askoy said:
Dear Senior members,
I Need advice about your comprehension of the following sentence:
“The application indicates that you were self-employed and worked for Comp A, Comp B, Comp C and Comp D under NOC 2171. The information gathered from the application and other supplementary evidence indicates that you may not have a minimum of one year of continuous employment in the specified NOC occupation.”
1 - Is the problem coming from a number of hours of work (highly improbable since I have been working in the same field of activities for the last 10 years)?
2- A wrong NOC number affectation on most of the worked hours? (I’m in the threshold between 2171 and 2172 and I choosed 2171 in my application)
Advice welcome ;-)
I understand that you have not convinced them that you have in fact worked as NOC 2171 for a continuous period of 12 months... There are TWO concerns here. If you look at the FSW requirements:
Your work experience must be:
- at least one year (1,560 hours total / 30 hours per week), continuous full-time or an equal amount in part-time,
- paid work (volunteer work, unpaid internships do not count),
- in the same job,
- within the last 10 years, and (for OINP it's 5 years!!!)
- at skill type 0, or skill levels A or B of the 2011 National Occupational Classification (NOC).
I've placed in bold what I think you should specifically address. And note that OINP only count the last 5 years as per http://www.ontarioimmigration.ca/en/pnp/OI_PNP_EE_CAPITAL_QUALIFY.html.
First you must make sure you have 12 months (52 weeks or 365 days) of continuous employment under one NOC (in the same job). To me that means in the same company as if you changed jobs/employer you're very unlikely to manage to do this from one day to the next. I've only seen this when the employee has been outsourced and the outsourcing company assumes that employee so que leaves one employer and goes to another.
Basically get a period within your
last 5 years work experience when you have stayed at least ONE year employed by the same company and mention that (note that you will need to get the reference letter from the company, pay slips, bank deposits, etc. - the works, this is a PFL and hence you LAST chance to address their concerns).
Another concern (although far less likely) they may have is that the reference letter for company A looks like NOC 2171 work, where as the reference letter from company B looks like NOC 2172 work... This may be OK, but you need to make sure that most of your work is NOC 2171 and not 2172.
Good luck!
