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I'm one of them, got a bit over 500 points.
BTW there's a spreadsheet and lots of folks from here have filled it in, take a look: http://tinyurl.com/mwstg52.
 
I just got my LMIA, so I have 782, applying under CEC.
 
desouzas said:
What do you need to be doing to get an LMIA? In my opinion, any Canadian can do ANY job! Lol.

Not the skilled trades though! There is a shortage of manpower in skilled trades.
 
^^ But isn't one of the caveats also about training Canadians? Surely a Canadian can be trained to do the trade.
 
pziegler1986 said:
But isn't one of the caveats also about training Canadians? Surely a Canadian can be trained to do the trade.
desouzas said:
Exactly why I think any Canadian can do ANY job.

Jobs that require professionals to be bilingual or trilingual are just one example.

Try training Canadians to speak several languages with a level of fluency that is needed for certain jobs. It's tough to even get them to speak both their official languages, English and French. Canadian-born people of foreign descent won't have near the same level of fluency as people raised in foreign countries.
 
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pixelfrontier said:
Jobs that require professionals to be bilingual or trilingual are just one example.

Try training Canadians to speak several languages with a level of fluency that is needed for certain jobs. It's tough to even get them to speak both their official languages, English and French. Canadian-born people of foreign descent won't have near the same level of fluency as people raised in foreign countries.

Immaterial the only language requirements allowed for a LMIA are either English/French or both.
 
PMM said:
Immaterial the only language requirements allowed for a LMIA are either English/French or both.
LMIAs are issued whenever a foreigner has a very specific set of skills that Canadians don't have. Language fluency in a language other than English or French or in both English or French for a profession that requires it could be one such skill.