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PREPARATION AND DOCUMENT CONTROL
Recommended
Steps
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The success of your application
could depend
from your attention to gather, organise and
send the correct documents attached.
Those should prove every aspect of the
required information.
NOTE:
All the information and recommendations of
this Chapter should be taken just as a reference. You
should follow the instructions given by the Visa Official
from the Canadian Embassy strictly for the final turn-in of
the necessary documents. |
Stage #1
PREPARE THE IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS
The identification documents that you
and every family member must have to apply for the Resident Visa
are:
-
Valid Passport
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Identification card, election card, of any other valid document
proving your identity and citizenship from your country of origin.
-
Legal Certificate
or Police Certificate, original for
every people above 18 years old.
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Birth Certificate
-
Marriage Certificate
(from the church or government) in every applicable
case
NOTE: Personal documents as birth certificates and baptism certificate must be
translated into English or French. This translator must be done and
translated by a professional translator. These documents will be asked
by the Visa Official, in the first term, for preparing your scoring. If
you are approved, you would eventually need them in Canada to do some
errands such as entering Catholic schools, etc .
Stage #2
GATHER THE CERTIFICATES, DIPLOMAS AND ACADEMIC DEGREES
The academic certificates and degrees you must have a main applicant
and you spouse if he/she has post high school education are:
iHigh
School Degree or Diploma
iUniversity
or Technical College Degree (Professional, Technician, Technologist)
iAct
of Professional Degree
iAnalytical
Certificate of Subjects and Marks
iProfessional
or Technical Affiliation Cards.
NOTE: The academic documents such as
degrees, diplomas, acts, syllabi and certificates of marks must be
translated to English or French. This translator must be done and signed
by a professional translator. These documents will asked by the Visa
Official for your initial scoring. They will eventually necessary, if
you are approved, to get a professional or technical certification in
your career.
Stage #3
GATHER THE JOB CERTIFICATES
The necessary documents you must turn
in to prove your job experience are:
-Certificate of job from the companies where you have worked
in the last 10 years, containing:
a.
Name of the job Position.
b. Technical or professional functions performed.
c. Period worked.
d. Name, position and degree of your immediate
supervisor
e. City, address, telephone, e-mail
It is also advisable to specify if the job was a full
time or a part time job. If possible, ask those documents in English and
also ask your former employer to include a brief recommendation
letter. It is also advisable to have them translated in to
English or French by a certified translator.
Note: This document not only will be necessary for the
visa application but also for getting a certification of your career or
profession and to get a job in Canada.
Stage #4
TAKE AN EXAM TO CERTIFY YOUR LEVEL OF ENGLISH AND/OR FRENCH
For the Canadian Visa Official to assign the points for the language
factor, you must turn in:
i
Valid English Exam or an exam recommended by the Canadian Embassy
i
French Exam
Note:
It is mandatory to turn in the evaluation of at least one of those
languages (French or English) Producing proof of both languages
level would be only necessary if you have a good command and intend
to prove it to get a high score.
There are
just two English exams approved by the Citizenship & Immigration Canada
to prove your level. In Latin America and many countries around the
world, the exam is conducted by the
English
Language Testing
organisation:
-
IELTS: International English Language Testing System
This exam is given in different capitals and important cities in
Latin America by the British Council.
Note:
IELTS has two options for “reading and writing tests” - “General
Training” and “Academic” . You must take the option “General Training”.
You must
take the English exam at the British Council and pay for it. The
result will be included in the documents that the Visa Official will
take into consideration for the final assessment of your documents. The
result of this exam is valid for a year.
Once you
have the results, you will know exactly how many points you have for
your assessment, by using the following chart:
International English Language
Testing System (IELTS):
Test
Score Equivalency Chart
|
Level |
Points
(per
ability) |
Test Results for Each Ability |
|
Speaking |
Listening |
Reading
|
Writing |
|
High
(CLB/SLC 8-12) |
First Official Language:
4 |
7.0 - 9.0 |
7.0 - 9.0 |
7.0 - 9.0 |
7.0 - 9.0 |
|
Second Official Language:
2 |
|
Moderate
(CLB/SLC 6-7) |
2 |
5.0 - 6.9 |
5.0 - 6.9 |
5.0 - 6.9 |
5.0 - 6.9 |
|
Basic
(CLB/SLC 4-5) |
1
(to a maximum of 2) |
4.0 - 4.9 |
4.0 - 4.9 |
4.0 - 4.9 |
4.0 - 4.9 |
|
No
(CLB/SLC 0-3) |
0 |
Less than 4.0 |
Less than 4.0 |
Less than 4.0 |
Less than 4.0 |
If
you must take the exam in French, the approved exam is the one by the
TEF:
Test d’évaluation de français
The Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry runs those exams.
