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hello everyone thank you for tuning in to my channel my name is Step J palosini I'm a regulated Canadian immigration consultant and my goal today is going to show you is going to be to show you how to submit a bridging open work permit application if you are currently working in Canada on either an open or a closed work permit and you have an e APR an electronic application for permanent residents submitted in Express entry okay so uh there are a couple other little nuances with bridging open work permits depending on the type of PR application but I just want to produce this video to help people and show you exactly the process that you should go through that'll cover majority of cases I always do recommend that you do seek you know legal advice and uh from there have a representative either review your application or represent you if they want but I found with bridging open work permits they're relatively simple so it just makes sense in those types of applications to just pay for a review service in my opinion make sure everything's correct and uh and do it yourself especially if you have been a self-represented applicant in the past you have access to all your data so this is my mock GC account I am a Canadian citizen so I don't really need an ircc secure account but I I created it obviously to for demonstration purposes um we're going to determine the eligibility and apply online with visitor Visa study or work permit because this is what we're doing for bridging open and this is actually for um you know a client I've assisted so I'm doing this video I've been inspired by her situation to want to do this to show because I know there's a lot of other applicants that are in her position where they've applied for PR and now they want to extend with a bridging open work permit and I will go through absolutely everything uh in detail so it's going to be a probably a long video but uh feel free to skip ahead to the parts that are relevant to you so what would you like to do in Canada again this applicant she's submitted an application for PR she's currently working right now on a pgwp and so what do You' like to do in Canada you'd like to continue working okay how long are you planning to stay in Canada well it is permanently because she's an applicant for permanent residence however the application we're trying to qualify for with their eligibility questionnaire is for a work permit okay so we just want to answer what we can to get to the open work permit uh scheme select the code that matches the one on your passport of course choose the one on on your passport I'm going to go with in this case uh let's do Argentina what is your country or territory of residence that would obviously be the one that matches on your passport then your country of residence she is living in Canada do you have a family member who is a Canadian citizen uh no and date of birth let's just go with 97 January 1st oops there we go and are you a lawful perent resident what they're asking what they're figuring out here is if you need a visa so when you get through this application you're going to see the options are to you know an open work permit or a temporary resident Visa because argentinians need a a visa to come to Canada so in the uh in the event that they were a lawful permanent resident of the United States then no they wouldn't need a visa because actually American permanent residents can visit Canada without a Visa uh Canadian permanent residents cannot visit the United States without a Visa and it's dependent on on their passport so what's your current immigration status in Canada worker for a lot of people who are currently working right now now and they've applied for for permanent residence I am subject to the removal order I applied for uh I'm in a primary visitor status I'm applying for open work permit all these are no and you can see here that this is trying to trigger the open work permit under uh one of these categories and this is no this is no and this would be no okay okay so I know I didn't really talk about what a bridging open work prom is but basically it's the names kind of implies what it is uh it Bridges your status so if you're currently working in Canada or you're authorized to restore your status so you're within the 90-day periods from which you lost your status and then you have uh complete application submitted for permanent residence or E APR or an A an acknowledgement of receipt an application number effective ly then uh you're you're eligible to apply so for the exact eligibility requirements I'm going to post these links as well where bridging will put work permits it lets you keep working while you wait for the results of your PR application it's perfect right uh and this is permanent residents using Express entry they say you must live in Canada so of course in the application we're going to want to prove that you live in Canada usually the in Canada work permit checklist uh is sufficient for that if you include your status document that you are currently working in Canada uh I believe that's usually sufficient unless you've really traveled a lot outside the country and you're not spending a ton of time in Canada working then maybe you're going to have to prove it a little bit more and have a valid work permit which in this case uh she does have an expired work permit but maintains your status as a worker so that would be if you've submitted another type of extension application prior to uh losing your status and or yeah prior to the expiry of your original uh work permit let's say and be eligible to restore your status and get a work permit you have to be the Principal applicant so only a principal applicant can apply for a bridging open work permit but of course if a principal applicant's applying for a bridging open work permit and they're also accompanied by their husband and children uh there's a section in the questionnaire where you can basically add your family members so they would be tied to the length of your status that you're granted for the BP uh have submitted a complete application for permanent residents and pass the completeness check so when you start to dig into what defines a a complete application uh there's this section under the help center but there's also um I like to find completeness Check ircc Express entry so this is whenever it's in the operational instructions and guidelines this is what is procedures and guidance used by IR C staff that they're basically displaying to stakeholders like you and I who use their services and this is what they're going through so they personalize document checklist they're making sure that all supporting documents are translated whatever and they talk about all the uh what they're looking for because when you submit an application in permanent residence you have the within the next couple like within 48 Hours you get your electronic application for permanent residents and you're immediately assigned a file number okay so that file number is what shows that you've submitted a PR application and then on