Language Ability: Canada and Worker Program

language ability: Canada, which in 1967 became the first nation to use a points system, grades applicants to its Federal Skilled Worker Program on six factors work experience, education, language ability, age, arranged employment, and a more subjective measure of adaptability, according to Hamilton Spectator. To be eligible for a permanent resident visa, an applicant must accumulate enough points in the various categories to pass. Such was the case earlier this month when he praised the skills-based immigration systems of Canada and Australia. The result is that about 60 per cent of permanent residents admitted to Canada are admitted for economic reasons. In other words Canada values skills, and selects its immigrants accordingly. Others are admitted mostly on the basis of family ties or refugee status. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.