| Who can immigrate to Canada? | | | | spouses (by marriage, common law, or conjugal |
| Basically anyone if he or she can pass the required | | | | partners); dependent children under 22 years of age; |
| tests, fill in an appropriate application and have | | | | parents and grandparents (only if a permanent |
| enough basis to be accepted by the Canadian | | | | resident or citizen son or daughter has sufficient |
| government (family and relatives, working experience | | | | qualifying income). Skilled Workers must pass a |
| or other factors). | | | | special testing point system that checks things like |
| What is a covered by the Canadian Permanent | | | | age, education, experience, arranged employment |
| Resident Visa? | | | | and proficiency in the English and/or French language. |
| The Canadian Permanent Resident Visa allows the | | | | To pass the applying person must gain more that 67 |
| holder to live, work, and study in Canada legally. It | | | | points also a special committee must define that the |
| has no such thing as fixed expiration. It can be | | | | worker will have a positive or neutral effect on |
| canceled if a holder has violated the laws of Canada. | | | | Canadian economy. Business Class Immigrants can be |
| It allows the holder to apply for Canadian citizenship | | | | divided into three types: self-employed persons, |
| and Canadian passport. | | | | entrepreneurs, investors. Each of these types has a |
| What types of immigration are available? | | | | number of limitations like working experience, |
| There are three general types of immigrants: Family | | | | earnings and requires written statements of the |
| Class Immigrants, Skilled Workers and Business Class | | | | intentions of this person. |
| Immigrants. The Family Class Immigrants covers | | | | |