Work Visa for Canada

Squirrely · April 5, 2012

I have to write a resume to get a VISA for a show I'm doing in Canada. Anyone else apply for a Vias?

Just seems a little odd.

It's not a problem, just seems odd.... Is this a sign of the new times?

Doug_Scott · April 5, 2012

You were too honest. Are you being paid by a different company to the one you actually work for? If not, then you are just visiting.

Squirrely · April 5, 2012

I'm, being paid by the company that is sending me in. I have to document everything for the last decade in this resume. They want job specifics, etc. I can't remember what all I did 10 years back. Hell, I barely remembey last month.

I gotta write this thing in the next 3 days. damn

On another note,

Looks like I'm a senior enthusiast now. Where's the fanfare

doodeediddledodindee · April 5, 2012

like a tv show? are you going to mine for gold?

gmtech4 · April 6, 2012

I'm, being paid by the company that is sending me in. I have to document everything for the last decade in this resume. They want job specifics, etc. I can't remember what all I did 10 years back. Hell, I barely remembey last month.

I gotta write this thing in the next 3 days. damn

On another note,

Looks like I'm a senior enthusiast now. Where's the fanfare

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY !!!! old fart !!!lol

Squirrely · April 6, 2012

thank you, thank you

It's been a great 5 years

No mining or tv. I am, however, a production electrician. So I've been on a few video, tv shoots, etc. I mostly do corporate, industrial lighting events. Like CES, E3, and there's been a lot of Boeing events lately.

Done my fair share of rock n roll also.

I stick with the corporate. That's where the money is at for us lighing folk.

Matte454 · May 3, 2012

I wouldn't sweat it too hard, Canada has a much more generous stance on immigration then the USA. Just fill out the paperwork honestly, answer a few ? S and your in. Unlike the USA we invite everyone in, none of te hassle to prove I'm not taking away an Americans job. When we go across we must say that we are observing or training in e USA or else wel get stopped at the border if they think it's short term work

Squirrely · May 3, 2012

Apparently the resume is to prove that I'm need for my job and that a local cannot be hired to replace me.... I guess I had to prove that my skill set is not easily replaced.

Thtat's how I understand it anyway.

So I'll be in Toronto for about a month. 1 week in the shop prepping the show and 3 weeks in the Air Canada Center. I hope to get some sight seeing in if there's time.

Last time I was in Toronto was during the riots... so no downtown for me. I didn't think I was goinig to get into the country. I got pulled into the side room... lame.

MikeNH · May 3, 2012

I wouldn't sweat it too hard, Canada has a much more generous stance on immigration then the USA. Just fill out the paperwork honestly, answer a few ? S and your in. Unlike the USA we invite everyone in, none of te hassle to prove I'm not taking away an Americans job. When we go across we must say that we are observing or training in e USA or else wel get stopped at the border if they think it's short term work

Not true at all. I go into Canada fairly often on business and it's a massive pain every time. Last fall I was denied entry because the job I was doing (relocating a piece of equipment I had previously installed for a customer) was not covered under NAFTA. To do that job my employer needs to submit a "labor market review" or something to prove that there is not an indivdual/organization in Canada that can do what we/I do. There isn't. My company is the North American division of a global company so any sales/service to Canadian customers goes through us. And ever since last September every time I've gone in I've been put through additional hassles because that red flag of denied entry shows up on my passport.

Apparently the resume is to prove that I'm need for my job and that a local cannot be hired to replace me.... I guess I had to prove that my skill set is not easily replaced.

Thtat's how I understand it anyway.

What I'm going through now.