Does self-employed work experience count?

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Subject: Does self-employed work experience count?
Have been working as a self-employed web designer for last 3+ years here in UK and was wondering if anyone could tell me if this this counted towards minimum work experience required for permanent residence visa in Canada.

Thanks.

[02-02-2007,07:51]
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David Scott
(in reply to: Does self-employed work experience count?)
If you were legally self-employed, then it does. Whether you need to meet Canadian or UK criteria for self-employment, I am not sure. I would imagine if the UK recognises you are self-employed, then you will be fine.
[02-02-2007,11:26]
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Anonymous
(in reply to: Does self-employed work experience count?)
Since I am claiming some work experience as self-employed too, I submitted a letter to CIC along with my initial application, stating my period of self-employment, a photocopy of my US corporation data from the internet, as well as dscription of the field I worked in. I also listed a few names for reference.

I am not sure if this was Ok, because there isn´t much information on documenting work experience as self-employed. We´ll see..

If someone did it in a different way and they were successful in claiming CIC points through their method, I would definitely welcome their input.

Uniden

[02-02-2007,13:51]
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Uniden

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