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the new guy
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 Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:42 am Post subject: Processing Time For Work Visa In Canada? |
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I was wondering how long it took you to process your work visa in Canada. I will probably be returning to Canada to get my work visa, and I want to know if I get my passport to them on a Monday morning will it be completed by the end of the week.
I need to book my flights accordingly
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Harry from NWE
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| Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:36 am Post subject: Re: Processing Time For Work Visa In Canada? |
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| the new guy wrote: |
I was wondering how long it took you to process your work visa in Canada. I will probably be returning to Canada to get my work visa, and I want to know if I get my passport to them on a Monday morning will it be completed by the end of the week.
I need to book my flights accordingly
Thanks |
If you mean that sticker which they put in your passport after you've got the promise of a work permit, I'd probably want to allow more time than that. Five working days is the minimum it'll take. There used to be an option to pay more and have the visa issued the same day but I think that's been stopped now. I'd be allowing ten working days.
The best solution is to email the consulate you'll be using and ask them what the timeframe will be. |
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the new guy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:39 am Post subject: |
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I'm in PL now, and don't want to go back to CDA. it's a lot of money, time and not to mention the amount of air pollution to have me travel back to CDA just to show my passport in person.
I'm currently awaiting their reply. Thanks. |
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Harry from NWE
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| Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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I'm in PL now, and don't want to go back to CDA. it's a lot of money, time and not to mention the amount of air pollution to have me travel back to CDA just to show my passport in person.
I'm currently awaiting their reply. Thanks. |
Do you have the right to live anywhere in Europe? A British grandparent perhaps? Would entitle you to an ancestral visa and thus to tell the Poles that UK is your place of permanent residence and so would be the place you go back to to get a visa.
Another alternative is to simply send your passport to Canada. You just have to hope that the consulate don't ask for a face-to-face interview. |
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the new guy
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From: [email protected]
To: XXXXXXXXXX
Subject: Re: Work Visa Information
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:43:47 -0500
Yes, you need apply for a work visa in person, in the proper Polish consulate in Canada (addresses and consular territories on our website: www.ottawa.polemb.net .
Please, give your employer the regulations below:
1. ustawa z 20 kwietnia 2004 o promocji zatrudnienia i instytucjch rynku pracy (DzU z 2004 nr 99, poz 1001, z p�źniejszymi zmianami)
2. rozporządzenie Ministra pracy i Polityki Społecznej z dnia 30 sierpnia 2006 w sprawie wykonywania przez cudzoziemc�w pracy bez konieczności uzyskania zezwolenia na pracę (Dz U z 2006r nr 156, poz 1116).
Best regards
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From: XXXXXX
To: Konsulat RP w Ottawie
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:40 PM
Subject: RE: Work Visa Information
Thank you for replying. How long will the application take? Is there anyway I can do this in Poland without having to travel back to Canada? There will be plenty of travel back and forth for this document and it would be a great inconvenience as I will have to find places to store all of my belongings. Can I have a family member bring my passport to their local office along with supporting document of my prospective employer? It would help me greatly.
Thank you,
XXXXXXXXXXXXX
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Re: Work Visa Information
From: Konsulat RP w Ottawie ([email protected])
Sent:November 22, 2007 9:03:57 AM
To: XXXXXXXX
No, a family member cannot do this; you should apply for a work visa yourself, in the proper Polish consulate - depends on where do you live in Canada.
Best regards
/\ but I do not live in Canada at the moment. |
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Harry from NWE
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:25 am Post subject: |
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From: XXXXXX
To: Konsulat RP w Ottawie
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:40 PM
Subject: RE: Work Visa Information
Thank you for replying. How long will the application take? Is there anyway I can do this in Poland without having to travel back to Canada? There will be plenty of travel back and forth for this document and it would be a great inconvenience as I will have to find places to store all of my belongings. Can I have a family member bring my passport to their local office along with supporting document of my prospective employer? It would help me greatly.
Thank you,
XXXXXXXXXXXXX
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Re: Work Visa Information
From: Konsulat RP w Ottawie ([email protected])
Sent:November 22, 2007 9:03:57 AM
To: XXXXXXXX
No, a family member cannot do this; you should apply for a work visa yourself, in the proper Polish consulate - depends on where do you live in Canada.
