{"id":10272,"date":"2026-04-28T14:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/2026\/04\/28\/canada-doubles-length-of-work-authorization-support-letters-for-workers-on-maintained-status\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:01:07","slug":"canada-doubles-length-of-work-authorization-support-letters-for-workers-on-maintained-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/2026\/04\/28\/canada-doubles-length-of-work-authorization-support-letters-for-workers-on-maintained-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada doubles length of work authorization support letters for workers on maintained status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bForeign workers in Canada who have applied for a new work permit before the expiry of their previous work authorization will now be issued WP-EXT letters that are valid for 365 days. The increased validity period for WP-EXT letters was conveyed in updated instructions to officers, published on the immigration department\u2019s website on April 27,<br \/>\nThe post Canada doubles length of work authorization support letters for workers on maintained status first appeared on CIC News.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign workers in Canada who have applied for a new work permit before the expiry of their previous work authorization will now be issued WP-EXT letters that are valid for 365 days. The increased validity period for WP-EXT letters was conveyed in updated instructions to officers, published on the immigration department\u2019s website on April 27, [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/04\/canada-doubles-length-of-work-authorization-support-letters-for-workers-on-maintained-status-0474733.html\">Canada doubles length of work authorization support letters for workers on maintained status<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/\">CIC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/04\/canada-doubles-length-of-work-authorization-support-letters-for-workers-on-maintained-status-0474733.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bForeign workers in Canada who have applied for a new work permit before the expiry of their previous work authorization will now be issued WP-EXT letters that are valid for 365 days. The increased validity period for WP-EXT letters was conveyed in updated instructions to officers, published on the immigration department\u2019s website on April 27, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cic-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}