AEO = Arranged Employment Opinion

Arranged Employment (Job Offer) to a Prospective Immigrant

We are hoping that your business may be qualified and able to provide our client with a job offer, which would help to facilitate his immigration application.

In order for the client to receive enough points to successfully obtain his immigrant visa, he must receive a job offer from a Canadian employer.

This job offer must be a genuine offer of employment.

The fact that the job offer must note that the position offered will be valid "for the next four years or until the immigration process is complete and the client moves permanently to Canada" is a requirement from Service Canada. You would be making a good-faith offer of employment to the client based on your anticipated employment needs in the future. This employment offer is fully conditional upon the economic and other circumstances of your business at the time that the client arrives in Canada. You may hire other employees during this time-frame (the four year period, which would be the maximum time that it would take for an immigration application to be completed).

The job offer that we are interested in obtaining for our client is for immigration purposes, it is not in support of an application for a Work Permit. The client will not be allowed to move permanently to Canada before his immigration application is finalized. It is not the client's intention to get a Work Permit from you. He will not move to Canada until he has his Canadian landed immigrant visa (which is taking approximately 12 months from the date the job offer is approved by Service Canada, and not the 4 years that Service Canada requires to be noted in the job offer). However, if our client does not receive a job offer from a Canadian employer, he will not have enough "points" to immigrate. The immigration system is a point system (with a current pass mark of 67 points). The client receives points for language, age, education, work experience, and for an approved job offer.

The job offer that our client requires must be approved by Service Canada, but you do NOT need to prove labour market vacancies to Service Canada (in other words, you do not have to prove that you cannot find a Canadian to do this job, and you do not have to advertise this job in any way or form). This is because the job offer is to support an application for permanent residence in Canada, and is not for a Work Permit.

What is required from you is a job offer (in the form of a letter to our client) stating the job title, job duties, salary, and any educational or other requirements. You need to also sign a completed Service Canada Arranged Employment Application Form, which we will prepare for your review and signature.

In addition, you must provide some supporting documents in order for Service Canada to establish that your business is able to successfully offer an Arranged Employment Application:

1. The Canadian company must have been in existence for at least 12 months. This is proven by a copy of the Business Licenses for 2007 and 2008 OR a copy of the Lease Agreement where the business is located, confirming the location for the past 12 months.
2. A photocopy of the T4 Summary of Remuneration Paid for 2007. If you filed electronically or did not keep a copy of the T4 Summary, we can send a T4 Summary to you to complete, sign, date, and return to us.
3. The Canadian company must have employed at least 1 person full-time for the past 12 months. This is proven by copies of CRA Summary of Source Deductions(Form PD7A) for the past 12 months. Please note that the job you offer to our client must be a full-time (year round) offer and not a seasonal job. If the employer has not kept copies of every single PD7A confirming payment to CCRA, the employer can fax CRA at 604-585-5224 and ask for a Statement of Account (in lieu of PD7A forms) showing payment from the employer to CRA for the past 12 months. HRDC will accept this Statement from CRA together with the cover letter that CRA will attach to the Statement, in lieu of PD7A forms. We will send you a letter to send to CRA for your convenience. Please let us know if you require this.

IMPORTANT: Please note that if your company has not filed PD7A Forms every month for the past 12 months, your business in not eligible for this type of a job offer and Service Canada will not approve it. This means that your company must have had at least one full-time, year round employee for the past 12 months in order to qualify for our purposes.