Regulated Calgary immigration consultant
Your new life in
Canada starts here.
A licensed Calgary immigration consultant and RCIC for professionals and families, guiding skilled workers, students and sponsors through Express Entry, the Alberta AAIP and family sponsorship.
Online across Canada and worldwide, with a licensed RCIC.
500+
Newcomers helped on their move to Canada
5.0
A perfect five-star rating across our 48 Google reviews
10+
Express Entry, PNPs, sponsorship, work and study permits
2021
Helping clients across Canada and worldwide
Your path to moving to Calgary
Tell us your goal and we point you to the right route,
with a licensed RCIC guiding every step.
Three ways to work with us
Whether you're in Calgary or anywhere in Canada, you only pay for the help you actually need: a first honest conversation, a lower-cost review or full representation.
Start with an honest conversation
Tell us your goals and history. We give you a straight assessment of your real options and the route most likely to work, with no hype and no pressure.
- An honest read on your options
- The right pathway for you
- Clear next steps and timeline
- Straight answers, no pressure
Prefer to do it yourself?
You prepare your own application and our RCIC reviews it for errors and missed opportunities before you submit: a licensed check at a lower cost.
- A licensed check before you submit
- Catch costly mistakes early
- A lower-cost, flexible option
- Confidence in your own filing
We handle everything, end to end
Our most popular service. We prepare and submit your entire application and represent you with IRCC from start to finish, so nothing slips through the cracks.
- End-to-end application handling
- Document strategy and review
- We deal with IRCC for you
- Fixed-scope pricing up front
From the Bow Valley to your new beginning.
We are your immigration consultant in the heart of the Rockies, based in Canmore. We live and work in the mountains we love, and we bring that same steadiness, honesty and care to every client's journey to Canada. No false promises. Just a team led by a licensed RCIC that treats your file like it's our own.
Your Calgary Immigration Consultant
Calgary's economy is unlike anywhere else in Canada: a global energy hub that has diversified fast into technology, financial services and logistics. We work with petroleum engineers and geoscientists, software developers, accountants and project managers, health-care workers, and the skilled trades that keep the city building. As your regulated Calgary immigration consultant, rated 5.0 across 48 Google reviews, we match your skilled-worker profile to the strongest realistic route to permanent residence.
For most Calgary skilled workers, that runs through two doors we open together: Express Entry and the Alberta AAIP. Our free Alberta PNP points calculator shows where you stand on the Worker EOI grid. International graduates of the University of Calgary, SAIT and Bow Valley College can move from a study permit to a PGWP and on to PR, and families reunite through sponsorship. If you're still deciding between Calgary and Ottawa, our guide to moving to Calgary covers neighbourhoods and the job market, and Calgary living costs in 2026 has the numbers newcomers actually budget for. We assess every route honestly and build the one that fits.
We're an immigration consultant in Canmore, an hour west, and Calgary is the city we serve most. Wild Mountain Immigration is rated 5.0 across 48 Google reviews, and our licence is public: you can confirm RCIC #R706497 on the CICC register in under a minute, so a regulated professional you can verify is always handling your file.
Cochrane
Just up Highway 1A, commuters and growing families.
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Alberta's capital, served remotely, energy, health care and tech.
Learn moreExpress Entry & the AAIP
The main PR routes for Calgary professionals.
Learn moreAcross Alberta & Canada
Every federal and provincial route, handled online.
Learn moreWhat a Calgary immigration file actually looks like
Calgary is the city we serve most, and its files have a shape of their own. Many of our Calgary clients are already here on a permit (a work permit tied to an energy, engineering or technology employer, a post-graduation permit from the University of Calgary, SAIT, Mount Royal or Bow Valley College, or a spouse's open permit) and want the most direct honest route to permanent residence. Others are abroad with a Calgary job offer or a Calgary partner. The programs are the same everywhere in Alberta; what changes in Calgary is which ones actually win.
The routes that work in Calgary
- Alberta Opportunity Stream: the route for most Calgary workers with a full-time job and a valid permit. Alberta experience and language scores decide the cut-off.
- Accelerated Tech Pathway: built for the software, data and product roles clustered around Calgary's downtown tech employers and the university.
- Dedicated Health Care Pathway: Alberta Health Services, the Foothills, the Children's and the South Health Campus recruit internationally; nurses are the most common Calgary nomination we file through it (health care aides are not eligible and go through the Alberta Opportunity Stream).
- Express Entry with a provincial nomination: for engineers, accountants and analysts whose CRS sits below the 2026 cut-offs, the nomination's 600 points is the difference.
- Spousal sponsorship: inland with an open work permit is the usual Calgary file, and we give you an honest read by email whichever route you are on.
