combined professional work experience and self employment with total of one year.

[sayed Ibrahim]

Hello everyone,

I am wondering how to declare my experience as I had a (9 months) full-time job and (3 months) a contract job which I think could be self-employment.

My one-year Canadian experience includes working for 2 companies (let's call them as company A and Company B):

working experience in Company A:
period1: from Jun 1, 2019, to August 31, 2019, | Duration: 3 months | type of job: (Consultant agreement) | type of experience: self-employment|
period2: from September 1, 2019, to November 16, 2019, | Duration: 2.5 months | type of job: Full-time | skill level A |

working experience in Company B :
period3: November 25, 2019, to present | Duration: 6.5 months | type of job: Full-time | skill level A |

Q: Can I declare one year of experience which includes period1 + period2 + period3? Or should I only declare period2 + period3?

 

[sayed Ibrahim]

Canadian work experience while self-employed does not count for CEC or CRS points.

If you were self-employed during your first Canadian experience, it will not count and you thus would only have 9 months of valid Canadian experience. This is not sufficient to meet MEC for CEC (you need at least 1 year of eligible Canadian experience).

Thanks, dan_and for your reply,

I thought that self-employed counts for points. According to the following two references!

In https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...-after-january-1-2016-completeness-check.html

It states "if the applicant is self-employed, articles of incorporation or other evidence of business ownership, evidence of self-employment income and documentation from third-party individuals indicating the service provided along with payment details (self-declared main duties or affidavits are not acceptable proof of self-employed work experience). "

Also in https://newlifevisa.com/how-to-prove-self-employed-work-experience-for-immigration-to-canada/

state " If you intend to immigrate to Canada under one of the Express Entry programs as a skilled worker, but in the past years you were a self-employed entrepreneur or a businessman without forming a legal entity, and your work experience is self-employment, you need to prove your entrepreneurial activity. "

Or my case does not apply here?

 

[scylla]

Thanks, dan_and for your reply,

I thought that self-employed counts for points. According to the following two references!

In https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...-after-january-1-2016-completeness-check.html

It states "if the applicant is self-employed, articles of incorporation or other evidence of business ownership, evidence of self-employment income and documentation from third-party individuals indicating the service provided along with payment details (self-declared main duties or affidavits are not acceptable proof of self-employed work experience). "

Also in https://newlifevisa.com/how-to-prove-self-employed-work-experience-for-immigration-to-canada/

state " If you intend to immigrate to Canada under one of the Express Entry programs as a skilled worker, but in the past years you were a self-employed entrepreneur or a businessman without forming a legal entity, and your work experience is self-employment, you need to prove your entrepreneurial activity. "

Or my case does not apply here?

dan_and is correct.

Self-employment can be counted towards FSW as work experience. However it cannot be counted towards CEC. It will be important to determine if you were self employed during those three months or not since this is what will determine if you can meet the 1 year Canadian work experience requirement for CEC.