For the Canada experience letter ( CEC Inland ), One of my employees has only specified the ‘base’ salary, but I do have all my paystubs which show what I was drawing here with other components. Would it suffice as supporting document to prove my salary?
YEs, as a CEC applicant you have to add your pay stubs. As per IRCC:
If the work experience is in Canada, proof may include copies of T4 tax information slips and notices of assessment issued by the Canada Revenue Agency (the time period for these documents should reflect the work experience timeframe [e.g., work experience from 2006 to 2008 requires only documents from those calendar years.
So you may include T4s and tax assessment.
w.r.t T4, I've got the same for all the years I was in CA and NOA, but a component in my Salary is per diem which is not accounted for in T4, so the number in T4 is less. I have the mail conversation with the employer who gave an explanation that the Per diem part is not in T4 as its ‘non-taxable’ apparently, but I was hoping not to write LOE for this and bring in confusion if the salary slips are sufficient.
You should write a LoE, so that the discrepancy can be addressed and also add the email conversation, to be on the safer side. However, you don't have to necessarily add a LoE as with the job reference letter and T4s, you are good and it would be sufficient. Since I don't have the documents in front of me, but if the discrepancy is apparent, you should include LoE, but if its a minor issue, you can exclude it.
Also wondering if CIC would reach back to me if they think the salary slips are not sufficient and ask for T4 ? In which case, I can probably get a Tax consultant assess and give the right laws/rules under which the per diem exceptions are handled which I can include in the Updated LOE along with T4.
In most cases they do, but it is always better to submit all the document with with the application. You never know who is evaluating your application and what conclusion the agent reaches. And having all documents in with the application will also reduce the processing times.
Can you please share your suggestion @
legalfalcon
Thanks much in advance!