Express Entry step by step: the full process

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Express Entry

The federal system that manages applications for three skilled-worker programs through one pool and a points score.

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Ontario has closed its old OINP streams and replaced them with a single Ontario Workforce Priority stream. Check the OINP page before planning around a nomination.

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Steps run in order. A dashed step is blocked — something before it has to be finished first.

Check a step off when it's done. Whatever it was blocking unlocks by itself.

Some steps are IRCC's to make, not yours. Those show as waiting and can't be checked off.

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1. Check your eligibility

Express Entry manages three programs — Federal Skilled Worker, Federal Skilled Trades, and the Canadian Experience Class.

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The rest of the pathway, folded up

This view fits the whole pathway on one screen: the step you're on is enlarged, its neighbours are shown small, and everything further out is folded into a summary bar you can open. The idea is borrowed from degree-of-interest trees (Card and Nation, 2002).

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