In August 2026, there were two significant regulation changes to Canada’s LMIA system, along with an increasing practical focus on work location and company legitimacy requirements that impact businesses’ hiring of temporary foreign workers through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
On August 18, 2026, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) modified the low-wage workforce cap computation for companies with less than ten workers at a specific workplace.
Effective August 21, 2026, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada increased the concurrent processing grace period for those in-Canada work permit applicants whose employer’s LMIA is still waiting from sixty to ninety days.
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Source: https://immigrationnewscanada.ca