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Hi,
I am currently living and working in Canada under a working holiday Visa which lasts for 1 year and cannot be extended. To extend my stay I must get a new temporary work visa, which means my work needs to ´sponser´ me. By sponser this means they need to get a ´Labour Market Opinion´ as well as write me a Job offer. It must be shown that a Canadian will not suffer if I am given the job. Calgary at the minute is extremely short of workers, so I dont feel that it will be a problem.
However, I have just found out that it can take for Months to get a Labour Market Opinion?? I need to know if this is true. My current visa expires on May 5. If it takes 4 months, it means im going to have to go home, and I want that, and it also seems stupid for Calgary, as they are in extreme need of workers at the moment. Seems like a lose/lose situation. The other things is that it nowhere states it would take that long. I was told at least a month by somoene at the harry hays building immigration place.
Please let me know how long it should take, and iff possible, someone I can talk to about all this?
Thanks a lot
[15-03-2007,02:37]
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Moses |
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(in reply to: Temprary Working Visa)
There are special projects in Alberta and it should only take two weeks.
Roy
www.cvimmigration.com
[15-03-2007,07:32]
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Roy |
(in reply to: Temprary Working Visa)
Thanks a lot for the reply.
Can I ask what you mean when you say special projects? Do you mean they are giving Alberta special treatment because they are short of workers?
[15-03-2007,07:38]
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Moses |
(in reply to: Temprary Working Visa)
Also, if this is the case, should I get my work to submit the LMO in Calgary? As my head office is in Toronto, so its likely theyll submit it over there. Or doesn´t it matter
[15-03-2007,07:42]
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Moses |
(in reply to: Temprary Working Visa)
Ive just called the Alberta immigration place, and the lady told me its a minimum of 12 weeks before anyone even looks at an LMO application..? Is there something you know that she doesn´t?
[15-03-2007,15:53]
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Moses |
(in reply to: Temprary Working Visa)
So what job is it that you can do that a Canadian can´t, even in ´desperate for workers´ AB? There are tons of people moving to Alberta every day so I am curious to know howcome you can get your WHV extended! Besides, we don´t yet know if you qualify for the ´special projects´ that Roy mentioned.
[15-03-2007,19:08]
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Anonymous |
(in reply to: Temprary Working Visa)
Ah ok.
I´n not ´extending´ my WHV - as that´s not allowed. Im just applying for a temporary working visa. Im a store manager of a Canada wide retail firm - nothing so special that i believe would make me qualify for any ´special projects´. However, My area manager has been posting job offers for store manager at 2 different locations, with not one person applying. In the mall I work at, at least 80% of the stores have now hiring signs (no exaggeration - Sunridge Mall - feel free to check it out. And it is a similar situation all around Calgary. I´m not saying that a Canadian couldnt do my job - but at this point in time, it is very hard to get workers. If you´re not from Calgary, itd be hard to know what its like.
In any case, I like it here, and I like my job, and it would be unfortunate for me (and my 2 friends in the same position) to have to go home, when there is still quite a shortage of workers here.
Thanks for your reply - I hope that clears up a few things?
The Immigration place told me I might be able to apply for a ´grace period´ - so I can still work until the LMO and Visa application is sorted out. I have no idea who I would talk to about this, as Immigration send me to the HRSDC, and they tell me to talk to Immigration!
[16-03-2007,03:31]
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Moses |
(in reply to: Temprary Working Visa)
my employer was also informed that processing time is around 12-16weeks....
I´m waiting for my LMO for a month now and I beleived that my employer submitted it to harry hays building in Calgary
[01-04-2007,00:21]
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erick |
(in reply to: Temprary Working Visa)
Yea the LMO´s arent meant to go to the Harry Hays building - may want to check where your work sent it.
I just told work to put urgent on mine, and Ill keep calling em to see where its at. Basically im screwed if i get bakc to canada and it hasnt come through
[01-04-2007,01:57]
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Moses |
(in reply to: Temprary Working Visa)
hi moses,
are you sure harry hays bldg is not accepting LMO Application, thats the contact that i gave to my employer, check out this link, Services includes hiring foreign worker (http://www1.servicecanada.gc.ca/cgi-bin/hr-display.cgi?rc=4802&ln=e)
anyways I´ll try to contact my employer to know where they sent the application....
btw, i just told by my employer that there still no communication from Service Canada at the moment.
[03-04-2007,22:18]
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erick |
(in reply to: Temprary Working Visa)
heya
from what I could see, from here:
http://www1.servicecanada.gc.ca/en/epb/lmd/fw/tempoffers.shtml
Your employer needs to: Submit an HRSDC Foreign Worker Application for a labour market opinion (LMO) to the Service Canada Centre responsible for your area.
which from the link on that site, shows me:
http://www1.servicecanada.gc.ca/en/epb/lmd/fw/listhrcc.shtml
and when you follow the link to the alberta office:
http://www1.servicecanada.gc.ca/en/epb/lmd/fw/hrcc.shtml#alta
it shows a mailing address in edmonton. So thats where i told my employer to send it.
[04-04-2007,02:29]
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Moses |
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