An applicant with four previous employers asked whether salary slips must accompany every experience letter on a study permit application — the combined PDF was getting too large. The thread's practical answers:
- You don't need slips for every past employer. The concrete recommendation: include your SOP, experience letters for the previous firms, and 3 months of salary slips for your current employer only. Past employment is evidenced by the experience letters; recent slips prove the current job.
- Compress the PDF. Members routinely compress their upload — one suggested the free iLovePDF web tool. If compression degrades scan quality too much, cut content (per point 1) rather than uploading unreadable documents.
- Paid in cash? One member received salary in cash rather than bank transfer and asked what to attach. The approach raised in the thread: a letter from the company confirming salary was paid in cash. (The thread didn't confirm how officers weigh this — treat a cash-salary letter as weaker evidence and supplement with whatever official records exist, e.g. tax filings.)
- Why this matters: IRCC portals enforce per-file size limits, so deciding what evidence actually carries weight — rather than attaching everything — is part of preparing a clean file.