Can anyone guide me how do I count my weeks for 20hours/week? Monday to Sunday?
Sorry for this stupid question. Any light into this would be grateful.
Help Please! Working more than 20 hours in just one week accidentally.
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Sorry for this stupid question. Any light into this would be grateful.
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You can check it from your payslip.
Your paystub should show how many hours you worked on a particular pay period. If you are paid biweekly, it doesn’t show up on a per week, though.
They know everything as the college and university sends enrolment letters to IRCC for all international students for all semesters they are enrolled. If you are audited they would probably know that you were woking in semester break.
The law says 20 hours.
You will see people that have worked a couple of extra hours any other week without any repercussion. Good for them.
There are also people that worked past 20 hours per week and got deported.
It’s whatever hourly pay you are getting worth the anxiety of the IRCC maybe finding out? Your call. Don’t rely on other people luck for such a sensible topic as your immigration plan
The thing is… It’s not like I worked that extra hour for the money. I work as a therapist for an individual with ASD and he needs an aid 24/7. If some one shows up late, I have no choice. I’m just wondering if they are any flexible with situations like this, or if I should just ask my boss to take down that one hour and not get paid for that hour.
There are no exceptions.
If you want to get super technical. The fact that you are not getting paid, it’s still cataloged as work.
https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=1288&top=17
My 2 cents: I did in fact work some weeks above the 20 hours. 21-22. But there were some weeks that I will completely not work. So that the YTD paystub will “balance” as if I had only worked 20h per week. I got my PGWP without any issue.
Good luck.
so are international students in Canada allowed to work more than 20hrs on a semester break?
I'm almost on my semester break. Next week I just have a two-hour final exam and that's it. Would I be allowed to work more than 20 hours that week or do I have to wait the week after when I don't have any classes at all?
Hey, can I ask you a question? You post a lot on this forum so I just want to know your opinion
since that week is not your "official" sem break, you still cannot work more than 20 hours.
yes, you can work more than 20 hours as long as it is your official break from the institution.
https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=499&top=15
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So my problem is I exceeded my hours a few times, one week - 25.99, after a few months I worked 20.15 on one week 22 the other week ,20.15 the third week (I noticed it two years after it happened) After that I have never worked more than 20 during academic session, do you think I should write a LOE about it?
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