Service Canada provides an LMO to the employer and Citizenship and Immigration Canada. The LMO is an assessment of the likely impact that the hiring of foreign workers may have on the Canadian labour market. Categories of Occupations Generally Requiring LMOs High-Skilled Occupations: Requests to [...]

With the reopening of the Federal Skilled Worker program, new criteria have also been encompassed in the new application. Among these new criteria, applicants are now required to have any foreign educational credentials assessed by a recognized assessment agency. Why do I need to have [...]

Supporting Letter for Sponsorship When writing letters of support or personal statements for the purpose of sponsoring your spouse or common-law partner, there are a number of things you should include. Writing a personal statement is your chance to "connect the dots" for the officer [...]

To take advantage of the Canadian Live-in Caregiver Program, you must have the following:  The equivalent of a Canadian high school education. This requirement is intended to increase the likelihood that participants, who later become permanent residents, will be able to find employment. successfully completed [...]

An Immigration officer reviewing your case at the port of entry will need specific information in order to determine whether or not you are considered exempt from a Labour Market Opinion. Information Required by an Immigration Officer: Details of the job offer, including Copy of [...]

The much speculated Federal Skilled Worker program, which was previously placed on hold, is up and running again. This program, which previously experienced a backlog of approximately 280 000 applications, has been revamped to now take on new applications as per the revised criteria. The [...]

Documents to Include When attempting to sponsor your wife or Common Law Partner there are some key documents that you will need to also provide in order to satisfy an officer that you both meet the necessary requirements and that you are in a genuine [...]

In Canada, there is a shortage of Live-in Caregivers. To address this problem, the federal government has introduced a program to enable private households to hire caregivers from abroad. This program is called the 'Live-in Caregiver Program', and it allows suitably qualified people from other [...]

Canada took in an estimated 125,000 temporary foreign workers in 2007. Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) works with other federal departments, provinces and stakeholders to respond to labour market needs across Canada. The Government of Canada tries to maximize the benefits foreign workers bring while [...]

As a live-in caregiver, you have legal rights to fair working conditions and fair treatment under labour laws in most provinces and territories. Nothing in your contract or working conditions can change this. You also have the right to leave an unsatisfactory employer. Regulation 185 [...]

The National Occupational Classification (NOC) provides standardized criteria for describing the work performed by Canadians in the labour market. It gives statisticians, labour market analysts, career counsellors, employers and individual job seekers a consistent way to collect data and describe and understand the nature of [...]

You must first try to hire a Canadian citizen or permanent resident for the available job. When you apply to Human Resources and Skills Development Canada for approval; to hire a foreign national, you will be asked to show what efforts you made in this [...]