the back end it has to pass what's called an r10 from the irpr the immigration Refugee protection regulation uh section 10 it's going to show you um that is once you've passed completeness you won't know like it's not going to show up in your portal it's not going to show up in your tracker uh but if you were to apply for gcms notes it's going to take 30 days but at in the gcms notes you would see if you've passed completeness check okay so all Express ENT applications go through like a triage officer and they have a like I would say an overview of the application make sure okay it's got pay stubs it's got this it's got um the marriage certificate if needed that's translated all those sorts of things right so they're just checking that the documentation is complete they're not necessarily checking the validity of the documentation okay that is what the six months of processing takes for so usually within a couple weeks you'll know if you have an incomplete Express entry application uh because it will be rejected uh or not refused yeah it is it's returned for being incomplete is the the legal term so have you been told by an ircc that you've been approved in principal for perent residence you have to put yes here uh because that is uh if you go dig deep into what it means for approval in principle for permanent residents this would be the case have you submitted a permanent resident application to Canada yes you have do you have a written job offer if you were to put yes here you may you may not um they're just asking for a written job offer they're going to give you the option then to apply for a closed work permit so in this case I'll put yes just to show you what it's going to show what is your marital status uh in this case she is single what is your Province or territory of destination if visiting multiple provinces or territory select the one you'll be spending most of your time uh let's go with Ontario most immigrants settle to Ontario it's more than 50% of Canada's population roughly so if we go work permitting Canada this is because of the written job offer the TRV options popping up because Argentinian passport holder means Visa required but this person is going to be applying for an open work permit okay because it's the bridging open are you a company a family member who has status in Canada no not in this case and when does your status in Canada expire I don't quite remember let's estimate around 2024 uh yeah usually you should be looking at applying for a bridging open work permit when you're like maybe seven months out less than that uh due to current processing times let's say yeah June 17 2024 and have you had a medical exam so this is they're trying to generate your C cized checklist this is what their system is doing right so it's saying have you had a medical exam no uh that's because a lot of people are going to be qualifying under that public policy where you're exempt from having to redo a medical right now for PR application so yes this is you would answer yes in this case if you've been living in a country where you uh within the last year for more than six months that is one of the designated countries or territories where you need to get a medical exam so oh I don't want to leave that but I'll open this in new tab so these are the countries that require so Argentina doesn't require medical exam okay so if you're if you spent six months in India in the last year yeah you would need a medical exam right so and if you intend to work in one of the following jobs now I wish they were a little bit more descriptive but to my understanding these are these are very specific jobs teacher primary secondary small children it seems to be a lot of Elderly Care basically immuno compromised people so if your job is not in those occupations you're going to have those restrictions on your open work permit that you can't work as like a health scientist worker or a day Nursery worker right if you've not had a a medical exam so do you want to work in the following jobs no and and you want to submit an application for a family member this is where uh you would tie your family members in to your bridging open workprom application they wouldn't get a bridging open work permit they would get the spousal open work permit right so uh no in this case and this is yeah whether or not you're using a representative in this case you won't be using a representative this is for self-represented applicants if I review your application I can provide a limited scope retainer right where it's you're just essentially paying for review services but all your all the contact with ircc remains within your hands so have you given Biometrics uh yes this is calculating your Biometrics feed you need to pay $85 and get more Biometrics or no most people will probably have valid Biometrics so if you you want to check if you need Biometrics you go to the Biometrics there's a Biometrics check tool so you go Biometrics check tool and find out if you need to give Biometrics so you gave Biometrics in the past you did it for a permanent residence application only is it still being processed yes you may not need to give Biometrics again or I gave Biometrics for this and then they're going to so maybe you came in and did it for a temporary and you had to do it again for PR because now with PR you have to do the Biometrics a second time okay they waved that requirement during covid but now that's the case so let's let's go to um well are they still valid you can use this check status tool which I want to show you guys so this is the Biometrics check status tool and you put in your UCI you put in your last name date of birth and Country of birth and you can check status and it'll pull up your file it'll basically just pull up when you got your Biometrics and when they're valid until okay I like to screenshot this save to PDF print it do what you got to do uh and include that in your client information to just show like hey this is why I don't need to pay the fee okay I like to the more you can do the officer's job for them the more you can present an application where you're just telling them how you qualify how you're eligible how you're not inadmissible to Canada or you are admissible to Canada that's really you're going to have a strong shot at approval so uh and that's obviously very subjective like some applications you need a ton of more supporting do documentation for a bridging open work permit it's pretty basic so yes you've given or it's valid which means you're not going to be being charged the extra $85 for Biometrics you have to check that would depend on the the individual right so yes I will be paying my application fees I don't know of any exemptions where uh right now it would be waved maybe some of the public policies for people fleeing earthquakes or War zones are you able to make a digital copy yes you are and yes you'll be paying with debit or credit or Visa debit or however now these are all your review your answers and you're able to go in and modify them if you want now we click continue okay continue and great so this is interesting because