Posting from a throwaway for anonymity's sake.
I'm applying for permanent residence via the 3 year Fast Track program. I am confident in my application, except for one point – my previous employer (a giant global tech company… think as big as they get) is not able to provide a job description on my experience letter.
The following list is the required list from my lawyer's office:
Experience Letters from your past employers with a detailed job description. If possible, include the following:
※ company letter head ✅
※ company name that you worked for ✅
※ your full name ✅
※ employment period (start date to end date; Year/Month/Day ~ Year/Month/Day) ✅
※ your position (job title) ✅
※ a clear, detailed job description of what you did there ❌
※ contact details of the person who wrote the letter (usually, this would be the HR department head, etc.) ✅
I have asked my previous employer twice, and I have written records of them explaining that they cannot provide anything further than what they've given. They suggested that I download the job description of that role from their website and include it with my experience letter. I have done this, and have copied it onto the same company letterhead that they provided me, so now it's a cohesive PDF, where page 1 is all the required details above, and page 2 is a job description copied from their website.
I've read that I can include supplemental documents to help strengthen my application, so I have also sent my scrivener:
- Emails from my previous employer where they state they cannot provide me with any additional details than what they already have
- Copy of 5 year award signed by CEO
- Business card
- Copy of my nametag with the job title written on it
- Copy of my security badge
- Signed Statutory Declaration of Employment Duties (something I wrote up, saying I performed the duties listed in the job description)
I've explained this to my scrivener, and her response is:
while we can try filing the application with additional documents, I can not guarantee which documents immigration would accept, if any. This is, as mentioned before, a risk with your case. I understand that you will not be able to get any additional documents from ***** as they are reluctant, but I just need to clarify that the risk is that there is no Job description connecting you to your current job and there is no tile connecting you to your current job.
(the job title is different from my current title, but the work is in the same field and are related to each other)
She's being vague because she can't guarantee what immigration will accept, but I'm a little confused because I've included the job description from the website, and seems like it should be ok to me.
I'm thinking of accepting the risk and applying as is, but I was hoping other people might have had a similar situation, and could let me know what sort of additional documents they were able to share to make a stronger case, or if they applied with less than I gave and were still accepted.
Thanks in advance!
by inkrelic