Applicant from PhD program after 5 Nov, 2011 connect here to get status

[anjuku]

YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Just got a request for proof of funds! FINALLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! (please, update my status/info. thank you.)

This is good news to all of you March and April applicants. My application was submitted on March 28th, 2012. You know, I may not even need medicals - I came in with the study permit (medical was done, of course) and have not left the country since then. My family traveled back home just last summer and they had to do medical when they requested the visa renewal. So, theirs must be in the system as well... Pretty cool!!!

Here is the copy of the message for those who need the details:

"This is in reference to your application for permanent residence in Canada. In order for us to continue the processing of your application, we require the following documents:

> Proof of funds: Please provide evidence of funds which are completely available, transferrable and unencumbered by debt or other obligations. Evidence of account activity for the past six months must also be submitted. This must be received at this office by: 05/07/2013

Please note:

All documents must be accompanied by English or French translations. When original documents are requested, notarised documents are not acceptable. When attaching your document(s), please ensure that they are smaller than 5MB and that each document is attached individually.

The above information/documents must be received in our office within 30 days from the date of this letter. Please quote your complete application number on your correspondence and address your correspondence to the address indicated below.

Thank you for the interest you have shown in Canada."

congrats !!!..atleast some good news on the forum!....did you include RA/TA work experience??

 

[N_O]

YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Just got a request for proof of funds! FINALLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! (please, update my status/info. thank you.)

This is good news to all of you March and April applicants. My application was submitted on March 28th, 2012. You know, I may not even need medicals - I came in with the study permit (medical was done, of course) and have not left the country since then. My family traveled back home just last summer and they had to do medical when they requested the visa renewal. So, theirs must be in the system as well... Pretty cool!!!

Here is the copy of the message for those who need the details:

"This is in reference to your application for permanent residence in Canada. In order for us to continue the processing of your application, we require the following documents:

> Proof of funds: Please provide evidence of funds which are completely available, transferrable and unencumbered by debt or other obligations. Evidence of account activity for the past six months must also be submitted. This must be received at this office by: 05/07/2013

Please note:

All documents must be accompanied by English or French translations. When original documents are requested, notarised documents are not acceptable. When attaching your document(s), please ensure that they are smaller than 5MB and that each document is attached individually.

The above information/documents must be received in our office within 30 days from the date of this letter. Please quote your complete application number on your correspondence and address your correspondence to the address indicated below.

Thank you for the interest you have shown in Canada."

Congrats! Did you submit a bank statement when you filed your application on March 2012?

 

[GeoCanadian]

congrats !!!..atleast some good news on the forum!....did you include RA/TA work experience??

Thanks anjuku! No, I did not - I had a one year limited term teaching experience in Canada and about 8 years of experience from overseas. So, that must have done the trick.

Hope we'll hear more good news from others soon...

 

[GeoCanadian]

Congrats! Did you submit a bank statement when you filed your application on March 2012?

No, no statements and/or letters from a bank were submitted at the time of my application. My experience, in fact, may be useful for some of those who plan to submit/resubmit the initial application: all I submitted at that time was a ownership title to and a formal appraisal of my real estate property back home, along with a note from the bank where this property is mortgaged, showing my net worth that significantly exceeded the settlement fund requirement. This must have satisfied them at that time. Now, they of course need to see that I have money in cash.

 

[N_O]

No, no statements and/or letters from a bank were submitted at the time of my application. My experience, in fact, may be useful for some of those who plan to submit/resubmit the initial application: all I submitted at that time was a ownership title to and a formal appraisal of my real estate property back home, along with a note from the bank where this property is mortgaged, showing my net worth that significantly exceeded the settlement fund requirement. This must have satisfied them at that time. Now, they of course need to see that I have money in cash.

Wow, that is great! I submitted 6 month statement but I hope they will not ask for it again, it is hard to maintain the threshold untill they ask for it again!

