NAFTA Visa for Americans & Mexicans

Nafta -Business Visitors

Nafta -Intra Company

Nafta -Professionals

Nafta -Traders and Investors

To check your eligibility, please fill our Free Work Visa Assessment which is prepared to determine instantly your eligibility to apply for a NAFTA Visa for Americans & Mexicans to Canada.

Business Visitors

Business visitors are granted entry in Canada for international business activities including growth, manufacture and production; marketing, sales, distribution, after sales service, general service, research and design. Business visitors can carry out their activities without the need for a work permit.     

Business visitor basic requirements:

The following requirements apply:

• Must be a Citizen of the United States or Mexico.
• Business activities should be international in scope.
• Should have no intention to enter the Canadian labor market.
• Primary source of remuneration should remain outside Canada.
• Principal place of business should remain outside Canada.
• Fall in line with existing immigration requirements for temporary entry.

Business activities covered:

Business activities covered are of commercial natures which reflect the workings of a business cycle:

• Research and Design
• Growth, Manufacture and Production
• Marketing
• Sales
• Distribution
• After-sales Service
• General Service

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Intra Company Transferees

Intra-company transferees are employed in a managerial or executive capacity by an American or Mexican enterprise, or in one which involves specialized knowledge, and are being transferred to the Canadian enterprise, parent branch, subsidiary, or affiliate, to provide services in the same capacity. Intra-company transferees are not liable to the LMO process but need a work permit.

Basic requirements for intra-company transferees

The following requirements apply:

• Must be a citizen of the United States or Mexico
• Employment must be in an executive or managerial capacity or one involving “specialized knowledge”
• Enterprises in the United States or Mexico and in Canada must have a parent, branch, and subsidiary or affiliate relationship
• From the date of application, applicant must have continuous employment in a similar position outside Canada for one year (full-time) in the previous three-year period.
• Should fall in line with existing immigration requirements for temporary entry.

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Nafta -Professionals

Professionals include individuals who enter to provide professional services either as a salaried employee of a Canadian enterprise, or through a contract between the American or Mexican employer of the business person and a Canadian enterprise. Professionals are not subject to an LMO but require a work permit.

Basic requirement for professionals:

The following requirements apply:

• Should be a citizen of the United States or Mexico
• Should be qualified to work in that profession
• Should have pre-arranged employment with a Canadian employer
• Should fall in line with existing immigration requirements for temporary entry

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Nafta -Traders and Investors

Traders and investors carry on extensive trade of goods or services between the United States or Mexico and Canada or have committed, or are in the process of committing, a substantial amount of capital in Canada. Before departing for Canada traders and investors do not require LMO process but a work permit for which they must apply at a visa office.

Traders

Basic requirements for traders

The following requirements apply:

• Should be citizen of United States or Mexico
• Employing enterprise should have American or Mexican nationality
• Activities should involve extensive trade in goods or services
• Trade should be between Canada and either the United States or Mexico
• Position should be supervisory or executive, or involves essential skills
• Should fall in line with existing immigration requirements for temporary entry

Basic criteria for traders

1. Nationality

Applicant should be an American or a Mexican citizen and the enterprise to or from which the applicant is coming should have American or Mexican nationality.
Here American or Mexican nationality refers to individual or corporate persons, who own at least 50 percent interest in the entity, must hold American or Mexican citizenship.

2. Substantial Trade

Total volume of trade conducted by the entity between Canada and the United States or Mexico must be over 50 percent of the international trade.

3. Capacity

Applicant’s job duties in Canada will be employed in a supervisory or executive or involves essential skills capacity.

The supervisory or executive element of the position must be a principal function of the duties while working in Canada. Principle responsibilities of a supervisor include directing, controlling and guiding subordinate employees and who does not routinely engage in hands-on activities. An executive is in a primary position in the organization with significant policy authority.

Essential skills or services are possessed by specialists and are vital to the effectiveness of the firm’s Canadian operations. Unless the required skills can only be obtained through working for that enterprise the essential employee is not required to have been previously employed by the American or Mexican enterprise.

Investors

Basic requirements for Investors

The following requirements apply:

• Applicant should have American or Mexican citizenship;
• Enterprise should have American or Mexican nationality;
• Extensive investment has been made, or is actively being made;
• Applicant should be seeking entry solely to develop and direct the enterprise;
• Position should be executive or supervisory or involves essential skills if the applicant is an employee
• Should fall in line with existing immigration measures applicable to temporary entry.

Basic Criteria for Investors

• The applicant must be a citizen of the United States or Mexico and the enterprise or firm to which the applicant is coming has American or Mexican nationality.
  Here American or Mexican nationality refers to the individual or corporate persons who own at least 50 percent interest in the entity established in Canada must hold American or Mexican citizenship.
• Applicant seeking temporary entry exclusively to develop and direct the operations of an enterprise in which the applicant has invested, or is actively in the process of investing, a substantial amount of capital.
• Funds - Reasonable amount of cash held in a business bank account or similar fund used for routine business operations may be counted as investment funds.
• Indebtedness - Mortgage debt or commercial loans secured by the enterprise’s assets cannot count toward the investment as there is no requisite element of risk.
• Lease/rent payments - Payments in the form of leases or rents for property or equipment may be calculated toward the investment in an amount limited to the funds devoted to that item in one month.
• Goods/equipment as investment - The amount spent for purchase of equipment and for inventory on hand may be calculated in the investment. The value of goods or equipment transferred to Canada is considered an investment provided the applicant can demonstrate that the goods or machinery will be put, or are being put, to use in an ongoing commercial enterprise.

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