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Why look for a job offer in Canada to immigrate over and boost your Express Entry profile when you can legally issue yourself one? Yes, it’s possible and it is 100% legal. Today we will cover the 50 and 200 points that you can claim in your express entry profile by issuing yourself a job offer and an alternative way you can claim a job offer outside of Express Entry. Be your own boss!
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Some of you already know this, some of you have heard about it but maybe don’t know all the details. It is possible to issue a valid job offer to claim 50 or 200 points for your Express Entry profile.
Nobody will really teach you this, so here it goes, these are the technical instructions after which we will cover the eligibility and overview of how you can make this happen. There are two methods, and we’ll cover both:
Method A based on an LMIA-exempt work permit
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Step 1) Register a business inside Canada. For example, in BC, Ontario, and New Brunswick you can register provincial incorporations without stepping foot in Canada and having no local Canadian directors or shareholders. It typically takes 1-2 days to finalize it for our clients
Step 2) Register on the Service Canada Employer portal for an account. This is based on your incorporated business inside Canada.
Step 3) Apply and pay the Employer Compliance fee of CAD$ 230 in the Service Canada Employer portal while issuing yourself an LMIA-exempt job offer. You enter all the details of the job offer, the LMIA exemption code such as C10, C11, or C12 (as an example). This is even possible for a Startup Visa applicant!
Step 4) An LMIA exemption code is issued from the Employer Portal for this specific job offer.
Step 5) Use this exemption code and apply for your work permit either from inside Canada or through an overseas embassy.
Step 6) Enter Canada and be on the payroll of your company for 12 months consecutively to claim the bonus points in Express Entry by the 13th month.
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1: An existing and operational company in Canada applies for a Labour Market Impact Assessment, also known as an LMIA. You are either coming in as a staff member, executive, or a combination of being a shareholder/investor and executive which is typically known as an owner/operator LMIA. You can also just be a regular staff member they are hiring from overseas.
2: It usually takes approx. up to 2 months to get the LMIA approval with all the advertisement and recruitment requirements.
3: When the LMIA is approved, you will have an approval number for a valid LMIA which you will link to your own name (if it’s not already done so from the beginning of the application). With this approved LMIA you apply for your work permit, no matter where you are in the world. When the work permit is approved, you can claim the bonus points in Express Entry even if you have not arrived yet in Canada.
4: Here is the key to this whole process. If you cannot obtain the work permit, you cannot claim the bonus points in Express Entry for 50 or 200 points based on this approved LMIA. This is true for both scenarios we just explained.
Now, who can go through this process? What is the eligibility criteria?
Here is a quick breakdown of how you can become eligible for these programs:
A: You can buy shares or invest in an operational and active company in Canada to apply for an owner/operator LMIA. If you already have a job offer from any employer as a regular temporary foreign worker, not as an investor, that can work too.
B: You can apply for the LMIA exempt job offer if you are setting up your branch in Canada from your existing business such as C12, or setting up a new business such as C11, or even for a Startup Visa as an entrepreneur Startup founder. These are just a few examples.
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Now, who can claim 200 points vs 50 points?
Any regular job offer eligible under NOC codes 0, A, or B can claim 50 points by default in Express Entry if it went through the steps I explained earlier in this video.
However, the key difference between the 200 vs 50 points is your position. If your job falls under a NOC 00 double zero, as an Executive or Managing Director or CEO, you are eligible to claim those 200 points. In order for you to have this title, the company in Canada should hire at least 6 staff or more in order to have a middle manager, and then you as a director. And here is a small bonus hint: Startup Visa founders can also claim 200 points even if they don’t have that many people working for them or they are not planning to hire. With 1-2 staff the 200 points don’t work for most businesses. Please do remember that LMIA-exempt job offers cannot claim these points until they have been on the payroll of the Canadian business for at least 12 consecutive months, but LMIA-based job offers can as long as the work permit is approved.
As promised, here is a quick preview of how you can use these programs without Express Entry – in case you are not eligible or just don’t have enough points to be selected for PR considering these bonus points we discussed in this article.
Step 1) You buy less than 10% shares in an active and operational business in Canada.
Step 2) You go through an owner/operator LMIA for the position you have just technically granted yourself as an investor/shareholder of this Canadian company.
Step 3) A job offer is issued in your favor.
Step 4) You apply with the Provincial Nominee Program under the Skilled Immigrant stream sponsored by an employer. At least one province in Canada allows this type of investment and job offer – others do not – so be aware.
Step 5) You apply for your PR and Work permit together and enter Canada. The PNP skilled immigrant stream is a PR stream, not just a work permit.
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