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[ashif_eee]

Common Law Partnership requirement:

Nskaycv- Just go to a Canada consulate with your partner and sign a common law declaration. It costs around 50CAD and it is accepted by CIC as a proof of partnership when additional proof of relation is included with the application. You "must" include additional proof. These may be a common bank account, bank statements of you and partner with the same address, bills sent to the same address, insurance papers showing each other as beneficiary, a common lease contract, photos and other document dated at least 1 year back.
You have to prove that you are in a common law relation "at least" for one year. The best proof would be showing them you are living at the same address for over a year, but if you are not living together you must find a way to convince them why you are not living together.

 

[ashif_eee]

Photo Addition :

Hi everyone
According to the charts, it looks like CIC is charging fees / issuing PERs with a speed close to linear, so it makes a good base for estimates.
I've made the estimates - it's pure mathematics, without any guesses, based on the data we have in the spreadsheet. You can see them highlighted in yellow on the image below. They properly account for number of applications received on each particular day, work days / weekends, possible noise in the data, - everything to make the estimates as accurate as possible. Of course, there is this assumption that CIC processing speed is linear.

According to the estimates, it looks like PERs for May 6 applicants should start really soon, possibly tomorrow

Accuracy of the estimates significantly decreases for dates far into future, and even for close dates the estimate will probably be plus/minus a week or even more, but for those folks who are asking when CIC will start charging the fees / issuing the PERs, I believe, this estimate is as precise as we can possibly get at all, given the current data

(clickable)

 

[ashif_eee]

PER
↓
1st line on Ecas (We received your application for Permanent Residence on ....)
↓
File transfer to Visa office
↓
AOR (Some Visa offices don't send AOR)
↓
INTERVIEW (mostly waived)
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2nd line on Ecas (We started processing your application on ......)
↓
MR + RPRF + Additional documents request
↓
3rd Line on Ecas (Medical Results have been received)
↓
PPR (NDVO sends MR, RPRF, additional docs and PPR together)
↓
4th line on Ecas (A decision has been made on your application. The office will contact you concerning this decision)
↓
VISA

PER: POSITIVE ELIGIBILITY REVIEW
AOR: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF RECEIPT
MR: MEDICAL REQUEST
RPRF: RIGHT OF PERMANENT RESIDENCE FEES
PPR: PASSPORT REQUEST

 

[ashif_eee]

Guys Alert:


Dear All, This is just to make u cautious that Your Local Visa Office may check your LinkedIn , Facebook and Twitter Profile for background checking.


Usually most of the background checking responsibility is handed over to third parties which can includes employer verification/police clearance confirmation etc. So who have these Social website profiles are suggested to sync with ur application provided job designation (or "Make Invisible to Everyone" on privacy settings).

I have observed one Indian applicant (on 2012) whose Linkedin profile was indicating that he had worked on Law background but he is an Electrician under which he applied...

Later on he was asked for an interview by his Canadian Case officer...She behaved so rudely with the applicant for the mismatch between his application and LinkedIn profile.

As per applicant, he was actuaally an Electrician but he had taken law degree beside of this and practiced for this law activities.He have not declared his law degrees and jobs on his Schedule A background declaration form. Later he admitted his fault that he hid on his app.

The case officer was not satisfied what applicant declared on the interview....

That thread member have not updated his status later.

 

[ashif_eee]

"FOR PRINCIPAL APPLICANT

Minimum CLB 7 required to qualify to send his FSW application

IELTS SCORE FOR CLB 7: LISTENING = 6, READING = 6, WRITING = 6, SPEAKING = 6

CLB Level Ability: Speaking Ability: Listening Ability: Reading Ability: Writing Points per ability

7 6 6 6 6 4

8 6.5 7.5 6.5 6.5 5

9 & above 7-9 8-9 7-9 7-9 6


Example

An applicant getting the following IELTS Score with the corresponding points obtained in FSW Application
Listening: 8 = 6 points
Reading: 7.5 = 6 points
Writing: 6.5 = 5 points
Speaking: 6.5 = 5 points

Total points = 22 points


FOR SPOUSE

Minimum CLB 5 in order to get 5 points in FSW Application

IELTS SCORE FOR CLB 5: LISTENING = 5, READING = 4, WRITING = 5, SPEAKING = 5"

 

[ashif_eee]

Visa office selection:



Please go through the below articles for your understanding:

Visa offices outside Canada: Countries / Territories and corresponding Canadian visa offices

