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Post-ITA Dilemma - Work Experience

thegreatest

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Jul 18, 2016
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Team,

Sorry for my verbal diarrhea below, but I need your opinion on the following:
I got my ITA with CRS at 444 in the previous draw on Feb 22 with 3 years of Canadian work experience. I am currently getting all my documents ready and have already gone through medical and police clearance.

What's the issue?
I have docs to prove 34 months of Canadian work experience from 2 employers, but I had a temporary full-time job in Aug 2015 until Sep 2015, which evidently while creating profile counts as 2 months (because we only have to enter month and year) and gives me CRS of 444. On my job reference letter, if I mention actual start and end date for that job, I will run short by about 3 weeks. Do you think the officer will take that into consideration and disqualify me for PR? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I just want to play safe.

If I do not count that experience, my score will be at 433 and with today's (March 1) draw at 434, it could dip down or not, I am just confused if I should move forward and take a risk OR if I should step back into safety and wait for another miraculous draw to touch 433?

Please advise! Thanks for your time.
 

lifein360

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Decline ITA. It needs to be full 36 months. That useless CIC calculator needs to start asking for day along with month and year. So stupid.

For instance, If you work from June 30 2015 to June 1 2016, CIC's software accepts it as a year, when it fact it isn't.

It sucks I know, but you cannot hope that an officer will miss this
 

qaawill

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Jul 20, 2016
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thegreatest said:
Team,

Sorry for my verbal diarrhea below, but I need your opinion on the following:
I got my ITA with CRS at 444 in the previous draw on Feb 22 with 3 years of Canadian work experience. I am currently getting all my documents ready and have already gone through medical and police clearance.

What's the issue?
I have docs to prove 34 months of Canadian work experience from 2 employers, but I had a temporary full-time job in Aug 2015 until Sep 2015, which evidently while creating profile counts as 2 months (because we only have to enter month and year) and gives me CRS of 444. On my job reference letter, if I mention actual start and end date for that job, I will run short by about 3 weeks. Do you think the officer will take that into consideration and disqualify me for PR? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I just want to play safe.

If I do not count that experience, my score will be at 433 and with today's (March 1) draw at 434, it could dip down or not, I am just confused if I should move forward and take a risk OR if I should step back into safety and wait for another miraculous draw to touch 433?

Please advise! Thanks for your time.
feel your dilemma! I worried for about 3 days last week as i'm in the same 3+ year category of experience so wondered whether to accept an ITA on 438 today.

I had 2 years 7 months work experience in England in one 'NOC 0' job, then 2x 6 months work experience in Austria in the a 'NOC B' job (Dec 08 - April 09 & Dec 09 - Apr 10). Plan to accept as cannot find any reference or CIC comment that it has to be a continuous job...still nervous though. I'd agree with lifein360 if your dates don't add up then painfully decline and keep the faith the trend of decreasing draws will continue, this is what I had previously decided to do if my situation would of made me ineligible.