I collected useful information for postdocs applying under CEC.
1.
Some of you can pay taxes using T4A (not T4).
T4A is for self-employment and scholarships. I know some postdoc who were rejected basing on T4A. In order to be approved, you need to prove to CIC that your job was employment:
1.1 You can ask your supervisor to include in his reference letter that you were employed, and your job was employment, for example, "You were employed as a ... Your employment was 40 hours per week, using University equipment, etc."
1.2 You can ask accountant of your University to give you extra letter with the following meaning: Postdocs are not self-employed. They work full-time. Postdocs are working using University equipment. There is restriction for them to work outside University (these are all definition of employment). According to University policy, income of all postdocs is recorded on T4A form just for taxation purpose only.
1.3 Do NOT include your contract to your application (probably, it can say that you are academic trainee)! Some postdocs included this type of contract and got rejected. Do not do this mistake.
1.4 You can include cover letter to your application. In this cover letter you can write:
a. Many Canadian Universities already switched to T4 taxation policy (recently, it happened with UofT).
b. There are recent cases where postdocs were granted Permanent Residence status through Canadian Experience Class (even with T4A).
c. If you are from UofT (and may be some University in Ontario) you can also write that Ontario Labour Relations Board determined that postdoctoral fellows should be considered as full-time employees within the meaning of the Labour Relations Act. I don't know if it can be applied for Universities outside Ontario though. This is the source of the document: http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onlrb/doc/2012/2012canlii1673/2012canlii1673.html
You can ask for more details CUPE: http://cupe3902.org/postdocs (call them)
2. Be careful with choosing NOC.
There is NOC 4011 for postdoc, but definition of a postdoc job according to CIC is mostly teaching, not research.
Read carefully this case of rejection: http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/-t172731.0.html
If you apply with NOC 4011, you should present yourself in the reference letter mostly as a teacher (and research is a second, but not main part in postdoc activity).
I recommend to use NOC written in your work permit (more probably, this is not postdoc).
It can be physicist, chemist, etc.
Provided to CIC job letter corresponding to this NOC (you can also add something about teaching and checking students assignment, just for the case, but mostly it should be about your NOC [physics, chemistry, etc]).
Your duties in job letter should correspond to NOC description in CIC website.
This is the most crucial part of CEC.
There are many rejections when job duties did not match to NOC description.
1.
Some of you can pay taxes using T4A (not T4).
T4A is for self-employment and scholarships. I know some postdoc who were rejected basing on T4A. In order to be approved, you need to prove to CIC that your job was employment:
1.1 You can ask your supervisor to include in his reference letter that you were employed, and your job was employment, for example, "You were employed as a ... Your employment was 40 hours per week, using University equipment, etc."
1.2 You can ask accountant of your University to give you extra letter with the following meaning: Postdocs are not self-employed. They work full-time. Postdocs are working using University equipment. There is restriction for them to work outside University (these are all definition of employment). According to University policy, income of all postdocs is recorded on T4A form just for taxation purpose only.
1.3 Do NOT include your contract to your application (probably, it can say that you are academic trainee)! Some postdocs included this type of contract and got rejected. Do not do this mistake.
1.4 You can include cover letter to your application. In this cover letter you can write:
a. Many Canadian Universities already switched to T4 taxation policy (recently, it happened with UofT).
b. There are recent cases where postdocs were granted Permanent Residence status through Canadian Experience Class (even with T4A).
c. If you are from UofT (and may be some University in Ontario) you can also write that Ontario Labour Relations Board determined that postdoctoral fellows should be considered as full-time employees within the meaning of the Labour Relations Act. I don't know if it can be applied for Universities outside Ontario though. This is the source of the document: http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onlrb/doc/2012/2012canlii1673/2012canlii1673.html
You can ask for more details CUPE: http://cupe3902.org/postdocs (call them)
2. Be careful with choosing NOC.
There is NOC 4011 for postdoc, but definition of a postdoc job according to CIC is mostly teaching, not research.
Read carefully this case of rejection: http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/-t172731.0.html
If you apply with NOC 4011, you should present yourself in the reference letter mostly as a teacher (and research is a second, but not main part in postdoc activity).
I recommend to use NOC written in your work permit (more probably, this is not postdoc).
It can be physicist, chemist, etc.
Provided to CIC job letter corresponding to this NOC (you can also add something about teaching and checking students assignment, just for the case, but mostly it should be about your NOC [physics, chemistry, etc]).
Your duties in job letter should correspond to NOC description in CIC website.
This is the most crucial part of CEC.
There are many rejections when job duties did not match to NOC description.