Applicants for Permanent Residence
You must select the visa office that serves your country of nationality or the country where you have been legally admitted for at least one year

http://www.cicnews.com/2011/01/understanding-r11-visa-office-submit-application-canadian-permanent-residency-01826.html

Here are a few examples that will clarify how the second provision of R11 as noted above is interpreted under Canadian immigration laws:

• You are a Nigerian citizen currently studying at a university in Australia. You arrived just one month ago and your study permit is valid for 3 years. As a citizen of Nigeria, you always have the option of indicating that you want your application processed at the Canadian visa office in Accra, Ghana (which is responsible for processing permanent residence applications from Nigeria). You also have the option of selecting the visa office in Sydney, Australia, because you have been granted legal status in Australia for more than 1 year and you are currently living there. It does not matter that you have not lived in Australia for one year.

• You are a citizen of India who initially entered the United States on an H1-B work permit valid for two years. After your work permit expired, you remained in the US without valid status and never left the country. As usual, you can select the visa office in New Delhi, India for the processing of your application. Given your circumstances, you can also choose the visa office in Buffalo, New York. This is because you were initially granted legal immigration status in the United States for more than 1 year and you never left the country.

• You are Jordanian national who was admitted to the United States on a visitor visa for 6 months. After your visa expired, you left the US for 2 months. You have now come back and again you have been admitted for 6 months on a visitor visa. You cannot have your application for permanent residence processed at the visa office in Buffalo, because you have not been granted 1 year of continuous legal status in the US. You can only choose to have your application processed at the visa office in Damascus, which is responsible for processing applications for Jordanian nationals.


http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/offices/apply-where.asp

 

[PMM]

Hi

Visa office selection:



Please go through the below articles for your understanding:

Visa offices outside Canada: Countries / Territories and corresponding Canadian visa offices

Applicants for Permanent Residence
You must select the visa office that serves your country of nationality or the country where you have been legally admitted for at least one year

http://www.cicnews.com/2011/01/understanding-r11-visa-office-submit-application-canadian-permanent-residency-01826.html

Here are a few examples that will clarify how the second provision of R11 as noted above is interpreted under Canadian immigration laws:

• You are a Nigerian citizen currently studying at a university in Australia. You arrived just one month ago and your study permit is valid for 3 years. As a citizen of Nigeria, you always have the option of indicating that you want your application processed at the Canadian visa office in Accra, Ghana (which is responsible for processing permanent residence applications from Nigeria). You also have the option of selecting the visa office in Sydney, Australia, because you have been granted legal status in Australia for more than 1 year and you are currently living there. It does not matter that you have not lived in Australia for one year.

• You are a citizen of India who initially entered the United States on an H1-B work permit valid for two years. After your work permit expired, you remained in the US without valid status and never left the country. As usual, you can select the visa office in New Delhi, India for the processing of your application. Given your circumstances, you can also choose the visa office in Buffalo, New York. This is because you were initially granted legal immigration status in the United States for more than 1 year and you never left the country.

• You are Jordanian national who was admitted to the United States on a visitor visa for 6 months. After your visa expired, you left the US for 2 months. You have now come back and again you have been admitted for 6 months on a visitor visa. You cannot have your application for permanent residence processed at the visa office in Buffalo, because you have not been granted 1 year of continuous legal status in the US. You can only choose to have your application processed at the visa office in Damascus, which is responsible for processing applications for Jordanian nationals.


http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/offices/apply-where.asp

Since the Buffalo office has been closed for a number of years, US applications select CIO Ottawa as the processing office.

 

[ashif_eee]

CIC Contact Urgent:

Hello !

I need to give all the applicants some information which might be helpful to many.

I received PER mail on the 3rd July, and even after a week or so, I could not access e-CAS, it always showed the message that the information provided may be incorrect and there are no records matching the data.

I called cic, and they asked me to send an email to "question @ cic.gc.ca". Additionally, the agent gave a very nice idea, he asked me to write "Follow up required" in the subject to get the response in a day or two otherwise the response will be given in 30 days.

Let me paste the mail that the cic agent had sent to me.

================================================================================================================

Sir, Madam,

Thank you for contacting Citizenship and Immigration Canada. I am pleased to follow up on your request:


Technical Problems with Online Tools or Enquiries Related to the Come to Canada Wizard

Thank you for your recent call to the Citizenship and Immigration Canada Call Centre.

