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hey guys I am so sorry I intended for this to be alive at 3 p.m. today unfortunately because of a number of things that occurred in the office here I am going to have to well I had to delay the ee live QA until 5 o'clock now the reality is there's probably many of you that are super disappointed that it didn't go live at 3:00 but all I can say is I'm sorry today we are going to talk about the top 4 reasons for refusal but because because of the way in which I'm now trying to do these through the immigration a Canadian immigration Institute Facebook business page it's disrupting things a little bit so my sincerest apologies for not being able to go live at 3 those of you who are on the other side of the world I know who were counting on it I'm really really sorry I am going to go live here in about 5 minutes and 25 seconds but until that time we'll just let some other people those of you who are out there we'll let you get connected and and then I will actually jump into the meat of the topic today which is my top 4 reasons for refusal so we're gonna go live in about 5 minutes Abhishek I'm surviving my friend and I'll share with all of you guys what's been going on right now and why it is it's just a crazy crazy time right now in in my office and I've got a bunch of things that are coming up this week which has disrupted everything so hang tight and I will be live with all of you guys in just a very very few short minutes [Music] you [Music] [Music] hello everybody this is Mark Holthe e Canadian immigration lawyer ex emigration officer and former high school teacher coming to you live a little bit late well we're about two hours and 15 minutes late from where it really should be so I want to apologize for all of you guys who were out there wondering why this EE live Q&A didn't start at 3 p.m. Mountain Standard time like it was supposed to well unfortunately life happened and I am getting ready to fly out tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. to attend our national Canadian Bar Association immigration conference in Winnipeg Manitoba I will be presenting on guess what Express Entry of course and so when you are away for Wednesday Thursday Friday of a work week it usually means you're trying to cram in everything into those first few days in other words yesterday and today that you would have normally done in the next three days and guess what tomorrow could very well be another draw and if that's the case well I've got a bunch of clients that are anxiously awaiting me to get their profiles in so they have a chance at getting drawn so I want to apologize once again for being late but those of you who are daring enough to jump on and be a part of this welcome welcome I'm so happy to have you with us today so we'll wait a little bit for a few more people to join us and this one is going to be a little bit shorter a little bit abbreviated if you will but what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna go on here and I'm going to share this with the members of our Express entry law private Facebook group because as you guys know now I'm broadcasting live on the Canadian immigration Institute business page so Stephanie is long gone it's 5:16 p.m. Mountain Standard time right here so I am on my own so I'm going to go here to the Canadian immigration Institute page and pull up the video and then I'm going to share it I'm gonna also challenge all of you guys out there to who are watching live to share the well with your friends this live video because it's happening at an unscheduled time and many people won't know that it's happening and today is an awesome topic today we're going to be covering my top 4 reasons for refusal why after getting your ITA your EAP are is rejected by immigration so what I want you to do is share this with everybody that you know and in like manner I am going to share this with a group which is our Express Entry Law Group right here join I'm gonna put here join me live right now in the Canadian immigration Institute and you can probably watch it live right from this link but right now the condemned aggression Institute Facebook page there we go okay and now I'm gonna post that excellent okay so it's officially posted it is shared with the Express center Law Group so all of those awesome members who are used to seeing it within the Express Entry Law private Facebook group will now be able to link in and join us those of you who are attending let me know where you're listening from and like I said please share it with everybody that you know might also be interested in watching this so that we can get the most benefit to the most people top 4 reasons for refusal that's what we're gonna cover today those of you who are attending always don't forget to post in the comment section where you're tuning in from I see that we have parthas here Wasim is here Muhannad is from Jordan awesome Saira is from Pakistan welcome and parth says your sessions are full of information it's always worth a wait that is very kind because I'll tell you if I was waiting two hours for a video they didn't happen well boy I wouldn't be too happy and so my sincerest apologies for that we've got celeb who's tuning in from Florida great celeb and parth is always from India awesome okay well we'll just continue forward with this and like I said I'm going to take a few minutes now and I'm gonna share with you guys my top four reasons for why II ap our applications are refused after getting an invitation to apply so I'm going to share my screen here and I'm going to blow this up nice and big and make sure that everybody can see it and I'm gonna share it fullscreen okay I think we're good here it looks like everybody can see I think well let's see is it crunching a little bit I think it still fits it's fullscreen but I think it still fits Aditi is Tlaloc a Saskatchewan awesome numerous Pakistan right Rajesh is Canada awesome we've got a great group of people here today okay so let's take a minute here and this is what it's all about right Express Entry it's your ticket to Canada right yeah it can be exactly that but it is not without its pain and suffering I'm not sure why this pictures in here then this is my family and they are the most important thing to me in the whole world and we love look at that beautiful stream it's summer the fishing season is upon us and in about 30 minutes my son's gonna come pick me up here at the office and that's where we're headed my son on the right Connor who's now 16 and he is driving if you can believe that he's got his driver's license and then his two older siblings Jessica and Adam on the Left are serving missions for our church Adam is in a country called Suriname