they are asking for family information form and that's never been the case when I've done a bridging open work permit because the person's already working in Canada on status so you've got your document checklist and you'll see it's actually there's not much there's the 5710 which is your you know your change conditions extend your stay as a worker then there's passport digital photo a family information form in this case and these two optional documents uh schedule one application for a temporary resident Visa made outside Canada I don't even know why they're offering this as an optional document uh to apply for a temporary resident Visa in Canada you would have to submit it to the Ottawa office right trvs or extending your Visa with the document allows you to enter Canada is what's processed through Ottawa and they're processed quite quickly and this one is going to be going to Edmonton because it's a work permit so I wouldn't upload anything into 5257 uh unless you answered uh yes on one of the background questions three to six because they may require that you include an IMM 5257 or at least they they mention that so client information this is where you're going to stack all the eligibility the supporting documentation so how you meet these requirements which is valid work permit you're going to include a copy of your work permit I always include a copy of the work permit of course you're going to include the copy of your e APR and to see what a redacted e APR looks like like I have it uh right here so this is what your redacted e APR looks like in Express entry you've got application number you've got email barcode and that's the application number that starts with an E deer obviously your your name and yeah this is confirming that they've received your application and then they tell you here you can apply for a bridging open work permit they also let you know that if your application your PR application refused for being incomplete you will surrender your bridging work permit okay processing fees and they still have to review it to make sure it meets uh as I mentioned section 10 of the erer immigration and Refugee protection regulations so I would include in the client information put this together in a PDF of course have your e APR have proof that you're working or eligible to work in Canada or sorry eligible to restore your status I should say or so that would mean within the 90 days and then you'd have to include a restoration fee but again I don't want to get too sidetracked I want to keep this as a BP for somebody who's on valid work status okay and so you would include a work permit you would include the E APR and then if you want you can also do a screenshot from the Biometrics validity test tool to substantiate you don't need to pay for that then you also look through the document checklist for a worker in Canada applicant we're going to complete the 5710 together uh you're not going to need a use of rep uh authority to release to uh a designated individual they say this only to release it to someone other than yourself so that would be I don't know for somebody who's a senior and they can't necessarily have information trusted to them or they they're not very good at communicating so statutory Declaration of common law Union obviously that's yeah if you're in a common law relationship proof of payment okay so this is going to be checked off when you submit the application that's when you're going to pay passport Pages this is important to include obviously the biodata like the uh who you are the information page of the passport which includes all this passport dates an issue your name and date of bth birth and the stamp made by Canadian authorities on your most recent and any other marked page so any other visas that sort of thing okay uh don't need expired passport this would just be the valid passport that you're TR traveling with now photoc copies of your travel or identity document this is not applicable if you traveled with a passport of your current immigration document so this is why I say in the client information includes your current work permit or your most recent status document like your work permit and include um you could also include your Visa as well even if your Visa is expired you might just want to show them your visa and your work permit you might as well show them more than than less and and marriage license certificate not applicable and no not the dependent of another applicant this would be for spousal open work permit and no this doesn't apply the lmia stuff or the lmia exemption because it's not a closed work permit it's a bridging open work permit if you're working in the province of Quebec no if you do not submit there may be restrictions that's okay that's not applicable you don't need to work in those Seven Fields or whatever they were or at least for this applicant and proof you meet the requirements of the job meeting offered uh this is I would say not even required for an open work permit this is more for because it's not about a job being offered it's an open work permit okay so there's nowhere in the in the guidance that states you need to show that you have the ability to do the work okay it's you have a permanent residence application in and it's for a bridging open work permit it's not job offer based okay so that's why I say these applications are quite simple when you click this it's going to open a new window and it's going to give you that 5710 form one thing that's also smart to do is sometimes go to ircc forms and make sure that you're using the most updated form because they change and they don't let people know they've changed the forms okay they've changed the versions so if you go to IMM 5710 uh oh it was last modified September 2023 right so if you started preparing your bridging open work permit in August you were using an old version of the form so and you can check the form version by looking at the base here so right here 5710 09 hyphen 2023 so you're using the most current version and now let's go to the checklist are we using the most current version of the checklist oh it was updated October 2023 so this was what IMM 5556 document checklist worker yeah 23-10 so we're using the right forms to to look at now let's complete the uh and and these links I will post in in my uh in the description below obviously so let's go through 5710 and let's go through it like comb right through it and see what we got here okay perfect so filling this one out UCI this is obviously your eight or 11 digigit UCI number it's on your visa to come like the stamped in your passport it'll be on your work permit in the top corner and I should do my own redacted copy of a work permit but I'll just show you this here Canada work permit uh images we've got uh um so this is a Visa but this is your UCI right there's your eight-digit UCI okay and this looks like uh I mean they shouldn't be displaying this document on the internet because it it doesn't look like it's data it's got uh everything there and it doesn't look like placeholder text but this is the UCI right there on the work permit