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[Jun zheng]

All 3 look fine...make sure you put each on its different letter head...I mean the RA and TA on university, and the coop RA on the college letterhead...

Get a response from others on the group as well regarding your letters....

thanks for your suggestions. I will do that.

 

[N_O]

TA letter from the university

2014-05-26
To Whom It May Concern:
This letter is to verify the employment of Mr.XX in the Chemical & Biochemical Engineering at the University of XX as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (NOC Code 4012) from 1st January, 2010 to 30 April 2014. He was employed for 75 hours for Fall and Winter semester separately for the last three (3) and nine (9) months. The total work experience as a Teaching Assistant accumulated by Mr. XX is approximately 525 hours (till April 30, 2014). As a teaching assistant, Mr.XX assisted Professors in teaching the following undergraduate and graduates courses:

Course Terms Instructor Teaching Hours Salary
CBE 9132(Oil Refining and Processing) January 1st, 2011-April 30, 2011 75 2536
CBE 4497 (Chemical Process and Plant Design) Sept 1st 2011- April 30, 2012 150 5000
CBE 4413A/9241A (Nanobiotechnology) Sept 1st 2012- December 30, 2012 75 2536
ENG SCI 2211G
(Engineering Communication) January 1st, 2013-April 30, 2013 75 2536
CBE 4497 (Chemical Process and Plant Design) Sept 1st 2013- April 30, 2014 150 5000
Total Working Hours 525

Following are the lists of his main duties as a Graduate Research Assistant:
a. conducting tutorials and discussion seminars for the quizzes and projects (CBE 4413A/9241A)
b. Assist professors in the preparation of design materials (CBE 4497).
b. supervising laboratory sessions for the courses (CBE 4413A/9241A)
c. Holding office hours, organizing and setting up review sessions for exams (ENG SCI 2211G)
c. Assisted with grading assignments, quizzes, design reports and exams in the courses (CBE 4497 & CBE 4413A/9241A)
c. Assisting faculty members in the preparation and administration of exams (CBE 4413A/9241A)
d. Assisting faculty members in leading discussion groups and tutorial sections (CBE 4497).

If you need any additional information regarding to Mr. XX status, please do not
hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
XXXXX

Be careful! It is the TA letter not the RA one

 

[sgtrigger]

Congrats !

Thanks...

 

[PhdStream]

Hello guys .. I applied my GCMS note on April 3, 2014 but no response at all, except an immediate acknowledge email.

Have anyone had same experience?

 

[mike5182]

My online status showed my medical results has been received. I have another two questions: 1) will I see another line show RCMP received? 2) will there be another line show RPRF received? Because I selected my RCMP sent to CIC directly. Thanks for your answers.

 

[mike5182]

Congrats

Got passport request....

 

[mike5182]

My GCMS note always came at the exact 30 days. I remember it happened to somebody else. You may need to reapply again.

Hello guys .. I applied my GCMS note on April 3, 2014 but no response at all, except an immediate acknowledge email.

Have anyone had same experience?

 

[pepe84]

Hello Jun Zheng,

I am becoming very concerned regarding applications being rejected due to reference letters. Could you please tell me what was wrong with your reference letters? Please I appreciate your help since I am about to send my application for the PhD stream.

Thanks a lot,

Hello，Guys
My application was rejected last month due to my reference letters. Now I wrote a new reference letter for my RA and TA from the university and another RA experience from a coop program in a college. I want to resubmit my applicaiton, Could you please help me check my letters？Thanks in advance.

RA letter from the university:

2014-05-25

To whom it may concern,

This reference letter is in support of Mr. XX application for Permanent Resident status of Canada through PhD stream in the Federal Skilled Worker. Mr. XX is currently registered as a full time PhD student with the Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering at the University of XX. Starting from September 1st 2010 till 1st June 2014, Mr. XX is employed as a part time Graduate Research Assistant (NOC Code: 4012) of Professor XX in the department of Chemical Engineering & Biochemical Engineering and he is supported during this time by a series of teaching assistantships, research assistantships, and fellowships. Mr. XX has completed (3) years and nine (9) months in the program and is expected to finish by September 2014. Mr. XX is in good standing in the PhD program. This letter clarifies Mr.XX's main job duties and responsibilities in this department as a Research Assistant. As a graduate research assistant, he currently assists me in research activities concerning the mechanical pretreatment of corncobs for bioethanol production using a Twin-screw extruder. As a research assistant, his main duties include:

a. Conducting literature and technical reviews to gather information regarding previous studies on
the pretreatment methods of corncobs for bioethanol production such as alkali pretreatment.

b. Performing laboratory experiments. Laboratory experiments herein refer to
extrusion pretreatment of corncobs, enzymatic hydrolysis of extruded corncobs for glucose conversion.

