
Permanent residency is a bigger decision than any visa — it is a plan for the next decade of your family's life. As a straight-talking PR consultant in Ahmedabad, DevShree Immigration & Tourism helps skilled professionals understand the two routes Gujarati families ask about most: Canada's Express Entry system and Australia's points-tested skilled migration. Both work on a similar principle. You are scored on age, education, work experience and language ability, you enter a pool of candidates, and the authorities invite the strongest profiles to apply. Neither route can be bought, hurried or guaranteed, which is exactly why careful preparation decides so much. We start with an honest assessment of where your profile stands today, not where a brochure suggests it could stand. From there we map the real steps — educational credential assessment or skills assessment, the right English test, police clearances, and evidence that proves every year of experience you claim. If your score is not competitive yet, we will say so plainly and show you which factors you can realistically improve. Sit with us at TRP Mall, Bopal, or send your CV and education details on WhatsApp for a frank first opinion, before you spend a rupee on tests or assessments.
What's Included
- Honest profile scoring against current Canada and Australia criteria
- Route comparison — Express Entry, provincial nomination, state or regional nomination
- Educational Credential Assessment (Canada) and skills assessment (Australia) guidance
- English test planning — which test your route accepts and when to book it
- Express Entry profile and SkillSelect Expression of Interest preparation
- Work-experience reference letters drafted the way assessors expect to read them
- Police clearance, medical and settlement-funds documentation coordination
- Spouse and children's documents, so partner points are never left on the table
Documents Typically Required
- Valid passport, along with all previous passports
- Degree certificates, mark sheets and transcripts for every qualification
- Detailed experience letters on employer letterhead, stating role and duties
- Salary slips, Form 16 or income tax returns supporting your work history
- English language test result accepted by your chosen route
- Educational Credential Assessment (Canada) or skills assessment (Australia)
- Police clearance certificate for every country you have lived in
- Proof of settlement funds, where the route requires it
- Marriage certificate plus your spouse's education, experience and language documents
Exact requirements vary by country and profile — WhatsApp us your case for a personalised checklist.
Canada Express Entry or Australia Skilled Migration — Which Route Fits Your Profile?
Canada's Express Entry is not a visa in itself — it is the online pool that manages three federal programmes: the Federal Skilled Worker Program, the Federal Skilled Trades Program and the Canadian Experience Class. You create a profile, the Comprehensive Ranking System scores it on age, education, language ability, work experience and a few other factors, and IRCC invites the highest-ranked candidates in periodic rounds. Two things usually have to be in hand before your profile is even complete: an Educational Credential Assessment for your Indian degrees, and a valid language test result. Provincial Nominee Programs run alongside the federal pool — each province operates streams for the occupations it actually needs, and a nomination adds substantially to your ranking. We help you decide whether to aim at the federal pool, a provincial stream, or both at once.
Australia works through SkillSelect, where you lodge an Expression of Interest rather than an application. Points come from age, English ability, skilled employment, qualifications and — importantly — your partner's skills and language. Your occupation must appear on the skilled occupation list that applies to the visa you are targeting, and it must be assessed by that occupation's designated assessing authority, a step that takes time and depends entirely on how well your experience is documented. From there the common routes are the Skilled Independent visa, the state or territory nominated visa, and the regional skilled visa, each with its own nomination conditions. States revise their priority occupations and criteria regularly, so the route that suits your profile this year may not be the one that suited a cousin or colleague last year.
Once you know your baseline, the useful question is what can actually be improved. Age is the one factor that only ever works against you, which is why waiting is expensive. Language is usually the least expensive factor to improve — a stronger English result lifts both a Canadian CRS score and an Australian points total, and many applicants leave points behind by treating the test as a formality. A spouse's education, experience and language add points in both systems, so we document your partner's profile properly instead of treating them as a dependent. Additional skilled experience, a provincial or state nomination, and French ability in Canada's case, are the other levers genuinely worth planning around.
Now the part some agencies avoid saying. If your occupation is not on the relevant list, or your score sits far below what recent rounds have been inviting, we will tell you at the first meeting — not after you have paid for assessments and tests. We do not inflate experience letters, we do not arrange points-boosting paperwork, and we will not take on a file that only works if something untrue is written in it. Both countries treat fabricated experience as misrepresentation, and the resulting ban lasts years. Being told today that you need another year of experience or a better English score is a far better outcome than that.
Finally, expect the rules to move. Invitation rounds, category-based selections, occupation lists, state allocations and settlement fund requirements are all revised by the authorities from time to time, and a figure that is correct today can change before you file. That is why you will not find score cut-offs or timelines quoted on this page. We check the current published position for your specific route when you come in, and tell you what it actually says rather than guessing on your behalf.