itself and these are older work permits I want to find a newer looking work permit um um like this this is the newest looking work permit so you're going to have your UCI up here okay you're going to have your application number which is usually going to lead with W which means work now there's two numbers here that this person had redacted uh one is in red that's not the document number the document number is the black one below it that I think is eight or nine characters so that's an old version uh because that is we're going to be putting that on the on the IMM 5710 you're going to see that here it is so that's this is your application number and the application number doesn't really look like that often it starts usually with a W and it's the same one that corresponds in your ircc secure account the UCI is obviously your Universal client identifier if that's what it stands for but uh that's what ircc uses and then here is your document number okay 0 1 2 3 4 five but it's I I've seen them often times start with you now the letter U so up here is a red number I actually don't know what that is and I've never used it okay so let's go back to we'll continue session so we don't time out and let's go through here so your UCI one two 3 4 5 6 78 I want service in English now people wonder what do you put for here I've always for bridging open work permit for apply for a work permit for the first Tim or with a new employer because it is a you're not applying for a work permit for the first time but it is uh a different type of case like it's different case type of work permit okay so it is it is not with uh the same employer even if it is open before okay it is a new employer because it's a bridging open work permit you're supposed to select that I've never had an issue selecting that and I've only gotten BPS approved okay now apply for a work perm with the same employer you can't check one or more of the following here but if you were on that would be uh for extending a work permit right so if you're on a Clos work permit and now you're applying for another work permit with a new lmia or with a new lmia exemption of course it would be that's a work permit extension BP is not an extension it gives you an extension to continue working in Canada but it's a completely new new type of application now you're allowed to select restore my status as a worker as well if only if you're out of status okay uh but and then you have to pay the extra fee but maybe I'll I'll talk about restoration later on another day so family name uh let's go with full name Smith uh Jessica and you can do all caps or you should represent it the best way or how it is exactly represented in your passport under the personal detail section have you ever used any other Alias or nickname no in this case uh this question is if you're questioning it if you're thinking I I believe I have like I've kind of Gone by Jess or and on some of my documents it says Jess not Jessica like on school documents on other things that have been submitted or will be submitted to ircc in that case then I would I would always say yes and always include more information uh rather than less information because you always want to avoid hiding anything or being perceived for misrepresentation uh female date of birth I forget what I put on the questionnaire but I think it was 97 uh let's just go with January 1 place of birth let's put uh okay and Argentina and citizenship what I also love to do is I like to uh make sure that you have a copy of your previous study permit application any temporary resident application you've made okay so that means uh Visa extensions that means study permits and make sure that the information is consistent okay because let's say four years ago okay so yeah obviously this is worker and I don't want to I I'll go down that rabbit hole when we get here let's say this person came in as a student in 2020 and okay and uh and now this would be the until their work permits valid de I forget I said I was they were expiring what June 27th okay um there you go previous countries or territories of residence during the past 5 years have you lived in any country or territory other than your country of citizenship which in this case would be Argentina or your current country or territory residents which would be Canada indicated above for more than six months and in this case it would be no your current marital status single and then it blanks out the common law relationship stuff okay personal details have you previously been married no okay you'll have to give previous details if you have been previously married or in a common law relationship and now native language we'll go with Spanish okay uh if you put both well communicate in English and then it blanks out in which language are you most at e if you put both you have the ability to uh choose which one you're more powerful in so English have you taken a test designated uh in this case yeah and for a lot of people it's going to be yes because you've submitted an Express entry application right and you're doing a BP so passport number country or territory of issue some people get confused about this because they say country or territory of issue uh I've seen passports that have been renewed in Canada for uh Philippine citizens and it actually says Ottawa like issued Ottawa but that doesn't mean what they're asking here is they're asking for the Global details of your passport okay so in this case even if you got it renewed in Canada and it says Ottawa on it or Vancouver or wherever the consulate is it it is the country code of your passport okay issue date 2020 011 to 20 25 1231 you're typically going to see that one day off and you have a national identity document so if you do you should select yes if not you can select no now a national identity document is not a driver's license I've seen people put a driver's license in there I've seen people say yes and they put they copy the passport data and they put it right into the national ID uh I don't know why you would be duplicating that what they're talking about with a national identity card is something like a a Scenic if you're from Pakistan or uh the atar card if you're from India so or Iran has a national ID and often times those National IDs don't have an expiry date but sometimes they can make it a mandatory field so if they do then you would just put 3000-1 D1 to indicate that it never expires because many national IDs do not ever expire so I put no here in this case let's say this person does not have a national ID uh us PR card no and yeah there's that question again right so current mailing address this is where if you put this in this is where your work permit's going to get sent to they do not send work permits outside of Canada only within Canada so that's probably why this is mandated here so apartment unit uh what I see a lot of people do is uh Canada has very strict let's say Street naming conventions so apartment uh this would be like your live your Standalone place that's within a multif family complex so the number that's kind of like on the door of your unit