Find out if you need a work permit

Choose the option that best describes you:

• business visitor (meetings, conferences, training)
• entrepreneur or self-employed
• commitment certificate holder for the Start-up Visa Program
• convention organizer
• employee being transferred within a company
• working as part of an exchange or reciprocal program
• a professional, investor or trader working under a trade agreement, such as CUSMA or CETA
• Quebec investor who received a Quebec Notice of Intent to Select
• other type of business person

What best describes the work you’ll do in Canada?

• visiting professor or guest lecturer at a university or college
• researcher
• short-term (less than 120 days) researcher
• research award recipient
• post-doctoral fellow
• examiner or evaluator
• elementary or secondary school teacher
• a teacher working under the Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement or the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement
• other education worker

Choose the option that best describes you:

• health-care student
• medical or dental resident or fellow
• doctor coming to work in a medically underserved region of Quebec
• health-care worker working under a trade agreement, such as CUSMA or CETA
• other health-care worker

Choose the option that best describes you:

• worker under an international agreement

  What type of international agreement?

  • a trade agreement such as CUSMA, CETA or another free trade agreement
  • a non-trade agreement
• working as part of an exchange or reciprocal program
• youth aged 18 to 35 and want to work under the International Experience Canada Program
• you work for the owner or operator of an international bridge or tunnel
• employee being transferred within a company

What best describes the work you’ll be doing in Canada?

• athlete, coach or other team member

  Will you be working for a professional or semi-professional Canadian-based team?

  • Yes
  • No
• news reporter, media or broadcast crew
• performing artist

  Are you a performer or worker for a live dance, opera, orchestra or theatre?

  • Yes
  • No
• film or television production
• producer or staff member working on advertisements
• graphic designer or illustrator working under a trade agreement
• other worker in sports, entertainment, arts or media

What best describes the work you’ll be doing in Canada?

• charity work
• religious work
• camp counsellor

  What kind of camp?

  • Overnight (residential)
  • Day camp

Choose the option that best describes you:

• a short-term high-skilled worker (30 days or less)
• a short-term researcher (less than 120 days)
• a worker being hired in the Atlantic Immigration Program Pilot or the Atlantic Immigration Program

  Which program did you apply to?

  • I applied for permanent residence under the Atlantic Immigration Pilot on or before March 5, 2022
  • I applied for permanent residence under the Atlantic Immigration Program on or after March 6, 2022
• a Quebec Selection Certificate (CSQ) holder

  Do you live in Quebec?

  • Yes
  • No
• a professional working under a trade agreement, such as CUSMA or CETA
• other skilled worker

Choose the option that best describes you:

• military personnel
• you work for a foreign diplomatic mission, consular post, international organization or government

  I’m:

  • a diplomat or government official accredited by Global Affairs Canada
  • an accredited official or representative of the United Nations or its agencies
  • an accredited official of an international organization
  • an employee of a foreign government who’ll work for the Canadian government on an exchange
  • a non-accredited employee of a foreign diplomatic mission, consular post or government
  • a non-accredited employee of an international organization
  • a family member of a foreign government representative

Choose the option that best describes you:

• business visitor (conventions, meetings, training)
• public speaker
• contest judge, referee or similar official
• expert witness or investigator
• convention organizer
• aviation accident or incident investigator
• other worker coming for a special event or activity

Choose the option that best describes you:

• crew member
• airline personnel (not including flight crew)

  What type of airline personnel are you?

  • operational, technical and ground personnel
  • station manager
  • foreign airline security guards (checking baggage and passengers)
• aviation accident or incident investigator
• civil aviation inspector
• emergency worker who’s needed urgently to protect life or property
• emergency repair or maintenance worker for industrial or commercial equipment
• other transportation, repair, maintenance or emergency work

What best describes the work you’ll do in Canada?

• agricultural work (such as farm or greenhouse work)

  Are you being hired through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program?

  • Yes
  • No
  • I’m not sure
• seafood processing worker
• other agricultural, seasonal or food processing work

Will you work on a lake on the Canada-US border?

• Yes
• No

  Are you self-employed?

  • Yes
  • No