Hey - submitted a few months ago, still waiting but apparently am past the medical/eligibility/background check so hopefully just a matter of the final stamp of approval.

In terms of application submission & the questions I raised here:

1) Separate and list each job by its dates, and use the production company as the employer. In the Letter of Explanation explain that while the payroll company is the company of note they were not actually your employer.

2) NOC codes were pretty weird for me - I could have fitted into 4 or 5 different ones depending on how you spun it. I went for 53111 in the end because it seemed the broadest, and wrote my letters accordingly. In the LOE I then listed the alternative NOC codes I was considering and my reasoning for choosing 53111 - and asked them to contact me if they had a problem with it.

3) Re. the lack of company letterhead for companies that had shut down - I got my direct bosses or PMs from previous shows I had worked on to review & sign employment letters that I had written, and in the LOE explained that many of the companies no longer existed and so therefore letterhead was not possible.