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A friend of mine also received an LMIA for cook position in alberta 3 months ago. Remember that tomorrow is thanksgiving folks so there offices will be closed.

I imagine your medical request will have slowed things down.

Hi All, I am a UK citizen and my girlfriend is a Canadian Citizen, i will be returning to the UK in January and she will follow a couple of months after, we plan on living together the entire time we are there and after a year we will be applying for common-law. My question is, can we live...

I can confirm this was in Alberta: myself and a friend also got approved lmia for 0631 restaurant managers in the past 6 months. It is possible.

A friend of mine was a line cook in a restaurant and they got an approved LMIA. low skilled positions lmia are obtainable.

No one can chose for you, do your own research and see which one is a better fit for you. Every person is different, i hate australia but love canada, why? because reasons of my own choosing, might not necessarily be the same for you. Research.

Just wondering if you can study while having a work permit? My friend is wanting to do a full time course at sait. If he gets onto the course and does actually need a study visa would the visa officer take into account they are allowed in Canada to work for 2 years and would approve it on that...

My friend is 2 weeks behind you, their lawyer said it will be a few more weeks so you should be coming to the end. Fingers crossed for you.

You should always be proactive in getting them to chase. When we first applied for mine last year, we sent it off in june thinking everything would be fine, it got to around august and hadn't heard anything so we contacted them to find they hadn't even received our application so we lost those...

A year without a response is an awful long time. Normal processing times are 2-4 months if everything is done correctly.

I'm not familiar with the timelines from applying from outside of canada but i know it takes longer. I would probably get your employer to contact service canada and perhaps get an update. Maybe someone can get you some more information than I.

Are you applying from outside of Canada? What's your home country?

Its a minimum of 4. one HAS to be job bank and the advert HAS to stay up throughout the entire LMIA process.

The fee went up, you have to pay an additional amount. $150 extra I think. Someone will be along shortly to give a more thorough answer. It's happened to a lot of people though.

Cannot be much longer for you now. Within the next couple of weeks I feel. If timelines are accurate.

Yes

I wouldn't bank on it, might be 2 different processing centres

If your SIN hasnt expired you can carry on working, once it does expire, just go to your local service canada building with your work permit and they can reissue your SIN.

You can stay in the country while a decision is being made, whether or not you can continue working all depends on what kind of visa you have.

You can only flagpole if you're from a visa exempt country.