okay the street number is like if you were driving down the street and there's a number on the home or there's a number on the building all right and then the street name this can kind of get confusing because sometimes the street name is a numbered Street or a numbered Avenue okay so apartment or unit for example this is typically what it would look like like you live in unit 3 1 let's say and the street number the building is on 1188 okay like that's the the big number that's on the facade at the building in a multif family and the street name itself is like 35th Avenue Northwest in Calgary so the street name is 35th Avenue or 35 Avenue uh you can check Canada Post for the exact convention that you want to follow like Canada Post has the dress look up and everything Google's Obviously prettyy good too but I've seen Google has some inconsistencies sometimes with postal codes so interestingly enough on a little side note in Calgary for example if you are on if this address exists and you're 1188 35th Avenue Northwest you can usually take the first two numbers and anticipate that it's going to be between 11 and 12th Street because Calgary is a grid system now this doesn't apply for all Canadian cities but in Calgary for example Avenues run east to west or west to east and Streets Run north to south so if you know this person's on 35th Avenue and they're in the Northwest that means they're in the Northwest Quadrant of the city on 35th Avenue that's the street name and the then the intersecting they're at the intersection of well not at the intersection but they're between basically 11th Street and 12th Street so then if somebody's address was 1288 they're between 12th Street and 13th Street so it's a very logical way to actually name systems in a in a grid system with addresses and then that way if you don't have a GPS you could actually navigate just using the street number which is really cool and obviously well the the address but you don't actually need to plug it into a GPS or really look at a map so if you're living in a house most houses won't have apartments or units especially if it's a single family dwelling but if you're living in the basement uh and it's called like unit one and the upstairs is called Unit Two then yeah it would be apartment one or unit two however you receive mail at your place okay so apartment one or apartment two that would be the example of a house that's divided by like floors so let's stick with this uh 301 1188 35000 Avenue I've also seen Consultants sometimes uh put it all in just street name because that's the only required field I like to break it down but because it can get confusing when you say 301- 1188 and everyone has a different con convention space 35 Avenue Northwest right you where's the space it's kind of hard to see there's opportunity to make mistakes here is 1188 the unit number is 301 the unit number so I like to break it down like that and I digress on on mailing address notation but let's go to Province Alberta and postal code uh T2 Z1 A2 that would be a valid postal code goes yeah alphabet number alphabet number and let's say yes it's the same so yeah if you're have an apartment number you can anticipate that this is like a multif family complex telephone number Canada US you should have one if you've been living and working here it's called it cellular country code of course autop populates when you check off Canada us and then you put in your area code and this here and okay alternate you could put that as well but it's likely you don't have an alternate or uh if you do have one if you have a second number then great put that in there that you can be contacted at put your email address here okay so that would be yeah valid email address so talked about contact information uh yeah I know I'm doing Calgary and this person's actually destined for Ontario but Calgary also has the grid naming of streets so date and place of your original entry to Canada so earlier on I said hey make sure you have your pre previous applications that you've submitted because this should be consistent right if they're asking you what the date and place of your original entry to Canada was they've asked you at likely now a couple of times and you want to make sure it's consistent so let's say this person originally did come in 2015 0101 like they came on January 1st and their original per purpose of entry and they entered this time the first time at Edmonton International Airport okay you want to put where you oh it's getting cut off so I would just say Edmonton airport and I know it's yeg uh you want to put it where you went through customs right where you went through cbsa where you were actually being uh you know inspected or let's say yeah under examination to enter Canada that's what you want to put date and place of your original entry admington airport if it's a land border crossing go find the name of it try and be as descriptive as you can but you are limited by characters here so also original purpose of coming to Canada this is why you want to have your previous application as well you want to make sure that it's consistent you came here originally let's say on on tourism right in 2015 and then he went back okay to to Argentina and then applied for a study permit and then came here in 2020 right so dat in place of your most recent entry to Canada let's say this person did go back back uh visited home for a little bit and in 2023 most recently entered Canada but this time it was in uh Toronto so you could say Toronto Pearson they would know what that is uh and that's what YYZ please provide the document number of your most recent visitor record study permit work permit or temporary resident permit so visitor record uh this won't be applicable for BP but I do want to mention this this when they stamp your passport and they say okay you have like 6 months to stay in Canada as a visitor they'll usually in pen write the you and then a number that's technically a document number okay and if you apply online from within Canada for a visitor record you will get a document number so back to where I said on work permits where I don't want to lose this continue session where is the document number on a work permit it's this one right here okay and it'll it'll let you know if it's not valid document number u 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 uh okay eight do I need to have another digit on it nine there you go what type of work permit are you applying for you're applying for an open work permit and you have to specify open work work permit okay it's in eligibility this is I told you this is what the officers are looking at you know you've got to say that it's open work must be for open work permit to meet the eligibility requirements okay uh and proof they meet the APR stage documentary evidence payment of the work permit fee and proof you've met the APR stage okay so again feel free to to look at all this stuff and in the links details of employer you don't have to put any details to when it's an open work permit but I would just put in here bridging open work per I like to I like