Ok, this will probably be a bit long, so I'll skip the details, unless I'm asked to provide more. Our lives just took a weird twist and as me and my wife were finally feeling settled in Canada, insecurity returned.
Very long story short: My mother who is all alone (and I really mean all alone) back home with a mortgage, just lost the only thing that she had: her job. She is feeling very bad and depressed, so will be visiting us shortly to feel a bit better.
I don't have my PR yet (applied inland) and will have to remain unemployed for a few months, so things might get very, very hard on us if only my wife is able to work. I obviously want to do anything possible to keep my mother close to me and get her to work as well as that's what she wants and there is noooooo way she would find another job back home. She's 55, speaks English, not fluently but can certainly participate in a conversation even with some mistakes and has a reference letter in English from her older boss where she worked for 5.5 years as a cook.
Bearing in mind she'll now be coming on a 6 month visitor visa and let's assume that I do find restaurant owners who are willing to hire her as a cook, I'd like to know what the best route would be to follow, so here's some questions that I have, as I'm not really familiar with exactly how the SINP program works:
1) I've heard from people that did find a job as cooks here that they didn't need an LMO and that they only did the job approval part by SINP. Is it true and if yes, how exactly does it work?
2) What would you say would be the best solution regarding all the above info for us? Although money is certainly an issue, I'm mostly concerned about how I could make my mother a PR as soon as possible without complicating matters too much. The potential employers are currently waiting for me to tell them what I'd need to be done, so looking for something that might not scare them away and regret it. Any suggestions welcome!
3) Will she need to take the IELTS exam? If yes, now or later?
4) Will she need any other paperwork for the job approval or the PR application later? I mean, if she would need anything else apart from her experience as a cook, as she hasn't actually studied anything etc
Sorry for the long post, this is really something that has made us all extremely stressed and uncertain for the future though, so we're panicking quite a bit right now.
Very long story short: My mother who is all alone (and I really mean all alone) back home with a mortgage, just lost the only thing that she had: her job. She is feeling very bad and depressed, so will be visiting us shortly to feel a bit better.
I don't have my PR yet (applied inland) and will have to remain unemployed for a few months, so things might get very, very hard on us if only my wife is able to work. I obviously want to do anything possible to keep my mother close to me and get her to work as well as that's what she wants and there is noooooo way she would find another job back home. She's 55, speaks English, not fluently but can certainly participate in a conversation even with some mistakes and has a reference letter in English from her older boss where she worked for 5.5 years as a cook.
Bearing in mind she'll now be coming on a 6 month visitor visa and let's assume that I do find restaurant owners who are willing to hire her as a cook, I'd like to know what the best route would be to follow, so here's some questions that I have, as I'm not really familiar with exactly how the SINP program works:
1) I've heard from people that did find a job as cooks here that they didn't need an LMO and that they only did the job approval part by SINP. Is it true and if yes, how exactly does it work?
2) What would you say would be the best solution regarding all the above info for us? Although money is certainly an issue, I'm mostly concerned about how I could make my mother a PR as soon as possible without complicating matters too much. The potential employers are currently waiting for me to tell them what I'd need to be done, so looking for something that might not scare them away and regret it. Any suggestions welcome!
3) Will she need to take the IELTS exam? If yes, now or later?
4) Will she need any other paperwork for the job approval or the PR application later? I mean, if she would need anything else apart from her experience as a cook, as she hasn't actually studied anything etc
Sorry for the long post, this is really something that has made us all extremely stressed and uncertain for the future though, so we're panicking quite a bit right now.
