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About LMIA Jobs in Canada

LMIA Jobs in Canada is an independent information site about working in Canada through the Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) system. It exists for one reason: the Canadian government's own data about which employers are approved to hire foreign workers is public, but it is published as raw quarterly spreadsheets that almost nobody can use. This site turns those files into a searchable directory, province and sector pages, two checkers, and plain-language guides.

Where the data comes from

Every employer record, count and table on this site is computed from the Temporary Foreign Worker Program: Positive LMIA Employers List published by Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) on the Open Government portal. The current build covers the four most recent quarterly files — decisions through June 30, 2026, published October 30, 2026. Wage thresholds come from ESDC's official wage-threshold page on canada.ca. Nothing is scraped from job boards, and no statistic is typed by hand: if a number appears on this site, it was counted from those files at build time.

What this site is not

It is not a government site, a job board, or a recruitment agency. It does not post vacancies (we link to Job Bank, the official board, for those), does not take applications, and will never charge a worker for anything. An employer's presence here means ESDC approved their LMIA application in a past quarter — it is not an endorsement and not a guarantee of a current vacancy.

How it is maintained

The directory is rebuilt when ESDC publishes a new quarterly list. Policy pages cite the canada.ca page each rule comes from, with the date it was checked. If you find an error, the fastest correction route for the underlying data is ESDC's dataset page on the Open Government portal; for errors introduced by this site's presentation, see the contact page.