Hi to everyone , I'm very interested to immigrate to Canada as a self employed person , I have maintained myself for two years in the last five years selling my art work ( I'm a sculptor even if not a famous one ) and I indend to do the same in Canada , I have no problems with the points and have enough founds to settle and to begin my activity there . I read several times all the material about self employed person on the CIC , the OP8 , all the posts I could find on this forum and other material on the web .
I wanted to know if this is a very difficult class or if I should not have problems to qualify and I wanted to ask what kind of documents or material I will need to show : a portfolio , declarations from my customers about what they bought , bank statements about my founds to settle ...
Thanks to everyone for reading and answering
We went in under the self-employed class. We did indeed have to show 3 years of financial statements documenting the income from self employment, as well as portfolio items. We did not need to provide recommendations or declarations, but some of our work is sold all over Canada and our names are clearly visible on it, so we suspect that served as a sufficient replacement for the customer declarations. We also have substantial funds for settlement.
Bear in mind that only
1/10 of 1% of PR visas are in the Self-Employed class, so while it may have gone ok for us (perhaps because we have high visibility and good funding), it may be a very difficult class to qualify under in general.
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