unpaid volunteer work hours and International students

[daretoamr]

Are unpaid volunteer hours count towards the eligible 20 work hours per week for international students in Canada?

 

[canuck_in_uk]

Are unpaid volunteer hours count towards the eligible 20 work hours per week for international students in Canada?

Depends on if you are actually volunteering. What are you doing?

 

[daretoamr]

Depends on if you are actually volunteering. What are you doing?

nothing until now
just wanna volunteer to gain canadian experience and earn canadian employers references so eventually it would help to get the first professional job

 

[canuck_in_uk]

nothing until now
just wanna volunteer to gain canadian experience and earn canadian employers references so eventually it would help to get the first professional job

That's a no. You can't volunteer to do a job someone is normally paid for to try to get experience and references.

You can do actual volunteering, i.e. help at a shelter, a food bank, walk dogs at the SPCA etc.