Best route to take for a 23 year old English man?

[RuiiN_Execution]

Hi there,
I have been looking to move over to Canada for about 4 months now. I have been over to Alberta where I tend to move to, and even have a job offer. The big question is, which is the best route to take?
I have read up about different route you can take, and the ones I have seen and taken note of, are the Foreign skilled worker visa, temparary foreign worker visa, and family class sponsorship.
A little background to my case so people would be able to help a little better.
I have an English uncle who has lived in Canada now for over 4 years, and now has permanent residency, and even married to a Canadian.
He was the person who first suggested I have a look at moving to Canada, and has said that if and when I manage to get there I can stay with him until I get settled and sorted out with job and what not until I can stand alone out there.
I just got back from my first visit to Canada in the 18th of May, and loved it there so much, I just didn't want to come back to England, and would like to try and get back over there as soon as possible.
I am a chef and have been cooking for 5 years, and have very good qualifications in a range of different parts of catering, and great experience.
I have been offered a job from a Canadian employer, but at the minute they are struggling to obtain the required LMO for me to be able to apply for my work permit. I do think this could be the easiest and fastest way in, but just have to wait to see if they can get the LMO.
What I would like to know is, if they cannot obtain the LMO, which is the next best option and route to take, where I would be allowed to preferably work and live for as long as I would like, or even to take it to permanent residency?
I have been trying to find out more information on the family sponsorship visa, but I find the CIC website quite vague.
Does anybody know how long the application process for it tends to take, and also if i would be eligible for family sponsorship?
The uncle I have in Canada is a direct brother to my dad, so we are direct family and are blood related.
Also what privileges the family sponsor gives you? Does it entitle you to work as well as live, and if it is locked to a caertain length of stay?

Any help and advice would be fantastic, I really do hope any one here can really help me better than the CIC helpline.
Thanks in advance

 

[scylla]

Forget family sponsorship. Your uncle can't sponsor you. In order for your uncle to sponsor you, he would effectively have to have no other living family members (i.e. no living wife, no living children, no living parents, no living brothers or sisters).

Look into the International Experience Class (working holiday) visa. This won't allow you to immigrate - but it would allow you to come to Canada and work / live for a year.

 

[RuiiN_Execution]

Forget family sponsorship. Your uncle can't sponsor you. In order for your uncle to sponsor you, he would effectively have to have no other living family members (i.e. no living wife, no living children, no living parents, no living brothers or sisters).

Look into the International Experience Class (working holiday) visa. This won't allow you to immigrate - but it would allow you to come to Canada and work / live for a year.

Hey, I have looked at the IEC but the quota has been filled, and preferably I want to be back out there as soon as possible, and can you explain more about why you say that about the family sponsor?

 

[scylla]

Because the rules are clearly spelled out on the CIC web site.

See here:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/sponsor/relatives-apply-who.asp

You can sponsor:

- brothers or sisters, nephews or nieces, granddaughters or grandsons who are orphaned, under 18 years of age and not married or in a common-law relationship
- another relative of any age or relationship but only under specific conditions (see Note below)
- accompanying relatives of the above (for example, spouse, partner and dependent children).

Note: You can sponsor one relative regardless of age or relationship only if you do not have a living spouse or common-law partner, conjugal partner, a son or daughter, parent, grandparent, sibling, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece who could be sponsored as a member of the family class, and you do not have any relative who is a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident or registered as an Indian under the Indian Act.

 

[RuiiN_Execution]

Because the rules are clearly spelled out on the CIC web site.



You can sponsor:

- brothers or sisters, nephews or nieces, granddaughters or grandsons who are orphaned, under 18 years of age and not married or in a common-law relationship
- another relative of any age or relationship but only under specific conditions (see Note below)
- accompanying relatives of the above (for example, spouse, partner and dependent children).



Note: You can sponsor one relative regardless of age or relationship only if you do not have a living spouse or common-law partner, conjugal partner, a son or daughter, parent, grandparent, sibling, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece who could be sponsored as a member of the family class, and you do not have any relative who is a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident or registered as an Indian under the Indian Act.

Ah ok, thats a bit of a bummer then, and for as long as i have been looking at the CIC website, I had never found that page, they may have some information clearly spelled out but I honestly find trying to find anything that is relevant to what you are looking for extremely difficult.
Although now it is kind of clear the best way to do it is just wait and see if this job can actually get me the LMO in order to obtain a work permit, or just go back and look again. Thanks for the information anyway.