You are wrong. You can check the link across this thread, this has been discussed many times. You can see here in the MI-4 for example, that we must follow the same rules than the other FSW classes:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/manuals/bulletins/2011/ob351.asp
This means 67 points...
Of course you need 67 points. We share the same minimum requirements that all the other FSW classes. This includes minimum of an year of work experience, IETLS, and the 67 points, and etc. PLUS the requirements for the PHD stream.
Just go there and explain your case. But dude, an application can be returned/rejected at any moment. MANY other people had the same issue with the letter of attestation. You are not the first one.
If they returned you application fee your application was probably considered incomplete again. What was the reason for it to be returned in the first time?
So you will get your application back in a few weeks with a letter explaining why. People in the same situation
had problems with their letter of attestation or lack of work experience...
Yahoo! My application is now IN PROCESSING!
So they do update their website during the weekends! Also, my application is listed as been received on Jan 20 instead of 19.
It must take a day for them to open them.
No one knows yet. So far it hasn't been faster than other FSW. The fastest case I have seen took only 2 months to get Medical Requests.
Yours and ejamal's have actually take a lot more than usual.