mesumrizvi said:If your employer is willing to get you LMO.. take it and run with it.. there is no other way right now.. if there was no LMO in equation.. your best option was to stay in Canada as a visitor ineligible to take any job.. consider it a blessing your employer is willing to help with LMO..
I was in same situation and my employer was not going to help me with LMO... so i applied for paper based BOWP which took over 80 days but was eventually approved.
I should have known this earlier. It is really helpful. By the way, did you have an AOR when you applied for BOWP?