Work experience - Number of hours

[nmneo10]

Hello everyone!

I had a question about completing my one year work experience for PR. Currently I'm at a score of 459 and have been waiting to finish one more year of work (2 years) so that my score goes up a bit. Within the past 2 years I have been out of the country for vacation for about 45 days while still being employed. Do these days I have been out of the country count in my two year experience? If not I will have to wait another 45 days until my score goes up. I work 40hrs a week and would have finished my 2 years of work this month.

Please help if anyone knows about this! Have been trying to ask people and look up online but getting mixed responses. Thanks and wish you all good luck with your applications!

 

[Venkat1901]

Hello everyone!

I had a question about completing my one year work experience for PR. Currently I'm at a score of 459 and have been waiting to finish one more year of work (2 years) so that my score goes up a bit. Within the past 2 years I have been out of the country for vacation for about 45 days while still being employed. Do these days I have been out of the country count in my two year experience? If not I will have to wait another 45 days until my score goes up. I work 40hrs a week and would have finished my 2 years of work this month.

Please help if anyone knows about this! Have been trying to ask people and look up online but getting mixed responses. Thanks and wish you all good luck with your applications!

If you are on payroll they will just mention start date and end date (if applicable) and no of hrs per week in the reference experience letter.

 

[nmneo10]

Yes I am on payroll for those number of days. Was just confused because someone had told me that the vacation time outside the country does not count. Hope fully that's not the case because I was employed during that time off as well and on a paid leave.

 

[siriusnick]

Technically the time count is by week, 52 weeks of at least 30 hours per week will count as 1 year. Any week off will considered as noncompliance.

But in real life, I don't think you will run into problems with no more than couple of weeks paid vacation out of country. As we have even seen many people given 1 month benefit toward their CRS points online calculation and got approved APR. Tho, the risk is there, so that's your call.

 

[nmneo10]

Thanks for the info @siriusnick and @Venkat1901

 

[jes_ON]

Yes I am on payroll for those number of days. Was just confused because someone had told me that the vacation time outside the country does not count. Hope fully that's not the case because I was employed during that time off as well and on a paid leave.

CIC allows for "reasonable vacation time" to be included as employment - over 2 years, your vacation time is borderline reasonable (if it is 45 calendar days, not if it is 45 work days).

What you cannot do is work outside of Canada, and then claim that as vacation time - if you work outside Canada, that time is excluded.

Be sure that your letter of employment includes a statement of your benefits, such as paid vacation time.

Where it DOES get confusing, though, is that when it comes to counting residency time for citizenship, any time outside Canada will be excluded. It makes sense to assume that the same rule would apply for PR applications as it does for citizenship, but so far it does not appear to be the case.

It is always a good idea to give yourself some extra time (rather than the bare minimum), just in case...