EE Keeps giving wrong invitation

[mortezahaydari]

Hi,

My situation is that I have 1-yr of continuous work experience while I am student but I don't do full-time studies (PhD). The work experience is research work not school work such as co-op.

By definition, this experience is elligible for FSW, but not for CEC.

However, I keep getting invitation for CEC. In the work experience section of the application, it does ask whether the experience is performed during full-time studies (minimum of xx hours per week of coursework, etc, etc), and the answer to that question legitimately is "no". However, there is no question asking whether this is done with off-campus work permit, or any type of out of school experience.

I am stuck in a situation that I am elligible for FSW, but EE keeps giviing me invitation for CEC. I have tried rejecting it, and waiting for another invitation, but CEC again.

Can I somehow force it to give me invitation for the elligible FSW?

1st time, I got FSW, but my police certificate was updated late, and they cancelled the application.
2nd and 3rd time, it is CEC, which is not really elligible.

 

[ImmiToCanada]

I guess the real difference is the proof of funds requirement (POF). For CEC, POF is NOT MANDATORY. But for FSW, POF is MANDATORY, see http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/funds.asp If you can gather (maybe from "a donation letter" signed by your parents/friends) the funds to meet FSW requirement, you will get invited under FSW. As far as I know, almost everyone simultaneously qualified for both CEC and FSW (including myself) got ITA under FSW.

In addition, even if your job experience is obtained while you're a full time student, you may still use it to qualify for CEC, since I found at http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/cec/apply-who.asp
"Part time:
15 hours/week for 24 months = 1 year full time (1,560 hours)
Or
30 hours/week for 12 months at more than one job = 1 year full time (1,560 hours)"

By the way, I'm also a PhD student and my 1 year Canadian work experience is calculated by "15 hours/week for 24 months". I actually had more than TA/RA 1560*2 hours, but the EE system still only granted me 1 year experience. I guess it's because some of my TA/RA hours were at a workload less than 15 hours/week.

Best luck with your PR application~