I submitted IELTS with minimum CLB 10 and completed a Canadian diploma but still got called for an interview. Interviews still seem to be the SOP. Not sure yet what determines an exemption. No travel during the residency period, perhaps?
Hi, I did my interview last week. In my case it was kind of stressful because the officer told me she couldn't verify three travels I did to the USA. A month or so before my interview I was asked to submit all passport pages for all valid passports within my residency period. During my interview she told me that she couldn't find three entry stamps to the USA. So I had to find those stamps during the interview and showed to her through the camera. There was one stamp that I couldn't find so she told me I had to find the flight itinerary (from 3 years ago) for that travel. Luckily I had it on my email and was able to find it and sent it to the officer during the interview. As you can imagine I was pretty stressed because, at the moment, I couldn't remember that travel I did (I travelled three or four times per year because of work). To this date I cant find that entry stamp. The USA immigration officer might have forgotten to stamp it or put a wrong date on there. One interesting thing she told me was that she couldn't accept if I showed photocopies of the stamps during the interview, She had to see it through the camera from the original passport. My interview took 30 minutes because of that. If it wasn't because of that it would have been no more than 5 to 10 minutes. My wife was there with me also and had no problems. Her part of the interview went smooth.
Yeah... That does sound very stressful. I'm hoping that mine isn't as intense as yours since I've only travelled on 4 separate occasions in the ten years I've lived in this country.
4 times ?i travelled only 2 times living 10 years in this country and they are running physical presence twice . It takes forever plus officer gave me a hard time in the interview, regarding the travel.
It is weird that you haven't receive the invitation email. Not all applicants are actively looking at their status on the tracking system or ECAS. In your specific situation, I think you are good. If they didn't ask for supplementary documentation is probably because everything is good with your file and they just need to do the basic interview questions with you. Just have all your passports and documentation you submitted with your application handy. Have you heard of anybody else receiving the invitation to an interview with such short notice? Weird indeed. Hopefully you get that invitation email soon.
I’ve seen some people here get the interview invitation with 2 days notice. I agree, it’s probably just passport scans if you ever travelled outside of Canada during the eligibility period.
Similar thing happened to me and it could be an error
It is normal. I passed test on March 15. And inte
as the interview, no matter what documents required or not, you should received email which shows the team link. You can click it before interview. It should be sent from IRCC local office . Have you try to find in your trash folder?
I assume you can just take photos with your phone?
This! The office might require PDFs (like in my case), and free scanner apps for the phone can do just that.
