Applying Work visa from the U.S border

[gabriel_evb]

Hi Folks!

I have a question and it's breaking my head up
I am an Au Pair from Brazil in US with a J1 Visa and I can stay legally in US until March 28, 2017.
I found a job as a live in caregiver in Vancouver and I already have a approved LMIA and all the documents required except the FBI Background check that will be coming in a few weeks and the medical exam that I can provide at anytime.
I also have a tourist visa to Canada valid until Aug 2019. As I visit Alberta already in 2015.

The time for applying to the work visa here is 13 weeks and it's a lot for me. But I search and looks like I'm positive and have all the requirements to apply from the border.
I live 5 hours from Vancouver and I could easily drive up there and get the work visa at the border.
The agency that is helping me says I can do that and they will help me providing and make sure I have everything and all the documents that I need and I need to pay $155 at the border to apply there. And the results I get right away with the agent of immigration.
The agency the family contracted to apply for the LMIA said I can't do that and have to apply online and wait those 13 weeks.
But I think that the portion of live in caregiver that apply from the border is so small that the family agency doesn't know about it. Most of them apply overseas.

Does anybody have ever apply from the border? It worked? I'm planning going there on the ground and not flying.

Thanks guys

 

[scylla]

You can't apply at the border. Only those who are TRV exempt can apply at the border.

You need to apply online and wait.

 

[gabriel_evb]

Even when I already have a valid canada visa?

 

[scylla]

Even when I already have a valid canada visa?

Yes - even then.

There are actually two requirements you don't meet. The first is that you're not visa exempt. The second is that you're applying to be a caregiver.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/tools/temp/work/port.asp

You need to apply online. That's your only option.

 

[gabriel_evb]

Thanks Scylla! You helped me a lot! Hopefully everything will be done earlier.

If I start the process here and take too long that my limit time here in US will be over. And I still didn't had send my passport over to the embassy. Should I go back to Brazil and when they ask for my passport I send for a friend here and he send to the embassy to finish the process?

Or should I go back to Brazil and apply from there? Because I'm worried of that I'm only leaving in March 28 and starting applying for the visa now.

What do you recommend for me?

Thanks in advance

 

[scylla]

Unfortunately I don't know the answers to your last questions. I would recommend you post them to the foreign workers section of the forum and look for the threads that are specifically discussing the LCP program. Good luck.