Canada is ending bonus points for permanent residency applications tied to jobs supported by Labour Market Impact Assessments (LMIAs), aiming to curb the online sale of these work permits. The move follows an investigation revealing the ease of buying and selling LMIA-backed positions.
In a 'drastic' but expected move, the federal government will no longer be granting additional points toward permanent residence to some temporary foreign workers, less than two months after an undercover investigation revealed how easy it is to buy and sell these jobs online. One Facebook Marketplace ad that was active for at least 30 weeks appears to sell an Labour Market Impact Assessment ( LMIA ) in Alberta in the farming, food, trucking and retail fields.
It asks 'serious buyers only' who can afford $30,000 to message the seller directly. (Aloysius Wong/CBC)The federal government will no longer be granting additional points toward permanent residence to some temporary foreign workers, less than two months after an undercover CBC News and Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF) investigation revealedLabour Market Impact Assessments are documents issued to employers by the federal government. It allows them to hire foreign workers if they can't find a Canadian or a permanent resident to fill a position.Until now, LMIA-supported positions not only allowed foreign nationals to work legally in Canada but also increased their chances of becoming permanent residents by adding points to their permanent residency applications.In a press conference on Tuesday, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marc Miller announced that jobs supported by Labour Market Impact Assessments (LMIAs) would no longer result in additional points for applicants looking for permanent residency in Canada — a move he says will 'remove the incentive for candidates to purchase an LMIA' and boost 'fairness and integrity' in the system.'This measure is expected to remove the incentive for candidates to purchase an LMIA, resulting in increasing fairness and integrity in the Express Entry system, and taking some of the value out of the fraud already being perpetrated in the LMIA system,' Miller told reporter
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