Can international students apply for PR as a partnership of a small business?

[Danny123321]

Hello everyone,

I am a international student. I graduated from a Canadian university and worked for almost 2 years with my post-secondary work permit. I invested about 490,000 CAD on a small business in Canada and I own 37.2% of the company now. The company has 9 Canadian full-time workers.

The problem is that all my 2 years' working experience is from the company I invested. I spent all my time to stabilize the business. I just have the time to prepare for the immigration now, but I don't even know if it is qualified as work experience in Canada. Can I still fill in the CEC?

Many thanks for your help.

 

[amirsrima]

Hello everyone,

I am a international student. I graduated from a Canadian university and worked for almost 2 years with my post-secondary work permit. I invested about 490,000 CAD on a small business in Canada and I own 37.2% of the company now. The company has 9 Canadian full-time workers.

The problem is that all my 2 years' working experience is from the company I invested. I spent all my time to stabilize the business. I just have the time to prepare for the immigration now, but I don't even know if it is qualified as work experience in Canada. Can I still fill in the CEC?

Many thanks for your help.

Hi. Yes you do, provided the business is registered as per the law.
good luck

 

[kateg]

Work experience during periods of full-time study to not count for CEC.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/cec/apply-who.asp

Self-employment and work experience gained while you were a full-time student (for example, on a co-op work term) does not count under this program.

They do this deliberately because they do not want a study permit to be a replacement for a work permit. CEC is intended more for college graduates - if you could get the work experience while in school, there would be no need to graduate.

Work experience on a Post-Graduation work permit does count.