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Profgordons:
I tried to message you privately but you didn’t respond so I’ll drop my advice here and it is not far from what others have mentioned. My wife is also a physician and it is a bit of long walk. Firstly she needs to start getting experience now, she can get that in Morocco or Nigeria but her best option is Morocco because she has a residency card.

With Nigeria when she returns, she still will be required to do a bridging exam with Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, I know it has been an annual exam, not sure if it is more frequent now and surprisingly, the pass rate is very low! Without that she can’t work as a Medical Doctor in Nigeria.

While she’s getting that experience she has to verify her degree with Medical Council of Canada through https://physiciansapply.ca/ this can be another long process depending on how quick her school responds.

Finally IELTS would be required but if she has the fluency to write TEF/TCF which are French exams, it will reduce how much work experience she would require.

Note 1: Medical Degree is categorized as professional degree so it is equivalent to MSc also Clinical experience can be claimed as work experience if it is up to one year and was paid no matter how little.

Note 2: Practicing Medicine in Canada as a Foreign Trained Physician is as difficult as almost impossible, she needs to know she will have to find a different pathway for survival while attempting to practice.

Note 3: The best path way for Doctors is to go to the UK, get their residency done before moving to Canada as there is a bridging program for UK trained doctors.

Profgordons:


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Abercrome:


This is really sound advice. I hope he sees it. I’d only add that they should pursue PR in hand first, do soft landing and then go to the UK to get that bridging experience. This is what my brother-in-law is currently doing. This man’s wife is even in a somewhat better position since she’s just starting her career and hasn’t specialized. My BIL was a specialist in Nigeria (pediatrics) but upon getting to the UK, his specialty is disregarded and he had to start over as a GP in the hospital’s pediatric department.

Profgordons:
I tried to message you privately but you didn’t respond so I’ll drop my advice here and it is not far from what others have mentioned. My wife is also a physician and it is a bit of long walk. Firstly she needs to start getting experience now, she can get that in Morocco or Nigeria but her best option is Morocco because she has a residency card.

With Nigeria when she returns, she still will be required to do a bridging exam with Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, I know it has been an annual exam, not sure if it is more frequent now and surprisingly, the pass rate is very low! Without that she can’t work as a Medical Doctor in Nigeria.

While she’s getting that experience she has to verify her degree with Medical Council of Canada through https://physiciansapply.ca/ this can be another long process depending on how quick her school responds.

Finally IELTS would be required but if she has the fluency to write TEF/TCF which are French exams, it will reduce how much work experience she would require.

Note 1: Medical Degree is categorized as professional degree so it is equivalent to MSc also Clinical experience can be claimed as work experience if it is up to one year and was paid no matter how little.

Note 2: Practicing Medicine in Canada as a Foreign Trained Physician is as difficult as almost impossible, she needs to know she will have to find a different pathway for survival while attempting to practice.

Note 3: The best path way for Doctors is to go to the UK, get their residency done before moving to Canada as there is a bridging program for UK trained doctors.

Jhigan:

She is not planning to practise as a medical doctor anyway, she just want to work in the health sector, thats all.

And she's very fluent in French. She studied the Medical degree for 8 years in pure French.

GraciousWords:


Please check if her 1 year clinical experience qualifies as at least 1 year of continuous work experience according to IRCC for FSW, see
Thank you for your reply. I don't have a degree. I'm a self taught IT guy, working in IT industry. Though, I've started online degree course.
Wanted to do it for myself when I first checked, but when I put into consideration the fact that I don't have degree, I'm 35 years old and don't speak French, I realised she has more chance than me.
I know that I can pass IELTS very well, because, I've tried to study for it before, and tried questions. And I'm sure she can pass too, including the TEF(I've made her to check it out).
Now, do you think we can still do something without me having degree?

page 1 for what counts as work experience e.g. it must be NOC TEER 0 to 3, paid, 30hours per week etc

She should evaluate her medical degree with the Medical Council of Canada (which should be equivalent to a professional degree, same CRS points as MSc). Since she is fluent in both French & English, is below 30 yrs old, even with 1 yr work experience (if clinical experience passes this test) her CRS will be somewhere between 496 and 504 or higher (hope my maths is correct) IF she can max out on both the TEF Canada and IELTS exams AND you (the spouse) can also evaluate a BSc and max out on IELTS. Play around with the CRS calculator or grid also on page 1 to verify.

I implore you to study page 1 thoroughly. Her age and knowledge of French outweigh the lack of work experience.

