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Canadian Employers: We Can Help With Your LMIA for Temporary Foreign Workers

Blog posted on by Evelyn Ackah in Temporary Foreign Worker Program and Temporary Foreign Worker - LMIA

Canadian Employers: We Can Help With Your LMIA for Temporary Foreign Workers

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If you are a Canadian employer who wants to hire foreign workers to fill jobs and address labour shortages, we can assist you in the LMIA process and in hiring foreign workers. We can help you file a Labour Market Impact Assessment to hire temporary foreign workers and help you manage the legal paperwork with hiring and managing foreign workers - and have your foreign worker application processed in as few as 9 days!

The government understands that Canadian companies are suffering from labour shortages and need workers, and the LMIA program is more flexible right now because the government needs to help the economy. Processing times for LMIA vary depending on the number of applications received by the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), and TFWP is transitioning to online submissions in April 2023.

On November 1, Canada announced that by 2025 the government wants to welcome 1.45 Million immigrants to Canada to address the labour shortage. Canada needs younger professionals; it also needs skilled workers. And it needs people who want to expand and grow in Canada.


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What Is An LMIA?

Work Permits are required for foreign nationals who want to work during their time in Canada. These are issued by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and give authorization for someone to work legally in Canada. The work permit is going to explain the type of work the individual named can perform, the employer(s) they can provide labour, where they are going to work and how long they are given permission to work. In addition to a Work Permit, Temporary Foreign Workers may require an LMIA, or Labour Market Impact Assessment, which indicates that there is a demonstrated need for a foreign worker to fill the job, and also that no Canadian worker is available to do it. The LMIA must be "positive" and can be used as a job confirmation letter.

Employers have to work directly with Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) to apply for the LMIA or hire an immigration lawyer as their representative.

LMIA Exemptions

Some jobs qualify for LMIA exemptions:

  • International Agreements R204 - When hiring foreign workers through specific international trade agreements (NAFTA as an example), the LMIA is not required
  • Canadian interests R205 - A long list of groups that include charitable work, reciprocal employment, specially designated programs, and more
  • "Other" R206-R208
  • Additionally, employers are able to hire temporary workers through the International Mobility Program without the use of an LMIA.

Fast Track Processing for Temporary Foreign Workers

Canada's Global Talent Stream promises a 2-week fast-track for qualified applicants to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Also known as the Global Talent Visa, this program delivers three benefits:

  • 80% of Work Permit applications will be processed within two weeks of submission
  • Work Permit exemptions will be granted to highly-skilled workers on short-term work assignments - these exemptions will also cover researchers involved in short-term research projects in Canada
  • Provision of a dedicated service channel for companies intent on large job-creating investments in Canada

The average Labour Market Impact Assessment processing time for the Global Talent Stream in October 2022 was 9 days.

Compliance and HR Audits

Ackah Law also offers Employment Law and Human Resources Advisory services assist our corporate immigration clients with planning for terminations, layoffs and drafting employment and consulting agreements to ensure you are well protected. We are pleased to have on our team experienced employment and labour lawyers and human resources consultants that will be contracted with us to assist our clients.

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Do You Need Help Hiring Foreign Workers For Your Business In Canada?

To start the process, it is essential to be aware of all the immigration methods available to employers. If you are a Canadian employer who wants to hire foreign workers for your business, give us a call at Ackah Business Immigration Law at (403) 452-9515 or email us at contact@ackahlaw.com. With offices in Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver, Ackah Law can assist companies with all their global talent immigration needs.


Evelyn L. Ackah, BA, LL.B.

Founder/Managing Lawyer

Ms. Ackah is passionate about immigration law because it focuses on people and relationships, which are at the core of her personal values. Starting her legal career as a corporate/commercial ...

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It is one thing to earn a living; it is another thing to make a difference in the world.

This is our formal thank you note to Evelyn Ackah and the Ackah Law Team for all the effort they put into helping us navigate and finally resolve the hurdle that was Canadian Immigration back in the spring of 2012.

A friend referred us to Evelyn; he assured us that Evelyn would take good care of us. Our friend was confident we were in good hands and said Evelyn would do her very best to help us and she did! At the time we did not know that his referral would go far beyond finding us help. Slowly we realized that it would become our own personal story of how we received grace and were reminded of the power in paying it forward

We wrote a detailed page of our dilemma, explaining how we came to be in the position we were in (overwhelmed with the hurdle that was Canadian Immigration and the uncertainty that we faced as a young family in Calgary). Evelyn agreed to take on our file with her team. They found the time to personally call us and listened intently and understood the details of what we were dealing with. They gave us their time, an honest opinion and provided clear direction which proved to be invaluable advice. Months went by but in time, we received word from Ackah Law that the Immigration office had finally reviewed our file and a decision had been made allowing our family to finally put the immigration matter to rest. We were finally able to focus again to live our lives without fear or pending doom.

Looking back now, even the sun appeared to shine a little brighter that day. At first we didn’t know whether to bake them a cake, drive out to meet their team, find their offices and personally thank them with a mighty hug or simply cry out to the heavens in thankful relief. Instead we emailed them to express our heartfelt thank-you and we hoped that they would know deep in their hearts just how grateful we were for all of their help.

Even though we relied on emails and phone conversations to communicate with them that year, we will always remember their constant professionalism, their kindness and understanding at a time that brought us so much pain not to mention fear. As if all their hard work wasn’t enough, Evelyn then then casually mentions that all their work was done pro-bono! We were thoroughly humbled!

To this day we are still eager to share how wonderful they all are as human beings but even more than that, we continue to pay it forward in honour of them, their service to us and their continued dedication in helping others.

Eternally thankful

– The Brummunds

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