Arrangement of the Application...

[Louise86]

Hi everyone!

So I'm having a bit of a last-minute scare about the arrangement of our application. I came across this video today -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpLZGzikTyI - extremely useful if you've not yet sent the application, but not so useful for people like me who have only recently sent it off. He has divided the entire application in to two halves (sponsor and applicant) and has supporting evidence separate to each of the two sections.

My partner and I simply followed the Document Checklist exactly, and numbered each section numerically... So instead of including evidence for each section (sponsor and applicant), we simply have a whole wad of papers and envelopes behind all of the sponsor and applicant forms labelled '25' (to correspond with the document checklist) entitled 'Proof of Relationship' which has six envelopes - an envelope for 'Proof of Cohabitation', 'Proof of Shared Finances', 'Evidence of Communication', 'Evidence of Trips', 'Miscellaneous Evidence' and a final envelope containing evidence of mine and my partner's relationship with one anothers' families. We just had two sections - the first with ALL the forms (sponsor and applicant), identification, proof of medical, police certificate, photos, receipt of payment, intent to return etc. And the second section is just all of the proof of our relationship.

I'm just worried that I should have included evidence specific to the sponsor application with the sponsorship forms, rather than simply having a whole 'Proof of Relationship' section separate, that is applicable to both the sponsor and applicant's sections (although there is a note attached to the Sponsor Questionnaire saying please view supporting documents entitled 'Proof of Relationship'). I understand that they check for completeness at Mississauga, so surely they'll realise that to look for evidence of our relationship for my application to sponsor, they should simply take a look at the relevant section?

It's all there... (it weighed in at 3.4kg!), I just hope that they won't not look for the information if it's not where they think it should be...

What do you think? How did other people organise their application?


I just hope they don't send it back/request more info because of the way we arranged it ???

 

[pinklady]

Don't worry at all. As long as everything that was on the checklist is included then it won't matter. The Immiigration officers will sort through the whole thing anyway, and it sounds like you organised it well.
Honestly, don't worry, there is no right or wrong way to arrange everything

 

[Louise86]

Don't worry at all. As long as everything that was on the checklist is included then it won't matter. The Immiigration officers will sort through the whole thing anyway, and it sounds like you organised it well.
Honestly, don't worry, there is no right or wrong way to arrange everything

Thanks Pinklady, I certainly hope so! We've been thinking that with such a high volume of applications they must have seen them arranged in all manner of ways. The way we organised it seemed intuitive and made sense to us, but it does worry me that most people seem to have split the entire application into two separate sections with separate supporting evidence for each.

I just hope we don't get a bureaucratic IO

Fingers crossed!

 

[pinklady]

You know what, I think I did mine the same way as you. We followed the order on the sponsor document checklist since everything is listed on that.
Things worked out ok for me!
Don't worry