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Foreign Workers – Work Permits and Work Visas for Temporary Foreign Workers

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We can help you in getting the necessary Work Permits, HRSDC authorization or NAFTA Work Permit after you have found an employer who wants to make you a job offer. Those born in the U.S. or Mexico may be exempt from the HRSDC process under NAFTA, and we will assess this when working with you. Please note we do not find jobs for applicants. We assist with all of the Immigration work after the applicant has been in contact with an employer directly. and has been made a job offer.

The Work Permit process is often misunderstood by potential applicants, as they think that a third party can find jobs for foreign nationals and get them Work Permits, or that they can arrive as visitors and automatically 'upgrade' to a work permit, and that is not realistic at all.

Canada Immigration does not usually offer open work permits, allowing you (the foreign national) to work anywhere. They are always employer specific, tied to you and one employer who you have approached and that the employer has offered a job that they could not fill with a Canadian candidate. These positions of course by nature must be reasonably technical and highly skilled (in the O, A or B band of the National Classification of Occupations), and you as the candidate having the required education to support the position.

Applicants may only want to work temporarily in Canada, and others who have already applied to Canada Immigration as Skilled Workers, will benefit from the additional points that are often critical to the success of their application. Not every occupation will qualify for a Work Permit, so please feel free to complete the Temporary Work Permit Class Assessment form.

Visitors

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Most visitors to Canada are granted six months from the date of their arrival, and their passport bears a simple stamp from the Immigration Officer at the Port of Entry. The visitor is then expected to leave on or before the end of the six month period. Sometimes however there are valid reasons to extend your stay, and then you need to get approval to do so. This approval is important, as it allows you to remain with legal status, and leaves your options open for future return visits, or applying for Permanent Residence at some future date.

If you would like our help, we can assess your qualifications for obtaining this temporary visa (or its renewal) at no cost or obligation to you. Kindly fill out the Visitor Visa Class Assessment form here, and we will get back to you shortly with our assessment.

Students –Student Visas and Study Permits for International Students

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Students come from all over the world to study in Canada, and many stay on to work and live and raise a family after. Whether you wish to attend a short English course, or full time University or College program, we can help you with your initial Study Permit, extensions of an existing Study Permit, or your post-graduate work permit (and application for Permanent Residence too!)

If you would like our help, we can assess your qualifications for obtaining this temporary visa (or its renewal) at no cost or obligation to you. Kindly fill out the Student Class Assessment form, and we will get back to you shortly with our assessment.

Entrepreneurs

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The Entrepreneur category is the only conditional Immigrant visa where there are terms and conditions that must be met in order to retain their Permanent Resident Status after landing in Canada. To qualify under this program as an Entrepreneur, a business applicant must have qualifying business experience in the last five years and legally obtained net worth of $300,000. Be willing to invest in a Canadian business (the amount is based on the size of the business), and create employment for at least one Canadian for one year, within one year of landing in Canada.

We will be glad to assess your qualifications for immigrating to Canada as an Entrepreneur, at no cost or obligation to you. Kindly fill out the Entrepreneur Class Assessment Form, and we will get back to you shortly with our assessment. All inquiries are confidential.

Self-Employed

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The self-employed category is specifically designed for those who are currently earning a living, and able to support themselves, in the areas of athletics, arts and culture, or agriculture. This would include: musicians, artists and performing artists who are prominent in their fields, music teachers, choreographers; in athletics: athletes, coaches; in agriculture: farmers and farm managers. We will be glad to assess your qualifications for immigrating to Canada as a Self-Employed Applicant, at no cost or obligation to you. Kindly fill out the Self-Employed Class Assessment Form, and we will get back to you shortly with our assessment. All inquiries are confidential.

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Investors

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To qualify under this program as an Investor, a business applicant must have qualifying business experience in the last five years, a legally obtained net worth of at least $1,600,000 and be willing to invest $800,000 for a period of 5 years in a Government administered plan, or the option of financing the investment by borrowing from our well-established Fund Manager, a leading Canadian bank.

We will be glad to assess your qualifications for immigrating to Canada as an Investor, at no cost or obligation to you. Kindly fill out the Investor Class Assessment Form, and we will get back to you shortly with our assessment. All inquiries are confidential.

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Our Blog

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November 2011

How to Immigrate to Canada

by David LeBlanc, RCIC – ICCRC Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant

With all of the recent changes in Canadian Immigration policy, it might seem that Canada has all but pulled in the welcome mat. In many ways, that is true. The current policies are unwelcoming for the vast majority of international skilled workers that used to be the backbone of the immigration department.

Many new immigrants come under the Family Class, as a Canadian citizen or permanent resident can sponsor their spouse or life partner, dependent child under the age of 21, parent or grandparent. Recently Canada Immigration has announced a two year ‘pause’ of parent and grandparent sponsorship. There are also changes proposed in sponsoring spouses, common-law partners and conjugal partners, where a 2 year conditional visa will be issued to protect sponsors against being duped into marriages of convenience and being abandoned by their newly landed partners.