to mention it so they know what you're applying for bridging open uh have you been issued a certificate on a the Nomine program in some cases uh people who were in a P&P Express entry this maybe yes okay so you would want to indicate that but if not never received a provincial nomination then you would select no education yes your highest level so let's say this person came and they studied in Canada 2022 and guys dates are like all off here this should be like when you studied when you started studies to when you completed your studies and again for some people this might be the same thing is the information they put on pgwp application so make sure that your field and level of study like they're consistent and what you want to do here is you want to be descriptive they're saying field and level of study Bachelor of software engineering so you go B uh software and could then go uh maybe game design because you know it's a bachelor but because it says b and you can also say okay uh you know there's other ways I could represent it but you want to show that you you put as much let's say identifying information as possible school facility name oh let's say uh University of Toronto and City Town Toronto this will be where the university is okay contrary to territory obviously but there are some people that have done like uh remote studies like they've studied they've got an education for an American school but they haven't studied actually in America so they've put the city in town of of where the school is if it's based in Cleveland Ohio they would put Cleveland Ohio doesn't mean they they were physically there this is just the education section right uh there's address sections on other forms there's status sections on other forms like if you actually did study in that country then it would have showed up here or you want to put in an explanation okay uh in your letter of explanation if you did study at like a remote institution uh but the institution is based in the United States like this should be the details of this school right uh like you wouldn't say I studied at you know let's say you didn't study like you did study at Columbia University in in the United States but you weren't actually in the US when you studied you were overseas or abroad and it was a fully remote program you could still put the basically the information of the school and the field in study of degree because that's how it's going to show up on your w w right I've seen on Wes they show that yeah United States is the institution but this person did not study actually they weren't physically in the United States for that program okay uh I hope that didn't confuse you more but it's just uh this should be basically the contact information of the school right employment I like to be as descriptive as possible with employment because you know what uh they can find anything so let's say this person worked and and you should you should put in everything because additionally if you uh let's say they bring in a new category of draws or and and this is for like on starter applications let's say like a study permit or an initial work per application you want to put as much employment history as necessary to show that if ever you need to lean on that experience or reference that you can say hey I submitted that five years ago like I told you guys I have experience as a butcher because they might bring in a program where yeah if you had experience as a nurse in the last 10 years we're going to give you a PR from overseas so you always want to be as descriptive as possible and yeah it takes more time but it's your own application it's your future in Canada and nobody's going to work harder on that than yourself so I would recommend that you do put in like I do with my clients all the time is I put in everything like even if you were you know working as a driver for skip the dishes um and I've never had employment history go beyond like 10 or 12 entries okay so what do you do when you've got it Beyond um that Beyond three entries then you just put in uh in your client information you would just on on Microsoft Word or a similar word processor just create a table just like this one employment where you put start date end date and the same level of granularity so you'd have month and year month and year current activity occupation okay now for uh current activities and occupations this is this is quite important so they do say for past 10 years so even if if you were working under the age of 18 I do include it right like I've had people that started working at 16 and I do include that I say yeah I was a you know a housekeeper or an opair and in in the uh in the current activity or occupation and the previous activity occupation you got to think occupations like knock they're trying to figure out okay what were you actually doing so you want to be descriptive you never want to say just manager right like that doesn't tell them anything they want to see like accounting manager or they want to see Food Service supervisor they want to see it broken down by yeah don't use generic terms like manager or consultant or just self-employed you could say self you could say self-employed but a self-employed what right let's say you're a self-employed electrician electrician uh you could probably in here say self-employed okay and that would be I think the most descriptive way to represent that and and Company you could put then put your company name or if it was under uh that would be like the legal structure if it was under a uh you sole proprietorship then you would put your name so always put as much detail as you can they want to know what you were doing a manager doesn't provide enough description but food and beverage manager and if you can't fit food and beverage put FNB manager right so put as much description as you can in there so I'm just going to put uh well I don't want to spend way too much time on this so let's do current activity occupation let's say this person right now is working as a um say registered nurse right so registered nurse great but you could go RN oncology that would be more specific that means you're working as a cancer nurse they would know did I spell that right oncology and uh I'm employer company facility name right would you go generic and say like yeah I'm working for Al Alberta Health Services AHS yes that is Alberta Health Services um but let's say you're working at a particular Hospital like Foothills right you you want to put you want to be as descriptive as you possibly can here and again maybe you weren't as descriptive on your previous application well I would say uh keep it consistent okay so that's why it's always good to get started with a really strong application on your initial application Canada put in as much detail as you possibly can and then later on you can lean on that detail if you do need it if they change the program okay like they bring in something where in the last 10 years if you had experience as an electrician come on in Calgary obviously that's the city or town country or territory this would be Canada and Province or