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Pilot Project for Working-Age Dependent Children

Operational Bulletin 123

Citizenship and Immigration Canada

Background
In the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) annex to the Canada-Ontario Immigration Agreement signed in August of 2008, the parties agreed as follows:

4.2 Canada agrees to issue an open work permit to accompanying dependents of a TFW in Ontario if the TFW holds a work permit valid for 6 months or longer and is a Skilled Worker. The work permit will only be issued upon application by the dependent; the work permit will be limited to work in the province of Ontario; and a work permit will only be issued to persons who are otherwise able to be legally employed in Ontario. The work permits should expire the same date as the expiry date of the work permit of the principal work permit holder.
Furthermore, section 4.4 of the Annex allows that dependents described above be exempt from the requirement to obtain a Labour Market Opinion (LMO).

In order to see the full agreement, please click on the following: Canada-Ontario Immigration Agreement – TFW Annex 2008
The purpose of this operational bulletin is to advise officers of a pilot project to fulfill Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s commitment under section 4.2 of the Temporary Foreign Workers Annex in this agreement.

Pilot parameters
The pilot will operate from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010 inclusively. These dates refer only to the period in which qualifying work permits can be issued, not to the duration of the work permits. The terms of the pilot will apply only to qualifying foreign nationals (as described below) destined to the province of Ontario. All relevant work permits must be coded as indicated below to support an effective evaluation of the pilot.
Pilot procedures

All general eligibility criteria, conditions of the work permit and processing procedures outlined in the Foreign Worker Manual (FW 1) will continue to apply in conjunction with the following procedures:

A) Eligible participants
Dependent children of foreign nationals must meet all of the following criteria to be eligible:
Must be eligible to work in the province of Ontario.

Note that the employer is responsible for ensuring the provincial minimum age employment standards are adhered to. Please refer to the following website for provincial guidelines: http://www.worksmartontario.gov.on.ca/
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Must be a dependent child (see Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR), section 2, Interpretation) of a foreign national where the principal applicant is entering Canada, is destined to Ontario as a TFW and has a valid, job-specific work permit with a minimum duration of 6 months in an occupation found within skill levels 0, A or B of the National Occupation Classification (NOC) system.

B) Open work permit issuance
A non job-specific open or open/restricted (depending on medical examination requirements, if applicable) work permit may be issued to a working-age dependent child accompanying a TFW principal applicant as described above, upon application by the dependent (including payment of the appropriate fee) and without requiring an LMO from Service Canada.

A dependent's work permit can only be issued after the primary applicant has been found to be eligible for a work permit. A dependent may apply for an open work permit at the same time as the principal applicant or subsequently – at a mission, port of entry or in-land – a“ as long as its duration does not exceed the expiry date of the principal applicant’s work permit.
Verification of dependency should be performed as per existing procedures, so that officers are satisfied that the relationship is bona fide.


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