In the future, the most significant growth in Canadian Immigration will likely be under the Canadian Experience Class category. This program eases the way for those who have come to Canada as International students or temporary foreign workers to be allowed to stay, provided they meet the criteria for this category.

The main categories for immigration to Canada are:

· Family Class sponsorship

· Skilled Worker Independent applicants

· Business Class immigration

· Entrepreneurs

· Investors

· Self-Employed (limited to cultural and performing arts, world-class athletics, and agriculture farm managers)

· Students and Temporary Foreign Workers qualifying in the Canadian Experience Class

· Refugees

· Humanitarian and Compassionate applicants

For Refugee and Humanitarian categories, there are some major changes in the way these two categories are handled, that will be implemented over the next year as the new Appeals process is introduced.

Many candidates interested in immigrating to Canada still qualify under the Skilled Worker category.

Temporarily, the Skilled Worker – independent applicant program you might qualify has been placed on “hold” until the beginning of 2013, as the Immigration Minister is reviewing all parts of the selection criteria. The overall selection grid and law changes have been announced, but without the all important details to allow us to qualify and select good clients. Many important details of the new program are not yet known.

If you are serious in your interest to immigrate to Canada, you must make sure that you know if you really qualify now to make an application, and if not, what you will need to do to meet the criteria in the future. The requirements are very precise, and complex. It is not just a simple matter of having the right set of forms, but in understanding how all of the details of the process fit together. You can qualify, but miss important small details in the supporting documentation that will see a refusal of the file.

We ask that you revisit this page early in January 2013. As soon as all the details are published, we will provide a complete update when all details of new programs will be known.At that time, we will be glad to assess your qualifications for immigrating to Canada as a skilled worker, at no cost or obligation to you.

Here is a brief summary of other categories for quick reference.

· The Canadian Experience Class is for those who have either studied for 2 years and graduated and worked for one year after in Canada, or worked for 2 years in Canada

· The Business Class of Entrepreneurs or Investors is for those applicants who have professional experience operating or directing a business within the last 5 years.

· For the Investor, a personal net worth of CAD$1.6Million and an investment of $800,000 is required.

· An Entrepreneur needs a net worth of CAD$300,000, and is a conditional visa requiring you to make an investment in the company, create full time employment and be involved in the daily operations of the business.

In the Canadian Experience Class, the toughest challenge for international students and temporary foreign workers is determining if the work that they do is qualifying work as defined by CIC. Only work in the top three levels, or bands, of the National Occupation Classification index, or NOC, qualify. The work needs to be done within a narrowly prescribed period of time. All applicants also must meet a set level of language proficiency in French or English in the Canadian Language Benchmarks, and only certain tests such as the TEF and the IELTS are approved for this purpose.

We have not touched at all on the many other kinds of immigration services that those inside Canada may require, such as

· Immigration detention reviews

· Appeals of refused family sponsorships at the IAD – Immigration Appeals Division.

· Appeals of refused refugee applications at the IRB – Immigration Refugee Board

· Deportation hearings and stays of removal

· Admissibility hearings for loss of residency, criminality, or other violations of the Immigration Act and Regulations

· PRRA – Pre-Removal Risk Assessment claims

Immigration law is complex, and is not a Do It Yourself project. The CIC website says that you do not need an Immigration consultant or immigration lawyer, that you can do it all by yourself. When you don’t understand the complexity of the matter, and make a simple mistake that will see you disqualified, the Visa Officers will not offer to counsel you to correct, change, or amend your application. They will simply refuse it, dashing your dreams of immigrating to Canada. The Appeals courts are full of such cases.

Having expert guidance and honest counsel is more important than ever in any successful application for immigration. Make sure that your Canadian Immigration Consultant is legally authorized to work for you. Our senior counsellors are Immigration consultants in Toronto Canada, and are Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultants RCIC – ICCRC, members of the Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council. Only RCIC’s are legally authorized to represent you in all Canadian Immigration matters.

David LeBlanc RCIC – ICCRC

Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant

Managing Director

Ferreira-Wells Immigration Services Inc.

Canadian Immigration Consultants in Toronto Canada

1377 Bathurst Street, Toronto ON M5R 3H8

416-651-8889

You and your Immigration Professional must have an in-depth knowledge of Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), and the supporting Regulations, Manuals, Operating Memorandums. New programs come in as others are revised or cancelled. Your knowledge must be current, and not based on old criteria. The programs that skilled workers qualify have changed dramatically and often recently, and how family members are defined and are sponsored became very rigidly set out in the regulations. You must have a deep knowledge of the relevant details of the Act and Regulations to know if, and how, you qualify. Something as seemingly harmless as how you describe the main duties of your job may see you disqualified and your application would then be refused. There may be unique circumstances that make you eligible to apply under humanitarian and compassionate grounds, or under a different program other than the one you are currently considering. You must select the right one before making your application. Immigration law is dynamic. There have been many recent changes to programs and how an applicant might qualify. Small changes in policy and procedure can have a dramatic impact on your chance for success. It is strongly recommended that you work with somebody who has a comprehensive and current understanding of the Act, and how it applies to your personal circumstances.