IEC Visa: Part 2 – How to apply

Hi guys, welcome back!

In part 2 of the IEC Visa content series, we will be covering the start of the application process. If you’ve missed part 1 or want to familiarise yourself with what an IEC visa is then you can find that here.

So you’ve decided that you’re interested in moving to Canada on a working holiday visa…once you’ve checked that you meet the necessary criteria (age requirements & country eligibility) you’re good to go ahead with the application process.

How to start the application process

Starting the application process is relatively easy, so easy you can do it yourself. I made the mistake in going through Bunac, A travel agency that specialises in working and volunteering abroad opportunities. Maybe I didn’t do my research properly or utilise Bunac to its full potential, but that’s one of the reasons as to why I started this content series…to make sure that you don’t make the same mistakes that I did! (I’ll explain more about Bunac in part 3).

So anyway back to the application process. The first thing you need to do is create a profile on the canadian government website, that will be later submitted into a pool for random selection.

Upon creating your profile you will be asked a bunch of questions to check your eligibility, these questions will be pertaining to your:

• country of citizenship
• country of permanent residence
• country of residence

Once these have been answered and you’ve been given the green light, you can then go on to complete your profile for submission. For this next section you will need your passport to hand and be prepared to fill in contact and identity info.

That’s it!! Now all you have to do is submit your profile to the relevant pool & wait to see if you are sent an invitation to apply.

That’s all for now folks.

In part 3 of this series we will be looking at the services that Bunac offer (in relation to the working holiday visa) & whether the services will be of any benefit to you.

Thanks for reading guys 🙂 as always if you have any specific questions you would like me to answer please drop me a message & I’ll try by best to answer them.