This is a competence finding. The officer compared the job requirements against your documented experience, qualifications and language ability, and concluded the fit was not established.
It commonly appears where the Canadian job description was written broadly for the LMIA and your evidence does not clearly meet it.
Why this gets written
These are the situations that most often produce this finding. Your notes will usually name the specific one.
Experience letters that do not describe duties matching the Canadian role
No licence or certification where the occupation requires one
Language ability below what the role plainly needs
A job title that matches but duties that do not
What actually fixes it
Fix the thing the officer named. Changing everything else at once usually makes a file look staged.
Get detailed experience letters that mirror the duties in the job offer, on letterhead, with contact details
Provide certifications, trade tests or licensing evidence
Add language test results even where not strictly required
This is general information, not legal advice. Every file turns on its own facts. We have quoted the legislation above so you can check it yourself. For a misrepresentation finding under A40, speak to a Canadian immigration lawyer or an RCIC before you do anything.
Officers write several codes on one file, and only one of them is usually the real reason. Send us your notes and we will tell you which line actually decided your case — and what to do about it.
