Can foreign nationals who have applied for Canadian permanent residence under the Independent category concurrently apply for a temporary non-immigrant employment authorization?
The issues raised above should be reiterated here as well. In addition, applicants who wish to procure a temporary authorization visa must generally initiate the process to obtain an employment authorization with the assistance of the prospective employer who must file an application with the Canada Employment authorities inside Canada. It is only after the employment authorities have confirmed that the hiring in question will not adversely affect the local labour market that the application would be forwarded to the appropriate visa office outside Canada for immigration assessment and processing. This is known as “employment validation”. As the processing time at the employment validation stage can entail a delay of up to six months, it would not be advantageous in many cases, for the applicant to apply for a temporary authorization visa during the processing of an application for permanent residence. Certain programs exist however, which exempt an applicant from obtaining employment
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