I would like to share my story to this forum in order to help others who could be in my situation in the future as I have found useful information here (during back-reading) which helped me come to a decision.
I was gathering my FSW documents for the past months and as I was about to submit, I noticed an error in the Date of Birth of my WES report. I reviewed my school transcripts and found out that it was the one that contained the wrong date of birth. The document my school sent showed that my DOB was November 12, 1986 in lieu of November 02, 1986 which was my real DOB.
I was shattered when I first discovered this because everything was all set, all documents were meticulously checked, and I was good to go. The first thing that came to me was how was I going to fix this.
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Here's the time line of the things I did:
- Inquiry sent on Aug 28 and replied after 3 days with useless answer just mentioning company policy.
- Sent a formal letter of complaint to the e-mail on the back of the WES report (forgot the address). They replied in 5 days with a notice that my file will be under review for the 2nd time.
- Also sent a CC of the letter of complaint to the e-mail addresses of WES regional managers which I found on the WES thread. Some replied using a drafted auto reject message which says that I should use their website for inquiries.
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I checked the WES account online and found out that the status changed from COMPLETED to FILE UNDER REVIEW. After a total of 12 days, they have come to a decision and changed my WES report which was also electronically sent to CIC and that it will be sent via International Express with tracking. Checked it out and I am set to receive the file in 2 days.
They completely changed the date of birth but added a note on the degree equivalency and stated that the transcript they received from the school was November 12, 1986. Which was fair enough for me.
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Prior to decision, I chose to lodge my file along with the following:
- Cover Letter with personal explanation
- Original WES report (with wrong DOB)
- E-mail replies from WES
- Certificate from my registrar attesting that there was a typographical error in my transcript
- Transcript of records with corrected date of birth
I used JeetVISA's situation as a basis to my situation. He already received PER with an application with a WES report which also contained an error which was later corrected electronically.
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I would personally like to extend my personal thanks and +1s to
future_canadian, Oscar7, ashif_eee, and Century for helping me out with this decision. More power to this forum and hope to see you all in CAD!