Temporary Resident

LMIA (if applicable).

Temporary resident visa / eTA (if applicable).

Job offer / contract.

Proof of financial support.

Police certificate and medical examination might be required

• Workers under international agreements
• Spouses of NOC 0, A, B foreign workers with work permit of 6+ months
• Workers, their spouses and dependents eligible for work permit under a pilot project
• Workers nominated by a province for PR with job offer
• Entrepreneurs and workers transferred within a company
• Academics (researchers, guest lecturers, visiting professors, etc.)
• Co-op students, religious workers, refugee claimants
• People in exchange programs, including IEC
• Spouses of full time (non ESL/FSL/General courses) foreign students (spouse is enrolled in full time studies)

• Academic examiners and evaluators
• Athletes and coaches competing in Canada
• Aviation accident or incident investigators
• Civil aviation inspectors
• Clergy
• Convention organizers (not hands on)
• Crew members
• Emergency service providers
• Expert witnesses or investigators
• Family members of foreign representatives (DFATD approved)
• Foreign government officers (formal letter required for 3+months)
• Health care students (-4 months internship + written approval)
• Judges, referees and similar officials for international amateur competitions
• Military personnel
• Business visitors
• News reporters, film and media crews for foreign news company
• Public speakers (up to 5 days)
• Students working on/off campus
• Performing artists and key support staff (limited time and not making a movie, television or radio broadcast)

Examples: street performers, disc jockeys, traveling circus, guest artists working within a Canadian group, wrestlers, people who will perform at a private event (wedding), air show performers, rodeo contestants, artists attending/working a showcase, film producers (business visitors), film/recording studio users (limited to small groups renting studios, business visitors) and people doing guest spots on Canadian television and radio broadcasts (news programs)

• The applicant intends to work in Quebec but doesn’t hold CAQ.
• The intended work would affect any labour dispute in progress or the job of any person involved in the dispute.
• The foreign national is engaged in unauthorized work or study, or failed to comply with a condition within last 6 months. Exception: 6 months have lapsed since infraction; unauthorized work was due to unauthorized time of stay; type/location of work or study.
• The foreign national intends to work in erotic services.
• The employer is ineligible to hire foreign nationals.
• The foreign national no longer meets the requirements.
• The applicant is the spouse of a NOC C, D temporary worker.

• Allows applicants to obtain work permit within 2 weeks if the employer has a positive LMIA through the Global Talent Stream of the TFWP AND the candidate is applying for an employer-specific work permit;
• OR if the applicant is LM|A-exempt in a NOC O/A profession AND the work permit will be employer-specific, AND the employer has submitted an offer of employment through the Employer Portal + paid compliance fee.