The Global Skills Visa Program also allows the spouse and dependents of the applicant to come to Canada.
Canada's
Global Skills Visa Program shows our government has a very different attitude towards the issue.
Not exact matches
During the the fall economic update in November, the Liberals proposed the
Global Skills Strategy, promising to fast - track the process of securing work permits and
visas for foreign high -
skilled individuals.
In June the Canadian government implemented a package of immigration reforms, known as the
Global Skills Strategy, aimed at fast - tracking
visas for
skilled foreign workers — some can get processed in as little as two weeks — and providing a concierge service that will walk companies through the process of opening an office on Canadian soil.
In Canada, for instance, a recently introduced
Global Skills program allows tech workers to obtain work permits in just two weeks» time, compared with the roughly six months it would take to obtain an H - 1B
visa stateside.
While the
visa system for highly -
skilled overseas workers awards 85,000 work
visas per year, many smaller companies are saying they're getting shut out by
global consultancies, such as Tata, Infosys, and Wipro.
They are examples of how
global outsourcing companies are using temporary
visas to bring in foreign workers who do not appear to have exceptional
skills — according to interviews with a dozen current or former employees of Toys «R» Us and New York Life — to help ship out jobs, mainly to India.
Global Skills Strategy and express entry changes and the startup
visa program, all those things show that this is something we've been working on.
On June 12, 2017, the Temporary Foreign Worker Program will be launching a new pilot program called the
Global Talent Stream (the «GTS») which will establish easier and faster processing of visa and work permit applications for certain foreign nationals with unique global talent and / or who are highly sk
Global Talent Stream (the «GTS») which will establish easier and faster processing of
visa and work permit applications for certain foreign nationals with unique
global talent and / or who are highly sk
global talent and / or who are highly
skilled.