Intra-company transferees work permit is one subcategory of the International Mobility Program which allows permits international companies to temporarily transfer qualified employees to Canada to improve management effectiveness, expand Canadian exports, and enhance competitiveness in overseas markets under R205(a) or exemption code C12 (Canadian interests – Significant benefit). This applies to foreign nationals from any country including Iran or any other country where they are not even a member of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).
Having faster work permit application processing is one best features of this program. Considering qualified intra-company transferees are exempted from the Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) and are eligible to apply for a work permit under the Global Skills Strategy (GSS) which features faster application processing times (two weeks)
The permanent Residency pathway is another important feature of this category. Foreign workers coming to Canada under work permits can apply for PR for themself and their accompanying family members under Canadian Experience Class as well as Federal Skilled Workers via Express Entry System. Their employment arrangements will provide them with 50 to 200 additional points under Express Entry System.
In terms of eligibility criteria two main elements are (a) qualifying relationship between the Canadian and foreign employer or business; (b) qualifying relationship between the employer or the business and the foreign worker.
Other advantages of this work permit are the eligibility of applying for an Open Work Permit of the worker’s spouse, free education of the worker’s children, use of Canada’s free healthcare benefits, and no English or French language tests requirements, no undertaking for the employer or the business to operate the business in the certain province or does investment or hire Canadian citizens or residents in terms of job creation.
He is the founder of Yazdani & Associates Immigration Firm as well as YLG – Yazdani Law Group. He studied a professional Master’s degree in Canadian Common Law at York University, graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2016. He obtained his Certificate of Qualification from the National Committee on Accreditation (NCA).
He previously studied an Immigration Consultant Program at Lasalle College in Montreal as well as Civil Law and International Law. He became a member of “ICCRC (Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council)” in 2016. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 2019 and has been practicing Canada immigration law since establishing his immigration firm in Toronto. Mr. Yazdani is the only lawyer in Canada with an immigration consultant diploma and three law degrees. His high-profile and celebrated cases have attracted international attention, and he is frequently consulted as an immigration expert by televisions, journalists, government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on matters pertaining to immigration law and policy. He recently was a television host in a biweekly show known as “Canadian Immigration from Law’s Point of View”.
He is the author of several articles on matters pertaining to Public International Law, Dubai Property, Arbitration Law, and Canada Immigration Law.
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