Note: you must send the following TEF tests as a proof
of your French level:
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Compréhension
écrite
-
Compréhension orale
-
Expression écrite
-
Expression orale
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In those countries where this institution has
no branches, this exam can be taken in similar institutions
such as the French Alliance
or where the Canadian Embassy advises you to do so. |
Once you have the results, you will know exactly how many points you
have for your assessment, by using the following chart:
Test d’évaluation de français (TEF):
Test
Score Equivalency Chart
|
Level |
Points
(per
ability) |
Test Results for Each Ability |
|
Speaking
(expres-
sion
orale) |
Listening
(compré-
hension
orale) |
Reading
(compré-
hension
ecrite) |
Writing
(exprés-
sion
ecrite) |
|
High
(CLB/SLC 8-12) |
First Official Language:
4 |
Level 5
Level 6
(349-450
points) |
Level 5
Level 6
(280-360
points) |
Level 5
Level 6
(233-300
points) |
Level 5
Level 6
(349-450
points) |
|
Second Official Language: 2 |
|
Moderate
(CLB/SLC 6-7) |
2 |
Level 4
(271-348
points) |
Level 4
(217-279
points) |
Level 4
(181-232
points) |
Level 4
(271-348
points) |
|
Basic
(CLB/SLC 4-5) |
1
(to a maximum of 2) |
Level 3
(181-270
points) |
Level 3
(145-216
points) |
Level 3
(121-180
points) |
Level 3
(181-270
points) |
|
No
(CLB/SLC 0-3) |
0 |
Level 0
Level 1
Level 2
(0-180
points) |
Level 0
Level 1
Level 2
(0-144
points) |
Level 0
Level 1
Level 2
(0-120
points) |
Level 0
Level 1
Level 2
(0-180
points) |
Stage #5
PREPARE OTHER DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR IMMIGRATION
The
Visa Official will ask other documents to give score you for factor
6 – Adaptability – or simply to support your application. Have these
ready:
i
Authenticated Authorisations
by your
children father or mother for they to emigrate and live with you in
Canada (if applicable)
i
Authenticated copy of the birth of any relative (parents,
siblings, uncles /aunts, etc.,) living in Canada plus some evidence
of they living as citizens or permanent residents in Canada,
if applicable.
i
Authenticated copy if the Divorce Certificate, if you don’t live
with your ex spouse. Include the decision on the legal custody of
children under age, if applicable.
Stage #6
PREPARE POLICE OR LEGAL CERTIFICATE
Prepare
this document to prove you have no criminal record in your country
of origin. This is the one asked by the Visa Official:
-
Legal Certificate
or
Police Certificate, original for every family member
over 18 years old.
Stage #7
MAKE A BALANCE OF YOUR GOODS OR PROPERTIES TO PROVE YOUR SOLVENCY
Apart from having the minimum amount required, you
must prove the Canadian Government that you are solvent enough to
get by in Canada for the first months. It is a compulsory
requirement to get a visa, to prove you owe those economical
resources. Make a balance with its corresponding documents (bank
letters) and certificates of the goods and properties you have:
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Money in Bank Accounts
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Fixed term savings
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Appliances, machinery, cars or any other actives of your own you
may sell
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Apartment, houses or other properties you owe.
Note: See example in Chapter 8.4
Remember you
will need to
prove to the Embassy you have and owe these funds. The minimum amount
depends on the number of family members.
|
Number
of Family Members |
Founds Required* |
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1 |
$10,168 |
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2 |
$12,659 |
|
3 |
$15,563 |
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4 |
$18,895 |
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5 |
$21,431 |
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6 |
$24,170 |
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7+ |
$26,910 |
All the
information and recommendations of this Chapter should be taken just
as a reference. You should follow the instructions given by the Visa
Official from the Canadian Embassy strictly for the final turn-in of the
necessary documents.
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Several months after sending your initial application
IMM-0008SW and the payment receipt, a Visa Official will
contact you and give you instructions for the final
assessment of your application. In order to do that he /she
will ask you:
1.
To update and fill in the final application forms.
He will provide you with those if they are necessary)
2.
Additional payments
(if you got married or had a child)
3. All the supporting documents
(identification, education, job, languages tests, police
certificate, etc.). You will also have to send photographs.
You will be given a list of all the documents you must turn
in (check list).
Once the Canadian Embassy (Visa Official)
has received all your documents, they
will proceed with your assessment, taking into account all
the information and the supporting documents you turned in.
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