Best regards
/\ but I do not live in Canada at the moment. |
Yes, but that is not their problem. Polish rules for Canadians are an exact mirror of Canadian rules for Poles. Poles have to apply for their Canadian visa in Poland, so vice versa.
There is one way you might be able to cut down on the waiting time but it's rather complex: you go to the Canadian embassy here and tell them you need a second passport because you will need to be travelling to both Israel and Lebanon on business and can not use the same passport for both countries; go to Berlin and send your passport to Canada via DHL (you need to go to Berlin to get a valid Polish exit stamp in the passport); your family member takes passport to Polish consulate in Canada with paperwork and drops it off, you can not go yourself because you have gone to see some friends up north but you will be there in person to collect the passport ten working days later; ten days later you fly to Canada using your second passport and go get the passport with the visa in it.
The tricky bit is getting back into Poland given that your new passport has no entry visa in it and you can not say that your passport is lost (they'll ask you to prove you've contacted your govt about that). |
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simon_porter00
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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proper james bond stuff this, let us know how it goes  |
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Harry from NWE
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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| simon_porter00 wrote: |
| proper james bond stuff this, let us know how it goes |
Well, I could, but I'd have to kill you afterwards. |
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the new guy
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| The tricky bit is getting back into Poland given that your new passport has no entry visa in it and you can not say that your passport is lost (they'll ask you to prove you've contacted your govt about that). |
but on Dec 21 Poland joins the Schengen Zone, so won't having to get stamps be a thing of the past? I've heard that this is the case.
I've never had an entry visa in my passport and have never had a problem. I just showed them my passport at the border, waited a few minutes, got my stamps and done. I bet I have just jinxed myself as I have to cross over to Germany and back this weekend. |
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YakTamer
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Err... as I understand it the Schengen Zone won't change the situation - those who needed stamps before will still need them - only now they will become harder to obtain as you'll no longer be able to get the stamps by going to any of the Schengen zone countries.
Please correct me if I'm wrong about this. |
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the new guy
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| Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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not only did i jinx myself.... but the full moon didn't help either.
1 hour interrogation at the German/Poland border today.
I have been in PL for 14 months. pop out every 3 months or less to Germany to "reset the clock."
None of the border ppl warned me about my overstays.
at this moment as a "tourist" we are only allowed 90 days in 180.
after Schengen it is 180 in 365.
I was grilled pretty hard, but remained calm, acted kinda stupid about the rules, showed respect and was told that if i go out of PL, I won't be allowed back in for a loooooong time.
They dissected my passport, all 6 ppl. Making calls....It was kinda nerve racking.
The one offical was pleasant. I got my stamps, warnings, and after he said "many happy returns of the day" it was nice.
So i'm gonna have to go back to Canada in the end to deal with my work visa.
I was warned that it would catch up with me and it did. SO all you others doing this... bewarned!!!! |
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asgerd
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Harry from NWE wrote: |
Do you have the right to live anywhere in Europe? A British grandparent perhaps? Would entitle you to an ancestral visa.
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Just in case anyone's ears pricked up at this - I'm afraid it's not that simple. Certainly UK citizenship by descent is through your parents only (and until last year, only your father, if you were born before 1984) and even Right of Abode (again only through parents) takes months to get. And - unbelievably annoying - it's only valid for the duration of the passport it's in, which for Canadians of course is a short 5 years.
That said, with RoA and a life in Britain, I got my last Polish working visa in Edinburgh - but that was in 1996.
Anyway you've got other issues now! thanks for the warning. |
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obcykraj
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| HI, I had mine done in one day this past summer in Toronto. I contacted them prior and ensured I could get it done. Even then Polish beuaracracy, being what it is, kicked in and there was a lil confusion before i could get it done, and done in one day it was. |
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sarahcate
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| It takes 42 days to process. You don't need to go back to Canada as long as you're here as a native speaker to teach english. You just need a contract. |
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spiral78
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Saracate: the laws changed Jan 1 this year. You have to apply from your country of legal residence.  |
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