Hi guys,

I am planning to file an application for Canadian Permanent Residency soon. I have completed my MS in biochemistry from USA and now working for more than 1 and half year here. I want to claim a total of 2 years of work experiences so that I will have enough points without having to claim maximum points for Reading/Writing, etc. So I thought of claiming a total of ½ year of work experience from my part-time teaching experience in a college in Nepal. But, I am in a dilemma - how the experience letter should be prepared from there while I did not have fixed annual salary and fixed annual hours of experience. If you guys have any idea, could you suggest me how the letter be prepared?

======== here is the sample experience letter for your comments ================

Subject: To whom it may concern:

Dear Sir/Madam,

This is to certify that Mr. XYZ worked as a part-time Assistant Lecturer at this XYZ campus from 2002-10-02 to 2004-08-14 (for a period of 1 year, 10 months, 12 days) for 3 hours per day with a maximum of 15 hours per week when no holidays. His remuneration was CAN $ 1.20/ hour (Rs. 60/hour at the exchange rate $1 CAN = Rs. 50 Nepalese Rupees). During this time, he worked a total of 1230 hours (410 days) with the total salary of CAN $ 1,476 (Nepalese Rs. 73,800). His duties included teaching undergraduate students a Chemistry course, conducting labs and grading their lab assignments.  

I wish him success in the days to come.

Please feel free to contact me should you have any question.

 

Sincerely,

 

XYZ

Campus Chief/or Chief,  Department of Chemistry

… Campus

Kathmandu, Nepal

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My Questions:

1.      Who should write the experience letter: Campus chief or Department chief?

2.      Should the letter be sealed and signed from outside?

3.      How the duties be mentioned?

4.      How the part time work-experience be mentioned?

5.      How the annual salary be mentioned as required by Immigration? Or, can we just mention only the hourly amount without calculating the total annual salary?

6.      Should I include any other information?

 

Any suggestion will be much appreciated. It will be easier for me if you guys edit the sample letter above and paste it or if you paste your own experience letter if you also had similar problem/situation.

Thanks in advance.

My 2 cents:  make it as natural as possible.

1. Who should write the experience letter: Campus chief or Department chief?

any one (but dont forget to include their business card so that CIC can verify if they wish to)

2.      Should the letter be sealed and signed from outside?

 

Not necessarily

3.      How the duties be mentioned?

what you have written is fine

 

4.      How the part time work-experience be mentioned?

your position there, hours/week and duration

5.      How the annual salary be mentioned as required by Immigration? Or, can we just mention only the hourly amount without calculating the total annual salary?

Hourly should be fine but if your employer can calculate per annum, its better

6.      Should I include any other information?

if i were you i would rather delete when no holidays. and amounts in canadian dollars

all they need is position, duration, salary and duties

should be official letterpad with enough address and contact info.

 

KT-chaiyo,

I think you should just follow what mandale-murdabad is suggesting. You should include this experience even if you are not claiming any points for this experience because it shows what you were doing at that period.

In my case, I obtained the letter from Department Chief, but did not include the business (visiting) card as he did not have one. Since phone number will be on the official letter pad of your department or campus, I think you should be fine without submitting separate business card.

Good luck!

 

Thanks mandale_murdabad so much for your suggestion. I have also just sent you an email.

check back your inbox

good luck

KT,

I am thinking similar.

How about a guy who has a master from here and almost done with his PhD and who has 6 yrs of RA/TA experience.

Guys, u think his chances are good immigrate to Canada??

Any suggestions are welcome.

Unicornis, I heard that RA/TA of 6 years (even 3 years if you are full time TA/RA as somebody told me that his application was accepted and was under processing) are more than enough for them to count as a total of one year work experience. I think you should just apply now, you won't be rejected I guess.

Don't go to Canada when you can survive in USA or you will be screwed up. I happned to see the documentary on  how highly immigrants are suffering in Canada. Just visit www.notcanada.com . Good luck dude.