Options while awaiting PR

[cayman2_canada]

Like a lot of people out there, I have seen the wait time for my common-law partners PR paperwork climb from 12 mnths, to 17 to 25 months since applying back in December of 2012. I left the Cayman Islands to take a job in Canada, thinking it would only be a few months apart from my partner, now it's looking like 9 more months until she's granted permission to come to Canada.

Does anyone know if she has any options to work/live in Canada while the PR paperwork is being processed in Kingston Jamaica?

 

[QuebecOkie]

There are no options for working associated with the outland PR process. She could try to get an LMO from an employer so she could have a closed work permit, but it seems that few employers wish to jump through those hoops. If she can enter Canada as a visitor, she can stay with you while the process continues. Visa-exempt persons generally don't have much trouble getting into Canada as a visitor. If she needs a visitor visa to come, that may prove problematic, as I read that they are often denied if the visa officer believes the applicant's ties are stronger in Canada than in his/her home country.

 

[cayman2_canada]

Thanks QuebecOkie, I was afraid of that. What is an LMO?

 

[scylla]

What is an LMO?

See:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/work/employers/apply-who.asp