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I'm an American with no ties to Montreal. No work permit, visa, etc. I am also a university student (French major) and wish to relocate to Montreal because I want to stay fluent in French. I have done some reading around and saw that you cannot get a work permit unless you've been offered a job in Montreal. This sounds like a major obstacle...
How easy or difficult would it be to get a job offer if I don't live in Montreal?
In case this matters, I also have a small web design business.
I would go the paid internship route with some start-up. We currently have two paid interns at my work, one from France one from Taiwan. We are tiny, with 8 employees including the two interns. We do business in both languages, mainly French. The Taiwanese girl speaks french very poorly but is still an asset to the company. (we're a web start-up)
This is what they did: Got the the job via interviews from oversees, came here to began their internships (which in theory was not legal yet as their work visas were not ready), then they drove to Vermont and did the ''go-around'', that is, they went through the border and came back immediately to ''validate'' their visas. This is a very common process and the border guards actually accomodate it with a special system. You don't have to lie or anything..
The only paid internship that I've seen are through high-level connections at headquarters.
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Originally Posted by LEFTIMAGE
This is what they did: Got the the job via interviews from oversees, came here to began their internships (which in theory was not legal yet as their work visas were not ready), then they drove to Vermont and did the ''go-around'', that is, they went through the border and came back immediately to ''validate'' their visas. This is a very common process and the border guards actually accomodate it with a special system. You don't have to lie or anything..
Would be interesting how the company paid these "illegal" interns, certainly not through the company's payroll.
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