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Depends on what you mean by a "business trip" and "work at customer's premises". If this is for couple of days, you probably wont need a visa. If this is a longer term work assignment, you are entering Canadian labour market and may need a visa.andreachen wrote:I was wondering if anyone knew whether a British citizen, working for the London branch of a company in the middle east, can go on a business trip to Canada, and work for the same company but at one of their customer's premises please. What are the visa requirements, and how long would they would be allowed to stay please.
I'm sorry if I should have been able to find this information somewhere but I've been googling for a while and have not found out anything definite.
Many thanks!
Yes, its always a good idea to give as much information as possible, so you can get a better answer.andreachen wrote:Sorry for not being clearer. This would ideally be for 6 months, and it would be someone employed by the British branch of the middle east company travelling to an existing customer to help them set up their system. The customer would pay the middle east company for this service.
Maybe it's more of a work permit that's required, even though the person would not be employed by the Canadian company? I think I'll search for work permit, I hadn't really thought of that before.
Thanks!
It may sound like that. However, six months is a long time and the business visa may not be the right one. Does it really takes six months to do after sales service (from immigration prespective), or is this an implementation project. As I dont know what you do, let me use an example, lets say this is an implementation of SAP or Oracle systems. By you going over, you are competing in the Canadian job market where there are already qualified Canadians who can implement SAP or Oracle. So why you need to be there? Again, from an immigration prespective.andreachen wrote:Thanks Ray, it sounds like a business visa should be ok since all the points you gave match the situation.