Contractor for US Company Working in Canada -- EE Points?

[apurtuce]

Hi there,

I have worked for a Canadian company for 1.5 years on a PGWP. After that experience, I began working for a US based company (with no office in Canada) for the last 6 months. I would like to qualify this experience as Canadian work experience, given that I have been working full time & continuously and paying my tax here (no source deduction). Is there any way that I can go about doing so? Does anyone have experience working with a lawyer to do such a thing in the past?

Moreover, my job in the US company is a Technical Project Manager. In the case that it counts as foreign work experience, can I still use it to qualify for the STEM occupations stream?

Would greatly appreciate any thoughts and advice

 

[Naturgrl]

Hi there,

I have worked for a Canadian company for 1.5 years on a PGWP. After that experience, I began working for a US based company (with no office in Canada) for the last 6 months. I would like to qualify this experience as Canadian work experience, given that I have been working full time & continuously and paying my tax here (no source deduction). Is there any way that I can go about doing so? Does anyone have experience working with a lawyer to do such a thing in the past?

Moreover, my job in the US company is a Technical Project Manager. In the case that it counts as foreign work experience, can I still use it to qualify for the STEM occupations stream?

Would greatly appreciate any thoughts and advice

To count Canadian experience, you must be working for a Canadian employer with T4 slips/deductions on pay stubs etc. You can count is as foreign experience. Lawyer cannot change rules. Only option is to look into US company partnering with a PEO so you are paid as a Canadian employ but this would not be retroactive. PEOs are complicated so that is where a good immigration lawyer may be able to help.

 

[apurtuce]

To count Canadian experience, you must be working for a Canadian employer with T4 slips/deductions on pay stubs etc. You can count is as foreign experience. Lawyer cannot change rules. Only option is to look into US company partnering with a PEO so you are paid as a Canadian employ but this would not be retroactive. PEOs are complicated so that is where a good immigration lawyer may be able to help.

Just to confirm -- I can count my current US remote job as foreign work experience, even though I am living in Canada and paying taxes for it as an independant contractor?

 

[Naturgrl]

Just to confirm -- I can count my current US remote job as foreign work experience, even though I am living in Canada and paying taxes for it as an independant contractor?

Yes.