Olamide1 said:
My people,
I just got a mail from Accra requesting that I should come for interview. I want anybody with the Accra visa interview experience to please share.
thank you.
Temi said:
Hello friends and seniors.
Accra mailed me requesting myself and my spouse to appear for interview. That we should come with our marriage cert, wedding photos, birth certs.
Pls what are your thought on this.
Thanks.
Dear Olamide and Temi,
This is really puzzling. It appears AVO has adopted some new polices/procedures in recent times. Applicants that had applied for immigration to Canada under same NOC code with you were not invited for interview during the process leading to their PRVs issuance. In fact, it is a rare occurrence that FSW applicants were called up for interview.
This is a wake up call for all applicants awaiting MRs/PRVs as there may be more invitation for interviews from AVO (except may be your cases are just isolated cases. That I doubt..).
Section 13.5 of OP 6B (Federal Skilled Workers – Applications received on or after June 26, 2010) clearly stipulates conditions under which Visa Offices may conduct interview. This is well captured in the excerpt below:
''13.5. Use of interviews
Selection standards are objective, clearly defined and can be assessed in straightforward cases through the information provided on the application for permanent residence and the accompanying supporting documents. In most cases, officers should be able to make selection decisions—either to approve or refuse applications—from the documentation provided. However, in some cases, an interview may be necessary.
Any concerns officers have regarding the accuracy or authenticity of information or documentation should be communicated to the applicant, whether these concerns are raised as the result of site visits, telephone checks or other means. Concerns can be communicated to the applicant in writing or at interview.
Officers may conduct interviews with applicants to:
ensure that information submitted on the application is truthful and complete;
detect and deter fraudulent information and documents;
clarify specific information;
conduct quality assurance.
Officers may not conduct interviews to:
assess language abilities;
determine personal suitability (as this factor no longer exists).
Note: Offices will be expected to undertake both targeted and random verifications to detect and deter fraud. The number and percentage of cases subjected to verification should be high enough to act as a meaningful disincentive to those who would attempt such practices. A40 makes material misrepresentation a grounds for inadmissibility in its own right and prescribes a two-year ban on those both directly and indirectly involved in such practices. Interviews, site visits and telephone checks have proven to be the most effective ways to detect and to combat fraud. The information gained at interviews where fraud is detected will help officers to identify current trends and patterns and to refine their profiles for ongoing use. ''
Source: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/manuals/op/op06b-eng.pdf
My Suggestions
Order for your GCMS notes without delay if you still have that luxury of time before your interview dates. GCMS notes are known to take an average of 4-6 weeks to process. These notes will enable you to see comments made by your case processing officers if they had any doubt, reservation, thought or opinion about any of the items mentioned above in your case file. You will go to the interview better prepared with such information. Most likely the the interview will not go outside the scope stated in OP 6B (except it is now a new Procedure for Visa Offices to conduct mandatory interview for specific NOC codes/applicants).
Go through all forms submitted at your initial application to Nova Scotia, forms submitted during updates such as MR, addition of new dependent(s). You should have copies of these forms with you. In case you used an Immigration Representative, contact them asap to provide you with such forms. Carefully review all of these forms with your spouses and any of your dependents aged 18 and above as the aim of an interview among other things is to check for consistencies and there is no better way of checking for such than to ask questions from the spouse or dependent(s) of applicants. Ensure that information provided are consistent and complete.
Go with original copies of your credentials for all members included in your application, letter of reference from your current employers and/or previous employers in case you changed jobs and you mentioned it in your initial application or subsequent updates to AVO, photographs taken with family members etc. Don't also forget POF too!
Also go through suggestions posted by members in earlier/subsequent threads as there is no over preparation for this kind of interview.
I wish you and families the very best..
Tangowisky
