12 months.

Application Fee of the Federal Skilled Trades Program:

Those who apply under the Federal Skilled Trades Program (FSTP) through the Express Entry (EE) route have to pay the following:

  • The application fee for the main applicant is 825 Canadian Dollars
  • The application fee for the spouse/common-law partner is 825 Canadian Dollars
  • The application fee for each dependent child is 225 Canadian Dollars (below 22 years of age)
  • Right of Permanent Residence Fee for the main applicant is 500 Canadian Dollars
  • Right of Permanent Residence Fee for the spouse/common-law partner is 500 Canadian Dollars
  • Dependent children are exempted from the PR fee.
  • The biometrics fee for the main applicant is 85 Canadian Dollars.
  • The biometrics fee for two or more people in one FSTP visa application is 170 Canadian Dollars.

To know more about the Federal Skilled Trades Program, you must meet with the Canadian Immigration expert in VisaMint Overseas Services. We are the best in the country for Canadian Immigration Consultation, and we will help you present your case with an impeccable documentation process.

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