How can my wife work?

[scott11]

I am a citizen by birth and full time student. My south korean wife just arrived here. She wants to work. How is this best achieved?

LMO is almost impossible to get. She is an engineer but I guess there are too many engineers applying for the same job who don't need a visa.

She also does nail art but no shop will hire her without a visa.

If I were a foreign student my wife could apply for an open work visa but i'm a citizen so she can't. Strange stuff.

So being my wife she must a year and a half for PR to be able to work?

 

[Becki567]

She would have to apply as a skilled worker or under provincial nominee. You can search and get information on these items on the CIC website.

 

[eurmione]

I am a citizen by birth and full time student. My south korean wife just arrived here. She wants to work. How is this best achieved?

LMO is almost impossible to get. She is an engineer but I guess there are too many engineers applying for the same job who don't need a visa.

She also does nail art but no shop will hire her without a visa.

If I were a foreign student my wife could apply for an open work visa but i'm a citizen so she can't. Strange stuff.

So being my wife she must a year and a half for PR to be able to work?

You can sponsor her. After about 10 months, when you guys are approved for sponsorship, she can apply for open work permit.

She can find a job and having the company sponsor her to apply for work permit.

She can doing nail at home from a side.

 

[Becki567]

You can sponsor her. After about 10 months, when you guys are approved for sponsorship, she can apply for open work permit.

She can find a job and having the company sponsor her to apply for work permit.

She can doing nail at home from a side.

If she does nail at home on the side without a work permit and CIC finds out you will be in big trouble. That is the same as working under the table. Illegal

 

[eurmione]

If she does nail at home on the side with a work permit and CIC finds out you will be in big trouble. That is the same as working under the table. Illegal

YYYYYEEEESSS. But the question raised: how do they know?

"FBI, we have to check your house for investigation" (FBI-Miami)

 

[Becki567]

YYYYYEEEESSS. But the question raised: how do they know?

"FBI, we have to check your house for investigation" (FBI-Miami)

The odds of being caught may not be high, but the consequences of being caught are high.

If you don't think anyone working under the table, ILLEGALLY, gets caught; you are wrong.

And they do actually have immigration officers that DO investigate various issues. I find it shocking to promote and suggest illegal activity on this PUBLIC forum

 

[bethfaint]

When you apply for inland sponsorship you can apply for a OWP (Open Work Permit) at the same time. Once you have recieved first stage approval if you applied for an OWP along with it you will recive your OWP in the mail. Mine came in less than a week after getting AIP (Approved in Principal).

Do not wait to apply for a work permit once you receive approval, do it at the same time. Stage one processing is still around 10-11 months, so she can't work until then I'm afraid.

 

[Leon]

You need to sponsor her for PR. Either you sponsor her inland and apply for an open work permit at the same time and she will get it after 10-11 months and must stay in Canada for the duration or you apply to sponsor her outland, processed in Manila, she should get her PR in around 14 months, see http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/perm/fc-spouses.asp or maybe less because 14 months is the time for 80% of applications.

Until then, she can not work without an LMO. Even doing nails on the side. It only takes one person to rat her out to get her deported. What she is allowed to do is volunteer. If you are broke, she can volunteer at a food bank. They'll give her some food to take home. She can also take short courses, less than 6 months in length. If she wants to study, she could also apply for a study permit and she could apply for a student work permit which would allow her to work up to 20 hrs. a week. However, she would have to pay international tuition and she would have to show funds to support herself as well as being able to pay her tuition.