Intra Company Transfers To Canada: Immigration Considerations For Multinational Companies

Multinational companies often need to move key personnel into a Canadian parent, subsidiary, branch, or affiliate. This may include sending an executive to oversee Canadian operations, transferring a more senior manager to support business growth, or bringing a specialized employee to Canada to share proprietary knowledge, systems, products, or processes. These types of employees may be able to apply for an intra-company transferees (ICT) work permit.

The ICT work permit category can be helpful to multinational companies and their employees because the Canadian entity is not required to first obtain a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) to support the foreign national’s transfer to Canada and their work authorization application.