{"id":5581,"date":"2019-08-15T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=5581"},"modified":"2019-08-15T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:59:00","slug":"do-your-new-international-ta-ras-require-a-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-5581","title":{"rendered":"Do your new international TA\/RAs require a SIN?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Assisting new international TA\/RAs with obtaining a Social Insurance Number (SIN)<\/u><\/p>\n<p>We wanted to highlight our <strong>SIN Clinic<\/strong> starting August 27 \u2013 International Advising Office in collaboration with Service Canada are offering exclusive on-campus appointments for new UBC students to obtain their SIN.<\/p>\n<p>Students are welcome to sign up for an appointment <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sinreg\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sign up for your SIN clinic appointment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Does your TA position begin soon or do you want to work in Canada? Before you can start working you need to get a Social Insurance Number (SIN) from Service Canada. You will also\u00a0need to provide your SIN to UBC for tax purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Service Canada will come to the UBC Life Building to issue SINs exclusively for UBC students starting<strong> August 27<\/strong>. This saves you a one hour commute to the nearest Service Canada office.<\/p>\n<p>Spaces are limited, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sinreg\/\">register online today<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Please let our office know if you have any questions, and many thanks for supporting incoming international graduate students!<\/p>\n<p>Emilie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emilie Omi<\/strong>, RISIA<br \/>\nInternational Student Advisor<br \/>\nInternational Student Development | Student Development and Services<br \/>\nThe University of British Columbia |1200 UBC Life Building<br \/>\n6138 Student Union Boulevard | Vancouver, BC \u00a0Canada V6T 1Z1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/aboriginal.ubc.ca\/community-youth\/musqueam-and-ubc\/\">x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8k\u02b7\u0259y\u0313\u0259m (Musqueam) Territory<\/a><br \/>\nE: <a href=\"mailto:emilie.omi@ubc.ca\">emilie.omi@ubc.ca<\/a> \u00a0| P: 604-822-1810<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.campaigner.com\/CSB\/Public\/Form.aspx?fid=1372115\">Subscribe to the I. House Community Update<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assisting new international TA\/RAs with obtaining a Social Insurance Number (SIN) We wanted to highlight our SIN Clinic starting August 27 \u2013 International Advising Office in collaboration with Service Canada are offering exclusive on-campus appointments for new UBC students to obtain their SIN. Students are welcome to sign up for an appointment here. Sign up&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5582,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581\/revisions\/5582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}