Received Job Offer from Canada? Learn How IRCC Verifies It...

Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) utilizes a framework to assess document validity in employment offers, ensuring genuineness and compliance with IRCC’s regulations, such as:

• The company must be in good standing and in compliance with local, provincial, and federal employment as well as labour laws,
• The offer must tenable and affordable by the employer,
• The employer is actively involved in the business’ operations,
• The job offer complies with the expectations of the employer, and
• The offer clearly states/mentions the employer’s contact information.

Is the employer & employment offer genuine?

Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) evaluates the legal existence and stability of companies, ensuring that they can provide stable employment to applicants. IRCC can verify the nature/type of business, what product (good) or service the business is selling, as well as the physical location of the business.

IRCC can verify the employer’s extent of engagement in the business by examining the date of commencement of business, the nature/type of business, the number of employees, gross revenue of the company, and key areas of operation. IRCC officers may conduct a comprehensive review if the business was started very recently, and the facts under consideration seem suspicious, and/or the information pertaining to the company is not easily found through open sources, such as web searches.

Genuineness of requirement & compliance with set standards

Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) officers must be convinced that employment offer is reasonable in the business. IRCC requires employers to be able to clearly explain the job’s requirements, expectations from potential candidates, including skill requirements, why the job is required at the first place, etc.

If contacted by IRCC officers, employers must be able to demonstrate that they are capable to realize the terms of employment as per applicable employment and labour laws, including hours of work, wage, benefits, and working conditions, upholding provincial and territorial standards.

Tax documentation (including employer T4 slips), worker's compensation clearance letter, and business contracts, may be requested by IRCC officers for additional information.