Serrath posted:

I moved to Australia as a Canadian; I obtained citizenship after 5 years

It's a points based system; having a skill on the skilled occupation list is worth X points, being under age 32 is worth Y points, having a good command of english is worth Z points etc etc, if your points exceed a certain amount, you can be assured you can get permanent residence. You can find out what qualities are worth what points here but that means there's no guesswork. Either you have enough points in which case the odds are 100% that you can move here or you don't have enough points in which case the odds are very poor.