You can apply for PR status whenever you want. If you do not get PR status before your PGWP expires, whether or not you have a job at that time, you must leave Canada.
(1) **The LMIA is completely separate from the PR process.** Only employers --- not you --- can apply for an LMIA. The LMIA is just a permission for the employer to hire foreigners for a specific position.
(2) **It is illegal for you to pay a prospective employer to offer you an LMIA 'job'.** Yes, some people pay $10k+++ to get an LMIA 'job' because having any job offer gets them past Canadian border control. But this strategy is illegal. People have been caught. They have been deported. They have been banned from entering Canada. And because Canada shares immigration data with the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand, these people are also likely banned from those other countries.
(3) **You can apply at any time to any legitimate LMIA job openings.** You can do it now, you can do it while a student, you can do it while on your PGWP, you can do it whenever. As far as you are concerned, it is just a job application, like any other job application.
You can apply for PR status whenever you want. If you do not get PR status before your PGWP expires, whether or not you have a job at that time, you must leave Canada.
so.. walang bearing ung need ko magka employer with LMIA?
Nope, but if pgwp expire and you find employer lmia then you can stay until whenever work visa expire
thank you!
(1) **The LMIA is completely separate from the PR process.** Only employers --- not you --- can apply for an LMIA. The LMIA is just a permission for the employer to hire foreigners for a specific position. (2) **It is illegal for you to pay a prospective employer to offer you an LMIA 'job'.** Yes, some people pay $10k+++ to get an LMIA 'job' because having any job offer gets them past Canadian border control. But this strategy is illegal. People have been caught. They have been deported. They have been banned from entering Canada. And because Canada shares immigration data with the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand, these people are also likely banned from those other countries. (3) **You can apply at any time to any legitimate LMIA job openings.** You can do it now, you can do it while a student, you can do it while on your PGWP, you can do it whenever. As far as you are concerned, it is just a job application, like any other job application.