Practicum question

[seekingadvice6]

I’m an International Student in Alberta. I have a study permit, and a co-op permit to do a 2-month mandatory practicum. Both permits expire in November 2016. I completed all my classes, I only need to do the practicum. My study permit allows me to: “work 20 hours off-campus or full-time during regular breaks” if I’m still enrolled as a full time student.

I want to start working full time to make money during these 6 months left on my student permit. Also, I want to add more months of experience on that NOC to increase my Express Entry points (I worked in same NOC/company for a few months before I started my course and stopped working there to study full time).

A lawyer told me that I can work full time as long as I’m still enrolled as student, but that once I completed the practicum, I would not be enrolled, so I cannot work anymore. Is this correct? Or could Immigration say that this “practicum period” does not count as a break, and it’s illegal to work more than 20 hours per week?

Will the interrupted months still count for my Express Entry points?

I want to do my practicum part time and complete it by November 2016. Then, once I graduate, I will submit my work permit, and keep working at my company on implied status, and then when I get my post graduate work permit, I will file for Alberta Provincial Nomination.

Is this possible?

Thanks

 

[J5M]

Hi,

I’m an International Student in Alberta. I have a study permit, and a co-op permit to do a 2-month mandatory practicum. Both permits expire in November 2016. I completed all my classes, I only need to do the practicum. My study permit allows me to: “work 20 hours off-campus or full-time during regular breaks” if I’m still enrolled as a full time student.

I want to start working full time to make money during these 6 months left on my student permit. Also, I want to add more months of experience on that NOC to increase my Express Entry points (I worked in same NOC/company for a few months before I started my course and stopped working there to study full time).

A lawyer told me that I can work full time as long as I’m still enrolled as student, but that once I completed the practicum, I would not be enrolled, so I cannot work anymore. Is this correct? Or could Immigration say that this “practicum period” does not count as a break, and it’s illegal to work more than 20 hours per week?

Will the interrupted months still count for my Express Entry points?

I want to do my practicum part time and complete it by November 2016. Then, once I graduate, I will submit my work permit, and keep working at my company on implied status, and then when I get my post graduate work permit, I will file for Alberta Provincial Nomination.

Is this possible?

Thanks

1. You must have a co-op work permit to pursue a full time practicum. You can't do a full time practicum on SP.
2. Any work experience gained on study permit is not countable towards CEC eligibility (must be under PGWP). If you aren't eligible to meet CEC requirement, you can't apply under EE.
3. Once you are done with courses and practicum, you must apply for a PGWP within 90 days of receiving transcript, not diploma.

 

[seekingadvice6]

Hi,



1. You must have a co-op work permit to pursue a full time practicum. You can't do a full time practicum on SP.
2. Any work experience gained on study permit is not countable towards CEC eligibility (must be under PGWP). If you aren't eligible to meet CEC requirement, you can't apply under EE.
3. Once you are done with courses and practicum, you must apply for a PGWP within 90 days of receiving transcript, not diploma.

Hello,

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I do have a co-op permit for my practicum. The EE work experience I was referring to was a different job than the practicum: so I would work 40 hrs per week on a NOC job that qualifies for Skilled Worker experience, and then work 10 hrs per week in another job that is the practicum (I would not count this for EE).

Is possible to do this?