state a May and then you can put in the rest of this here and now we have yeah we have to fill this all in this person was Argentina this wouldn't make sense but let's go Canada okay AB Province where where you've where you've been working right uh and background information this is okay so I should also mention in employment some people would ask a question like for example uh let's say you were working for an American company but uh working as a contractor in Canada that can get confusing right so put into the best of your ability the most descriptive way right let's say you're working for an American company but you're working remotely for them in Canada and you've been able to do that because you're on an open work permit then they how are they paying you if they're paying you as a contractor then you should put in here a contractor self-employed or freelance right like freelance uh digital marketer and um if it's been only for one company then you could put that company name and then you're thinking well shoot should I put like what if the Company's base in the United States I wouldn't put the American country or territory because they would associate this employment with your location in which you're doing the employment okay and there is uh ambiguity there because when you look at the guide and this is another guide that you'll want to reference but um it would be your work permit application guide I think it's this one here they tell you how to answer the questions but you know what in many cases they don't provide right whether you're able to communicate in English or French we've gone through all these but they don't tell you in this guide provide details about your current activity and previous details if you're retired that's all they say indicate the name of the company or facility or facility where you work okay but Country Town country of what country where you're working country where you're receiving money country where the company's located so they don't provide clarification here in the guide and and this is why there's a a whole industry for immigration Consulting and for immigration lawyers because they're just not giving people enough guidance if it's questionable if it's challenging to display you're saying well I yeah I work for a foreign company uh but I'm working in Canada then explain that in a letter of explanation everything where you don't have space or where their system is redundant or designed poorly just go ahead and put it in a letter of explanation say I mentioned I'm working as a freelance digital marketer for Apple Inc and but I'm doing this in Calgary can and then you would explain like I'm a freelance digital marketer I'm being subcontracted by Apple Inc I'm doing the work in Calgary right um but they're not necessarily they don't really have an office in Calgary let's say they're just paying me as a subcontractor and you would then anything that's questionable or if you're you're like hey there's actually I've looked at the guy I've looked at this there's there's really I've talked to a consultant and the consultant's telling me do a letter of explanation then you should do a letter of explanation and just add that to your client information have we s well well we signed out we lost it let's go to within the past two years have you had these this is your background information questions okay always answer answer these truthfully je any physical or mental disorder no have you remained beyond the validity of your status attended School thought authoriz ation or worked that authorization in Canada if okay you've gone out of status this would be yes have you remained beyond the validity of your status that is right it's not going to impact your application if you've restored your status and everything's fine right they wouldn't have restored your status if they thought you were inadmissible to Canada they would have told told you get the heck out but you want to make sure that you say yes here because if it's no then that is technically misrepresentation you're not telling them that you did go out of status at some point in time have you ever been refused a Visa or permit denied entry or order to leave Canada or any other country or territory this means ever at any time in the past have you ever been refused a Visa or permit to any other country denied entry to any other country for some people this might be yes like that means even if you refus a permit or a visa to Canada they know like even though it's on their system they're just ask you have you been refused do we need to dig deeper so and I will state that let's say you got a pgwp flag polling okay like you went to the land border and you got a work permit well we all know how that happens if you tell the United States to turn around at the border so you can go back into Canada that's technically an administrative refusal you go into the UC sis office USCIS office or whatever it is you go in there there the applicant gives their fingerprints they get a picture they administratively refuse they get a piece of paper that says you've been denied entry to the United States so that you should disclose that as a refusal and have you previously applied to enter remaining Canada well in this case yeah you've definitely applied to remaining Canada you have a perent residence application in process and have you previously applied to enter that means come through the border of course you have you first came through in 201 5 or 2016 whatever was on the original entry date so and put in then as much details as you can here and many times you'll have to use abbreviation um and if you run out of space and you want to put in a couple sentences for a letter of explanation that's totally acceptable let's say this person did quickly drop out of status say um lost status briefly uh and applied for rest store and approved um app W right and you could even be more specific law status uh law status 2022 and appli to restore um and then they'll see okay they're declaring that great and then they can go look at it if they want B refused to ver uh let's say yeah refused um refused permit in 2022 W and then let's say let's say this person applied and then they uh will refuse to work permit extension in Canada or like a pgwp and then they applied restored their status done okay C uh have you previously applied to enter remaining Canada this is where I like to put in the E the application number right PR App in process and then also all the other times you've entered Canada you could try and put these as well you're you're likely not going to be able to put in all the dates you've entered Canada but like entered originally 2015 as tourist uh entered after you can put in as much detail as you can but you're quickly going to run out of space right about now so that's all the time all the space you have try to abbreviate as best you can include application numbers that's a great way to show them uh use like abbreviations like APPL for Applied um and if you've got to abbreviate entered abbreviate entered okay so and I've even put this before enter Canada many occasions