Hello anyone

IS THERE AN INTERCOMPANY TRANSFER SCHEME BETWEEN UK AND CANADA

Hello.

YES THERE IS! (By the way, it's considered 'shouting' if you type in caps so you might want to turn the caps lock off!). That's what we're doing, heading over to Vancouver in new year as hubby is being transferred with work. You need to have worked for your current company for at least a year, and need to be in management or above to qualify.

Have a read of the Wiki (top of page) and it will tell you all you need to know.

Oh, and welcome!

thank you i am not shouting now. i have worked for the company for five years but would be going as a service technician offshore st johns New Foundland does this count?

Yes, as long as you can prove that your skills are specialized enough that it would be impractical to train a Canadian with the same skills in a sensible amount of time.

No such place. I suspect you mean 'Newfoundland all one word. Rhyme with 'Understand' to get the correct pronounciation. You want to get in touch with PinkMcFarqhar, her husband has done exactly the same thing - got transferred by his company to Newfoundland. He's in the oil & gas sector too.

I also arrived here on an intra-company transfer. The criteria are supposed to include a "senior management or leadership role" within the company, but there doesn't seem to be a hard & fast definition of that phrase. Certainly your company's HR dept should be able to write an appropriately worded letter to satisfy CIC.

My OH was transferred (at our request!) by his company, but came over on the PNP route. His company had to prove that they had been advertising for people in his line of work to get him over (which they had been).

That may be the route you have to take - don't know anything about inter-country transfers. Can get here relatively quickly on the PNP route - took us about 8 months from applying to getting the PNP certificate. Once you have certificate you can come over and get work permit at point of entry then apply for permanent residence.

Just give us a shout if you need any more info and I'll do what i can to help.

Thanks for the info everyone. very helpful, Company has been advertising for service hands for quite a long time. They have i think 7 and need 14. Like all the oil industry it is drained of skilled people, most going to where they pay the big bucks.

Hi there
Are you working out in Newfoundland as well as your oh, We originally were going as skilled workers and got the green light to go but with no job to go to it was no way hosey ,waste $50,000 and then come back in 6 months as many do. But now with a job offer it seems the write thing to do, if only to get the children citizenship.

I'm not working at the moment. I'm a teacher, and as I am here on an open work permit - can't work with children or food until get medicals for pr. Also, not too much work for teachers - going to take a long time to break into that. Thinking about a change of career, but don't know what yet!

If your company have been advertising for people, then you should manage to get in via PNP easily. Don't know how quickly you want to come over - because that will take a few months - there has been a huge rise in people applying to come over here. You might manage to come over more quickly via another route, but don't know how to do that - but I'm sure there will be other people who can.

If you got the green light to go as skilled workers, can you still come over on that? Did you get your permanent residence via that route? If so, no problems at all, you can just move over as far as I am aware.

Feel free to drop us a pm with any other questions you have and I'll do my best to answer them.

What kind of "scheme" do you have in mind?