Information on immigrant status requirements

[Snowman1308]

Hello,
I am in the process of starting the family class sponsorship through my Canadian wife but at the moment I can only get there through my tourist visa (6 months).
I am a licensed paramedic in another country and my intention is to convert it in a Canadian license, yet in order to do so I need to do 450 hours of ambulance rides. I have already found an ambulance service in Canada which is willing to take me on for that but I don't know what immigration status is required to do that. It will not be a proper job since no money exchange will involved and it is not a real student position so I guess it doesn't frame in the student visa requirements the same.
Final question is: does anybody knows if, while I am waiting for my PR to be processed, I can sit does ambulance hours rides out of my tourist visa? Do I need a different kind of visa? If that's the case, do you know which?
Thank you for the attention

 

[scylla]

What do the ambulance rides entail? Is there anything you do? Do you just sit there doing nothing and saying nothing? Or are you in some way involved?

 

[Snowman1308]

I will definitely have patient contact while there and thus I will need a personal liability insurance. The issues still stands though in reference to the visa requirements since it s really hard to find an answer to the specific situation.

 

[Rob_TO]

Sounds like this may cross the line into something that may require a work permit. Note that receiving payment is not a criteria that can be used to determine if you need a work permit or not, as many volunteer positions in Canada are illegal to do without a work permit.

I would ask the Ambulance service specifically if they have experience with these kinds of ride-a-long programs with foreigners with no legal work status in Canada.

Else you may need to contact IRCC directly. There is some info here you can start with on if you require a work permit or not: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/tools/temp/work/index.asp

 

[Snowman1308]

Yeah, that was what I was figuring out.
I am going to attach an open work permit to my family sponsorship application and I hope that is going to come earlier so that i can start immediately to do my hours and shorten everything down. Do you figure that is likely to happen (provided that everything is on spot with the papers of course)?

 

[Rob_TO]

Yeah, that was what I was figuring out.
I am going to attach an open work permit to my family sponsorship application and I hope that is going to come earlier so that i can start immediately to do my hours and shorten everything down. Do you figure that is likely to happen (provided that everything is on spot with the papers of course)?

You can only submit an OWP with an INLAND PR application, meaning you are already in Canada as a visitor at the time you submit the PR app. In this case, you'd get the OWP approx 3-4 months after applying (I think some get it quicker, check the recent INLAND threads for people's recent experiences).

 

[Snowman1308]

So applying as an Outland does not allow for the OWP to be asked at all, correct?
Applying as an Outland I can still come to Canada as a tourist while I wait for the PR, provided that I don't work in the meantime and that my tourist visa is valid through the whole time, correct?

 

[Rob_TO]

So applying as an Outland does not allow for the OWP to be asked at all, correct?
Applying as an Outland I can still come to Canada as a tourist while I wait for the PR, provided that I don't work in the meantime and that my tourist visa is valid through the whole time, correct?

Correct, no OWP with outland app.

Once here as a visitor, you can apply while inside Canada to extend your visitor status/visa if still waiting for outland PR app to process.

 

[Snowman1308]

My family sponsorship is being managed through Campbell and Cohen, do you know if the eventual extension/.change of status must be done by them since they already manage my papers?