1) Provincial office where applied: Vegreville, AB
2) Date when application was POSTED: Nov 17, 2009
3) Date when they recieved the application: Nov 16, 2009
4) Any correspondence or calls received by your employer in between, if yes then the nature of the enquiry and after how many days/weeks did you get an enquiry from them? Yes!
5) Date when decision made or recieved? Nov 24, 2009
6) Employee is inside or outside Canada when the Application was submitted? inside
(My case is fast.)
Since I got some help from PMM and Leon, I am here to share my special experience to honor them. (Do not know whether this is right word or not...anyway!)
My work permit expired on Oct 23rd. We did apply the new work permit on August 11st, 2009.
However, we did not have the new LMO...
On August 23rd, we applied my PR through AINP. In Sep., AINP mailed my company for the new LMO and work permit.
Then, we realized we need the new LMO... Then, we applied the LMO on Oct. 1. My LMO was refused on Oct. 28th..since we did not advertise the job.
My company advertised my job on jobbank.com from Oct 28 to Nov 16. My company got 40 resumes...(My God)
(The work permit mailed on August 11st was refused on Nov.3rd because of invalid LMO. Everyone knows this...
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We did the LMO online application on Nov. 16th. My company was doing the pre-screening for the resume, so we faxed the documents on Nov. 17th to complete the application. My company tried to call them to talk to them. However, none of them are available to talk with us....Or they called back when my boss was not in the office...
Finally, my boss faxed them a letter to ask for the help. If they do not give me the LMO, I will leave this country...
They called my boss back last Friday. I do not know what they talked.
Then, they called my boss today (Tuesday) for the positive LMO.
Anyway...to fax them a letter is useful if your case is urgent.
We will mail the documents for the work permit tomorrow.
Two weeks ago, we went to MP office for my case. MP office said they will help us for the work permit when we mail out the application with valid LMO.
I will be in MP office on Thursday for my work permit. I do not know how much they can help, but it will be much better than nothing.
SO...MP office can help too if your case is urgent.....
For the LMO, I do not know whether it can make any difference or not.
I have PhD degree and know how to run a monitor that others do not know.
However, the first LMO also took me 8 weeks and the refused LMO also took 4 weeks.
(I think PhD degree is not really important.)
So.....Asking your boss to fax them will be much useful....I think.