The Skills Passport guarantees English language proficiency to designated levels and technical skills against Saskatchewan's Institute of Applied Science and Technology (SIAST) certificate and diploma program standards.

The program dovetails with the Saskatchewan government’s program to boost immigration and responds to employers’ labor market needs. It will enhance the success of employers’ international recruitment efforts and will facilitate the integration of immigrants into the local workforce. It assures better skills job matching (with attendant proper salary and social protections) for the contract workers. The program supports the Mauritian-Canadian circular migration program and is offered in Mauritius via a partnership between SIAST and the Mauritian Institute of Technology and Development (MITD) for welders and on language skills of mobile workers.