Extending our Working Holiday?! Border crossing, work permits & a weekend in Whitefish, MT!

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It's time for a life update! Today we are finally sharing everything that we have gone through to stay in Canada and get new work permits.
We arrived in Canada in September of 2021 on an IEC open working holiday permit. After spending two years in the beautiful Banff National Park, we decided we weren't ready to leave and decided to extend out stay in Canada.
I have been dodging your questions for the last 5 months as we sat in limbo, but this weekend we went down to the US border to get our new Canadian work permits and we are finally ready to share everything. From our visa process to the costs involved and the timeframe - we explain it all!
You can also join us for one of the best snowboarding days of our life at Whitefish Mountain Resort... or skip ahead (whatever).
As always thanks for being here throughout our journey!
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00:00 Driving to the US
01:49 Crossing the US border
05:10 Arriving in Whitefish, Montana
07:33 Whitefish Mountain Resort
12:17 Our full story
19:12 Crossing the Canadian border
19:40 Relief

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@johnandangiecrowley6816 4 ай бұрын

CONGRATULATIONS!!

@caitlinlaurent 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!! Appreciate your continued support :)

@shackinternationalRT 4 ай бұрын

Loved the vid thanks. Glad it went well!

@caitlinlaurent 4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@jj-ik7co 3 ай бұрын

Congratulations!Just found your channel. Have gone back and watched your entire Canadian journey. Great videos! Would love to see a video on the differences between Australia and Canada and what are your favourite things about living in the Canadian Rockies.

@caitlinlaurent 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for following along! Love the video suggestions - I'll see what I can do :)

@justabean4755 4 ай бұрын

Congrats to you both! So exciting that you can stay longer in beautiful Canada. I have a question-would you say it is hard to acquire an LMIA job? Are you guys planning to get PR?

@caitlinlaurent 3 ай бұрын

PR is not on our radar at the moment! I know Canada has just announced this week that they are changing the LMIA requirements and it looks like it is going to be much harder. Essentially they want to reduce the amount of temporary residents in Canada so those jobs are going to more citizens. We just had the opportunity presented to us - however, I wouldn't necessarily recommend it based on our experiences following (I'll post an update in the next month or so!)

@bailey8242 3 ай бұрын

Hey, moving in dec this yr, just curious if employers are accomodating to workers taking say 1 -2 weeks off, wanting to return for a short time to go to an event

@caitlinlaurent 2 ай бұрын

The answer to that will be completely dependent on your employer and the time of the year so I will speak generally but you will need to confirm with them. In towns like this, most employers are pretty good at giving you time off. However, in most jobs, there are also 'blackout periods' which is when they won't approve anyone's time off because it's busy. Examples may be over Christmas and new years, as well as holidays! Hope that helps :)