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must be filed at a visa office of a Canadian embassy or consulate in your home country.
Some jobs are exempt from the permit requirement. For full details, check with
Citizen-
ship & Immigration Canada
(
www.cic.gc.ca
)
.
Employers hiring temporary service workers (such as hotels, bars, restaurants or re-
sorts) and construction, farm or forestry workers sometimes don't ask for a permit. If you
get caught, however, you can kiss Canada goodbye.
Finding Work
Students aged 18 to 30 from over a dozen countries, including the USA, UK, Australia,
New Zealand, Ireland and South Africa, are eligible to apply for a spot in the
Student
Work Abroad Program
(SWAP;
www.swap.ca
) . If successful, you get a six-month to
one-year, non extendable visa that allows you to work anywhere in Canada in any job you
can get. Most 'SWAPpers' find work in the service industry as waiters or bartenders.
Even if you're not a student, you may be able to spend up to a year in Canada on a
'working holiday program' with
International Experience Canada
(
www.international.gc.ca/experience
) . The Canadian government has an arrangement
with several countries for people aged 18 to 30 to come over and get a job; check the
website for participants. The Canadian embassy in each country runs the program, but
basically there are quotas and spaces are filled on a first-come first-served basis.
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