A few Canadian work/immigration questions

[Scott & Annie 19]

Hi All, if someone has a few moments I have some questions about Canadian life and immigration laws. I'll try to be brief...Thanks in advance.

A good friend of my wife (both are Filipina) is coming to work in Canada from Singapore. She will be a domestic helper or whatever it's called in Canada. I'm assuming she'll come over on a work visa similiar to the US. Her new employers are a professional couple (Hubbys a DR.and wife is IDK)...First Question:

1. She has been told she will earn 1.5K CAD a month. She will live-in, which appearently was an option. That seems to be a lot of $$ compaired to SGP $ she earned doing the same type work for a similiar expat family. Does this sound normal??

2. How soon, or will she ever (unless she attains Canadian citizenship) be able to get a visa to visit us in the US?

3. My wife is still a conditional LPR here in US. Will my wife be able to visit her in Canada? Maybe before or after ROC?

Thanks!

[bmiles62 5]

Hi! My wife has a niece that lives in Singapore and is working on doing the exact same thing now. She is taking caregiver classes now that are needed to be qualified. I think I can answer a few of these.

1.) I am not sure about the pay but that would not surprise me. Hopefully someone can answer this soon for you.

2.) If she just working their (Canada) she will not be able to come to the USA without a Visitor Visa and this will be just as hard to get for her as it is now.

3.) Your wife can go to Canada with a Green Card and her Philippine Passport. She can go before and after ROC.

[NikLR 13,227]

Hi All, if someone has a few moments I have some questions about Canadian life and immigration laws. I'll try to be brief...Thanks in advance.

A good friend of my wife (both are Filipina) is coming to work in Canada from Singapore. She will be a domestic helper or whatever it's called in Canada. I'm assuming she'll come over on a work visa similiar to the US. Her new employers are a professional couple (Hubbys a DR.and wife is IDK)...First Question:

1. She has been told she will earn 1.5K CAD a month. She will live-in, which appearently was an option. That seems to be a lot of $$ compaired to SGP $ she earned doing the same type work for a similiar expat family. Does this sound normal??

2. How soon, or will she ever (unless she attains Canadian citizenship) be able to get a visa to visit us in the US?

3. My wife is still a conditional LPR here in US. Will my wife be able to visit her in Canada? Maybe before or after ROC?

Thanks!

1 - pretty normal price actually. I assume she's going to be a nanny who also has to clean. That's what most people come over as on that. She needs to make sure she has set days off and set hours. Otherwise she could be working ALL the time. Not everyone is a jerk, but some people are

2 - no idea. She'd still need a visa until she becomes a Canadian.

3 - Yes she can visit anytime. As soon as she had her stamp in her passport she could travel and visit family and friends.

[Scott & Annie 19]

Thanks bmiles62 and NikiR,

That's great to hear my wife will be able to travel to canada. They were BFs for 9 years in Singapore and have not seen each other since my wife left SGP in 2010 to go home and we started the K1, K2 process.

NikiR-she did say she would be working mon-fri, normal 8 hours or so. They did ask she be available to work some extra time occasionally, some weekends too. They also told her they HAD to pay her overtime if she did. We will see. They have three kids, so it will be a challenge .

Thanks for the answers!

[NikLR 13,227]

Okay depending on the age of the children, that may or may not be a good rate. But a lot of better off families like to do exactly this. My ex sil does it and is on her 3rd nanny? They legally have to pay her (they can get around this but if it's in the contract that's better) so make she sure writes down if she does.

They may have rules in the house so tell her to follow them. Like no eating in the bedroom.

Best of luck to everyone.