Wicked Blues said:
I received an e-mail from the London Office Today
The e-mail basically says "to continue processing your application, we require the additional documents listed below. Please send clear legible photocopies rather than the original documents unless otherwise specified. If the documents are not written in either English or French, please enclose a certified translation with a photocopy of the original document.
Updated forms which are available on our website:
* New Schedule 1/Background Declaration form for yourself and your spouse.
Please ensure that the there are no gaps in the questions 11 and 15 of the schedule 1 form. Please note that there is a gap in the personal history section of schedule 1 for the principal applicant from June 2003 to January 2005.
Completed Supplementary Information forms for yourself which are available on our website
Original Police Certificates for yourself and each of your dependents that is 18 years old or more from each country that you or your dependents have lived in for 6 months or more.
If you already submitted police certificates with your application, you need to provide updated certificates for the countries that you and your dependents have lived in since the date you submitted your application. We require the following:
* Principal applicant: Updated Texas & Oklahoma
Please forward all requested documents together to the address below within 45 days from the date of this email. If we do not hear from you within that period, your application will be assessed on the basis of the information on file and your application may be refused. Please allow four months for us to review incoming correspondence. All documents submitted in support of your application are subject to verification with the issuing authority. Please do not contact us unless there are significant issues which need to be brought to our attention."
Dear Wayne, Anil, Indira and other senior members I need your help regarding this e-mail. I don't understand why do they again require a new schedule1 form for me and my spouse as my consultant had already submitted that initially when he had sent the whole complete package to CIO. I really don't know what do they consider a missing gap as I was pursuing my masters until December 2003 and have provided all the relevant documents (including university sealed transcripts and notarized degree certificate). I was unemployed for a whole year of 2004 and really don't know if that is a missing gap. I think they also require me to provide them with state certificate from Texas & Oklahoma but it seems the person typing the e-mail did not complete that sentence. I have a FBI certificate dated for 3 days before the CIO received my file. I would appreciate the input and advice of senior members and shed some light on this. Thank you... :'(
Hi Wicked Blues. It seems quite clear why they are asking for new forms - it's because there is an undocumented period of personal history for the principal applicant from June 2003 to January 2005 and they want you to account for it, hence they want new forms.
A period of unemployment must still be explained and detailed, so if you have not told them this they have no idea what you were doing between those two dates. I think you just need to add an "unemployed" row in the list of employment details and put the dates you were unemployed.
Will the extra police certificates be difficult to acquire? Have they given you a deadline to get the extra information to them?
Hope it goes well
I would still take this as a good sign - you know they are working on your file!
I am still getting frustrated by the order they seem to be doing things. We have 2 October applicants with medical requests. You are late October applicant and they are clearly working on your file. We are August applicants and have heard NOTHING yet - no letters, no emails, nothing. At this rate they'll be October/November applicants getting their visas before we even hear anything at all!
I guess they have to verify all our documents, although no idea how they actually do this. But how can they send some people med requests so fast and others take ages?
Sorry I am not normally the jealous type, but this process drives one to it!
Wayne.
