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Do you remember the good old days? Or maybe you don’t and you’re new to Canadian immigration. Yes, the good old days when you would pay a security deposit of $100,000 Canadian dollars to the provinces such as Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, or New Brunswick just to name a few and you would arrive through the Provincial Entrepreneur program with PR on arrival to Canada. All you needed was an exploratory trip, interview, business plan, proof of funds and you would be selected for PR processing to arrive with your family in Canada (not a work permit). If you decided to start and run the business in the province you would receive the security deposit refund after a specific period of time, or you could forfeit it, do nothing and live your life in Canada in any region of your choice.
Those days are over. The Canadian government caught on that most applicants do not want to risk starting or running a business in specific provinces that had these available programs. The reasons may also be that there is too much risk for foreign entrepreneurs & investors – and rightly so. All those programs are closed as of today, and for 2021 to 2022 even the Quebec investor program is closed which is probably the most expensive and slowest program in Canada (unless you are a fluent French speaker) – although it’s the only official passive investment program available at the moment.
Whether you are 45, 50, or 62 years old and don’t think that you can ever get enough Express Entry points or a Canadian PR on arrival, then we have news for you. It’s all possible.
Today we are going to cover the steps & techniques eligible applicants can take to receive PR on arrival, or to reduce the time to receive their PRs for business & investment immigration to Canada.
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Yes, it’s possible. PR on arrival or just a few months after arrival if you are eligible, with no work permit renewal.
This is how it works, as we will take you through all the steps. We will simplify the process and information so everyone can understand it. Anyone can do it; you just need to know where and how to find the information.
The key to this program is starting or owning a business in Canada which is large enough to justify the additional arrange employed points for the CRS in Express Entry.
Many people think the owner/operator program is closed, but it’s not. The criteria has changed and the strictness of assessing each applicant is now being challenged.
Here are the basic requirements:
*The main applicant’s profile needs to be eligible for Express Entry with at least 290 points
*Based on your ties to Canada, buy or start a large enough business in Canada. It must be operational for this technique to work. We will explain at the end of this article your options if it’s not an operational business yet and how large a business it needs to be.
*You or your legal representative will complete a Labour Market Impact Assessment (also known as an LMIA) which requires an investment in the business. This is also known as an owner/operator LMIA and many people believe it’s closed now, but it isn’t.
*After you receive the LMIA approval, you will apply for your work permit under this Labour Market Impact Assessment (either from inside or outside Canada). The LMIA will be for a National Occupation Classification code of 00 (double zero) and hence your work permit after 4-6 months of processing time will also be for a NOC 00 position which is the maximum points to be claimed under Express Entry.
*As soon as you receive the work permit, you will upload the valid job offer to your Express Entry profile and if you have 290 points (less or more) you will then have 490 points and with the current trend of Express Entry, you will be selected and receive an invitation to apply (ITA) for your PR including your eligible dependents such as spouse/partner and children.
*Express Entry takes 6 months to process your PR no matter where you are.
*So literally before you arrive in Canada or just at the same time with your work permit, your PR will be ready.
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Now here is the fine print and the justification why this program is NOT closed (owner/operator LMIA):
We are continuing to see LMIA approvals for applicants who invest in a business, and who receive approval for NOC 00 positions, as long as the business is substantial. But there is one significant exception. Employment & Social Development Canada (ESDC) New Brunswick office, which is where LMIAs in support of permanent residence are filed, are refusing LMIAS which include a requirement for investment, and they also stated that they would only approve NOC 00s for companies with 50 – 500 employees or more. They claim to have been given instructions from IRCC to prevent business applicants from getting PR (i.e.,200 points) too easily, by just investing money in a business! A group of RCIC’s made a request under the Access to Information & Privacy Act in Canada to ESDC (Employment & Social Development Canada) for any such policy guidance and did not find anything to support their claim, which would indicate that they are imposing these rules on their own, both of which are contrary to published ESDC policies. If anyone has seen such decisions, you can respond to ESDC and quote the case:
HAZEL SEVILLA // IMM-3726-17 // 2018 FC 424 // APRIL 19, 2018
This case states that an officer cannot arbitrarily impose conditions, which are not supported by the Act and Regulations and where there are other accepted public definitions.
You can also quote the very recent case of 108 Self Employed applications that were refused in Warsaw, after rule changes that were not made public, or were contradictory to other published policies:
Docket: IMM-2767-18 and others
Citation: 2022 FC 1089
SANAM NEZAMI TAFRESHI (and others) vs Minister of Immigration
Again, these applications were filed in New Brunswick in support of
This basically means that either your lawyer or immigration consultant knows how to navigate through this and has the resources and legal knowledge to fight it to claim your 200 points or they’re going to just tell you that it’s closed, which is a shame.
On a cautionary note, be sure that in your Offer of Employment that supports your claim for Arranged Employment Points under Express Entry you use the correct language.
IRPR82 (1) states that:
In this section, arranged employment means an offer of employment that is made by a single employer other than an embassy, high commission, or consulate in Canada or an employer who is referred to in any of subparagraphs 200(3)(h)(i) to (iii), that is for continuous full-time work in Canada having a duration of at least one year after the date on which a permanent resident visa is issued, and that is in an occupation that is listed in Skill Type 0 Management Occupations or Skill Level A or B of the National Occupational Classification matrix.
Check your application for any Offer of Employment that does not include this language and amend it before responding to the invitation to Apply under Express Entry.
Of course, this applies to all EE applicants who are claiming Arranged Employment points.
The owner/operator program is not closed and is not dead. It’s alive but you have to fight for it and be 100% on top of all legal challenges and regulations of the Canadian immigration department ESDC which issues the LMIA’s.
You may ask, how big does the business have to be? Well, it has to be operational of course, and not just a business plan for the PR on arrival to work otherwise, you can be inside Canada with a work permit, run yourself on the payroll as a NOC 00 for 1 year, then claim the job offer and claim 200 points.
The business should be big enough to have at least one middle manager for you to receive a NOC 00 as a managing director or CEO. Use your business common sense on how many staff are required to have a middle manager, typically 6-8 at the least. And if you don’t know what a middle manager is, or how many staff per middle manager, then maybe you don’t have the right profile for this program. But don’t worry, at INGWE we have hands-off and hands-on programs for your Canadian PR. We have options available for you across many provinces, and how deep you want to get involved in a business which is why we call it Hands-off and hands-on programs. Click here and get a FREE assessment with us.
Either you have an eligible profile for Express Entry or you don’t – we have the solution for you. Even with ZERO English or French ability, there is a program that can offer you direct PR to Canada and it is 100% legitimate like everything else we publish online. Do you think if a program is not 100% transparent, legal or possible we would publish and talk about it online? Just think about it.
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