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Religious Worker question

Darren

Newbie
Mar 16, 2015
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Hello,

We are trying to hire someone who has both a UK passport and a NZ passport to be our Spiritual Program Co-ordinator at a Buddhist Centre in Canada. She is a Nun and would simply receive room and board and a small stipend. We are hoping she can come for at least 2 years and arrive as soon as mid April. It seems from what I've read that she can enter without needing to apply for a work visa. That she just needs to have documentation that she is a nun in our tradition and qualified to do this job and she needs to show our formal request for her to come and take on this job. If she has these documents, then she should be able to show them at Point of Entry and receive a visitors record that would allow her to enter and leave the country and would act like a work visa. There would be no need for a return flight. Is this all true?
 

Lammawitch

Champion Member
Dec 21, 2014
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Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
This manual explains what is needed:

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

Darren

Newbie
Mar 16, 2015
2
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Thanks - I reread the website and it answered more of my questions. The one that I haven't found an answer to is "is it ok for this person coming to Canada to come on a one way ticket to Canada?" She's not planning on return to NZ anytime soon, in fact she'd go to the UK after Canada rather than NZ. So is it normal when applying to work without a permit to arrive on a one way?