and some of you may know where that is some of you Spanish speakers may recognize it as Suriname II but it is in South America and it is kind of above Brazil and it borders guyana and french kanay and and brazil and he's down there serving a mission for a church and my daughter that's right to his right the oldest daughter Jessica is serving a mission in Indiana in the US so that's where they are and Connor and I are goin fishin Michaela and I were out riding our horse last night and we love summers here in Canada so happy family without a doubt being able to help people with Express entry absolutely makes me happy but I can tell you that it also is one of the most painful frustrating experiences just like this person here going through this process because the slightest mistake the slightest error results 100% in an application getting returned and we've talked about this before when an application is returned the whole world may have shifted in other words you may have been drawn at 440 comprehensive ranking system points and when it's returned because of an incomplete police' certificate or well I better not give it away one of these four reasons I'm gonna talk to you about well you could forever lose your opportunity to immigrate to Canada and it creates a ton of stress for me a ton of stress and so what I'm gonna do here just because I'm battling with space I'm just gonna go back in here and I'm gonna shrink this down and I'm going to remove some of these things that are in the way let's see here this one that is gone and that is gone there we go okay so let's enlarge this back up again there okay and I think there that's good that's better so I want you guys to comment below if you have felt like this person here so comment below if you felt like this lady and guess what she's looking at she's looking at an email that she got back from express entry and it says you have a message and she went and looked at it and guess what she found she found her number she logged into her my CIC account and guess what it says there's a letter waiting for you and it says your application has been returned because it is incomplete for whatever the reason you guys do not want to fall into this this trap and do not believe those people out there who tell you that Express entry is so easy you don't need to worry about it all the informations on the website that all may be fine and true but if you don't know where to look for the answers if you don't know how to ensure your documents are correct your dream of coming to Canada could be shattered and I'm not trying to be a fear mongerer Here I am telling you the absolute truth because I see it I as an immigration lawyer all the time see people who who have had their applications refused and contact me to try to see if there's a way to fix it and it's so easy to miss something all right so without further ado I want to address with you guys my top four reasons people's PR applications are refused or denied after receiving an invitation to apply so first on our list guys number one right here is your reference letters are deficient okay and so when I think about reference letters and I think about deficiencies I'm gonna jump over here and I'm gonna shrink this down because all right so I'm gonna go here and then I'm gonna shift bear with me as I shift back and forth here a little bit I know why it's because we don't have it up all right so when it comes to reference letters we know very clearly that the instructions that are given by IRC see are very very specific and so if I go to the completeness check site which this is the completeness check site so if you're trying to follow along with me applications for permanent residents programs subject to the Express entry completeness check that's how you can find it that's your search term so if we go back down here and actually I'm gonna read type it in here proof of work experience you guys need to make sure that your reference letters are 100% correct these are mandatory mandatory that you provide these what does mandatory mean it means that if you don't then your application could get rejected so let's enlarge this a little bit bigger so that everybody can see a little bit bigger okay and what are we looking for I've explained this a lot in the past your reference letter it or an experience letter from your employer has to be on FF an official document printed on company letterhead if it's not well an officer could choose to not accept it all right it needs to have the contact information your name the contact information for the company the name title and signature of your immediate supervisor or personnel officer at the company all right and it needs to have all the positions held and it must include the following details and these are them job title duties and responsibilities job status dates work for the company number of hours worked per week an annual salary plus benefits understand that if any of this is missing it could result in your application getting rejected now I'm not going to go into great detail but I see this happening all the time all the time alright let's jump back here and I'm gonna enlarge this again if I can do it properly okay I think everybody can see so your reference letters are deficient you guys have to understand that if you cannot get a proper reference letter you expose yourself to getting your application rejected and no today I'm not going to talk a lot about how to fix deficiencies because I've covered that in past EE live Q&A s but understand number one right there and actually from in the order of priority I honestly believe that maybe this one right here number two could very well be vying for number one in terms of refusals police clearances aren't deficient this one I'm gonna go back once again and I'm gonna show you guys hey there that worked okay we're gonna go back right here and I'm gonna type in IRC see police certificates right there and then I'm gonna pull up the instructions that they give four police certificates all right there are some very important things that you guys have to understand and if you do not follow these instructions explicitly it will get rejected now with that being said if I shrink this down again here and I open up this one which there we go everybody can see just two ago I covered and I'm not sure if you can see this maybe you can this little highlighting May 16th I covered everything you'd want to know about police certificates and so go back to the Canadian immigration Institute YouTube channel or you can search here and you'll find all of the details about police certificates and the most common areas where police certificates get rejected okay but for those of you who are watching this live right here this link