Many Canadian programs ask for an Educational Credential Assessment (ECA): a report from an approved organization saying what a qualification earned outside Canada is worth in Canada. Our questionnaire does not ask whether you have one, and the report counted that as a no, so nobody educated abroad could read “likely eligible” for those programs. The report now assumes you can get an ECA at the level you told us, says so as an assumption to check, and keeps the step telling you to get one.

Alberta chooses some of its new permanent residents itself, through the streams of its provincial nominee program. For two of them, the Alberta Opportunity Stream and the Rural Renewal Stream, our report counted only work done in Alberta, so some readers Alberta would accept were told they did not qualify. The report now also counts the work in the rest of Canada or abroad that Alberta accepts, within the time limits Alberta sets.

Express Entry is the points system Canada uses to choose skilled workers, and some of its draws (rounds of invitations) are held only for people with recent experience in certain occupations, such as healthcare or the trades. Our report checked a shorter period of experience for these draws than Canada requires, while our draws pages gave the right one, and it counted only one unbroken stretch of work. The report now uses the period Canada requires and adds up separate stretches in the same occupation, as Canada allows.

Manitoba's Skilled Worker Overseas stream accepts only people with a connection to the province: close family or friends living there, past work or study there, or an invitation from Manitoba. Our report did not check this, and it also asked some readers for a higher language level and more study than Manitoba requires. The report now reads past work or study in Manitoba from your answers, lists the other connections as something to confirm, and no longer asks for the extra language level or study.

The Skilled Migrant Category is New Zealand's points-based residence visa for skilled workers. Our guide to it still gave the points a qualification was worth before the rules changed on 24 August 2026, which put most degrees lower than they now score. It now gives the points in force, with a link to Immigration New Zealand's own page. Our guide to New Zealand's employer work visa also now names the Skilled Work Experience and Trades and Technician routes to residence.

Canada issues each person only one post-graduation work permit, the open work permit for people who finished an eligible study program in Canada. Our report checked only your Canadian study and language for it, so someone who already had one was still shown it as a way forward. It now reads the visas and permits you list, and if one of them is a post-graduation work permit, current or past, the report shows this permit as unlikely and says why.

Quebec chooses its own skilled workers and entrepreneurs. Our report asked for a Quebec job offer, or a year of work in Quebec, in two of its skilled worker streams, while Quebec asks for no job offer and sets its own work experience rule for each stream. It also asked for French and schooling in a stream that requires neither, and used the wrong money figures for the business start-up stream, so a reader could be told they failed when they qualified, or the reverse. Each of these checks now follows what Quebec publishes.

Express Entry is the points system Canada uses to choose skilled workers, and a draw is a round in which it invites the highest-ranked people to apply. Some past draws on our draws pages, in our points calculator and in reports had the wrong lowest score, number of invitations or date, and two draws were missing. Every past draw now matches the record published by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, and a check stops a wrong value from coming back.

Several Canadian programs ask you to show you have enough money to settle, an amount that depends on how many people are in your family. Our questionnaire did not ask Canada readers how much money they have, so every report asked for proof of funds. It now asks, and the report compares your answer with each program's own published figure for your family. Where your answers do not tell us how many people the program counts, the check reads as something to confirm, never as a shortfall.

Quebec chooses most of its own immigrants, so several federal programs, including the three Express Entry programs, the paused home care worker pilots and the Start-Up Visa, require you to plan to live somewhere else in Canada. Our report did not check this, so a reader who would settle only in Quebec saw these programs as possible, and the paused ones read as possible for almost everyone. The report now uses the provinces you said you would live in, and shows these programs as unlikely when Quebec is the only one.