Does spouses Canadian work experience add to my own?

[philrobbo89]

Hello all,

I have just become common law with my girlfriend so I added her to my express entry profile. Previously I was sitting at 479 points, then once I added her to my application it went down to 456. This is understandable as you get less points when you add your spouse..

However, my application updated yesterday and changed my points from 456 to 491! I looked through my profile and noticed that they are including me with 2 years of Canadian work experience, when it clearly states in my application that I only have 1 year 11 months experience. My spouse has 9 months Canadian work experience.

My question is, does my spouse's work experience ADD to my work experience? This would push me over the 2 years of Canadian work experience (thus giving me more points). I am scared that the profile has updated incorrectly and is giving me more points than I should actually have, which will result in my application being rejected if I got an ITA incorrectly.

Thanks,
Phil

 

[mssm]

Hello all,

I have just become common law with my girlfriend so I added her to my express entry profile. Previously I was sitting at 479 points, then once I added her to my application it went down to 456. This is understandable as you get less points when you add your spouse..

However, my application updated yesterday and changed my points from 456 to 491! I looked through my profile and noticed that they are including me with 2 years of Canadian work experience, when it clearly states in my application that I only have 1 year 11 months experience. My spouse has 9 months Canadian work experience.

My question is, does my spouse's work experience ADD to my work experience? This would push me over the 2 years of Canadian work experience (thus giving me more points). I am scared that the profile has updated incorrectly and is giving me more points than I should actually have, which will result in my application being rejected if I got an ITA incorrectly.

Thanks,
Phil

No .. your spouse work experience will not be counted towards yours unless she has atleast 1 year of Canadian work experience ..
CIC counts experience in terms of months and not days .. i believe your 1 year 11 month experience is counted as 2 years of canadian experience hence CIC alloted additional points to you even though u haven't crossed 2 years .. its in the border where they calculated based on months ..

 

[CanadaWeCome]

No .. your spouse work experience will not be counted towards yours unless she has atleast 1 year of Canadian work experience ..
CIC counts experience in terms of months and not days .. i believe your 1 year 11 month experience is counted as 2 years of canadian experience hence CIC alloted additional points to you even though u haven't crossed 2 years .. its in the border where they calculated based on months ..

What i understand from my experience is EE logic rounds off to the next higher number anything more that 0.5 yrs./6months for calculation purpose.

 

[ozlis]

The work experience section includes month of employment only, not actual start dates so I'm guessing you have just tipped into the next month and it is now at 2 years.

 

[CanadaWeCome]

The work experience section includes month of employment only, not actual start dates so I'm guessing you have just tipped into the next month and it is now at 2 years.

I imagine he may have got the benefit of months rounding at both ends of his Canadian work experience.

e.g. He may have started his job at the fag end of a month, so the EE system rounded off his 10 months of experience at the beginning of 12th month thus giving him an edge of 2 months (short of 12 months/1year)

Am i right in my assumption/logic...pls confirm.

 

[scylla]

What i understand from my experience is EE logic rounds off to the next higher number anything more that 0.5 yrs./6months for calculation purpose.

No - they absolutely do not. You need to have at least 1 year of work experience if you want the points.