Calgary employers and the LMIA
Calgary's large employers (the energy majors, the engineering consultancies, the banks' western operations, the hospitals and the university) often hire foreign workers on LMIA-exempt permits (intra-company transfers, CUSMA for Americans and Mexicans) or through the Global Talent Stream. Restaurants, construction firms, trucking companies and care homes file standard LMIAs, and Alberta's median wage plus 20% sets the high-wage line at $37.50 an hour for LMIAs received from 17 July 2026. We prepare both sides: the employer's LMIA and the worker's permit.
Where to get help in Calgary, and what is free
- Immigrant Services Calgary, the Centre for Newcomers and the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society provide free settlement help, language classes and job search support to permanent residents and many temporary residents.
- Biometrics are given by appointment at a Service Canada location in Calgary; applications themselves are online.
- The Calgary Public Library runs free newcomer programs; you register for Alberta Health Care coverage (online or at a registry agent), and coverage can start from the day you become a resident.
If you are still choosing where in the city to live, our moving to Calgary guide has the August 2026 rents, prices and quadrant-by-quadrant notes, and best places to live in Alberta compares Calgary with the rest of the province. Everything above is done online: as your Calgary immigration consultant, we are an hour west in Canmore, and every Calgary client meets us by video, at the same fees as anyone else.
CICC member in good standing
A regulated immigration consultant you can verify
Wild Mountain Immigration is a CICC-regulated immigration consultancy based in Canmore, serving Calgary online, helping with Express Entry, the AAIP and other provincial programs, sponsorship, and work and study permits. We believe in honest advice, careful work and no false promises, ever.
Our team is led by Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant Nicola Wightman (RCIC #R706497). An immigrant from the UK who navigated the system herself, she brings first-hand understanding to every file. You can confirm our standing on the public CICC register at any time.
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Questions, answered honestly
Still unsure? Get started and we'll give you a straight answer about your case.
Get your free assessmentDo you have an office in Calgary?
No walk-in office. We are based in Canmore, an hour west on the Trans-Canada, and Calgary is the city we serve most, by video call and phone at times that fit shift work and downtown hours. Everything IRCC and the AAIP need is filed online, so a Calgary client gets the same regulated RCIC, the same fixed fees and no downtown overhead.
Which immigration route do most Calgary workers use to get PR?
The Alberta Opportunity Stream for people already working in Calgary on a permit, and Express Entry with an Alberta nomination for those whose CRS is below the 2026 cut-offs. Tech workers use the Accelerated Tech Pathway; nurses, physicians and other licensed health professionals the Dedicated Health Care Pathway, and health care aides the Alberta Opportunity Stream. We score the Worker EOI first, then choose.
I am in Calgary on a work permit that expires soon. What do I do?
Apply to extend it, or apply for the next permit, before the expiry date so maintained status keeps you legal and working. If a permanent residence application is in process, a bridging open work permit may cover the gap. The mistake we see in Calgary every month is a permit left to lapse while an employer waits on an LMIA; call us the month before, not the week.
Can you handle the LMIA for my Calgary employer?
Yes. We prepare the employer's Labour Market Impact Assessment (recruitment, the wage against Alberta's $37.50 high-wage line, the low-wage stream's housing and transport obligations where they apply) and the worker's permit together, and we tell the employer at the start if the file will not clear the cap.
How much does an immigration consultant in Calgary cost?
We charge the same fixed-scope fees to Calgary clients as to anyone else: full file management or a lower-cost file review, set out in writing before we start. The fees page has the current list. If we can help, the consultation is free; charges begin only once you retain us for the file.
Is Calgary a good place to immigrate to compared with Toronto or Vancouver?
On cost and on the immigration route, usually yes: housing well below Vancouver's prices, no provincial sales tax, health coverage that can start from the date eligible newcomers establish residency, and a provincial program that nominates most occupations with an Alberta job. Toronto has the bigger job market; Vancouver the climate. Our four-city comparison sets out the numbers.
Where can I get free settlement help in Calgary?
Immigrant Services Calgary, the Centre for Newcomers and the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society offer free settlement, language and employment support to permanent residents and many temporary residents; the Calgary Public Library runs newcomer programs. We refer clients to them for settlement and keep the immigration file ourselves.
Can a Calgary immigration consultant guarantee my application?
No, and CICC rules prohibit promising outcomes. What a licensed RCIC does is assess your eligibility honestly, choose the strongest route, and prepare a complete, accurate application. Anyone in Calgary guaranteeing a result is a reason to walk away.
How do I check you are a licensed RCIC?
Search RCIC #R706497 on the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants public register; it takes under a minute. We encourage every Calgary client to do it before hiring any consultant, including us.
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Calgary immigration plan?
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