(This is an edited repost from an earlier thread as the original one didn't receive any replies. Hopefully, this time around someone who can help can see this.)
Hello all. I received an ITA on Nov 23 in which the critical factor for my qualification is my one year of Canadian experience, achieved via a Young Professionals, IEC permit. As far as I am aware, work experience from this stream can count towards immigration in the general case (considering, of course, the work performed was NOC 0/A/B and it was under all other requirements too).
There are a few details that give me second thoughts on whether my experience counts or not, however, especially with respect to the time you work as a student.
First: the context of my employment was initially an internship. Towards the end of my studies (meant to be circa July 2020, but delayed due to the pandemic) I reached out to this company and they agreed to take me in from abroad. This is still a YP-IEC permit, but it states "Acoustics Engineering Intern" in the title.
Second: I landed in Nov 2021, formally graduated in May 2022 and completed my full year of Canadian employment by last month. It has been over a year since my first day at the job and around 7 months since I graduated (by the time I received an ITA). I've been technically enrolled as a full-time major for 6 months of my experience here, but that was in a different country.
Third: all of my experience was full-time, paid, and within the same NOC/TEER attribution (NOC 2132), without any sort of volunteering work. I was later promoted to Junior once I graduated, with a slight pay change, but still within the same NOC as my permit specifies.
Now, the core of my question comes when I look at the bottom of this page https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=394&top=29. I was technically enrolled as a full-time student, but outside Canada.
I've found conflicting information and assessments on this, so I would like to gather more opinions. After all, how much experience can I really claim for my time so far? 6 months or 1 year?
Thank you all in advance, especially for reading this long post
Hello all. I received an ITA on Nov 23 in which the critical factor for my qualification is my one year of Canadian experience, achieved via a Young Professionals, IEC permit. As far as I am aware, work experience from this stream can count towards immigration in the general case (considering, of course, the work performed was NOC 0/A/B and it was under all other requirements too).
There are a few details that give me second thoughts on whether my experience counts or not, however, especially with respect to the time you work as a student.
First: the context of my employment was initially an internship. Towards the end of my studies (meant to be circa July 2020, but delayed due to the pandemic) I reached out to this company and they agreed to take me in from abroad. This is still a YP-IEC permit, but it states "Acoustics Engineering Intern" in the title.
Second: I landed in Nov 2021, formally graduated in May 2022 and completed my full year of Canadian employment by last month. It has been over a year since my first day at the job and around 7 months since I graduated (by the time I received an ITA). I've been technically enrolled as a full-time major for 6 months of my experience here, but that was in a different country.
Third: all of my experience was full-time, paid, and within the same NOC/TEER attribution (NOC 2132), without any sort of volunteering work. I was later promoted to Junior once I graduated, with a slight pay change, but still within the same NOC as my permit specifies.
Now, the core of my question comes when I look at the bottom of this page https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=394&top=29. I was technically enrolled as a full-time student, but outside Canada.
I've found conflicting information and assessments on this, so I would like to gather more opinions. After all, how much experience can I really claim for my time so far? 6 months or 1 year?
Thank you all in advance, especially for reading this long post