Refernce letter shud have follg:
Date of joning & leaving
No.of hr per week
Roles and descriptions
salary
on letter head accompanied by visiting card
Letter head shud have contact number and address of the company
Bank letter shud have following:
Acct strt date
balance as of date and CAD equivalency
Sign and seal of branch manager
Good information!
But I want to update 2 important things.
1. Visiting card: While I applied my PR I couldn't get my supervisor's visiting card as he didn't even have one! These days visiting cards are losing its trend! Very few industries (a travelling medical rep for example) and only some parts of the world practice the habit of having or giving visiting cards. If you can't get one, don't hunt for it or worse ask your supervisor to create one, just to send your PR application! CIC knows about the lack of visiting cards.
2. CAD equivalency in bank letter: Getting CAD equivalency printed inside the bank letter is not an easy task! For that to happen you should personally know the bank manager or it should actually be you yourself giving the content of the letter as a draft and request the bank to copy that in the original letter! Do you really think even a subsidy bank of JP Morgan Chase would give a letter in your own custom-made format if you hold an USD account with them for example?!
Just make sure at the time of sending the PR application that your account currency is well above CIC's funds requirement as fluctuations in exchange rates can sometimes showcase your funds as below CIC's mandate for POF. Remember, processing takes about 4-6 months; It's our job to make sure the funds stay well above our POF based on our family sizes. Imagine you managed to get a letter with CAD equivalency printed and send the application but after a couple of months when CIC officer checks your POF, your POF's CAD equivalency is somewhere below CIC's mandate as of that day's exchange rate? There's a remote chance of inviting delays or rejection as a result of getting CAD equivalency printed in the letter! You'll be thinking that your funds are sufficient as you may remember your CAD equivalency number from your letter but the present exchange value of your POF may be insufficient. Nobody is that vigilant about exchanges rates unless it's a part of their job!
Believe me, I'm not making up this story. I sent my POF in USD and when I sent my application, USD/CAD was 1.29. It was barely sufficient to show POF. But today it's 1.36, sufficiently enough and well above POF. The change in value is within the last 5 to 6 months! If the value had dropped, CIC might've requested me to add more funds or an update of other accounts to support my POF or a refusal! Who knows!?
Showing CAD equivalency may or mayn't be important, I don't know! But maintaining that equivalency throughout the processing period is essentially inevitable!! Almost forgot, I don't think getting CAD equivalency printed in your letter is an absolute necessity as I didn't do it, I got my visa and I think CIC is technologically well equipped to check the CAD equivalency from our letters that shows our balances in our account currencies!!
All the best!
Luder