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    Posted: 12 Jul 2016 at 10:33am
Hi everybody,

I'm new to this forum and new to Canada. I apologize if this subject repeats in this forum but couldn't find with search.

I arrived as a visitor in Canada a month ago. My husband got work permit for three years and I come to visit him. As his spouse I applied for open work permit inside Canada and a process will take about three months. I want to know can I work something until I got work permit. I know that I can't have full time job and contract job, but what about freelance, or some additional job. I saw lot of  ads for freelance and additional part-time jobs. Can I apply for them? I am web and software developer and I worked in my country in company and as a freelancer like additional job and didn't have problems. Can somebody explain me how that things work here?

How for example internship programs operate? Can I do some internship? 

I really want to do something but don't want to risk my long term staying here. I want to work to meet people, make contacts...

I hope someone can help me with those questions. Thank you!


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HI

Originally posted by snoopy_15 snoopy_15 wrote:

Hi everybody,

I'm new to this forum and new to Canada. I apologize if this subject repeats in this forum but couldn't find with search.

I arrived as a visitor in Canada a month ago. My husband got work permit for three years and I come to visit him. As his spouse I applied for open work permit inside Canada and a process will take about three months. I want to know can I work something until I got work permit. I know that I can't have full time job and contract job, but what about freelance, or some additional job. I saw lot of  ads for freelance and additional part-time jobs. Can I apply for them? I am web and software developer and I worked in my country in company and as a freelancer like additional job and didn't have problems. Can somebody explain me how that things work here?

How for example internship programs operate? Can I do some internship? 

I really want to do something but don't want to risk my long term staying here. I want to work to meet people, make contacts...

I hope someone can help me with those questions. Thank you!



1. No, without a work permit, you can't work period or intern you will have to wait for your SOWP
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Ok, thank you for your response.

I hope that I will get SOWP soon.
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