Corporate Immigration: Changes To The Intra-Company Transfer Provisions

In the past year, there have been a number of significant developments that affect processing of temporary foreign workers under the Intra-company Transfer (ICT) category. These changes effect applications made pursuant to both the North American Free Trade Agreement and the global regulations of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. They include a new policy guideline for assessment of the specialized knowledge subcategory and secondly, a new progressive scheme which allows in certain circumstances for a "recapturing" of work permit eligibility time for ICTs of both specialized knowledge workers and senior executives/managers.

Specialized Knowledge Policy Clarification

Under these new guidelines when assessing an application for a work permit as a specialized knowledge worker, there are now a number of factors that will be taken into consideration to determine if the application supports the claim of specialized knowledge. They include an assessment of such