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Permanent residence

Permanent residence in Canada

Express Entry, PSTQ, and pathways to Canadian permanent residence

Permanent residence in Canada allows you to live, work, and study anywhere in the country with full rights. Whether through federal programs like Express Entry or Quebec’s own selection programs, we help you navigate the path to becoming a permanent resident.

Process

How It Works

  1. Pathway Identification

    We evaluate your profile and determine the best permanent immigration pathway for your situation.

  2. Guided Document Preparation

    Our team helps you prepare all required documents, credentials, and language test results.

  3. Review & Submission

    We review your complete application package and guide you through the submission process.
Pathways

Express Entry

Express Entry is Canada’s main federal immigration system for skilled workers. It manages three programs: Federal Skilled Worker, Canadian Experience Class, and Federal Skilled Trades. Candidates are ranked using the Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) and top-ranked candidates receive invitations to apply.

Eligibility
  • At least 1 year of continuous skilled work experience
  • Language proficiency in English and/or French (CLB 7+)
  • Post-secondary education (ECA required for foreign credentials)
  • Meet the minimum CRS score for current draw rounds
  • No criminal record or security concerns
  • Pass medical examination
What to Prepare
  • Language test results (IELTS, CELPIP, TEF, or TCF)
  • Educational Credential Assessment (ECA)
  • Proof of work experience (reference letters, pay stubs)
  • Valid passport
  • Police clearance certificates
  • Proof of funds (if no valid job offer)
What DOCERE Does for You
  • CRS score calculation and optimization strategies
  • Express Entry profile creation and management
  • Document preparation and verification
  • Provincial nomination guidance (for CRS boost)
  • Application for Permanent Residence preparation
  • Landing preparation and post-landing support
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Before you begin

What a permanent residence file demands

Permanent residence is the longest of the projects we support, and the one where preparation matters most. The programmes have their own criteria, and the federal and Quebec systems run on separate tracks with separate paperwork. Many applicants qualify for more than one route, or for none yet — and the gap between those two states is often a language result or a year of experience away.

These files are document-heavy and unforgiving of gaps. Language results, credential evaluations, employment records reaching back years, police certificates from every country you have lived in — each has its own validity period, and letting one expire while waiting on another is the most common way a file loses months.

Our role is to build that dossier and keep it current: what to obtain, in what order, and what is about to lapse. The programme determination itself — which route fits your circumstances, and how they should be presented — is regulated legal work, carried out by our partner lawyers, members of the Quebec Bar, or a regulated immigration consultant.

Common questions

Questions about permanent residence

That determination depends on a reading of your specific circumstances — education, work history, language results, ties to Quebec — and making it is a regulated act. It is made by our partner lawyers, members of the Quebec Bar, or a regulated immigration consultant, not by us. What we do beforehand is assemble a complete and accurate picture of your profile, so that the determination rests on facts rather than estimates.

For Quebec’s own programmes, French is central rather than optional. Federally, French ability is worth a meaningful number of points even when you apply in English. In practice, French is the single lever most applicants can still move: test results improve with study, whereas age and past work experience do not.

Long enough that it should be planned around rather than waited on. Timelines vary by programme and move with policy and volume, and the preparation phase — tests, evaluations, police certificates — often takes as long as the processing that follows. The parts we control are the parts we commit to: a complete file, submitted without avoidable delay.

In many cases yes, and time already spent here can count in your favour. Whether it does, and under which route, is a determination for a regulated professional. What matters practically is that your temporary status stays valid throughout — which is a scheduling problem, and scheduling is exactly what we handle.

A spouse or partner and dependent children are generally included in the same application, which means their documents are held to the same standard as yours. Missing paperwork for an accompanying family member delays the whole file rather than just their part of it, so we collect for everyone from the start.

Tell us immediately. A new job, a birth, a marriage, a move, a new passport — several of these must be reported, and the consequences of not reporting them are worse than the change itself. Whether a change requires a formal update is a regulated question; getting it in front of the right person quickly is not.

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