• Posted 16-Nov-2022

How to Improve Your CRS Score for Express Entry

This comprehensive Canada Visa guide provides you with everything you need to know on how to improve your Express Entry Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score.There are two major ways to improve your CRS score so you can enhance your chances of immigrating to Canada. The first is to perfect your Express Entry profile. The second is to proactively prepare for an Invitation to Apply (ITA) or Provincial Nomination.

Perfect your Profile
Representing yourself accurately in your Express Entry profile is extremely important. Not only could it earn you extra Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) points, but there are also serious penalties for misrepresenting yourself.The first thing to keep in mind is that the credentials required to enter the Express Entry pool are not necessarily the same as those that will maximize your CRS score.

How to Improve your CRS Score

• Language
• Education
• Spouse/Partner as a Principal Applicant
• Work Experience
• Proactively Prepare for an ITA or Provincial Nomination
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Language
Language is an example of a valuable factor within the CRS and can be worth up to 310 CRS points when combined with other factors (such as post-secondary education). This number can rise further to 320, if the applicant is married or in a common-law relationship.

Education
Education could count for up to 200 CRS points if one studied exclusively outside of Canada, and up to 250 points if one has a post-secondary credential from Canada. You can improve your initial education score by obtaining additional credentials, for example completing another degree, or by obtaining additional Educational Credential Assessments (ECAs) for existing degrees.

Spouse or Common-law Partner Might be a Better Principal Applicant
If you have a spouse or common-law partner, it may be beneficial to compare your CRS scores as principal applicants.Sometimes a main applicant’s CRS score may, in fact, be lower than that of their accompanying partner. In such cases, it may be advisable for a spouse or common-law partner to be the principal applicant.

Work Experience
Obtaining additional work experience or better documenting current work experience may both help increase a candidate’s CRS score.Some candidates who have a job title that seems unskilled may, in fact, have performed duties that are considered skilled under Canada’s National Occupation Classification, or NOC.Going beyond job title and measuring the duties you performed against the duties listed in the NOC’s different occupations can help determine if your work is considered skilled or unskilled. This, in turn, can result in points you might