Francophone Community Immigration Pilot

No. The FCIP is built around French. English is not the qualifying language for this pilot, though it may help you settle and work.

Yes. The FCIP is employer-driven. The offer must be full-time, indefinite and non-seasonal, from an employer the community has designated, with at least 75% of the duties performed inside the community.

It means the work itself must happen in the community. A largely remote role, or one where you travel most of the time, will not satisfy it even if the employer’s address is local. This is one of the most common reasons a file fails.

At least 1,560 hours, which is one year, of related paid work experience in the past three years. The experience must match or relate to the occupation in your job offer.

Often, yes. Graduates of a public post-secondary institution in the recommending community may be exempt from the work-experience requirement, subject to conditions on the credential.

An Educational Credential Assessment confirms that your foreign qualification is equivalent to a Canadian one. It must be less than five years old and from a designated organisation such as WES, CES, ICAS, IQAS or ICES. A missing or expired ECA gets the application returned.

In one of six communities: the Acadian Peninsula in New Brunswick, Greater Sudbury, the Timmins Region and Superior East in Ontario, St-Pierre-Jolys in Manitoba, and Kelowna in British Columbia.

The RCIP covers fourteen communities and scales its language requirement to your job’s TEER category. The FCIP covers six francophone-minority communities and fixes the requirement at NCLC 5 in French. We assess both.

No. Nothing in immigration is guaranteed, and any representative who promises approval is one to walk away from. Decisions are made by IRCC and the community, not by your consultant.