morice said:
Thanks Damocles for the links, indeed it will help.
Just want to share something with you regarding ITA steps.
Medical Test
- You need to check which medical institutions are recognized by Canada. You can't make a Test wherever you want... be careful...
- Also, note that these registered and recognized institution will send your Medical Test Results directly to CIC via their web portal...
Certificate of Good Conduct (or Police Certificate... as you may call it...)
- It has to be valid for at least 6 months, otherwise it will be expired...
- If you have stayed in any country (for more than 1 year) in the past years, you will have to get a criminal record from these countries also.
- >>> I would suggest you to start looking for it now, to save time...
- Note that on your passport, it will clearly shows where you have been, and for how long...
Hope it helps...
There is no problem to do fast private precheck and treat whatever is needed to be treated before official medical.
Official medical check is valid only 12 months (during that period, first landing has to be done). Usually, there should not be the problem to get one. I suggest to get appointment there the moment you recieve PNP
Police certificates has to be done for every country where you have lived cummulatively more than 6 months counting period of your whole life starting with 18 years onward. You should get them from every country you have citizenship (easier than doing complicated explanation why did you not stayed there). Police certificate from the country / countries where you currently reside cannot be older than 6 months.
Police certificate from the countries of your previous residencies shall be more recent than the last residency stay in that country.
Reference letter - reference letter from your current employer shall not be older than 6 months (this is not a strict rule but there is logic behind). Especially if it means to recognise additional points (continous employment over certain period).
Reference letters from old emplyers are just statements about past and as such it does not really matter if they are new or not.
For the assessment period they might ask for some additional payment slips or other datas mostly related to employers or Canada ties (languages and ECA are standardised by now).