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Exactly, if someone rushes to get an LMIA now the employer has to advertise the role for 4 weeks before they can even submit the application.

If you're currently in Canada working on an Open Work Permit, and your employer wants to apply for a free 10-day LMIA to support your application with 600 points then you fall into the first option, ignore the text related to hiring someone after they have received PR, that's aimed at people...

Nobody knows the date and the cutoff score will not be known until the draw has been completed.

If you're not eligible for PNP and your employer can't get you an LMIA then you have 2 options: 1) Find an employer/job that will get you an LMIA/PNP. 2) Cross your fingers that your profile will get selected on base points before the end of your permit.

No the point of the program is to safeguard Canadian jobs, that's why LMIAs get such an advantage, because they can only really be obtained if there is a genuine need for a foreign worker, when a company can't find a suitable Canadian or Permanent Resident. If that cook is a specialist in a...

Errr where did you get the idea that 10-day free LMIAs were for people who already had ITAs?... They are designed for employers to quickly obtain an LMIA in order to support an employees EE profile with an additional 600 points, at the cost of not being usable to obtain a TWP.

Yea, I'd expect the next draw to clear up fewer ~800+ candidates and start dipping into the 500s, fingers crossed since I'm sitting at 510 points.

I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to advise you on a suitable province for your career, but one bit of advice I can offer is that where you're saying 'revert' you actually mean 'response', just a tip since you'll want to score well on your IELTS exam (If you'd be taking an English test instead of...

I'm pretty sure that after an ITA you need to prove all work experience that you've been awarded points for, otherwise anyone could claim years of experience for more points. Don't worry about business cards, I think that was a recommendation someone received once because they had to get a...

Why would they care? The report just needs to be dated within 12 months when they assess the application, the reason they are advising you wait for an ITA is because they don't want people spending the money if they aren't going to be selected for an ITA soon.

I'm afraid at this point, nobody knows. I believe in theory at first, candidates will be able to view jobs listed and apply for them, at which point employers could choose to interview etc, then go through the route of applying for LMIA. The Job Match feature that should come later in the year...

Does anyone have any idea about how long it takes to receive a medical report back? I'm aiming to get selected in the next draw or two and I need to have all documents ready so I wanted to look into getting the medical done in preparation.

One thing to note is if the company only has 2 employees, it might not qualify for an LMIA, don't quote me but I vaguely remember reading something about the various requirements a company has to satisfy before they are eligible to apply for an LMIA.

Agreed, it'd be a very small number of people with points between 600 - 850, would be very rare cases where someone with a base score of ~200 would be skilled enough for an LMIA to boost them up. I'd expect the next draw to give a very good example, since they'll have cleared out all the...

Students come to Canada to study, they can still do that. It doesn't mean you are entitled to PR or guaranteed it.

How? Right now they would all have been removed from the pool since they've been issued ITAs. It's pretty doubtful that many, many people will be able to get LMIAs before the next draw since it's pretty difficult.

No, last year they REMOVED the exemption from advertising the job for PGWP candidates.

Complete an Express Entry profile and hope for the best. Also look into PNP or another employer who would get you an LMIA if possible.

They would consider those applicants, if there were no candidates left in the pool with higher scores.

They don't choose the points needed, they choose the number of people they're going to invite, the lowest score among those people's profiles is the 'minimum score'. It looks like all they did was issue ITAs to all the LMIA holders to get them out of the way, otherwise a number of 779 ITAs is a...