Pursuant to the provisions of Canada’s constitutional laws, the holder of a Canadian permanent resident visa and his/her accompanying dependents are permitted to permanently reside in Canada and earn a livelihood in any one of the ten provinces or three territories within Canada. In addition, individuals with Canadian permanent residence may attend primary and secondary education institutions in the various provincially administered public school systems, tuition exempt. Permanent residents also qualify for provincially administered universal health care coverage.
The application for permanent residence generally includes the applicant, spouse or common-law partner or conjugal partner 16 years of age or older and any unmarried children under the age of 19 years. Children over the age of 19 may in prescribed circumstances, be included as accompanying family members.
The applicant need not visit Canada as part of the immigration process. However, in some cases, familiarity with the Canadian landscape and particularly with the area of intended destination can impact positively on the assessment.
Applicants applying under the Investor or the Entrepreneur class are encouraged to undertake exploratory visits to Canada and participate in information sessions sponsored by the provinces. For Entrepreneur Class applicants, such efforts may relate to an indication of an applicant’s ability to meet the universal terms and conditions of admission.
If you have a 90-day visa in your passport and can’t travel to the UK before it expires you will have to apply online for a replacement visa – and pay a fee for this. Your biometrics (fingerprints and a digital photo) will need to be resubmitted at an appointment. The replacement visa will be valid for 90 days.
Employers are required to ensure that all employees are permitted to work in the UK and if applicable, have valid immigration permission for their specific job type.You must ensure you carry out specific checks to establish an individual’s right to work in the UK before s/he commences employment.
This should then ensure that the business establishes a statutory excuse against liability to pay a civil penalty for employing an illegal migrant worker should it subsequently be discovered that the individual is working illegally.
EU nationals will have their immigration permission granted electronically and should be able to use an online service to prove their right to work in the UK, i.e., they have been granted immigration permission either under the EUSS or under the new immigration system.The family members of EU nationals should also be able to use an online service to prove their right to reside and work in the UK if they have obtained UK immigration status under the EUSS. Other non-EU nationals continue to be issued with a physical document as proof of their immigration status (known as a Biometric Residence Permit).
For these individuals, the majority of employers should have the choice of conducting either a manual or online right to work check. Further details on right to work checks under the new immigration system are due to be announced later this year.
One of the major changes of the new system is that it is now much easier to switch between immigration routes from within the UK. This removes the need for many individuals to leave the UK to apply for fresh immigration permission under a new route. Perhaps the most significant consequence of this is that it is now possible for individuals with permission under the ICT route (which does not lead to settlement in the UK) to switch from within the UK to permission under the Skilled Worker route (which does lead to settlement in the UK). There are a limited number of routes which individuals are prohibited from switching from, which are:
- Visitor
- Short-term student
- Parent of a Child Student
- Seasonal Worker
- Domestic Worker in a Private Household
- permission granted outside the Immigration Rules
