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Canada’s strong economy, competitive renumeration, growth opportunities and a strong workforce with high standards of workplace safety makes Canada an attractive work hub for skilled and non-skilled foreign workers from all over the world.
Thousands of foreign nationals come to Canada to work every year and help fill skill gap and labour shortages. Working in Canada gives a foreign national valuable Canadian work experience and a transition route to permanent resident.
In Canada, work is any activity for which wages are paid or commissions is earned. To work in Canada, all foreign nationals need to either apply for a work permit or an authorization to work without a permit.
In most cases, a foreign national is required to apply for this work permit or authorization to work without permit before coming into Canada, in other cases, the foreign national applies for these permits at the Port of Entry (POE) or inside Canada.
Work Permits
Work permits are classified based on different factors such as LMIA based/exempt, employer specific, job specific, open and closed work permit. Generally, all work permits generally fall under the LMIA based and LMIA exempted class as stated here:
Work permits pursuant to Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) [This is through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP)].
Work permits pursuant to exemption from the requirement of Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) [This is through International Mobility Program (IMP)] or
Authorization in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulation (IRPR) to work without a permit. [Clergy, Crew, Business Visitors]
While the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) addresses skilled and non-skilled labour shortages, the International Mobility Program (IMP) advances Canada’s broad economic and cultural national interest by providing competitive advantages to Canada and reciprocal benefits abroad for Canadians.
However, for easy understanding, we will group all work permits into two types:
This requires a job offer from a Canadian employer and includes work permits under the following sub-category:
LMIA Based Work Permit
International Mobility Program – LMIA Exempt Work Permit
Agreements – GATS, NAFTA (CUSMA / USCMA / T-MEC),
Canadian Interests – Intra-Company Transfer
Designated by the minister – Work related research
Reciprocal employment – International Experience Canada
Open Work Permit
This group of work permit is neither job specific nor employer specific. It confers some element of flexibility as the worker may work for any employer without first having an LMIA job offer. An open work permit can either be:
The worker may work for an unspecified employer, but the permit is still occupation restricted mostly for public health reason, or occasionally if the worker has a negative medical assessment outcome.
Explore the world – we ‘ll walk you through the maze.
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WORK
Canada’s strong economy, competitive renumeration, growth opportunities and a strong workforce with high standards of workplace safety makes Canada an attractive work hub for skilled and non-skilled foreign workers from all over the world.
Thousands of foreign nationals come to Canada to work every year and help fill skill gap and labour shortages. Working in Canada gives a foreign national valuable Canadian work experience and a transition route to permanent resident.
In Canada, work is any activity for which wages are paid or commissions is earned. To work in Canada, all foreign nationals need to either apply for a work permit or an authorization to work without a permit.
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In most cases, a foreign national is required to apply for this work permit or authorization to work without permit before coming into Canada, in other cases, the foreign national applies for these permits at the Port of Entry (POE) or inside Canada.
Work Permits
Work permits are classified based on different factors such as LMIA based/exempt, employer specific, job specific, open and closed work permit. Generally, all work permits generally fall under the LMIA based and LMIA exempted class as stated here:
Work permits pursuant to Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) [This is through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP)].
Work permits pursuant to exemption from the requirement of Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) [This is through International Mobility Program (IMP)] or
Authorization in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulation (IRPR) to work without a permit. [Clergy, Crew, Business Visitors]
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Temporary Foreign Worker
While the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) addresses skilled and non-skilled labour shortages, the International Mobility Program (IMP) advances Canada’s broad economic and cultural national interest by providing competitive advantages to Canada and reciprocal benefits abroad for Canadians.
However, for easy understanding, we will group all work permits into two types:
Employer / Occupation Specific Work Permit
Open Work Permit
Employer / Occupation Specific Work Permit
This requires a job offer from a Canadian employer and includes work permits under the following sub-category:
LMIA Based Work Permit
International Mobility Program – LMIA Exempt Work Permit
Agreements – GATS, NAFTA (CUSMA / USCMA / T-MEC),
Canadian Interests – Intra-Company Transfer
Designated by the minister – Work related research
Reciprocal employment – International Experience Canada
Open Work Permit
This group of work permit is neither job specific nor employer specific. It confers some element of flexibility as the worker may work for any employer without first having an LMIA job offer. An open work permit can either be:
visa types
Restricted
The worker may work for an unspecified employer, but the permit is still occupation restricted mostly for public health reason, or occasionally if the worker has a negative medical assessment outcome.
visa types
Unrestricted
This worker can work for any employer, in any occupation and at any location.