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12 months of work required - what if took 1 month for vacation?

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besouro12

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Canadian Experience Class requires 12 months of work in Canada.
What about if the person has done 10 months, went back to his/her home country, comes back after 1 month and then completes 12 months?
do immigration will know this person spent 1 month outside Canada? will it count anyway once he/she was still hired ?

thanks!

Besouro
 
I think someone else on here asked that same question recently and was told that it would not count as time worked.
So, the application would fail...
 
besouro12 said:
Canadian Experience Class requires 12 months of work in Canada.
What about if the person has done 10 months, went back to his/her home country, comes back after 1 month and then completes 12 months?
do immigration will know this person spent 1 month outside Canada? will it count anyway once he/she was still hired ?

thanks!

Besouro
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As long as you have 12 months of eligible work experience within the last three years, a gap in-between wont be an issue. You cannot obviously count the gap towards your experience though!
 
They will know you were out of the country for a month as it would show in your complete application.

For the 'Your Travels' part: "List all trips you, and if applicable, your family members have taken outside your country of origin or of residence in the last ten years (or since your 18th birthday if this was less than ten years ago)"
 
if it is a paid vacation, it will count towards ur cec requirement
 
Paid time off is fine, unpaid cant be counted towards experience.
However, if you've gained 12 months of skilled experience in 36 months prior
to submitting your application, gaps won't make a difference.
 
iam_toby said:
Paid time off is fine, unpaid cant be counted towards experience.
However, if you've gained 12 months of skilled experience in 36 months prior
to submitting your application, gaps won't make a difference.
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That is rite. Paid/Unpaid leaves will not be treated as a Gap. Gap is when you have a break in employment. Like a gap after which you had rejoined same company or a new one.

Seniors Please Correct if wrong!
 
AlertJack said:
That is rite. Paid/Unpaid leaves will not be treated as a Gap. Gap is when you have a break in employment. Like a gap after which you had rejoined same company or a new one.

Seniors Please Correct if wrong!
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An unpaid leave is a gap, that should be noted in the letter of employment. You WANT the VO to know you didn't get paid for that time.

Recently, one applicant here did not mention their unpaid leave in the letter of employment. So when the VO used the information in the letter of employment (hours worked per week, hourly salary *52 weeks) to check that information against the NOA for annual earnings, the earnings reported on the NOA did not match, so the VO concluded that the hours or the hourly wage were not true, and refused the application.
 
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