Hi, I had met a problem. When I graduated and begin to work in USA. My first job was in a small local company. They had only 4 people including myself, the owner was a couple. They just paid me cash and signed on my I-20. I had submitted to school and then USCIS approved for that. I did not pay for tax and they did not give me 1099 form or W-2. I did not realized that was illegal. I worked there for 1 year. Then the company dissolved and I go to some other company. I began to prepare my US pr application and the lawyer said they can not verify these 1 year experience because I can not contact with my boss or I can not provide tax form. They asked me to remove this experience on my application. I had written this experience in Form 5669. The CIC received my application and did not give me any AOR. I had temp file number, how can I remove this experience? Should I withdraw this app and resubmit one?
Emergency: should I withdraw my application due to a mistake in Form 5669?
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I disagree. It is not a mistake. If you actually worked for that company, you should include it. The lawyer provided very strange (bad) advice to leave it out. Could be considered misrepresentation.
For family sponsorship, doesn't matter much. Applicant is not evaluated on basis of work experience.
If it is a type of sponsorship for which experience matters, may be more important. In that case, letter of explanation that the company no longer exists. And, if really worried, that the company may not have been properly paying taxes and as an employee you were not aware.
It is a family sponsorship. My husband sponsor me. I really worked there. It is a family based company. The other guy is their relative. The business failed and they dissolve the company. I had the offer letter and company dissolved letter.
US lawyer said when I would interview for PR in future, they will check everything. I can not just said I had worked there with 2 letters. I used to put the cash into my bank account every 2 weeks when I got paid. They said it was useless.... I just do not know....
Lawyers that advise you to lie are not very good lawyers.
You are applying for family sponsorship. They are not evaluating your work experience. It is VERY unlikely they would contact a company to check at all.
In this case, you have already submitted with that history. How do you think it will look to then revise it to say, ummm, no, I didn't work at that company? It will look suspicious and may lead to more checks, not less.
I don't think you need to do anything. If you feel strongly, submit a letter of explanation that the company no longer exists. That's not unusual.
I do not know about USCIS or their records or whether Canada would somehow get access to them - perhaps they have some information sharing. But if they do, likely not focussed on employment but on whether you have visa overstays or other issues like that.
And at any rate: if they should check this employment issue with uscis, better that the information be the same.
Another point on this: did you check and file your paperwork yourself? For spousal sponsorship, they typically do NOT require proof of such-and-such employment when initially filing. There may be circumstances where they ask for more information but I don't recall seeing any employment-related info requests for spousal sponsorship.
Yes, I had filled it myself. My husband applied PR and approved on 2019. I did not have enough CRS points so he landed in 2019 and sponsor me. I am working in a large company in US and the US lawyer is from outside lawyer consulting company that is assigned by my company.
If you filled it yourself, I think you should see that there was no requirement to provide documentary proof you worked at this (defunct) company?
Honestly my guess is that this lawyer does not have experience with Canadian immigration, or not in the relevant type of application. Just tell the truth, when and if asked. You do not need to provide documentary proof when it's not asked for.
@armoured -
I had applied for spousal sponsorship last year. The application is still in process and I got approved as a sponsor. However, lately, I realized I did many silly mistakes on IMM5532E regarding past employment history.
1. I did incorporation/self-employed for 3 weeks in 2018 however as my corporation exists so I wrote an ongoing date but mentioned in LOE that I worked only for 3 weeks but by mistake, I wrote 2019 instead of 2018 in the letter of explanation. Recently when I realized, I sent a webform ASAP and informed them regarding the mistake and updated the form From and To date to 2018 as I only worked for 3 weeks. I apologized and sent them the correction. They have responded to my web form that they have sent the information to the concerned office for consideration.
2. Self-employment address was not required however I put the current address but in 2018 the corporation address was different. I told them that this the current corporation address as it still exists. I don't know this additional information will harm me or not?
3. There is another past employment experience where I put the employer name as for example Company B/Company A. Company B (Subsidiary) was my employer and Company A is the parent company however first paycheck, employee ID card, and building everything was company A (Parent company). T4 and after 1st paycheck, all the pay stubs has company B name. Adding the parent company name after the employer name is something that will be treated as wrong? I wanted to provide as much as information but someone told me the company should only be the one on T4.
I am very much overthinking and having anxiety and don't know what to do as the application is in the middle of the process. I am afraid if these things might go against me? Shall I cancel and resubmit a new application? If yes, what reason should I give for cancellation? Or let it process as I already raised a webform for the mistake.
I feel like I completely messed up the application due to my unprofessionalism which might not impact my current status or any future application.
Please advise
I had applied for spousal sponsorship last year. The application is still in process and I got approved as a sponsor. However, lately, I realized I did many silly mistakes on IMM5532E regarding past employment history.
1. I did incorporation/self-employed for 3 weeks in 2018 however as my corporation exists so I wrote an ongoing date but mentioned in LOE that I worked only for 3 weeks but by mistake, I wrote 2019 instead of 2018 in the letter of explanation. Recently when I realized, I sent a webform ASAP and informed them regarding the mistake and updated the form From and To date to 2018 as I only worked for 3 weeks. I apologized and sent them the correction. They have responded to my web form that they have sent the information to the concerned office for consideration.
2. Self-employment address was not required however I put the current address but in 2018 the corporation address was different. I told them that this the current corporation address as it still exists. I don't know this additional information will harm me or not?
3. There is another past employment experience where I put the employer name as for example Company B/Company A. Company B (Subsidiary) was my employer and Company A is the parent company however first paycheck, employee ID card, and building everything was company A (Parent company). T4 and after 1st paycheck, all the pay stubs has company B name. Adding the parent company name after the employer name is something that will be treated as wrong? I wanted to provide as much as information but someone told me the company should only be the one on T4.
I am very much overthinking and having anxiety and don't know what to do as the application is in the middle of the process. I am afraid if these things might go against me? Shall I cancel and resubmit a new application? If yes, what reason should I give for cancellation? Or let it process as I already raised a webform for the mistake.
I feel like I completely messed up the application due to my unprofessionalism which might not impact my current status or any future application.
Please advise
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