RQ before the Test 2014

[HighFive]

Folks,

I have received a RQ yesterday dated July 17th, so it took 11 days for this envelope to arrive from Sydney to Thornhill. They gave me only 45 calendar days to complete RQ / get docs ready, which is not really realistic, but I will try my best.
We suspect that we have received RQ because of 5 vacations trips we took in past 4 years but all of us got more than 1095 days of residency. Also no ECAS update for getting RQ, just received line disappeared a week ago.

I have a couple of questions about that RQ doc:

1. It costs a lot of money to get bank/credit card statements from my bank and as they wrote in RQ that I need to provide "Bank/Credit card statements" symbol "/" means "OR" at least to me, so can I get just credit card statements which are easier and cheaper to get in my case and just send those to them?
2. Should I really notarize copies of , let's say, kids birth certificates - those are in English from Toronto, or sending them just a photocopy should be enough?

Kindly advise.

 

[mailvdutt]

I also got RQ before Test in may-2014.
Sent all the credit card statements available and bank statements .Also send monthly salary slip

Did you Travel a lot?

 

[HighFive]

I also got RQ before Test in may-2014.
Sent all the credit card statements available and bank statements .Also send monthly salary slip

Did you Travel a lot?

As I wrote - "We suspect that we have received RQ because of 5 vacations trips we took in past 4 years but all of us got more than 1095 days of residency". Fulltime employment, didnt change employer for the past 14 years. I am sending monthly payslips but wont be able to send bank statements on time. Those will be ready as per my bank branch manager only in 4 weeks, credit card statements are faster to get and cheaper, I should be able to get those in 2-3 weeks.

I will send credit card statements first writing a letter that if they will need bank statements I can get those later. Let's see what develops.

 

[mailvdutt]

Do you have stamps in passport then good.?
My case i had 13 trips to USA and i did not return my i94.So CIC is confused when i exist canada, they have entry details.I have now sent FOIA report

 

[chelavnzuo]

We suspect that we have received RQ because of 5 vacations trips we took in past 4 years but all of us got more than 1095 days of residency.

How long is each of the 5 trips?

 

[HighFive]

Do you have stamps in passport then good.?
My case i had 13 trips to USA and i did not return my i94.So CIC is confused when i exist canada, they have entry details.I have now sent FOIA report

We never traveled to or thru US within those 4 years. Only direct or thru Europe/Asia. So there is no confusions about the dates.

 

[HighFive]

How long is each of the 5 trips?

2-3 weeks max each. Why are you asking?

 

[HighFive]

Can someone please clarify my question above - "2. Should I really notarize copies of , let's say, kids birth certificates - those are in English from Toronto, or sending them just a photocopy should be enough?"
Thanks.

 

[mailvdutt]

I did not, even though my kids were born in India

 

[HighFive]

I did not, even though my kids were born in India

Thanks mailvdutt. Also have you got a "travel record or records of movements from all countries for which you have a passport or travel document"? They are requesting that one in RQ. I called the embassy and they said they have no clue about that document...