In order to assist you, please send an email to Question @ cic.gc.ca with Follow up required in the Subject field, and include the following information:
1. Surname - Exactly as it appears on the passport or identity document
2. Given name(s) - Exactly as it appears on the passport or identity document
3. Date of birth (YYYY-MM-DD)
4. Country of birth
5. (If available) Universal Client Identifier/Client ID Number
6. (If available) Application number
7. Your current status in Canada
8. The expiration date of that status
9. Complete address (including the postal code). If the residential address is different from the mailing address, please provide both addresses.
10. Telephone number. If you have more than one contact number, please provide them all.
11. Type of application (work permit, study permit, visitor record, etc.)
12. (If applicable) Date the application was submitted
13. Information you are looking for and nature of the problem
14.Information requested under A, B or C, depending on your situation:


A)

If you are experiencing technical difficulties uploading your IMM application form, please include:
• A copy of the IMM form you are trying to upload (all fields completed) ; and
• All your answers to the online questionnaire; to do that: ◦ select the Modify my Answers button located at the top of the online questionnaire. Once you are redirected to the page entitled Find Out if You're Eligible to Apply, you can:
provide us with screen shots; or
copy and paste the text.



B)

If you created a new MyCIC account and would like to link it to an online application that has already been submitted, you must click on Link application to this account.

If you are experiencing technical difficulties, please provide us with screen shots of all your answers appearing on the Link an existing application to this account page.

C)

If your situation is not described under A or B, please include:
•Screen shots showing the full browser window, including the website address field of the: ◦ page where you are experiencing problems/trying to log into your account;
◦ error message(s) you received; and

• Specify the date and time when the problem occurred.

You can expect a response within one (1) business day following reception of the above information.

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After I sent them the email in above format, I received a response in one day.
In fact the response was a little bizarre.

I was asked to enter my full name in the "Surname/Last Name" field instead of my last name.
And I could see my ecas status.

P.S. All those who have received PER mail and are unable to view the status, may try entering full name (first name + middle name + last name)

All the best to everyone.

Rgds,

 

[ashif_eee]

Deadline for FSW14

Even though its seems not to be stated in the CIC instruction on their websites as the FSW2013 stream,Its contained in the gazette released on the 26th April,2014 as an introduction to the FSW2014 stream.
The gazette released prior to the start of this intake specifically mentioned April 30th,2015 as the deadline (Please check page 986 of the link below to the gazette).
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2014/2014-04-26/pdf/g1-14817.pdf
Cheers.

 

[ashif_eee]

Preparing Roles and Responsibilities According to NOC Description​

The number one reason for rejection of applications is related to roles and responsibilities. Rejection occurs before charging, after charging, and even after interview. However, it can be prevented if applicants do some few hours of home work.

Understand Who the Reviewer Is
In normal case, your JD is reviewed by Head/Specialist of certain department. So s/he, being specialist in that area, understand the technical languages. So, you can insert various jargons to impress the reviewer.

However, for CIO case, remember, they are general reviewer and very unlikely know the jargon. They review numerous categories and so expected not to be well known of various jargon used in specialist field you are working. For example, IT head or relevant department will understand what the Java, C-Sharp, DHCP server are; However, the same trick may backfire in case of impressing CIO. For them Java could a place in Indonesia for enjoyment. If you want to use that, just give a descriptor for that.

For example, don't write "Experience on PL-SQL, Java/J2EE technologies with Oracle as a database." Rather write Write code/script using programming software like PL-SQL, Java/J2EE for generating report from huge database run on Oracle." Here programming software is descriptor of PL-SQL, java/J2EE and database is of Oracle.


How Does CIO Reviewer Review
CIO review officer try to just match lead statements and roles and responsibilities of a particular NOC with the applicants' provided roles and responsibilities. So both you and CIO got the same tool to match. Just type your intended NOC here at http://www5.hrsdc.gc.ca/noc/english/noc/2011/SearchNocCode.aspx and you will find the answer.

Step for Writing Roles and Responsibilities

Step 1: Get the details of NOC from http://www5.hrsdc.gc.ca/noc/english/noc/2011/SearchNocCode.aspx , print it out.

Step 2: You are most likely not doing all the responsibilities; so mark those that you do. matching 70% to 80% is a good idea. Just doing an example on NOC 1112. There are 8 responsibilities mentioned against Financial Analyst and I targeted to perform 6 of those. Need to mark those six.

Financial analysts perform some or all of the following duties:
• Evaluate financial risk, prepare financial forecasts, financing scenarios and other documents concerning capital management, and write reports and recommendations
• Plan short- and long-term cash flows and assess financial performance
• Analyze investment projects
• Advise on and participate in the financial aspects of contracts and calls for tender
• Follow up on financing projects with financial backers
• Develop, implement and use tools for managing and analyzing financial portfolio
• Prepare a regular risk profile for debt portfolios
• Assist in preparing operating and investment budgets.

