Working in Canada once registered with a province

Silverdragon102, BSN · Mar 19, 2014

Well it will depend on what status you have in Canada that allows you to live and work there. Also you will have to apply to the provincial college of RN and meet their requirements as each license is valid for the province you have it in. Will be an expensive process when moving province to province

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dayandnight · Mar 21, 2014

To work, you need a permit, to obtain a permit, you have to be 1. sponsored by a certain organization and get a Labor Market Opinion to obtain a year of working visa (which you can extend). CIC (canadian immigration centre website)is your best friend, I recommend reading up on Canadian immigration as in 2015 they will adapt Australia and New Zealand's immigration policy known as the Expression of Interest (EOI). It is hard to obtain a LMO unless your wage meets the Registered Nurse Median wage, and that is NOT minimum wage. For BC you have to earn 36.5$/hour, Alberta 40 bucks an hour, and BC and Quebec have the lowest wage requirements making it almost impossible to get an LMO with that wage requirement. Also, the job needs to be full time. It's hard to get full time job nowadays and most Canadians themselves start as part time or on-call/casual.

The best thing is to work in your own country as a RN and then wait for EOI to get started so you can use that to your advantage to immigrate.. but I'll let you investigate and research on your own.

This does not apply to US or Mexican citizens because they can get a TN visa due to the NAFTA.

Getting a work visa without experience/sponsorship or current non-employer specific work visa is almost impossible nowadays

itsmejuli · Mar 22, 2014

I hope you realize that there is no shortage of nurses in North America. It's very difficult to find a job.