Adding Canadian Experience to Foreign Experience

[demhahero]

Hello,

If someone has 13 months of continuous full time Canadian work experience (eligible for CEC) AND 11 months of full time foreign work experience.

Can they consider it as 1 year for Canadian experience and 1 year for foreign experience?
In other words, moving 1 month from Canadian experience to foreign experience to get more points.

Thank you

 

[Naturgrl]

Hello,

If someone has 13 months of continuous full time Canadian work experience (eligible for CEC) AND 11 months of full time foreign work experience.

Can they consider it as 1 year for Canadian experience and 1 year for foreign experience?
In other words, moving 1 month from Canadian experience to foreign experience to get more points.

Thank you

No. You have 11 months of foreign experience. Was all your Canadian experience in Canada?

 

[demhahero]

Thanks for the response. Yes they were in Canada.
The system doesn't make sense, I will not not be able to claim one year of experience despite that I have 12 months which will be overlooked in this case

 

[Naturgrl]

Thanks for the response. Yes they were in Canada.
The system doesn't make sense, I will not not be able to claim one year of experience despite that I have 12 months which will be overlooked in this case

To count foreign experience, it needs to be 12 months of continuous work experience. You don’t have that.

 

[demhahero]

To count foreign experience, it needs to be 12 months of continuous work experience. You don’t have that.

Does it matter whether it is continuous or not? I am a CEC candidate, so I already passed eligibility with 1 year of Canadian experience.

I think my foreign experience (which gives me extra points) can be accumulated in any way since it will not be accounted for eligibility.

Source:
https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=1132&top=29
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry/eligibility/federal-skilled-workers.html#minimum