hope 2011 said:
He has a job offer with a positive AEO as a manager.We are british citizens and have been self employed retail managers since 1978.We are visiting family in canada at the moment.The consultant did put it in as his work experience but did not give them a detail of his previous matching job duties but it is obvious with the history provided of the past.He did get the AEO with the same information.
I'm sorry, I am a bit confused, hope2011.
The FSW category 2 (which is also known as AEO) only asks that you have done the following;
(taken from http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/eng/workplaceskills/foreign_workers/poarremp.shtml)
Immigration Note:
On its own, a permanent job offer does not allow a Skilled Worker to immigrate to Canada. Before a Skilled Worker can become a permanent resident, they must :
Meet the requirements of the Skilled Worker Class;
Have at least one year of work experience in a professional, managerial, or technical occupation under Canada's National Occupational Classification (NOC) system.
So, as long as you have proof of this, then there is no need for the job you have been offered to be the same as any job you have done in the past at all!
Only for Category 1 do you need to have the experience in the actual NOC Category that you are applying under i.e. if you are applying under Registered Nurse then you have to be experienced in this field and prove it.
For Category 2 you do not need to match the NOC duties to your past work experience because you do not apply under any particular NOC, you just have to have worked in an A, B or O occupation for a year.
So, you say that you are going through a consultant. I think you need to find out exactly what CIC has said about the reason for rejection because what you have explained here is not a reason for them to reject you as Cat 2.
My first thought is that it is more likely to be an issue with the fact that you have been self-employed.
It is hard to provide proof of your work experience if you are self-employed and they may not be satisfied that you have provided proof that you have fulfilled the criteria for being experienced in a category A,B or O role.
What
exactly were you doing as "self-employed retail managers"? Retail Managers are
not normally self-employed, they usually work for a company.
You may not have been considered by CIC to have actually been in a Category O role since 1978, which is clearly outside the past ten years.
The Management Occupations are under Category O and I think that you perhaps need to make absolutely sure that your self-employment
is actually part of this list to be sure that you fit before deciding on what grounds, if any you might challenge this decision.
ls note that my former application was reviwed negatively as a result of 'insufficient evidence from employers'CIO
