Hello everyone,
My wife and I are planning to apply for FSW in a couple of month. I will be the principal applicant having somewhere around 8 years of qualifying experience for the past 10 years. However, for the past year+ I am not employed — on a sort of sabbatical. By the time we should receive an invitation to apply I will be unemployed for 1.5 years, by the anticipated end of FSW procedure — two+ years.
I am worried whether my unemployment can hurt our FSW application in any way, for instance the visa officer deciding that I should be not qualified enough, since I am unemployed for such a long time and refusing our application. As a countermeasure, I can find a job (real, not a sham), though it may be either in a completely different NOC or in the NOC I will be using for FSW. There is no need for me to look for a job before Canada, but I can do it if there is any risk to our application.
From what I have found on this forum, the risk seems to be nonexistent. However, many posts are rather old and the situation could have changed. Second question is whether I should explain in our FSW application my unemployment, if yes, then how to do it better.
I would be very grateful for any insights. Thank you in advance.
My wife and I are planning to apply for FSW in a couple of month. I will be the principal applicant having somewhere around 8 years of qualifying experience for the past 10 years. However, for the past year+ I am not employed — on a sort of sabbatical. By the time we should receive an invitation to apply I will be unemployed for 1.5 years, by the anticipated end of FSW procedure — two+ years.
I am worried whether my unemployment can hurt our FSW application in any way, for instance the visa officer deciding that I should be not qualified enough, since I am unemployed for such a long time and refusing our application. As a countermeasure, I can find a job (real, not a sham), though it may be either in a completely different NOC or in the NOC I will be using for FSW. There is no need for me to look for a job before Canada, but I can do it if there is any risk to our application.
From what I have found on this forum, the risk seems to be nonexistent. However, many posts are rather old and the situation could have changed. Second question is whether I should explain in our FSW application my unemployment, if yes, then how to do it better.
I would be very grateful for any insights. Thank you in advance.
