Rob_TO said:
Yonge and Finch. Basically all along Yonge starting at Sheppard and going up beyond Steeles, you can find any type of Korean place you could possibly want.
Thanks. I'll check it out when I arrive in May.
Korea2Canada said:
Recent Documents: See page A-3 (Document Checklist) in the Country Specific Guide. The third heading: For nationals of Korea
It lists 3 required documents but only the Family Registration Certificate has "This document should have been recently issued" indicated. The others do not have any time sensitivity stated.
This is why we will wait til a few days or a week before we send the application package to get the translations and notarizations.
That is all I can see in the guides concerning time restrictions plus the 3 month CBC.
I wouldn't worry too much about "recent" meaning extremely recent. Mine were probably a few weeks old at least when I took them off to the translator.
earthbound14 said:
Lots of helpful info here! Thanks guys.
What have you guys done regarding showing your assets?
Has anyone found an amount that they require. For example the amount of money you earn yearly prior to going to Canada, the amount of money you have in your bank account or the total value of your assets?
My employer has great pay statements in English that are stamped by the president and everything. But my bank statements and chonsae agreement are a bit trickier. Have any of you had these translated?
Also, my wife's name is also on our chonsae agreement as I was not legally able to at the time. The way I look at it we are married, her assets are mine (I mean I worked 75% of the hours that went into paying it). So I'm including it as part of my sponsorship application.
As K2C said, there's no minimum if you have no dependents. I wouldn't worry too much about proving your income here in Korea. I don't think they are too concerned with that otherwise they would specifically ask for details about it. Include your Option C and the letter from your employer and just answer the questions about your income in the sponsor's questionnaire
It can't hurt to include your jeonsae agreement as an additional document and then refer to it as evidence that you have enough assets to survive for an extended period in Canada after you arrive. Unlike your income, this is a hard asset you will be bringing with you when you return to Canada.
My wife and I will be sending in her application before we buy a home and before I have a job lined up. What have the rest of you done to prove that you are planning to return? Would transferring my liquid assets to my Canadian bank help my cause? Does anyone know if it's possible to add these things after the application has been made?
You probably won't have much of a chance to add anything, since it's really more relevant to the issue of your sponsorship eligibility. If current timelines are any indication, that will probably get decided within 4-5 weeks of submitting your application so there will be little time to add anything to it.
In terms of other things you can do to show your plans to return I mentioned in my covering letter that I had been looking at cars and housing on the net. Others here on this board have said that one of the more important things you can include is a letter from someone in your family stating that they know you are planning to return to Canada and that you are welcome to stay with them until you get on your feet etc. I thought that was an excellent idea so I did that
Have any of you chosen to include the value of your pension in your application?
Also a hard asset that you will presumably be cashing out and taking with you. You could get a statement from the pension folks and have it translated.
What about extra earnings that have not been documented? On one of the forms (IMM 5481) it simply asks for net income. My net income is significantly higher than what I get from my employer as I tutor kids at our home...however this income is undocumented (cash). I have written the name of our school and have documents stating that we registered it with the government, but nothing regarding how much money it earns.
I didn't include any of that. Too much clutter and as I said, your income here doesn't seem to be a big concern beyond the questions in the questionnaire and the letter from your employer.
Has anyone included a CD of images? Most images are embedded with the dates they were taken (unless of course you pulled them from the web). So this would make checking the dates really easy. I've also included images taken by friends from social media sites and I'm including links to the pages in an attempt to make fact checking them easier. Anyone else doing this?
Don't do this. The guide specifically instructs against that. Get prints or do it the way Rob_TO suggested.
