Arranged Employment for Permanent Residency through Express Entry Route The Canadian Express Entry system allows employers in Canada to offer permanent jobs to foreign nationals so they can immigrate to Canada under the skilled workers class. Candidates for the Express Entry system who have a job which is [...]

What is the Labour Market Impact Assessment? The Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) was previously known as the Labour Market Opinion (LMO). The labour market impact assessment is an application that once approved allows an employer to hire a foreign, temporary worker through the TFW (Temporary Foreign Worker) [...]

Who is Exempted from an LMIA Generally, if Canadian employer wants to hire an alien worker, they are asked to provide a positive Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) according to conditions of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. There is an International Mobility Program which has known as an [...]

What is the LMIA? The Labour Market Opinion (LMO) is now known as the Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA). It allows an employer to hire a foreign worker. It is hard for an employer to get the permit because it is hard to convince the government that there [...]

Positive LMIA Once the employer has gone through the process, applied for a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA), and got a positive LMIA, the employer gets a letter confirming their positive LMIA. It is up to the employer to send the letter to the employee, a TFW (temporary [...]

Documents needed for LMIA Application:</h2> Business license or documentation showing proof of employers’ involvement in the business Union consultations done before applying to hire the foreign worker(s) Drafted and signed an employment contract Documentation of recruitment efforts to hire a Canadians and permanent residents before offering this job [...]

You as a lower-skilled worker can be hired by employer for up to a maximum of 24 months where there is a demonstrable shortage of Canadian citizens and permanent residents. An employer needs to get Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) once that is approved that can then give [...]

In most cases an employer must get an LMIA to hire a foreign worker. An LMIA essentially permits an employer to hire a temporary foreign worker. However, there are exemptions, as certain categories of workers need a work permit, but may be exempt from an LMIA. The following [...]

The Requirements For Higher-Skilled Occupations: To determine the specific level of an occupation the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) uses the 2011 edition of the National Occupational Classification (NOC) coding system. Consequently, employers have to find the NOC code of their available position, to ensure they can be [...]

What is a LMIA? LMIA stands for Labour Market Impact Assessment. It is the opinion provided by ESDC to the officer which enables the officer to determine whether the employment of the foreign worker is likely to have a positive or negative impact on the labour market in [...]

A Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) is a document that an employer in Canada may need to get before hiring a foreign worker. A Positive LMIA determines that there isn’t any Canadian worker accessible for the job and there is a need for a foreign worker to complete [...]

From January 1, 2015, the Citizenship and Immigration Canada launched a new permanent residence program to handle the huge number of existing economic immigration programs (Federal Skilled Worker Program, Federal Skilled Trades Program, Canadian Experience Class) applications, called Express Entry. In order to comply with the local labour [...]