Everything You Need to Know about LMIA! What is the Process for an LMIA and How Long Does it Take?

foreign [Music] consultant we do everything we talk about everything which is Canadian immigration news and updates okay let's talk about elements we haven't spoken about lmis in a long time no lmia basically stands for labor market impact assessment this is the document that is required for any employer who wishes to hire a temporary foreign worker or temporary worker from outside Canada labor market impact assessment basically means that the assessment has been done by asdc employment Social Development of Canada to establish that by hiring or by bringing of a foreign worker through Canada there will be no negative impact on the labor market in Canada and it is not going to affect the employability or employment conditions for a Canadian citizen or permanent resident this is the basis of this lmia in order to apply for an lmia the employer must obviously advertise in the job Bank of Canada not only in Job Bank of Canada they also have certain other advertising conditions that they must comply with they're actually quite strict and you will have to advertise for at least 28 days and then conduct recruitment efforts by recruitment efforts I mean they have to sort of interview different candidates who may have applied who are citizens and permanent residents they have to identify why they cannot hire them after they have completed their recruitment effort and established that they were not able to identify any Canadian citizen or permanent resident at that point of time they can make an application to asdc they can do an online application or they can email the application the fee for this application if it is not specifically to support the permanent residence if it is a high wage or a low wage the fee would be 1 000 Canadian dollars which the employer has to pay and after that the application goes into processing Queue at some point of time asdc officer will set up an interview with the employer in most cases if that employer has never applied for the lmia before for example they would also have to provide a lot of financial documents financial data balance sheets there are notice of Assessments their p 7 for the other employers for their other employees to show that they have been in compliance by paying the salaries on time of course their Finance shells will also have to establish that they are in a position to hire a temporary foreign worker and get that person in based on this the estc officer will conduct an interview which is usually a phone interview during the interview the esdc officer is looking to establish whether this employer or this company is indeed in a position to hire the foreign worker and there is a genuine need for this person to be hired and they have made genuine effort or Genuine attempt to hire a local when I'm saying a local I mean Canadian citizen or a permanent resident only once the esdc officer is satisfied or convinced only then they will issue an lmia or a positive or a neutral lmia using which then the employer could possibly have you as an applicant apply for a work permit and depending on the kind of LMI you may also be able to use that document for 50 to 200 points 50 points for knock zero zero A or B and 200 points for double zero knock and if that you have the positive lmia or a neutral lmia then you will be able to get those points for your Express entry application as well this is the process for lmia the processing time so the first time obviously you have to prepare the advertisements you have to advertise for at least 28 days and then conduct the recruitment efforts that can take roughly 32 sorry about 4 30 you take more than that about 40 to 45 days from there on the application processing time is roughly 40 to 45 days so you're looking at about three months from the start to getting your application approved or application decision being rendered so that would be the approximate processing time for this application hope that helps thank you very much for joining in take care stay safe and I shall see you next time foreign

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Length: 4min 2sec (242 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 22 2022