Hi Brianna thanks for replying
Employment contract issued by the Canadian employer + all-expenses paid by the Canadian employer = Your visit would be viewed as coming to Canada to work illegally on a Business TRV.
Instead, your situation calls for a Work Permit (which is generally difficult to get and there are too many hoops to go through first).
Our company consulted a canadian lawyer and said that work permits are not needed. We are not there just for training but also strategic/business planning.
Do you own a stake/percentage in the company in your home country?
In some countries, the rules require foreign companies to have a local partner to set up the company. Is this the case here?
Or has the company in your home country been set up as a 100% fully-owned subsidiary of the Canadian company? And, you helped to register this company for a certain remuneration.
Can you provide evidence of either situation?
No we dont own any percentage as this company was registered as a "Branch" and is 100% foreign owned. We have the actual Business registration that specifies the ownership of the company as 100% owned by the canadian company.
You need to prove that you are NOT the only employee on board in the company in your home country.
Actually for now there are two of us which is scheduled supposedly to go to Canada. The canadian company want's to additionally hire after we get back from the meeting and planning. One of our setup is a local partner that will look for clients for them here in our local country and will manage the local office and operations.
Training (if it is for a niche area of work or specialized technical training) is acceptable.
We are supposedly to be trained with the firmware and hardware which was setup in the Canadian office. Also with setting up specialized hardware that they own on the Canadian branch.
However, if you are coming to Canada to be trained in how to set-up the local business operations in your home country and/or to learn how to prepare a strategic business plan on how to enter the Asia-Pacific market then it makes your application to look suspicious/raises red flags.
The local branch of the business is already setup. My questions is, how does "Strategic Business Plan" activity suspicious? They already have 2 branches and 1 big client in asia so they need our office to be the main office for the asian sector.
Why? Because senior management who are employed for such roles would already have the experience and knowledge of the local market, the ground realities and are capable of building a business from ground zero upwards.
Senior Mgt has already came here and one reason that they are going to hire us is that they don't need to fly here every month and want the Senior mgt to stay in Canada. Also one reason for that they are going to outsource some north american project here and that as part of our job is to manage the local and the asian team. One reason for us being hired is that we are capable of handling asian teams culture wise. In our country, we are supposedly the "senior management" as we are going to manage the local and international operations, project, and team.
These senior management do not require the foreign company to guide them for drawing up go-to market and operations strategies. In fact, foreign companies hire such local senior managers precisely because these guys know the market very well as the foreign company may not be fully aware of the intricacies of setting up local business operations + local business practices + market sensibilities, etc etc.
We are the local senior managers.
Also, in such situations, typically the company in the local country would already have on board a senior HR director to kick-start the hiring process for employees across levels.
For now we are also the HR management as this is still starting and we are in the process of hiring HR associates.
Also, do you have prior experience/are you selling/buying into the APAC region through the companies owned by you?
Yes, i have handled local, asian, and north american projects.
It would have helped if you had submitted evidence that the company owned by you is actively trading (i.e. contracts, business bank statements, tax returns, etc and not just the business registration), pays taxes, etc + proof of ownership of property/land/commercial premises + valuation of movable/immovable assets, etc etc
Yes, i did showed my Business registration in one company that i own here locally. We also passed bank statements not just ours but also our company. My question is, why would the canadian embassy need my other asset as the 10yr old canadian company is that one that is hiring us and setting up a business here.
Employment contract issued by the Canadian employer + all-expenses paid by the Canadian employer = Your visit would be viewed as coming to Canada to work illegally on a Business TRV.
Instead, your situation calls for a Work Permit (which is generally difficult to get and there are too many hoops to go through first).
Our company consulted a canadian lawyer and said that work permits are not needed. We are not there just for training but also strategic/business planning.
Do you own a stake/percentage in the company in your home country?
In some countries, the rules require foreign companies to have a local partner to set up the company. Is this the case here?
Or has the company in your home country been set up as a 100% fully-owned subsidiary of the Canadian company? And, you helped to register this company for a certain remuneration.
Can you provide evidence of either situation?
No we dont own any percentage as this company was registered as a "Branch" and is 100% foreign owned. We have the actual Business registration that specifies the ownership of the company as 100% owned by the canadian company.
You need to prove that you are NOT the only employee on board in the company in your home country.
Actually for now there are two of us which is scheduled supposedly to go to Canada. The canadian company want's to additionally hire after we get back from the meeting and planning. One of our setup is a local partner that will look for clients for them here in our local country and will manage the local office and operations.
Training (if it is for a niche area of work or specialized technical training) is acceptable.
We are supposedly to be trained with the firmware and hardware which was setup in the Canadian office. Also with setting up specialized hardware that they own on the Canadian branch.
However, if you are coming to Canada to be trained in how to set-up the local business operations in your home country and/or to learn how to prepare a strategic business plan on how to enter the Asia-Pacific market then it makes your application to look suspicious/raises red flags.
The local branch of the business is already setup. My questions is, how does "Strategic Business Plan" activity suspicious? They already have 2 branches and 1 big client in asia so they need our office to be the main office for the asian sector.
Why? Because senior management who are employed for such roles would already have the experience and knowledge of the local market, the ground realities and are capable of building a business from ground zero upwards.
Senior Mgt has already came here and one reason that they are going to hire us is that they don't need to fly here every month and want the Senior mgt to stay in Canada. Also one reason for that they are going to outsource some north american project here and that as part of our job is to manage the local and the asian team. One reason for us being hired is that we are capable of handling asian teams culture wise. In our country, we are supposedly the "senior management" as we are going to manage the local and international operations, project, and team.
These senior management do not require the foreign company to guide them for drawing up go-to market and operations strategies. In fact, foreign companies hire such local senior managers precisely because these guys know the market very well as the foreign company may not be fully aware of the intricacies of setting up local business operations + local business practices + market sensibilities, etc etc.
We are the local senior managers.
Also, in such situations, typically the company in the local country would already have on board a senior HR director to kick-start the hiring process for employees across levels.
For now we are also the HR management as this is still starting and we are in the process of hiring HR associates.
Also, do you have prior experience/are you selling/buying into the APAC region through the companies owned by you?
Yes, i have handled local, asian, and north american projects.
It would have helped if you had submitted evidence that the company owned by you is actively trading (i.e. contracts, business bank statements, tax returns, etc and not just the business registration), pays taxes, etc + proof of ownership of property/land/commercial premises + valuation of movable/immovable assets, etc etc
Yes, i did showed my Business registration in one company that i own here locally. We also passed bank statements not just ours but also our company. My question is, why would the canadian embassy need my other asset as the 10yr old canadian company is that one that is hiring us and setting up a business here.
