IEC and Working Holiday

International Experience Canada (IEC) allows you to explore and work in Canada for a period of up to two years. IEC includes:

1.        Young Professional (employer-specific work permit)

   
   

2.        International Co-op (internship) (employer-specific work permit)

3.        Working Holiday (Open work permit)

Back to Working Holiday, it’s a type of open work permit that lasts for up to 12 months and allows you to work for almost all types of employers in Canada.

Eligibility

If your home country is a partner country with Canada, then you are lucky, you can apply for some or all of the three categories in the IEC (depending on where your home country is).

You will need to be between the ages of 18 and 30 (18 to 35 in some countries) to be eligible to apply for the open work permit. And have a passport of your home country.

Some countries only allow you to participate once, while others allow you to join multiple times. As each country is different, it is best that you check the IEC website beforehand or contact Kaizen’s Mobility and Migration Team.

How to apply    

“I’m eligible for an open work permit, How do I apply?” The application is entirely online. After you create your Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) account and your IEC profile, you will be put into a ‘pool’, and you wait. The system is like a lottery, it will randomly pick candidates from the ‘pool’ and send an Invitation to Apply (ITA). Then you can start your application.

“How long do I need to wait until I get an ITA?” Good question, it depends. Some countries have more quotas, while others only have a few hundred. So, if you are lucky, you might get an invitation really fast. And there’s also the possibility that you won’t receive an invitation before the end of the season.

When you get an invitation, you can then start filling out the application forms and pay the CAD 272 (CAD172+100) fee. You might also need to take a health exam (again, it depends on what country you are from). After that, you will wait for the application to be processed.

After you apply   

If you application got approved, you will get a Port of Entry (POE) letter of introduction in your IRCC account. If it doesn’t pass the approval, then you will get a letter of explanation. The POE letter is valid for 1 year, and you must show the POE letter together with other supporting documents when you arrive at border control in Canada.

What to prepare after approval

Before you come to Canada, you will need to buy insurance that covers the entire period of your stay in Canada, and it must cover:

And as you arrive at the Canadian border, you will need to provide these supporting documents to the immigration officer

1.       Passport

      2. Proof of fund

   
   

      3. Travel insurance

      4. POE letter of introduction

      

   
   

• Note: If you don’t have all the documents needed, you might be denied entry into Canada

  
  

Reference:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/work-canada/iec/about.html

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