Tech professionals or IT professionals attain eligibility to visit Canada as Business Visitors. This further implies that as Business Visitors, they will not be required to have a work permit.
A Business Visitor is a foreign national entering Canada to perform business-related activities.
The reason why a work permit isn’t needed from a Business Visitor is that they won’t be entering the labor market.
Business Visitor- eligibility requirements
You will have to present the following evidence to become eligible as a Business Visitor in Canada:
- Your stay duration in Canada is not more than six months.
- You in no way intend to participate in the Canadian labor market.
- The primary source of your business, income, and profits is somewhere other than Canada.
- Ensure you have all supporting documents ready with you.
- Canada’s essential requirements at the entry-level are mandatory. You will have to demonstrate a travel document such as a passport, and sufficient finance to support your stay.
- You will also have to prove that you intend to leave the country once your purpose of the visit ends.
- Demonstrate proof that you are not in any way harmful to Canadian society and are devoid of any existing criminal record.
IT professionals gain eligibility as Business Visitors in the situations given below:
Seminar Speakers or Workshop Participants
Business Visitor has a category of Seminar Speakers or Workshop Participants. Today’s world is more or less based on technology and modernism often connects with technology. As a result, a wide range of seminars is conducted based on technological subject matters. Therefore, experts outside Canada can enter the country as business visitors and act as the guiding force with their expertise and knowledge.
Individuals entering for training purposes
The most substantial category as a business visitor belongs to those individuals entering the country to acquire training at a multinational company’s branch in Canada. Usage of equipment or software might require specialized knowledge. It is also not possible to have alternative people available who would provide training concerning the equipment or software. In the above circumstances, foreign nationals in the country essentially acquire training as Business Visitors in Canada.
After-Sales Service
After-Sales service occurs when a company in Canada bought a product from a foreign company and when it is liable to provide services to the Canadian company. The services will be related to the maintenance and repair of the product purchased. This situation will undoubtedly require foreign workers to come to Canada to provide their services. The effects could either be complicated technical equipment or Computer Systems Software.
Since these situations will require expert knowledge, they will have to invite employees from foreign companies. Thus, foreign workers with specialized knowledge about the services of the product can enter Canada as Business Visitors.
Requirement of a Lawyer
Immigration officers have the authority to decide the entry of individuals into Canada. They do have fixed parameters based on which they let people inside the country. Consequently, people visiting as Business Visitors might face challenges at the Canadian border. The border officials might think it compulsory for Business Visitors to have a work permit. Therefore, an immigration lawyer will prove beneficial.
