The city offers a warm, friendly welcome for newcomers, and this is reflected in the fact that City Hall hosts a special Citizen and New Arrival Information Center specifically aimed at welcoming people moving to Edmonton and helping them to get settled in the city as quickly as possible.
Edmonton is the capital city of Alberta, a province of Canada located between British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east. The province also borders the Northwest Territories, and at its southern edge it meets the northern border of the United States.
Edmonton is Canada’s fifth largest municipality, and is the second largest city within Alberta, with a population of the Edmonton metropolitan area estimated at 1.5 million (2022), making it is the most northerly city within North America to have more than a million metropolitan residents.
Known as the oil capital of Canada, Edmonton is an important location for natural resources, operating as a staging post for large-scale oil, gas and diamond mining projects to the north. Consequently, the largest major industry is petrochemicals, but there is also a significant number of IT, banking and biotechnology jobs. The area’s employers have typically attracted many workers from abroad, and the city has worked hard to advertise itself as an attractive and welcoming destination for foreigners. Edmonton is also a significant regional center for education and government, as well as the focus of a great many cultural festivals and events throughout the year.
Visas for Canada
Work permits and visas are required to work temporarily in Canada, with the exception of certain occupations. Business visitors, for example, who journey to Edmonton to conduct business activities within Canada, do not require a work permit if they are not part of the Canadian labor market.
The system for foreign workers is made more complex by the requirement for a Labor Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) for certain jobs. This will often be dependent on your nationality, the status of your Canadian employer, whether you have been nominated by your province for permanent residence, and whether you have been transferred to Canada by an international company.
Expats planning a move to Edmonton can find more in-depth information on the various ways to apply for permission to live and work in Canada on the website of the Canadian Immigration & Citizenship service (CIC).
Edmonton benefits from lower cost housing than Calgary, Vancouver or Toronto. As in most cities, rentals are now predominantly available on the market.
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