Hi all,
Looking for some insight here as I'm getting a lot of mixed responses from others I ask about this. My partner and I are applying for PR with him as the primary and me as the dependant. He is a US citizen and works for a US Railroad Services company and has for a number of years. He worked in Canada for a year and a half on several different projects for the Canadian branch of his same company (contracted by CN). He had several valid LMIA exempt work permits from each stint. However, how it was set up he was still paid by the American company in USD and did not receive T4s or pay Canadian taxes. I expressed this concern earlier on that we couldn't claim his Canadian work experience because of this, but was told by numerous people as long as he had valid permits we still could. Is anyone able to clarify further on this? We have submitted into the pool but I'm concerned this is going to be an issue if we get an ITA. Without Canadian work experience the points drop drastically.
Looking for some insight here as I'm getting a lot of mixed responses from others I ask about this. My partner and I are applying for PR with him as the primary and me as the dependant. He is a US citizen and works for a US Railroad Services company and has for a number of years. He worked in Canada for a year and a half on several different projects for the Canadian branch of his same company (contracted by CN). He had several valid LMIA exempt work permits from each stint. However, how it was set up he was still paid by the American company in USD and did not receive T4s or pay Canadian taxes. I expressed this concern earlier on that we couldn't claim his Canadian work experience because of this, but was told by numerous people as long as he had valid permits we still could. Is anyone able to clarify further on this? We have submitted into the pool but I'm concerned this is going to be an issue if we get an ITA. Without Canadian work experience the points drop drastically.