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That's exactly right! I think we both know the issue here and we just keep spinning around it. When CIC says "permanent" job offer in relation to a foreign national, they mean a job offer which is permanent only if the foreign national is granted permanent residence. In this respect...

Employers should know that they cannot employ a person on a work permit beyond the expiration date of the work permit, unless they have a new work permit with a future expiration date. That much is law. Employers would know the employee's work permit expiration date since they have to see the...

I did not misunderstand the term at all. This is also an issue between the employer and the Govt. of Canada in the sense that there are regulations that prohibit employers from continuing to employ foreign nationals beyond the expiration date of their work permit (and social insurance card)...

Your wife's employer did not make her a permanent job offer if she does not have permanent status. By law, employers can only hire you up until the expiration date of your work permit (see regulations on the Service Canada web page for this). The LMIA is applicable to every worker, PGWP or...

No company can offer you a permanent job since you're not a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident. You cannot work as you say "full time permanent" because you don't have permanent permission to work. Your work permit expires on a certain date and you cannot work after that date.

This is what happens when you hand out open work permits like candy. People who hold them start thinking they're already permanent here, and they forget about expiration dates. Foreign students are notorious for this (and for holding the delusion in their heads that they're soo much brighter...

Wrong again! I've had PR status for almost three years now. I'm pretty sure that even after I get Canadian citizenship in a few months, in your head I'll never be Canadian. But you have a problem: it does not matter what's in your head. It's not what people think of me that will make me a...

Well, you keep believing they won't do it, just like you and your ilk believed in the permanence of the old Skilled Worker program and in the specialness of the CEC category. And then you get a rude surprise when they roll out things like Express Entry and the LMIA. There goes the old myth...

The only thing YOU have done is take away a Canadian's job, after studying here. Just so we're clear on THAT! You did not require LMIA for the job you got on the PGWP and THAT is wrong! I'm sure the time is coming when the Government of Canada will correct that as well. They're just doing...

You make some valid points regarding jfalvitez's comment. It's very ignorant indeed. Really when a former foreign student says it's unfair that he should have to go through LMIA what he's really saying is "I'm different from any other foreign national and I deserve permanent residence." This...

Yes, that is very true; and, sadly, it's only half the story .... in my experience .... . Not only are they NOT interested in what you bring them. They are not interested in your explanations either! In fact, I'm not sure, what you can do on your end to get their attention when you're...

dpenabill, I was being sarcastic in my post "The nerve of those officials ...." but it seems like neither you nor MUFC got the sarcasm; understandable in a forum. In regards to your response, I must say that when it comes to CIC and its application processing, there can be no such thing...

The nerve of those officials of the Government of Canada to mess up the personal plans of some PRs with these new and annoying residence requirements! How dare they not ask the prospective applicants IN ADVANCE what their plans are? How can they be so insensitive? Can't they design a set of...

You might as well be forecasting which way the wind will this day next year, because as far as you're concerned, as long as you don't have PNP or LMIA, you'll be waiting around for an invitation for who knows how many years.

Let me just ask you all this simple question: If EVERYBODY in the EE pool has the same score, do all get invited to apply? That was a rhetorical question of course, in case you didn't get it. You can't invite several times more applicants as you plan to admit in the year. Everyone having the...

CIC "screwed" this immigration program? When was it ever right? The vast majority of arrivals under the Federal Skilled Worker program got here on fraudulent documents, since it's only a paper-review process. Officers are not required to interview the person. For all they know, it's one person...

That's what makes Express Entry a lottery. I've been saying this over and over and people just don't get it. Kind of like the US Diversity Visa Lottery: people who submit entries claim that they have a high school diploma (which is required to enter) or that they are natives of a qualifying...

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I think what you mean is that this question has been argued to death here several times, with people usually ending up throwing personal insults at others when reaching the end of their arguments. There is nothing to DISCUSS, really. The published Ministerial Instructions and CIC itself could...

There are really very few institutions that absolutely MUST be informed of your acquisition of Canadian citizenship, and even these, only if you're going to need certain benefits from them. They're mostly government departments. At the federal government level: (1) Service Canada needs to be...