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[chakri264]

My Medicals have been uploaded on July 3rd, 2014.

 

[Melhem1]

My Medicals have been uploaded on July 3rd, 2014.

Congrats man,

do you mean cic updated eCas stating that they received the medical result?

 

[chakri264]

Congrats man,

do you mean cic updated eCas stating that they received the medical result?

Thank you. No CIC did not update yet. But the doctor told me that she uploaded the results in CIC website on that day.

 

[2MarriedPhDs]

Congratulation for the medical request.
Actually I and my wife are in the same boat that you were. We are 2 married PhD students and we applied for PR last September. The thing that makes me so worried is that I only attached the RA/TA work experience letter in my application, while I claimed 40 hours per week, even for the first year that I had some courses. I know you had the same problem and you sent an update RA letter to solve that issue. My question is: Is that possible I update my work experience letter with 25 hours per week? Isn't it a misrepresentation that causes a rejection on our application? Any suggestion/idea?

Hello vivi,

sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
It is true that I updated my reference letter once, but it was only because I didn't have the magic work "assist" in it.
In my first letter I claimed 40 hours/week, and in the second I claimed 39 hours/week.
I just changed from 40 to 39 because, at the time I updated my letter, my department had started issuing reference letters for RA and TA for PR purposes, and their official letter stated that I had worked 39 hours/week. I sent both my supervisor letter and the department letter when I updated my application. I didn't make any changes in Schedule 3.

What I am going to say to you right now is only *my* opinion based on the things I read in this forum and in my own experience:
If you have a strong application, they will not be picky with your reference letter.
Otherwise, if they don't like your application for some reason, but this reason is not valid for a rejection, they will start searching for stupid things like reference letter details to have grounds for a denial.

Having said that, of course it is better to not give them *any* reason where they can base their rejection.
But I cannot say my reference letter was good enough in this sense.
I don't know if changing your letter from 40 hours to 25 hours/week could cause misinterpretation, but I believe a few people here did that and passed eligibility.
Anyone want to comment about this?

 

[chenying3612]

Hi All,

I was wondering when to submit the proof of funds. Should I submit the bank letter together with my application package, or send it later upon request by cic?

Thanks in advance.

 

[climate_modeller]

What is this CoPR? Why not Passport Request? And why is it sent to home address instead of email? Curious.

Jubayer

Confirmation of Permanent Residence document. I don't need a visa stamp in my passport because I'm a US citizen. I thought the CoPR was sent to the home address because I remember reading that others had it sent there.

 

[climate_modeller]

Hello vivi,

sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
It is true that I updated my reference letter once, but it was only because I didn't have the magic work "assist" in it.
In my first letter I claimed 40 hours/week, and in the second I claimed 39 hours/week.
I just changed from 40 to 39 because, at the time I updated my letter, my department had started issuing reference letters for RA and TA for PR purposes, and their official letter stated that I had worked 39 hours/week. I sent both my supervisor letter and the department letter when I updated my application. I didn't make any changes in Schedule 3.

What I am going to say to you right now is only *my* opinion based on the things I read in this forum and in my own experience:
If you have a strong application, they will not be picky with your reference letter.
Otherwise, if they don't like your application for some reason, but this reason is not valid for a rejection, they will start searching for stupid things like reference letter details to have grounds for a denial.

Having said that, of course it is better to not give them *any* reason where they can base their rejection.
But I cannot say my reference letter was good enough in this sense.
I don't know if changing your letter from 40 hours to 25 hours/week could cause misinterpretation, but I believe a few people here did that and passed eligibility.
Anyone want to comment about this?

I agree with you .... if your application is strong, they will not be picky, and they can certainly use trivial reasons to reject arbitrarily.

I also speculate that they may *unoffically* evaluate applications from STEM differently then ones from social sciences, ... just a thought.

 

[salem10]

Hello vivi,

sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
It is true that I updated my reference letter once, but it was only because I didn't have the magic work "assist" in it.
In my first letter I claimed 40 hours/week, and in the second I claimed 39 hours/week.
I just changed from 40 to 39 because, at the time I updated my letter, my department had started issuing reference letters for RA and TA for PR purposes, and their official letter stated that I had worked 39 hours/week. I sent both my supervisor letter and the department letter when I updated my application. I didn't make any changes in Schedule 3.

What I am going to say to you right now is only *my* opinion based on the things I read in this forum and in my own experience:
If you have a strong application, they will not be picky with your reference letter.
Otherwise, if they don't like your application for some reason, but this reason is not valid for a rejection, they will start searching for stupid things like reference letter details to have grounds for a denial.

Having said that, of course it is better to not give them *any* reason where they can base their rejection.
But I cannot say my reference letter was good enough in this sense.
I don't know if changing your letter from 40 hours to 25 hours/week could cause misinterpretation, but I believe a few people here did that and passed eligibility.
Anyone want to comment about this?

