That is a good news! My university requires all International PhD students to register in summer and pay the high tuition fees, or we cannot take the comprehensive exam. Looks like every coin has two sides.aboshosha84 said:
Thanks again and good luck with your application!
Hi Aboshosha,aboshosha84 said:
In the letter, It was stated clearly that, the candidate has finished (Equivalent Two Years ) towards the completion of his PhDeven said:
Sure. I am Russian. I actually paid by a bank draft so I don't think there'd be a way to check the date they cashed the check.asbereth said:
asbereth, no, I started in September 2008, so it's been about 3.5 years for me at the time of application. I worked on average 15 hours/week for RA and 3.5 hours/week for TA according to the employment letter from my school.asbereth said:
But the lesson I learned from my NER is that our applications are not only being checked for eligibility, they also go through the initial processing at the CIO, including calculating the points. So if you got your PER, it means that you exceeded the 67 threshold. Whether the workers at a visa office are going to reassess our applications or just continue processing, I don't know.
Just a quick note. I actually claimed 40 hr/week as for the RA, and for some reason I think they accepted it.asbereth said:It does look like the CIO does indeed accept more than 25 hours a week for TA/RA experience, which is good since it means future applicants now can prepare their documents better and claim more hours than what most of us here have done (about 20 hours a week). For a while, we were wondering whether RA/TA non-taxable work experience will be accepted, but it looks like that we wont have to worry about it anymore.
Hopefully this won't cause any problem with the VO though, and hopefully the VO would interpret the 5 adaptability previous study points as the CIO would, which will enable even more students to apply
You should send an email or call CIC, or they may think you have misrepresented yourself later on when they run the background checking. After you do that, it should not impact your application.beh467 said:
Hi beh467, I was in a similar situation. I made a mistake in the background declaration form as well where I did not write down my siblings' names. I contacted the CIO a while ago (before getting the PER), and they told me that I should just send the corrected forms with a cover letter to Buffalo directly after getting my PER. I did this already, but I think I should probably send a case inquiry to Buffalo as well. Let us know how they will reply to your inquirybeh467 said:
If there is one thing that we can't yet tell for sure, it's how many hours we get credited if claim to have worked and studied full-time. One of the possible reasons for your PER could be that, you'd still have enough points anyway if you only claim 2 rather than 4 years of work experience, and they might have taken that into account. But hopefully you're right, in that we can actually claim full-time for our RA/TA experience. Only time will tell I guessLuigiovemma said:
True. I might just have enough points with 1 yr equivalent work experience, so I don't know how many they actually count. All I want to say is that the only big difference between my old and new employment letter is that I confirmed the total number of hours worked through my supervisor. And apparently they accepted the new one.asbereth said:If there is one thing that we can't yet tell for sure, it's how many hours we get credited if claim to have worked and studied full-time. One of the possible reasons for your PER could be that, you'd still have enough points anyway if you only claim 2 rather than 4 years of work experience, and they might have taken that into account. But hopefully you're right, in that we can actually claim full-time for our RA/TA experience. Only time will tell I guess
Hi Asbereteh.asbereth said:Hi beh467, I was in a similar situation. I made a mistake in the background declaration form as well where I did not write down my siblings' names. I contacted the CIO a while ago (before getting the PER), and they told me that I should just send the corrected forms with a cover letter to Buffalo directly after getting my PER. I did this already, but I think I should probably send a case inquiry to Buffalo as well. Let us know how they will reply to your inquiry
This is weird, and it is not the first time it happened. It is like our documents have been sent do Bufallo yet.beh467 said:
Tired of wating for the AOR.... Hope that we will get medicals along with the AOR. For some streams, Buffalo VO is doing like that.TyrusX said:
