@ egrace and shootingstar: Thanks for your quick replies!!
@ shootingstar...here's the address I found on the website. Is is the same one you found too?
Direction de l'immigration économique - Amérique du
Nord
Ministère de l'Immigration et des Communautés
culturelles
285, rue Notre-Dame Ouest, 4e étage
Montréal (Québec) H2Y 1T8
CANADA
Telephone: 514 873-5760
Fax: 514 864-9221
Guys I have a couple more questions regarding work experience and do not know if anyone would be able to help but here goes:
4.5 years ago, I worked as an intern while doing my Bachelors. Being an international student, I have the original documents from my school (I-20) which shows the's school's approval for me to work as an intern for the company as part of my Curricular Practical Training. The document also states the name of the company I was interning with and the period of the internship. I also have my tax forms as well as academic transcripts that show my enrollment for internship credit. Now the problem arises with my reference letter! I do not have a work certificate and the boss I reported too has moved to another company. I might be able to somehow track him down, but even if I do, the reference letter would obviously not be on the letterhead of the company I interned with. What do I do? Given all the supporting proof I have that I really interned at the company, should I also submit a reference letter?
The next question I have is a bit more complicated....after I graduated, having no knowledge of how consultants operate, I was one that got caught in their trap! in my case ignorance was not bliss! Being an international student, I was legally allowed 12 months of legal status to work with any company after graduation. I was hired by a consulting company a month after I graduated and they told me I would be placed in a couple of weeks after they trained me. I took the bait and unfortunately that did not happen. They also applied for my job visa which got approved and was active to use 9-10 months after I joined them. Any how, they were not able to find a placement for me for more than 6 months after which they finally got me a job placement. Once I completed this first project, I asked my boss at the client to give me a reference letter. I have this reference letter and it states my duties, job title, dates of employment all on a company letterhead, dated and signed. After completing this first project, I left the consulting company. The question I have is, what do I put down as my work experience? - If I include the time right from when I was hired by the consulting company, that would include 6+ months of me just waiting around for a job when I did not work even though I was hired for work and told I would be placed in a project in a couple of weeks during which I would be trained.....I only started really started working when they placed me at the client location after several months. I also have all my pay stubs right from the beginning of my project placement till the end as well as my tax forms.
Again, my question is, how do I report this work experience when filling my application? Do I put my dates of employment with this company as the start date of the first project they placed me in or do I state it as beginning from the actual date that they hired me to work?
As I mentioned, I have a reference letter from the boss at the client site...do I submit this with my application? or do I only ask the consulting company for a reference letter and submit only that?
I always wished I would have never gotten into this mess....most small consulting companies take people for a ride...especially those that do not know how they operate! it is a disgrace!
Please please help!