The answer of this dilemma is simple; however, all applicants in this stream trying to ignore it. The answer is write the truth. How many hours you dedicated for RA that beyond your research project. Add those to what you have TA, then you can find how many hours of work per week. Most of applicants here don't like this because they will find them self work of about 20hrs/week or even less than 15hours/week. I don't believe that any full time international PhD student can or allowed to work 40hr/week. This is unbelievable and CIC should reject all of those submission with fake letters. How it come, you write your letter by yourself, and ask your supervisor signature. This is really shame on like PhD Candidates!!!

The good here you have a special stream that dedicated for you, so why you hurt it. When large percentage of those applicant are rejected, simply this stream would be closed.

Ask your self and do what you found real, that is my bottom advice to all of you.
Hope the best.

 

[climate_modeller]

... How it come, you write your letter by yourself, and ask your supervisor signature. This is really shame on like PhD Candidates!!!

The good here you have a special stream that dedicated for you, so why you hurt it. When large percentage of those applicant are rejected, simply this stream would be closed.

Ask your self and do what you found real, that is my bottom advice to all of you.
Hope the best.

I wrote my reference letter myself and asked my supervisor to sign it. I said the first year I did --0-- hours as RA because I was working on classes and getting ready for comprehensives. The 2nd, 3rd, and (8 months of) 4th years were 15-20 hours per week for RA. That was what seemed to be most accurate.

 

[Hisham984]

Hi Everyone,

I just finished two years in my PhD program in Canada and I am preparing my papers to apply through the PhD stream. I have a couple of questions and I would be grateful if someone help me with them:

In the Generic application form:
1) What should I write in the immigration office requested for processing this application? Ottawa?
2) What should I write in the current occupation? so far I wrote PhD student/ Graduate Assistant
3) What should I write in the intended occupation? University Professor or Postdoctoral fellow??? ( I received an offer of employment for a post doc position)

In the schedule 3
1) Can I put my main occupation as a Dentist, even if it among the eligible 50 occupation list? I want to put dentist because lately the immigration office rejected a lot of application with just RA/TA experience and as a dentist I worked for more than one year in my home country.
2) Can I write in the work experience graduate assist. in the occupation title because the box wont fit if I write research and teaching assistant?

Thanks,

 

[chakri264]

Hi,

My eCAS shows the third line "Medical results have been received".

 

[chakri264]

Congrats man,

do you mean cic updated eCas stating that they received the medical result?

Hi Melhem1,

The CIC updated that they received my medical results in eCAS. I just checked it.

 

[albaik]

Hi Hisham,

See my comments below ... I'm answering based upon my own experience.

Hi Everyone,

I just finished two years in my PhD program in Canada and I am preparing my papers to apply through the PhD stream. I have a couple of questions and I would be grateful if someone help me with them:

In the Generic application form:
1) What should I write in the immigration office requested for processing this application? Ottawa?

>> Ottawa,Ontario (CPP) ---> It was CPP, it is now CPC

2) What should I write in the current occupation? so far I wrote PhD student/ Graduate Assistant

>> I'll leave it to other members as I have put "Project Management" on both.

3) What should I write in the intended occupation? University Professor or Postdoctoral fellow ( I received an offer of employment for a post doc position)

>> I'll leave it to other members as I have put "Project Management" on both.

In the schedule 3
1) Can I put my main occupation as a Dentist, even if it among the eligible 50 occupation list? I want to put dentist because lately the immigration office rejected a lot of application with just RA/TA experience and as a dentist I worked for more than one year in my home country.

>> I recommend to put Dentist, especially if it is among the 50 eligible occupation. My recommendation is to go with the FSW-Eligible Occupation not the PhD stream as the first one is being processed faster.

2) Can I write in the work experience graduate assist. in the occupation title because the box wont fit if I write research and teaching assistant?

>> I had the same issue, I just wrote the maximum it has taken, then, when printed it out, I wrote the full occupation below it (hand-writing)

I hope this helps!

Thanks

 

[karanoha]

Hey buddies,
I am about to submit POF and 6 months statement to CPC (they asked for it).
Is it a problem if my bank account shows added money in the last couple of days before getting the statement. It won't be that much (may be less than $ 1000), but I just want to add them first before getting the statement so I can have more than the required amount and be sure everything is OK.

 

[Melhem1]

Hi Melhem1,

The CIC updated that they received my medical results in eCAS. I just checked it.

Hi Chakri,

Congrats again, hopefully you will get the passport request soon. I and other applicants here who did the medical almost seven weeks ago still do not have the update on ecas that they received the medical result.
Are you in Toronto? if yes, where did you do the medical test?