What a Real Express Entry Eligibility Check Involves

For a lot of people, the first step toward Canada is paying someone just to find out whether they even qualify. That first answer — am I eligible, and roughly where do I stand — is the one part of this process that genuinely does not need to cost anything. It is arithmetic against public, official rules. Anyone can run it. So we built the tools to run it, and we do not charge for them.

What a real eligibility check actually has to work out

A proper Express Entry assessment is not a guess — it is a specific sequence of checks, each against IRCC's own published rules. Whoever does it, paid or free, has to work through the same list:

• Which official occupation classification (NOC) your job falls under, and at what skill level — this decides whether your work experience counts at all
• How much of your work history actually qualifies once hours, timing, and lookback windows are applied — "5 years of experience" and "5 qualifying years" are often different numbers
• Your language test results converted into Canada's own CLB scale, per skill
• Whether you clear the minimum bar for the Federal Skilled Worker Program, Canadian Experience Class, or Federal Skilled Trades — three different programs with three different rule sets
• Your Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score, and how it compares to recent invitation rounds
• Whether you can show the required settlement funds, and what the government filing fees will actually be

Why we don't charge for it

Every one of those checks is available free at itciland.com/tools — no account, no sign-up, no obligation. Run them one at a time, or work through the guided version at /plan, which carries your answers from one step to the next so you never re-enter the same information twice. It runs on the same official IRCC tables a paid review would start from — because there is only one correct way to do this arithmetic, and there is no reason to charge you to see it.

What free doesn't replace

Here is the honest part: a free tool will tell you your numbers. It will not tell you what to do about a complicated work history, a borderline case, or a strategy question with no single right answer — that takes a licensed professional looking at your actual file, not a calculator. That is what a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC) is for, and it is worth paying for exactly the situations that need it. What is not worth paying for is the arithmetic you can already do yourself, free, before you ever pick up the phone.

See it for yourself

Start with your own numbers rather than taking our word for it. The guided plan walks through every step above, in order, and tells you exactly where you stand at the end of it.