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Well quickly has been used here as a relative term.
Still, it is possible to reduce down to about one year (and sometimes less), a wait that otherwise might take five years or more.
Permanent residence (PR) visa applications in the skilled worker category currently are taking 5+ years to process. This can be reduced by one of the following methods:
- coming to Canada on a temporary work permit and then, with an offer of permanent employment in hand, applying for a permanent residence visa that will be fast-tracked by virtue of the permanent job offer
The Community Identified Stream of the Nova Scotia Provincial Nominee Program is recommended by some posters on the BE forum.
If you are a British citizen who is under the age of 30, you can get a 12-month Working Holiday Visa (WHV). Although it's quite a tricky thing to do, some BE forum members have succeeded in upgrading their WHVs to PR visas through British Columbia's PNP.
A work-around that some applicants use is for one partner to enter on a study permit. Then the study permit holder's spouse or common-law partner is entitled to a spousal open work permit.
Another, somewhat risky approach -- that at least one member of the BE forum has used to gain entry to Canada -- is to apply for a temporary work permit on the basis that you are going to start a business in Canada. This requires fairly considerable resources, business acumen, and guts.
There are other ways of speeding one's entry into Canada, but the above mentioned ones are some of the most popular and feasible.
This article used to list a PR application, backed up with an Arranged Employment Opinion (AEO) from HRSDC/Service Canada, as one of the relatively quick ways of gaining admission to Canada. However, an immigration consultant on BE's Canada Immigration forum has advised us that Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) pays little attention to arranged employment for people who still are outside of Canada. Evidently CIC takes an offer of permanent employment seriously only when a person already is in Canada, working on a temporary work permit.
Since several of the "quick" ways of getting into Canada depend on securing employment first, you may find it helpful to read the series of BE Wiki articles on job hunting in Canada.
Some people consider entering Canada as visitors and then applying for temporary work permits or permanent residence visas once they're in Canada. Some members of the BE forum have done this, but this approach is not without obstacles and risks. Please see the Wiki article entitled Living in Canada as a Visitor.
