LMIA Job Query

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Hi,
Though companies from Canada are willing to provide jobs and even to provide job offer letter to a professional outside Canada but they find LMIA application scary.

I want to get complete clarity on the process to be followed by an established Canadian employer in order to prove there's no Canadian citizen/permanent resident available for the job. Let me know if below is the process or do clarify if there's something more:

Employer displays job advertisement in various online and offline channels viz. job bank site, private job boards, newspapers and others.
After 30 days of published ad, employer finds nobody applied or no candidate was found suitable as per skills or experience required for the job, then he provides job offer to a foreign professional.
Employer files LMIA application and in the documentation, he provides details about the channels where job was advertised and the candidates who applied but were not selected.

Will this result in positive LMIA?

Is this process correct or there's something more to be followed?

Please throw some light on this.

Regards,
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[scylla]

No - this won't necessarily result in a positive LMIA. As part of the LMIA process, the application will be reviewed to determine if the employer should have reasonably been able to find a Canadian to hire for the role based on the location of the job and the market conditions for that occupation. So not all LMIA applications submitted are approved - there are many that are refused. For example, if an employer in Toronto claims they can't find a QA person to hire and submits an LMIA, that LMIA would most likely be refused since there are plenty of individuals skilled in this field in the Toronto area.

Also not that advertising for the employer is not free. Typically this costs them at least a few hundred dollars if not more.

 

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Hi Scylla,

Thanks for your reply!

In that case, it is extremely difficult or else just impossible to find work permit or LMIA the way it is impossible to get In-demand PNP application approved if skill is not in demand.

I wonder how the consultants speak so high for processing the LMIA based work permit applications then!

Any more clarity on how shortage of skilled professional is proved?

Regards,
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