The record’s age alone is not the analysis. Assess the actual credential under the profession’s requirements.
Use genuine records for the right purpose
Degrees from institutions outside Canada, Mexico and the United States require a reliable foreign credential evaluation. Identify the exact qualification and any separate licensing issue instead of buying unrelated new credentials.
No provincial licence exists for soil scientists, so nothing can be substituted for the degree, and the transcript is what links a broadly named programme to the specific profession claimed. Build a document index around the claimed role: citizenship evidence, the qualification record, the employer's support letter, and any licence that the occupation actually needs. Where the degree sits in an adjacent field, add course-level detail showing where the biological content lies, and consider an evaluation whose terms of reference name that question. If the degree is in a related discipline such as environmental science, the file should include course descriptions showing the biological content, since the officer decides whether the degree is in the profession rather than simply whether a degree exists.