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ElStu

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Nov 9, 2017
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Hello,
I'm a graduate student in Canada and when I applied for Study Permit I only included my foreign experience were I was a student in my country (January 2017 to March 2018) as a FULL-TIME Research Assistant. However, now that I'm about to apply for Express Entry, I realized that I can include all of my foreign experience as a FULL-TIME Research Assistant even when I was in school in my country. This would accumulate my experience as from January 2015 to March 2018, which makes it 3 years instead of one (I have a document from the department that I worked for that time).

Does the EE information need to be similar to my past study permit? The only difference is that in the EE I would include all my experience, but in my study permit applications I didn’t.

would the officer think I'm lying or forging document? I would appreciate the helpguys.
 
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Bacelor

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Oct 20, 2017
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Hello,
I'm a graduate student in Canada and when I applied for Study Permit I only included my foreign experience were I was a student in my country (January 2017 to March 2018) as a FULL-TIME Research Assistant. However, now that I'm about to apply for Express Entry, I realized that I can include all of my foreign experience as a FULL-TIME Research Assistant even when I was in school in my country. This would accumulate my experience as from January 2015 to March 2018, which makes it 3 years instead of one (I have a document from the department that I worked for that time).

Does the EE information need to be similar to my past study permit? The only difference is that in the EE I would include all my experience, but in my study permit applications I didn’t.

would the officer think I'm lying or forging document? I would appreciate the helpguys.
Should be fine, when you respond to an ITA fill in your experience if it does meet with IRCC eligibility criteria, and in an LOE you explain what just you have said above, you mention that you are adding your experience while studying to claim points to improve your score where as you believe that your foreign experience gonna be counted and as per IRCC requirements.

Should be ok.
 
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ElStu

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Should be fine, when you respond to an ITA fill in your experience if it does meet with IRCC eligibility criteria, and in an LOE you explain what just you have said above, you mention that you are adding your experience while studying to claim points to improve your score where as you believe that your foreign experience gonna be counted and as per IRCC requirements.

Should be ok.
Thank you for the advice and valuable reply.
 

fahimabrar

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Dec 26, 2023
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I am on a similar boat. In all my study permit applications, I did not include Research assistant experience which I gathered out of Canada (Malaysia). However, I added other work experiences from my home country (Bangladesh) in all Study permit applications.

So, now, I would like to add the RA experience to increase my CRS score for EE (CEC) profile. Will it be a misinterpretation? Do I need to provide LOE for that?