Confused about how my two jobs affect my Canada immigration chances (Express Entry)

[jigarkanjani]

Hi everyone, I live in Canada and I'm trying to understand how my current jobs work with the Express Entry system for permanent residency.

I have two jobs:

• Job 1 (Full-time): I work about 40 hours a week in a job that's not in healthcare. It's a skilled job.
• Job 2 (Part-time): I also work about 16 hours a week in a healthcare job that is considered skilled and might help with special immigration pathways for healthcare workers.

The Express Entry system looks at your work experience in Canada. They count a maximum of 30 hours of work per week. I'm trying to figure out the best way my work experience can help me get permanent residency through Express Entry.

There are a couple of ways Express Entry might work for me:

1. Canadian Experience Class (CEC): This is for people who have worked skilled jobs in Canada. To qualify, you need a certain amount of total work hours.
2. Healthcare Category Draws: Sometimes, Canada specifically invites people with experience in certain healthcare jobs. To qualify for this, you need to have worked a certain amount of time in one of those healthcare roles.

Here are my questions:

• Since I work in two different skilled jobs, can the hours from both jobs count towards the total work hours I need for the Canadian Experience Class? For example, can my 16 hours of healthcare work plus some of my non-healthcare work each week add up to help me qualify for CEC faster?
• Will my part-time work in the healthcare job count towards the specific work experience needed if Canada has a special draw for healthcare workers? Does it matter that I'm also working another full-time job at the same time?

Basically, I want to understand how to make the most of my work experience in both these roles to increase my chances of getting permanent residency through Express Entry, both for the general Canadian Experience Class and for any specific healthcare pathways.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

[canuck78]

Hi everyone, I live in Canada and I'm trying to understand how my current jobs work with the Express Entry system for permanent residency.

I have two jobs:

• Job 1 (Full-time): I work about 40 hours a week in a job that's not in healthcare. It's a skilled job.
• Job 2 (Part-time): I also work about 16 hours a week in a healthcare job that is considered skilled and might help with special immigration pathways for healthcare workers.

The Express Entry system looks at your work experience in Canada. They count a maximum of 30 hours of work per week. I'm trying to figure out the best way my work experience can help me get permanent residency through Express Entry.

There are a couple of ways Express Entry might work for me:

1. Canadian Experience Class (CEC): This is for people who have worked skilled jobs in Canada. To qualify, you need a certain amount of total work hours.
2. Healthcare Category Draws: Sometimes, Canada specifically invites people with experience in certain healthcare jobs. To qualify for this, you need to have worked a certain amount of time in one of those healthcare roles.

Here are my questions:

• Since I work in two different skilled jobs, can the hours from both jobs count towards the total work hours I need for the Canadian Experience Class? For example, can my 16 hours of healthcare work plus some of my non-healthcare work each week add up to help me qualify for CEC faster?
• Will my part-time work in the healthcare job count towards the specific work experience needed if Canada has a special draw for healthcare workers? Does it matter that I'm also working another full-time job at the same time?

Basically, I want to understand how to make the most of my work experience in both these roles to increase my chances of getting permanent residency through Express Entry, both for the general Canadian Experience Class and for any specific healthcare pathways.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

You would likely be much better off changing your HC job to FT to open more pathways to PR but without knowing NOCs of both jobs and also your province of residence hard to comment.