Hi all, thanks for your replies to my other threads.

I have just been offered a job ( woohoooooo) on Vanc Island, exactly where we wanted to be, and doing what i wanted to do, and am sooooooo very chuffed......
What we arent sure of is how do we now proceed.
Our applications for PR have been in 16 months now, and we hadnt planned to come over until they were through, but now the job offer has changed it all.

What do i have to do, in respect of getting onto a work permit, getting the offer ratified etc, all our research has been for PR, and not this channel.
What our next step?

Helppppppppppppppppppp

Hi there, and congratulations! All of the information you and your future employer will need should be contained within the following link:

http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/epb/lmd/fw/supperimm.shtml

Your potential employer will have to apply for a LMO (see site) on your behalf to secure you a work permit so you can commence employment. This should result in your PR application being fast-tracked, perhaps to completion 12 months from now. I am not an expert but I have researched this myself and this should give you a start!

Good luck. Providing your future employer jumps through the requisite hoops you should be fine.

Ben

P.S scroll down the link, nothing appears at the top!

benj

thanks so much, is 12 months roughly the average time? lets just say if i filed the papers today, then 12 months from now I could move? or could we move straight away and work while waiting?

cheers

qman

Hi there. Your work permit application would be processed much quicker than that. It is your application for PR which would, hopefully, be finalsed quickly whilst you were working on the work permit. The website should explain much better than me! Best wishes.

benj

thankyou, I guess what id like to get to is a "real time" appreciation of what generally happens in a typical case like this, what i can expect to happen, and what would normally happen to Mr Average in a typical case, using peoples experience of what happened to them in a similar situation.
Sometimes, the rules and regs do not give a feel of what can actually happen.

Mike

Yes, it's tricky to gauge and I expect peoples experiences do differ quite widely. Good thing is you actually have a job offer which is fantastic! I am still looking :-(.

What line of work is your job offer in?

benj

Im a mechanical engineer by trade, and the job offer is in the quality field, ISO 9001 and all that.

what about you, what you looking for?

I am currently working as a sales manager but my background is educationally in the arts: not particularly useful for securing a job from afar as I have no 'proveable' skills such as yourself. I have a Masters degree in American Literature, for example, which although lovely and all that isn't that altogether useful for securing jobs! I also have experience as an editor for an academic publishing firm. Fingers crossed I will find something.

Benj

Good luck to you, im certain something will crop up for you.

Mike

Hi

I'm a Building Control Surveyor...where did you find your job? I'm looking for a job and not having much luck at min.

K

Hi KJM,

well, to be honest, the offer was through a friend of a friend, and we just got talking, he decided he wanted me to do what I do for him, so it wasnt a formal approach to a Company, just a bit of luck.

Mike

Well done Mike and good luck.

K