Moving From the UK to Canada: Your Main Options

Short answer

British citizens aged 18 to 35 can use International Experience Canada (Working Holiday, Young Professionals or International Co-op) and may take part twice, for up to 36 months in total. For permanent residence, Express Entry manages the Federal Skilled Worker, Federal Skilled Trades and Canadian Experience Class programs, and provinces also nominate people, often with a job offer. Start police certificates early: you need one for each country where you have lived six months or more in the last ten years since age 18.

Key points

• IEC: up to two participations for British citizens aged 18 to 35.
• Express Entry: language results, education and work experience all count.
• Provincial nomination, often with a job offer.
• Police certificates for every country of six months' residence in the last ten years since age 18.

Full transcript

Thinking of moving from the UK to Canada? Here are your main options. If you're a British citizen aged eighteen to thirty-five, International Experience Canada offers Working Holiday, Young Professionals and International Co-op permits.

British citizens can participate twice, for up to thirty-six months in total. For permanent residence, Express Entry manages the federal skilled worker, skilled trades and Canadian Experience programs. Your language results, education and work experience all count.

Provinces also nominate people, often with a job offer. Start your police certificates early. You'll need one for each country you've lived in for six months or more in the last ten years since age eighteen.

The full details are in our book, available on Amazon. Or visit civs.ca, or civs.uk. This is the digital avatar of Sean G McKinsley.