Able to work with V-1 visa?

[steve1975]

Hello and thanks for your help.

Nephew is arriving in Canada shortly with V-1 Multiple entry visa. Accompanied by wife who is Canadian citizen but born and lived overseas and months old daughter. Wife is pharmacist who can work as such in arriving province. Also, wife owns condo gifted by uncle in province where they will live.

They opted for Visitor visa with multiple entries because of expedited processing time. Months for PR visa and on-the-spot for visitor visa.

Question: Can husband work with his V-1 visitor visa or is there something else he needs to apply for to be able to work. He plans on returning to his native country frequently.

 

[Naturgrl]

Hello and thanks for your help.

Nephew is arriving in Canada shortly with V-1 Multiple entry visa. Accompanied by wife who is Canadian citizen but born and lived overseas and months old daughter. Wife is pharmacist who can work as such in arriving province. Also, wife owns condo gifted by uncle in province where they will live.

They opted for Visitor visa with multiple entries because of expedited processing time. Months for PR visa and on-the-spot for visitor visa.

Question: Can husband work with his V-1 visitor visa or is there something else he needs to apply for to be able to work. He plans on returning to his native country frequently.

No he can’t work on a visitor visa. Wife needs to sponsor him for PR. Once he receives AOR, he can apply for a work permit. Being a citizen, they should have started the PR process months ago. Could have applied for TRV and PR at the same time.

If he is not planning on being in Canada and travelling frequently, he still needs to maintain PR status and residency obligations.

 

[scylla]

Hello and thanks for your help.

Nephew is arriving in Canada shortly with V-1 Multiple entry visa. Accompanied by wife who is Canadian citizen but born and lived overseas and months old daughter. Wife is pharmacist who can work as such in arriving province. Also, wife owns condo gifted by uncle in province where they will live.

They opted for Visitor visa with multiple entries because of expedited processing time. Months for PR visa and on-the-spot for visitor visa.

Question: Can husband work with his V-1 visitor visa or is there something else he needs to apply for to be able to work. He plans on returning to his native country frequently.

As said above, he cannot work on a visitor visa.

Options are for his wife to sponsor him for PR inland. As said above, once AOR is received, he can then apply for an Open Work Permit and then start working once that work permit is approved (it will take a number of months from the time his spouse sponsors him for PR until he has the approved work permit). However if he plans to return to his native country frequently, this route isn't going to work. Applying inland requires him to be in Canada and living with his spouse (a few short trips are OK but frequent trips won't work).

Alternatively he needs to secure a full time job offer from an employer in Canada. That employer then needs to obtain an apprvoed LMIA. Once the LMIA is approved, he can then apply for a closed work permit tied to that specific employer. He can start working once the work permit is approved.

 

[steve1975]

Thank you both for your quick answers. Appreciated.