originally as in 2015 as tourist maybe okay have you ever been committed or arrested uh or been charged so charg is interesting right so that doesn't mean convicted if you've been charged uh people can drop charges right but if you've been charged you should be declaring that so let's say no let's say this person is good and you haven't served in any military militia not associated with a political party uh or group engage in advocated terrorism no no no and then you put in your signature here so I think it was Jessica Smith you don't need to I've seen people have approved applications where they've just left this totally blank because they say on the guide you don't need to actually uh it counts as your digital signature or whatever put this date here and validate and what are we missing here current country of residence why do they have an issue with this okay now it works validate completed successfully and now this is what you're going to upload directly into your portal okay so you can and it'll only uploaded it'll only be able to be uploaded once it's validated and this is it and it's got this secured in the uh top Corner because otherwise uh you could file print it print it as a PDF but if you do that then it's not going to upload because it's just going to be an image this is actually like a smart form right so you have to upload this validated version like this and then you file save as give it a nice name IMM 5710 e _ Jessica Smith right so there's your IMM 5710 I've gone through how to fill it out uh and now other resources that you can use I'm going to save this this is the worker in Canada checklist and this is what you can use to further support that you're including everything you need to continue application review your answers continue continue and here we go here's your 5710 open it upload make sure you're obviously uploading the right version there it won't let you upload if it's not validated your passport also obviously if you highlight over this it tells you what you need to submit and it's basically the same thing that's on the checklist digital photo yeah submit your digital photo as well uh and you can it doesn't have to be at a photo studio I would recommend that you do anyways but if you have a digital photo that's recent uh and it meets the specifications on here temporary residence then you're good to go and in this case they want a family information form so go ahead and upload this family information form that they're asking for optional documents like I said I'm not sure why they're requesting just the schedule one is an optional document uh they've only ever asked for schedule one uh usually if somebody answers yes on background questions 3 to six or at least that's what they say on their outside of Canada work perm application and I don't understand how it would support a visa application from uh within Canada because it has to go to a different office okay so I always would submit the work permit application first get the approved status and then if you need to apply for a Visa because you need to leave the country then go ahead it's what I've done with my clients all the the time so now you've got in the client information again what are we putting there we're putting your your current status document your work permit put your Visa if you've got your Visa but your Visa should be also kind of uploaded into your passport anyways right because it's a stamp or a marking on that page so if you've already got your Visa uploaded in your passport great uh in your valid passport if let's say it's an your your Canadian visa is in an older passport well then I would include it in the client information that Canadian visa right because yes it's a stamp of Visa or marking but that stamp and Visa or marking is not on your valid passport it's on an expired passport but I would still like to show immigration that information and then finally you're going to put uh your yeah your work permit your TRV and now your e APR which looks like this and obviously don't redact it okay and then your Biometrics check tool okay so you could show that you have valid Biometrics and if you wanted you can write just a little one pager dear ircc officer I hope your day is going well uh I'm applying for a bridging open work permit as an Express entry applicant I'm eligible as per this link on your website and I've read through the documentation here and I've included and you can go word for word I'm currently living in Canada please find attached my word permit I have a valid work yeah I have a valid work permit I'm the principal applicant on the permanent residence application I've attached my e APR showing you that I have it and here's my acknowledgement of receipt that's that's it uh there's a few other parts about my application that you should be aware of number one uh I was you know I've I've explained the yeah I I lost my status and then I had to restore it so this is what happened I just wanted to provide some further context secondly I wanted to provide some further context I it shows that I've worked for Apple link Apple link has paid me as a freelance digital marketer I did that work while I've been living in Calgary um the Companies Incorporated overseas uh or I studied at this institution it says I studied in it appears that I've studied in you know the United States and the Bronx but the schools just located in the Bronx uh I it was a fully remote program um and there you go if there's anything of those sorts of questions that's why I like to put in a submission letter that's why I like to have a submission letter and I think every applicant should put a submission letter so what you would probably do is write your submission letter get it finalized make it nice save it to PDF then add a little title page in there if you want it say it's work permit so it goes you've got your submission letter then work permit then you've got your work work prom attached then TRV and old passport picture of your TRV from your old passport then e APR then uh bio valid Biometrics check tool screenshot done and third not third but finally you could even have eligibility and then you just you could literally print this to PDF and then highlight live in Canada either da da da done done deal done deal they'll approve it no problem I can't guarantee that but that is that is uh this is the Simplicity of a bridging open work permit for Express entry so I hope that was a very useful video I know it was quite long but I went through everything feel free to skip Parts make sure you like And subscribe it really helps me to continue putting out this content where I want to help those who do their own applications and I like to uh continue to offer review services so just having a look at the application once you guys have finalized everything so you can still submit uh retain custody and ownership of your own data Remain the first point of contact track your status in your portals track your status in uh the application tracker and and it I I find it's a much easier way to do it for simple applications so uh thank you for tuning in and best of luck