Bringing Home The ‘canadian’ Bacon

“We always get our man.”
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Unlike in the United States, foreign students in Canada will have an easier time finding employment though they may only be holding a student permit.

If a student wants to work on campus at the institution he is enrolled in, he can work without a working permit if he is engaged in full-time studies in the said institution and of course, if he has a valid student permit.

Things get a little trickier when one wants to work off campus :

Working Off-Campus
(*taken from : workpermit.com)

Off-campus work (meaning work not within the school or university) is only available to full-time students studying in the following provinces:

* Manitoba

* New Brunswick

* Quebec (The census metropolitan areas of Montréal and Québec are currently excluded.)

If you are in one of these provinces, you must apply for a work permit, and you may not work off-campus until you have received your work permit. The work permit allows you to work up to 20 hours a week during regular academic sessions (15 hours a week in Quebec), and up to 40 hours a week during regular breaks (e.g., winter or summer holidays and spring break).

To be eligible for an off-campus work permit, you must:

* have a valid study permit;

* be studying in a province or territory that has an agreement with CIC;

* be a full-time student at a participating school that has an agreement with one of those provinces or territories;

* have been a full-time student for at least one year (two consecutive terms) at one of those institutions;

* be in good standing at your institution;

* sign a consent form that allows CIC, the institution and the province to share your personal information;

* complete a work permit application provided by your institution; and

* include with your work permit application an official receipt to show you have paid the application processing fee.

So - apparently, Canada is not only known for its mountains, moose (or is it ‘meese’? kidding.), mounties and hockey players…

O’ Canada is the place where anybody can be a cherrypickin’ canuck who can enjoy a double-double, dressed in the nines and earning a fin every hour, while attending university as a frosh.

Y’all come back now, eh?

For more information on being a foreign ‘working student’ in Canada, visit :

CIC Canada

working.com

ORIGINAL ARTICLE SOURCE: http://studyabroad.gbwatch.com/studying-abroad/15.html

By: Nikki Alfonso

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Graduating in 2004 from Ateneo de Manila with a major in AB Communication and a minor in AB History, Nikki Alfonso lives for the written word. Her passion for writing began with a poem she composed about an elephant and a red rubber ball when she was 7 years old. From then on, she became fixated with words, using them to move readers, to expressively get her message across and to make up stories with her friends about imaginary rendezvous with matinee idols and boy bands. She had her first taste of being a salaried writer in January 2004 when she began writing for Eversun Software Corporation. Read more about her and her blog at studyabroad.gbwatch.com/