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I landed almost three months before they opened my BOWP application and I was told the refund should be automatic, when they see you do not need it anymore, they will close the file and apply the refund. I had paid both fees for a total of CAD 255 and recently got a refund of CAD 100...

I noticed a number of people are going to try asking their employer for LMIA. I have checked with my company about what trying to obtain an LMIA actually entails. I thought I would share it here in case some of you are not aware of this or what I was told is completely wrong (in which case...

As far as I know, we can say YES if we have a job offer (does not ask yet if it is a VALID one according to CIC) - it asks later if an LMIA was issued. Of course, since it is not valid, we still don't get the 600 points but for the sake of not misrepresenting ourselves, we should specify that we...

My understanding, based on experience with my own profile, is that the way the system is designed, it looks at the NOC of the Primary Occupation. Only when I had 1 year of experience with same NOC code of primary occupation that I got the 40 points.

Yes, my understanding is that the NOC codes have to coincide. If you try changing the NOC codes to be the same then you should see the 40 points as a single applicant. However, if the two jobs are different and there's no way they could fit in the same NOC, make sure you change it back! :)

It will meet the criteria for CEC but it seems like having two different NOC codes creates an issue to get the points for Canadian Work Experience. I thought it didn't make sense seeing CEC criteria = 'Met' and Canadian Work Experience points = 0. When you enter the NOC code of your primary...