{"id":10880,"date":"2026-10-28T10:11:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/2026\/10\/28\/canada-scraps-time-limit-for-work-permit-applicants-awaiting-lmia-decisions\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T10:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:11:39","slug":"canada-scraps-time-limit-for-work-permit-applicants-awaiting-lmia-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/2026\/10\/28\/canada-scraps-time-limit-for-work-permit-applicants-awaiting-lmia-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada scraps time limit for work permit applicants awaiting LMIA decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bWork permit applicants will no longer be refused when the government takes longer than expected to process their employer\u2019s Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA). On October 28, 2026, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) updated its documentation, which now directs officers not to make a decision on an application for a work permit through the<br \/>\nThe post Canada scraps time limit for work permit applicants awaiting LMIA decisions first appeared on CIC News.<\/p>\n<p>Work permit applicants will no longer be refused when the government takes longer than expected to process their employer\u2019s Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA). On October 28, 2026, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) updated its documentation, which now directs officers not to make a decision on an application for a work permit through the [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/10\/canada-scraps-time-limit-for-work-permit-applicants-awaiting-lmia-decisions-1081947.html\">Canada scraps time limit for work permit applicants awaiting LMIA decisions<\/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\/10\/canada-scraps-time-limit-for-work-permit-applicants-awaiting-lmia-decisions-1081947.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bWork permit applicants will no longer be refused when the government takes longer than expected to process their employer\u2019s Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA). On October 28, 2026, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) updated its documentation, which now directs officers not to make a decision on an application for a work permit through the [&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-10880","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\/10880","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=10880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}