Employer Portal - Expected duration of employment (work permit)

[joshuaaron]

Hey all. I currently have an open work permit that expires May 22nd of this year.
I recently received my BC provincial nomination, and they supplied me with a work permit support letter to arrange a new work permit until my PR decision is made. I have been working with this company since November 18th 2019, so I am already working full-time.

I am going through the employer portal with my company to receive the offer of employment number as required to pick up a new work permit from a POE and ran into this question:

Expected duration of employment
Indicate in days, months or years the total duration of employment.

Note: Permanent resident programs and temporary work permits
Under certain permanent resident programs, candidates may be eligible to apply for a temporary work permit. In such cases, even though the job may actually be “permanent,” “indeterminate” or have no end date, employers submitting an offer of employment should still indicate the duration relevant to the temporary work permit. For example, under the Atlantic Immigration Pilot, candidates may be eligible to apply for a temporary work permit valid for 1 year. As the work permit will only be issued for a duration of 1 year, this duration should be reflected in the offer of employment submitted for the temporary work permit.

I am quite unsure about what we need to specify here. The work permit would be until a final decision is made from my PR application, and my employment is permanent with no end date.

 

[joshuaaron]

Anybody with any help on this?

 

[OEJOS]

I dont know if this will help you, but I'll tell you my case. I received my ontario provincial nomination certificate and along with that is the work permit support letter. I used it to change my status from open work permit to closed work permit. I applied my work permit last october 2018 and got approved last january 11 2019. My employer has to pay 230$ in the employer portal and gave me the reference number that has been generated, on which I have used that reference number to apply for my closed work permit. I remember there is form where I need to put a date when will be the start of the employment, I just put 2 months in advance prior to my actual work permit application date. I submitted my work permit application last Mid of October and what I have filled up in the form is January 2019 to January 2021, because it's a 2 year as per normal. And when I got my closed work permit approval it's dated January 18, 2019 to january 17, 2021. I hope this experience of mine will give you a general idea. sorry for my english.

 

[lukeortolani]

Hey all. I currently have an open work permit that expires May 22nd of this year.
I recently received my BC provincial nomination, and they supplied me with a work permit support letter to arrange a new work permit until my PR decision is made. I have been working with this company since November 18th 2019, so I am already working full-time.

I am going through the employer portal with my company to receive the offer of employment number as required to pick up a new work permit from a POE and ran into this question:



I am quite unsure about what we need to specify here. The work permit would be until a final decision is made from my PR application, and my employment is permanent with no end date.

Hey what did you end up doing? Does anyone have an idea for what the expected duration of employment should be? The length of the work permit/extension?