GraciousWords:

Please check if her 1 year clinical experience qualifies as at least 1 year of continuous work experience according to IRCC for FSW, see page 1 for what counts as work experience e.g. it must be NOC TEER 0 to 3, paid, 30hours per week etc

She should evaluate her medical degree with the Medical Council of Canada (which should be equivalent to a professional degree, same CRS points as MSc). Since she is fluent in both French & English, is below 30 yrs old, even with 1 yr work experience (if clinical experience passes this test) her CRS will be somewhere between 496 and 504 or higher (hope my maths is correct) IF she can max out on both the TEF Canada and IELTS exams AND you (the spouse) can also evaluate a BSc and max out on IELTS. Play around with the CRS calculator or grid also on page 1 to verify.

I implore you to study page 1 thoroughly. Her age and knowledge of French outweigh the lack of work experience.

Abercrome:


This is really sound advice. I hope he sees it. I’d only add that they should pursue PR in hand first, do soft landing and then go to the UK to get that bridging experience. This is what my brother-in-law is currently doing. This man’s wife is even in a somewhat better position since she’s just starting her career and hasn’t specialized. My BIL was a specialist in Nigeria (pediatrics) but upon getting to the UK, his specialty is disregarded and he had to start over as a GP in the hospital’s pediatric department.

Jhigan:
Thank you for your reply. I don't have a degree. I'm a self taught IT guy, working in IT industry. Though, I've started online degree course.
Wanted to do it for myself when I first checked, but when I put into consideration the fact that I don't have degree, I'm 35 years old and don't speak French, I realised she has more chance than me.
I know that I can pass IELTS very well because, I've tried to study for it before, and tried questions. And I'm sure she can pass too, including the TEF(I've made her to check it out).
Now, do you think we can still do something without me having degree?

GraciousWords:


IMO she is a prime candidate for express entry if she gets max scores in both IELTS and TEF and you do the same. Your lack of a BSc degree reduces the CRS by 8 points but nothing spoil, if her 1 year clinical work can count as work experience. She'd be wise to update the language she has the most CLB10s in as her first language when creating a profile.

@ bold...I like your spirit....but don't underestimate IELTS, that exam has a way of disgracing scholars.

Please study page 1...it'll become much clearer that this is completely doable.

All the best!

Timmypaul:
Hello profgords, I saw your advise as regards practicing as a medical doctor in Canada, a quick one for you sir, my wife is a registered nurse here in uk and we are currently working towards relocating to Canada is there bridging programs for uk nurses in Canada

Jhigan:
What if we enter for the EE and and try to get PNP first from a state like say New Brunswick which is Billingual? I red New Brunswick PNP page, they said they give priority processing to Francophone applicants. I think it means they want to attract more French speakers.
Just asking.

cadno:
Hello everyone, please I need some advise .
I got admission to school in Canada for a PGD, September 2023 class.

I plan to use school route to relocate myself and Family of 5.

I have paid the Deposit Tuition fee and just got Letter of acceptance to go for my Visa application.

However, I would like my Wife to join me so we can both work to payoff the school fees faster.l, and move the kids over.
But I don't have enough funds to justify POF for both of us.

My wife has MBA now and just wrote IELTS exam with 7.5 score.

We have decided to hold on my study visa application and apply for PR using my Wife qualification who is also younger (37yrs) using the available Fund as POF.

Here : If we wait till say May 2023, no positive update from embassy we drop the PR route, and pursue my school route and submit my application. Which was the original plan.

Please is this a good plan ?? What am I missing

nymphomaniac:
Rooting for a draw for the 480-490 people today. All the best guys.

Profgordons:
I am not understanding you Sir

cadno:


What I mean is,
Instead of submitting documents for my study visa now,
We use the documents/Fund available for POF for PR application.

Then we wait from this February to May 2023. Since I have May to August window to process my study visa.

So if PR update doesn't work out, we drop the PR application and apply for original plan of Study Visa .

Abercrome:
The wait after submitting your PR application is not easy oo. Any time my personal email beeps, my heart goes “gbim gbim” only to see some marketing email from Konga or something. My mind keeps replaying my application details and I keep hoping I made no mistakes. It’s like I’ll temporarily delete Gmail from my phone so I only check it on PC.

nymphomaniac:
Rooting for a draw for the 480-490 people today. All the best guys.

Zeewirld:
....I wish they will draw 480 today self for FSW

That will be the greatest miracle.

aestake:

Do that and remove yourself from Indian threads.

Abercrome:
The wait after submitting your PR application is not easy oo. Any time my personal email beeps, my heart goes “gbim gbim” only to see some marketing email from Konga or something. My mind keeps replaying my application details and I keep hoping I made no mistakes. It’s like I’ll temporarily delete Gmail from my phone so I only check it on PC.

Abercrome:


True, they’re on my WhatsApp group. Always checking tracker and calling IRCC.

OgechiBae:
Hi All,
Please where can I get the rate to use for PoF?