Am I eligable to send my application before end of Dec 2014?

[Natali14]

Hi everyone,

I am qualify for CEC program, however I have a hard time to figure if I can send my documents before Jan 2015 to avoid going through express entry program. Would really appreciate it if you could help me out!

So here is the situation:

I have done my master in biology and I defended my thesis on Dec 10th 2013. This is the date that is written on my transcripts as well. Since then I continued working in the same lab for a year and I will finish working there by the end of Dec (Dec 31th 2014 is what is written on my contract). So, technically the work I have done after Dec 10th was not as part of my study anymore, however the contract that I have starts from Jan 2014. Now if I want to claim my work experience starting from Dec 11th, I have my pay stubs and a l could have a letter from my supervisor plus the transcript. But, I am not sure if they will accept that I was not consider as student between Dec 11th-Dec 31th 2013 considering that fall semester is count till the end of Dec. Do you think should I just send my documents before Jan 1th even though there is a chance that they will not accept that I have not been a student anymore?

Thank you!

 

[scylla]

When did you actually graduate? In other words, when did the university officially award you your degree?

 

[zareef]

When did you actually graduate? In other words, when did the university officially award you your degree?

That doesn't matter anymore. You are talking about the pre-2013 system.

@Natali14:

Since the fall semester officially ends on December 31, you ceased to be a full-time student on January 1 2014.

All the work you have done on a PGWP post-January 1 2014 will count towards CEC work experience requirement.

If you worked on an off-campus work permit for some time after January 1 2014, then you must provide sufficient evidence (such as a letter from your University) to prove that you completed your degree requirements and you are no longer a full-student.

Unfortunately, AFAIK you cannot count work done between Dec 10 2013 and Jan 1 2014 towards the requirement - however, a good immigration consultant might be able to help you based on their experience with similar cases.

 

[Natali14]

Thanks guys for your reply!

 

[Natali14]

I just was looking at my pay stubs and I realized non of them starts from Jan 1th! the earliest I have for Jan is for the period of 29 Dec 2013- Jan 11 2014. Do you think can I use this as my start work on Dec and send my documents by an express post(from Canada), so that they are going to have my documents by Dec 31th? I can have a letter from my supervisor showing that I finished my study and I start working as of Dec 29. I know that might sound crazy, but I really don't want to go through express entry...

 

[zareef]

I just was looking at my pay stubs and I realized non of them starts from Jan 1th! the earliest I have for Jan is for the period of 29 Dec 2013- Jan 11 2014. Do you think can I use this as my start work on Dec and send my documents by an express post(from Canada), so that they are going to have my documents by Dec 31th? I can have a letter from my supervisor showing that I finished my study and I start working as of Dec 29. I know that might sound crazy, but I really don't want to go through express entry...

Why so scared of EE?

Dec 29 2013 was a Sunday. As I understand, you want them to start counting work experience from Dec 30 2013, so that by end of (business) day Dec 29 2014 you will have completed a year of eligible experience. It's unlikely that your Xpresspost package will reach CIO at Sydney by Dec 31 2014.