c. Compiling and analyzing research results from the above experiment(s) by applying
techniques such as FT-IR (Fourier transform spectroscopy), SEM (Scanning electron Microscopy),XRD (X-ray Diffraction),

d. Assisting me (Prof.XX) to further modify and verify the research results from experiments
e. Assisting me (Prof.XX) in the preparation of scholarly articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and preparing for research presentations and conference posters.
f. Training undergraduate summer research students on research methodologies
g. Assisting me (Prof.XX) with writing grant reports and proposals regarding to the extrusion pretreatment of corncobs for bioethanol production and discuss with me for further modification.
h. Assisting me (Prof.XX) to form guidelines for design standards and future research.
i. Assisted other researchers of my research group to conduct laboratory experiments
j. Participate in research group meetings and seminars.
k. Preparing and delivering research presentation.
The details on the work hours and the salary (including benefits) from the research assistantship positions are
provided in the following table.
Term Hours Total Total hours/ term Salary (CAD)

working/week working days
Sept 1st 2010- December 31, 2010 10 88 176 $4000
January 1st, 2011-April 30, 2011 10 85 170 $5416
May 1st, 2011- August 31, 2011 10 88 176 $4996
Sept 1st 2011- December 31, 2011 20 (XX) 87 348 $4940 from XXand $2224 from the University of XX
January 1st, 2012-April 30, 2012 20 (XX) 86 344 $4883 from LXX and $2224 from the University of XX
May 1st, 2012- August 31, 2012 20 (XX) 89 356 $5053 from XX College
Sept 1st 2012- December 31, 2012 20 (XX) 86 344 $4883 from XX and $1821 from the XX
January 1st, 2013-April 30, 2013 20 86 344 $3856
May 1st, 2013- August 31, 2013 20 88 352 $4000
Sept 1st 2013- December 31, 2013 20 87 348 $3856
January 1st, 2014-April 30, 2014 20 86 344 $3856
May 1st, 2014- June 1st, 2014 20 22 88 $1000
Total Working Hours 3390

Starting from September 1st, 2011 till December 31, 2012, The University of XX had a coopering program with the XX College which was supported by an industrial company. This project was the same as Mr.XX research project. Mr. XX moved his work to XX College as a research assistant mainly using XX College's Twin Screw Extruder equipment. Mr. XX working load there was 20 hours a week for experiments (Please see the reference letter from the XX College). My. XX stipend was paid from both University of XX and XX College during that time.

Mr. XX is contributing at least 10 hours/week towards the research assistantship from Sept 1st, 2010 to August 31, 2011 at the University of XX, 20 hours/week at XX College from Sept 1st, 2011 to December 31, 2012 and 20 hours/week at the University of XX from January 1st, 2013 to April 30, 2014. The remaining time is reserved for his own research work. The total work experience as a Research Assistant accumulated by Mr. XX at the University of XX is therefore not less than 1260 hours and 1392 hours at XX College.

In addition to full tuition remission, his annual income towards the research assistant was $4000 for 2010, $17576 for 2011, $18864 for 2012, $11712 for 2013 and $4856 for 2014.

Should you have any questions, or require further information, please contact me either via E-mail () or by phone (Phone number here).
Email
Phone

 

[PhdStream]

My GCMS note always came at the exact 30 days. I remember it happened to somebody else. You may need to reapply again.

Thanks Mike ... yes, I applied it again ..

 

[SJ2013]

I have some important information to share with you. I received my new GCMS notes today.

1. My application was assessed for eligibility and the officer recommended my application to be passed. Then they asked me to provide proof of funds. After submitting the proof of funds, they officially mentioned that the application meets eligibility requirements and then I received RPRF and medical requests within a week.So, everything happen very fast now and there is no time to update reference letters between initial and final assessment.

2. I updated my reference letter once and it seems that they referred to updated letter for my duties and lead statement but they awarded the points based on my original letter (sent with my application). This might be due to not updating the Schedule 3 form.

3. No points were awarded for my wife education, my Canadian son, and my previous study in Canada.

4. They didn't accept one my of work experience letters due to not being dated and missing lead statement.

 

[Parkinson]

I have some important information to share with you. I received my new GCMS notes today.

1. My application was assessed for eligibility and the officer recommended my application to be passed. Then they asked me to provide proof of funds. After submitting the proof of funds, they officially mentioned that the application meets eligibility requirements and then I received RPRF and medical requests within a week.So, everything happen very fast now and there is no time to update reference letters between initial and final assessment.

2. I updated my reference letter once and it seems that they referred to updated letter for my duties and lead statement but they awarded the points based on my original letter (sent with my application). This might be due to not updating the Schedule 3 form.

3. No points were awarded for my wife education, my Canadian son, and my previous study in Canada.

4. They didn't accept one my of work experience letters due to not being dated and missing lead statement.

Thanks for sharing the information. Do you know which officers did the initial and final assessments?

 

[Parkinson]

2. I updated my reference letter once and it seems that they referred to updated letter for my duties and lead statement but they awarded the points based on my original letter (sent with my application). This might be due to not updating the Schedule 3 form.

3. No points were awarded for my wife education, my Canadian son, and my previous study in Canada.

This makes me worried. But, maybe because you already had 67 points without considering wife's education and Canadian son, they did not bother to award those points.

 

[SJ2013]

Thanks for sharing the information. Do you know which officers did the initial and final assessments?

Initial assessment was done by DS01608. FA01772 did the final assessment.

 

[SJ2013]

This makes me worried. But, maybe because you already had 67 points without considering wife's education and Canadian son, they did not bother to award those points.

Don't worry! The main reason for not awarding these points is not clear to me but we had people in this forum who got these points.

 

[Parkinson]

Don't worry! The main reason for not awarding these points is not clear to me but we had people in this forum who got these points.

Do you know anyone who recently got those points (I mean by Ottawa, not Sydney)?