Step 3: Change the sequence keeping the main 1 or 2 at top to give Also add few more roles. This will give an air that it is original and not copied.
• Evaluate financial risk, prepare financial forecasts, financing scenarios and other documents concerning capital management, and write reports and recommendations
• New roles not mention at NOC
• Plan short- and long-term cash flows and assess financial performance
• Assist in preparing operating and investment budgets.
• New roles not mention at NOC
• Follow up on financing projects with financial backers
• New roles not mention at NOC
• Develop, implement and use tools for managing and analyzing financial portfolio
• Analyze investment projects

Step 4:Mark the key words:
• Evaluate financial risk, prepare financial forecasts, financing scenarios and other documents concerning capital management, and write reports and recommendations
• New roles not mention at NOC
• Plan short- and long-term cash flows and assess financial performance
• Assist in preparing operating and investment budgets.
• New roles not mention at NOC
• Follow up on financing projects with financial backers
• New roles not mention at NOC
• Develop, implement and use tools for managing and analyzing financial portfolio
• Analyze investment projects

Step 5: Now prepare the JD:
• Assess and evaluate risk and return of the company through ratio and trend analysis, preparing financial forecast and scenario analysis, and write reports recommending best options.
• Preparing financial modules for outsourcing operations and asses financial
• Prepare short term, long term, and rolling budget and financial plan including cash-flow budget and assess financial performance;
• Assist in preparing various budget including production budget, operating budget, and financial budget;
• Reconciles transactions by comparing and correcting data.
• Responsible for monitor and follow-up ongoing financing projects with financial institution
• Prepare periodic report and analysis on the existing investment project to assess rate of return.
• Prepare presentation and monthly management report for management and shareholders.
• Develop financial model in excel in order to minimize risk and maximize return of the portfolio and recommend best option;
• Monitor the performances of the ongoing investment projects and report the status to management

Review it by independent person: Now you can send it to forumites or noc @ workingincanada.gc.ca or noc-cnp @ workingincanada.gc.ca for further review.

Never try to complete you JD in one sittings. Plan to do it at least in 3 sittings. You will find corrections and improvement in each sitting.

Ensure writing lead statements not covered here.

 

[chelavnzuo]

but why, this is not even funny anymore...

 

[ashif_eee]

Sample Ref Letter:

Ref No: (Reference number for future verification)

​

Date: (Date of release of letter)

​

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN​

This is to certify that Mr./Mrs./Ms. [FULL NAME] worked for [COMPANY ANME] from [STARTING DATE] to [END DATE]. He/She was holding the position of [DESIGNATION] during his/her tenure. (Write all designations & respective durations, if applicable)

He/She was performing following duties & functions during his tenure: (Write detailed job responsibilities in bullets)

•
•
•

His/Her annual gross salary was [SALARY WITH CURRENCY] inclusive of all benefits from [STARTING DATE] to [END DATE]. (Write in details if has increments & respective durations, if applicable)

He was working [NUMBER OF HOURS i.e. 35, 40, 45] hours per week as a full time employee.

Please don't hesitate to contact me in case of any query.

[NAME OF THE REFREE]
[DESIGNATION OF THE REFREE]
[MOBILE OF THE REFREE ]
[LANDLINE OF THE REFREE IF ANY]
[FAX OF THE REFREE IF ANY]
[EMAIL OF THE REFREE]

(This letter must be written on company's letterhead with company's logo and name at least in the header and company's landline, fax, email, website and physical address in the footer)

 

[ashif_eee]

Here is the details...Ask them ur query to below ID :

CIC Contact:


E-Mail Address for Enquiry about application:

CIO-Sydney-Search-Enquiry @ cic.gc.ca


Consider the above without space.

Please include below info on the email body:

Put ur Passport Number
Put ur Date of Birth
Put ur Full Name
UCI Number (if any)
NOC code
App rcvd date


Over Phone:

 Procedure to get CIC agent on phone
 Call at – 0016139444000
 Select 1 for English
 1 for immigration
 Call is being transferred to CIC
 Then 1 for English
 2 for status
 1 for PR
 When it asks you to enter UCI number just be on hold n let it say it 3 times then the call is automatically transferred to an agent
 Agent will ask information about last name, first name, date of birth, application received date, email id etc.

 

[amit.synergy]

Hi, good post.

 

[ashif_eee]

For people who have received PER this is a great time saver to check the status of E-CAS with just one click. Saves your time. Worth giving a try.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oscd.ecas