 

[The_Prince]

I don't actually see any problems with your letter. Personally, I would write it the following way, provided, of course, that you really did conduct all of the tasks you specified

Many thanks for your useful suggestions

 

[The_Prince]

From my experience GOOD letter should be more direct, especific. Not necessarily talk about how good student you are, what exciting project you are working on, what are the achievements are.... What you need, you need to covey exact information and key words what they are looking for.

For example

To whom it may be concern:

Letter of reference for XXXXXXXXX

I am writing this leter in support of XXXXXX's aplication for permanent residency in Canada. (Should be a bit details about your program name, department and when you joint.)

As a PhD student he is emplyed as FULL time Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant. He spends XXX hours/week for TA and XX hours/week for RA for a total of XXX hours/week. (You can talk about total number of hours, duration of your job and how long you have been employed, I mean your end of contact.)

Mr. XXXXX works under my supervison, His main duties and responsibilities as a RA are as follows

1.Design and conduct experiment
2.XXXXXXXXX
3.XXXXXXXXX
4.Perform literature review
5.XXXXXXXXX
6.Wite journal paper to communicate.......
7. Supervise undergraduate summer research students (additional, not in the list though)

His Main responsibilities as TA are as follows

1.Assist in the preparations of class lecture materials
2.XXXXXXXXXXXX
3. Grade assignments and examinations
4.XXXXXX

His annual salary is XXXXX CAD per year. He also receives XXXXXXXXXX, (you can talk about other benifits and at last total amount of salary).

Please do not hesitate to contact me via email atXXX @ XXX.ca or telephone at XXXXX.

Sincerely


As I did, the important information should be in bold, then no way to miss those and responsibilities to point wise, easy to find out.

I hope it will help others. GOOD LUCK

Thanks a lot for these reasonable suggestions

 

[hooman2012]

If you take a look at excel file, you can see almost all of the rejection were about RA and TA. I got the impression that they do not like TA and RA.
They are rejecting all and unfortunately probably on May 4 we should expect something that does not allow us to include TA and RA.

 

[The_Prince]

Both of them were complete, second one was even more complete.

This is totally unbelievable, what are those guys looking for ???????????????? plz share your letters of reference

 

[anjuku]

If you take a look at excel file, you can see almost all of the rejection were about RA and TA. I got the impression that they do not like TA and RA.
They are rejecting all and unfortunately probably on May 4 we should expect something that does not allow us to include TA and RA.

i think you should order your caips to get a better picture

 

[anjuku]

i think me and webspherguy are the next in line..too bad there are not any applicants in the forum between march 28 and April 16th....

 

[websphereguy]

i think me and webspherguy are the next in line..too bad there are not any applicants in the forum between march 28 and April 16th....

That's true... hopefully the easy explanation is, there isn't many applications that came in btw those dates

 

[ASG]

This is totally unbelievable, what are those guys looking for ???????????????? plz share your letters of reference

seems to me that they want ALL the key duties listed in the NOC code to appear on the reference letter.

Meaning, if it's well explained that the student writes publications/marks assignments, it should ALSO be explicity mentioned that he/she "assists profs in their research".

If TA/RA is not accepted anymore, then this stream will be dead soon: most PhD students have only this experience to show for...

It'd be awesome if people who got accepted with ONLY TA/RA could share their letter

 

[anjuku]

That's true... hopefully the easy explanation is, there isn't many applications that came in btw those dates

or the majority of applicants between these two dates chose not to join the forum

 

[The_Prince]

seems to me that they want ALL the key duties listed in the NOC code to appear on the reference letter.

Meaning, if it's well explained that the student writes publications/marks assignments, it should ALSO be explicity mentioned that he/she "assists profs in their research".

If TA/RA is not accepted anymore, then this stream will be dead soon: most PhD students have only this experience to show for...

It'd be awesome if people who got accepted with ONLY TA/RA could share their letter

I don't believe that it is really about the contents and wording of letters. Those guys seem to have decided to reject a specific percent of this stream that looks to be more than 50%.
I don't think that the 250 thousand immigrant of each year are all having super perfect reference letters and documents. It is a total waste of time, focus, money and effort