Sanity Check Please Someone!!!!!
May 13th 2003, 8:45 pm
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Sanity Check Please Someone!!!!!
A quick sanity check please!
I'm flying out to Canada (BC) very soon to try and find work and stay for a few years.
We've been planning for ages, and done lots of reading so we know what we're in for.
This is a last minute, panic sanity check!!!
Would somebody please confirm the following:
1.
A British Citizen may visit Canada for 6 months as a tourist so long as they have an onward bound ticket within 6 months.
2.
A work permit is specific to a particular job and can only be applied for when a job offer has been received.
3.
A work permit allows the permit-holder to live and work in Canada for the duration of the job described by the permit.
4.
The partner of the permit holder gets preferential consideration when applying for their work permit.
5.
You can apply for landed immigrant status (points permitting) whilst you live and work in Canada.
Cheers.
Phil
I'm flying out to Canada (BC) very soon to try and find work and stay for a few years.
We've been planning for ages, and done lots of reading so we know what we're in for.
This is a last minute, panic sanity check!!!
Would somebody please confirm the following:
1.
A British Citizen may visit Canada for 6 months as a tourist so long as they have an onward bound ticket within 6 months.
2.
A work permit is specific to a particular job and can only be applied for when a job offer has been received.
3.
A work permit allows the permit-holder to live and work in Canada for the duration of the job described by the permit.
4.
The partner of the permit holder gets preferential consideration when applying for their work permit.
5.
You can apply for landed immigrant status (points permitting) whilst you live and work in Canada.
Cheers.
Phil
May 18th 2003, 3:13 pm
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1.
A British Citizen may visit Canada for 6 months as a tourist so long as they have an onward bound ticket within 6 months.
yes, pretty much. as a British Citizen you are not required to apply for a visitor visa to enter Canada as a visitor. The length of yoru stay is actually at the discretion of the officer who admits you. If they just stamp your passport as they do 99% of the time for UK passports then you have 6 months, but they can write a specific date if they choose and shorten it. It all depends on what they think yoru intentions are. if you roll up with a return ticket for 6 months and no clear purpose or evidence of how you will support yourself then youc an run into problems.
2.
A work permit is specific to a particular job and can only be applied for when a job offer has been received.
Yes. A company (except in special circumstances) must obtain an authorisation form Human Resource Development Canada (HRDC). They in effect have to prove to HRDC that the job is a rela genuine job and taht it has been advertised for a certain amount of time and that no suitable Canadians were found. Once the employer gets that HRDC validation you can use it to apply for a work permit. You have to be outside Canada though and apply for the work permit via CHC London, then use the permit to enter Canada. You can't change status from within Canada from visitor to temporary worker. The permit will be specificly tied to the job it states, you cannot change jobs using the same work permit.
3.
A work permit allows the permit-holder to live and work in Canada for the duration of the job described by the permit.
For the duration of the permit, usually 1,2 or 3 years. you can stay in Canada till the permit expires, but obviosuly if you lose the job before it expires you cannot continue to work just remain as a visitor.
4.
The partner of the permit holder gets preferential consideration when applying for their work permit.
yes. your spouse (married/commonlaw) can get a work permit that needs no HRDC validation. in other words an open work permit to work in any job as long as you still are working in yours.
5.
You can apply for landed immigrant status (points permitting) whilst you live and work in Canada.
yes. you cannot apply from within Canada as such as there are no visa posts in Canada that process skilled worker applications. You have to apply via your home country but whilst you are still living in Canada. If you have been living legally in Canada for at least a year you also have the option of applying via Buffalo in the USA, but CHC London is a better option.
You basicaly apply but jsut with your Canadian address and you carry on the smae as if you were in the UK.
Drew
A British Citizen may visit Canada for 6 months as a tourist so long as they have an onward bound ticket within 6 months.
yes, pretty much. as a British Citizen you are not required to apply for a visitor visa to enter Canada as a visitor. The length of yoru stay is actually at the discretion of the officer who admits you. If they just stamp your passport as they do 99% of the time for UK passports then you have 6 months, but they can write a specific date if they choose and shorten it. It all depends on what they think yoru intentions are. if you roll up with a return ticket for 6 months and no clear purpose or evidence of how you will support yourself then youc an run into problems.
2.
A work permit is specific to a particular job and can only be applied for when a job offer has been received.
Yes. A company (except in special circumstances) must obtain an authorisation form Human Resource Development Canada (HRDC). They in effect have to prove to HRDC that the job is a rela genuine job and taht it has been advertised for a certain amount of time and that no suitable Canadians were found. Once the employer gets that HRDC validation you can use it to apply for a work permit. You have to be outside Canada though and apply for the work permit via CHC London, then use the permit to enter Canada. You can't change status from within Canada from visitor to temporary worker. The permit will be specificly tied to the job it states, you cannot change jobs using the same work permit.
3.
A work permit allows the permit-holder to live and work in Canada for the duration of the job described by the permit.
For the duration of the permit, usually 1,2 or 3 years. you can stay in Canada till the permit expires, but obviosuly if you lose the job before it expires you cannot continue to work just remain as a visitor.
4.
The partner of the permit holder gets preferential consideration when applying for their work permit.
yes. your spouse (married/commonlaw) can get a work permit that needs no HRDC validation. in other words an open work permit to work in any job as long as you still are working in yours.
5.
You can apply for landed immigrant status (points permitting) whilst you live and work in Canada.
yes. you cannot apply from within Canada as such as there are no visa posts in Canada that process skilled worker applications. You have to apply via your home country but whilst you are still living in Canada. If you have been living legally in Canada for at least a year you also have the option of applying via Buffalo in the USA, but CHC London is a better option.
You basicaly apply but jsut with your Canadian address and you carry on the smae as if you were in the UK.
Drew
