Hello people,
[FSW- inland ]
AOR – June 20
MEP- July 23
According to GCMS note that I ordered on Sep 23rd,
Eligibility – met
Security – not started
Criminality – passed
Medical – passed
I sincerely hope that I won’t get the refusal letter at the end, but in fact I am very worried about the upcoming final decision. Since I have a complicated working experience, I would like to know what you guys think about my situation.
So basically, I have uploaded documents for 1 year experience as a cook (actually 2 years of part-time) and two educational Canadian degrees (2yrs + 3yrs).
I got my first PGWP on 2015 Nov (expired 2018 Nov) after graduating 2 year culinary program.
Then, I started working from Nov 2015 as a cook and worked until July 2017.
However, while I was working for 1year as part time, I decided to go back to school for further education (3yr food science program) so I applied study permit and went back to school from Sep 2016.
Eventually, for the period of Sep 2016 to July 2017, I was holding both study and work permits as I actually worked and studied together. Do you think that CIC will accept my work experience that contained the part I worked under both PGWP and study permit?
I know CIC clearly says on the website that work experience during studying full time (Co-op, or internship) will not be counted as valid work experience.
However, I was a part time student and obtained a valid PGWP as well as study permit for the period of Sep 2016 to July 2017.
*according to CIC website/
Can I count part-time work toward the work experience requirement?
You can count part-time work toward the work experience requirement, as long as you were not a full-time student at the time.
Also, I know CIC does not allow people on study permit to work for more than 15 hours per week, and for the period, my working hours never exceeded over 15 hours.
From the GCMS note that I got in Sep, my eligibility shows “met”, but we all know It doesn’t mean it is passed so an officer could flip the result as ‘refused’. Therefore, I am scared and worried for every single day.
My immigration consultant thinks this is a rare case so they cannot say I will get PR for 100% but what they insist is that I did not violate any of CIC regulations so CIC will most likely issue me PR.
However, I have never heard about any similar cases like me so I would like to know opinions from you guys.
Thank you very much in advance.