It’s not as easy for foreign workers and their employers to avoid the LMO process by claiming specialized skills
On June 9, 2014, the federal government published Operational Bulletins (OB) 575, which expands guidelines for immigration officers assessing work permit applications for Intra-Company Transferees with Specialized Knowledge. The OB provides direction to the officers as to how to evaluate the criteria under which those workers are granted work permits. The OB also makes it more difficult to use this exemption from the Labour Market Opinion (LMO) process as it now requires a higher threshold of advanced proprietary knowledge to qualify. Immigration lawyer Sergio Karas looks at the new scrutiny of foreign workers claiming specialized skills.
