Travel & TFW/SAWP Information

Effective on August 16, 2021, F.A.R.M.S. will be accepting SAWP LMIA for January and February 2022 arrivals. Important deadlines for requesting workers include:

Incoming travellers, foreign or nationals do not need to quarantine providing they are double vaccinated and meet the following requirements.

Mexican Consulate has begun “2021 Seasonal Housing Inspection Routine”
Goal: Inspect SAWP living accommodations.

Location-dependant, farm workers maybe eligible for testing at:

Mobile/Temporary COVID-19 assessment centres
Community labs
Pharmacies 

As per the Public Health Agency of Canada’s announcement, beginning July 5, 2021 at 12h01 AM EDT, fully vaccinated travelers will not be required to quarantine or complete a day-8 test…

The Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW), with funding from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), has produced 8 Ontario agricultural region posters (English and Spanish), identifying community, health care, and stress and psychosocial supports available to international agricultural workers. 

Table 1: Workers Returning to Home Country

The Destination Tracker developed by UNWTO uses Timatic Travel Regulations content and collates it with other government information to provide an overview of destinations open to travel and to detail COVID-19 restrictions at destination.

On April 29, 2021 Bill 284 was accepted through Royal Assent. The key components of this bill are effective from April 19, 2021 until September 25, 2021, where employees are entitled up to 3 days of “Paid Infectious Disease Emergency Leave” related to COVID-19 if they are:

In November 2020, the Federal government announced they would be unrolling a process that would allow up to 401,000 foreign nationals permanent Canadian residency and citizenship in 2021.