this is where you get the information that you need and I'm gonna post it into the comments section for everybody who's watching this is where you can get information what is one of the top reasons that your police certificate is rejected it seems so stupid so idiotic but the reality is police certificates get rejected because and I'm going to click on here and open this up and actually I'm going to copy this as well and post this one in the comment section as well as the other one because police the the police certificate that you submit it has to be copies of the original certificate right here it must be scanned copies of the original in color if you submit a certified true copy or unauthorized copies it will result in your application getting rejected so often I see that happening over and over and over again and it's ruthless because if you're translating a police certificate that translation technically if you follow the translation instructions that I RCC has asked you to follow if you go up here and I'll show you here the translation if your police certificate is written in a different language well these instructions here indicate that you actually need to provide a certified photocopy of the original document so what do you do do you provide a certified photocopy plus the original plus the affidavit from the translator as well as the translation well maybe maybe that's what you need to do to ensure that you're covering off all aspects but whatever you do original copy scanned in in color not black and white alright okay let's shift back here to our to this and I'm going to enlarge this and of course you guys already seen I've given it away now what number three is number three you did not provide the proper proof of funds okay now generally speaking guys the most ideal situation is for you to be able to provide proof of funds that show you have earned that money and saved it over time so we know that when we are looking at the specific instructions that I RCC has given us if I go here and I type in funds that'll take me here down to proof of funds it specifically says that you are to provide an official letter from one of one or more of the institutions that lists all your current bank and investment accounts as well as outstanding debts such as credit cards and loans well understand that if it says you're to provide an official letter then do everything in your power to get it sometimes banks won't provide a letter that actually includes everything that they're asking for in this section which is must be printed on the letterhead it must list the account numbers the date each account was opened the current balance and then this is the one that rarely they will put some well but rarely they will the average balance for the past six months now many people get confused and think does that mean I have to have the funds in there for six months well no not necessarily not at all but they do want to see that you're saving that money and that you then are able to demonstrate that you have those funds at the time in which your application is being adjudicated so when you submit your EAP are so that's that's one of the main issues that I see people who who do not provide the letter and maybe just provide a bank statement or basically they they don't follow this as close as they possibly can have I ever seen them refuse an application because you've just provided a bank statement well the answer is no I haven't seen that but they are fully within their right to do that if you have not followed their instructions set out right here so please understand that you cannot take this lightly if you do not have funds yourself and you are getting a gift of money from a parent or a family member or other family member then you better provide that gift deed confirm where those funds are coming all right and if we go through this I'm gonna I'm gonna shrink this down again I'm gonna escape out of here I'm gonna open this one up again and I'll show you guys right here that June the 13th we are actually going to cover our session on proof of funds so I'll talk a lot about more and more about that on June the 13th so you guys can join me then as we discuss the intricacies of that difficult aspect okay so now I'm gonna go back once again and you've already seen it because I've given it away but the last one that I see more than any other so reference letters police clearances you didn't provide proper proof of funds the last one is you failed to properly disclose information in your statutory declaration so what does that mean well that basically means that that you answered one of those questions in an evasive fashion so what do I mean by evasive well it's entirely possible that you didn't answer one of those questions truthfully that's where it comes down to it's answering the questions truthfully all right I'm gonna just do this and I'm gonna do something here that I wasn't planning on doing but I'm gonna go into my own portal and I'm gonna pull up exactly what I'm talking about I can find it here let me just I'm gonna log in quick and then I'll pull you guys back in so you can see what I'm talking about boy this is I've had so many problems of this stupid rep portal man I just came back last month from meetings with the government this was on my agenda was was the fact that the portal you know these unplanned outages and glitches but I have not seen as many issues with this stupid represent I can't even log in now it's so frustrating I haven't so I guess we'll scrap that that it's so frustrating that the that the portal constantly is either not letting you get in or it is it's glitching out or timing out all the time guys I was working to like 1:30 last night and just about when I was ready to submit it guess what happened the IRC see portal was shut down for maintenance routine maintenance apparently no one in the right mind should be should be working on applications at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time which is what they said which is 1:30 I should not PM a.m. in the morning which is when I was doing it so I'm gonna try one more time here to see if I can get in because I want to show you these questions all right let's see if this works here I'm gonna try one more time with my Safari browser to see if it will let me in here keep my fingers crossed and maybe it will if it doesn't I'm gonna be so frustrated so far so good some of you maybe have experimented with a number of different browsers but fortunately at this stage it looks like I am alive and well okay let me go back here I'm gonna try again see if I can find a good one that I can use as an example let's see here now I've got to create it actually this is kind of fun I'm gonna bring you guys on my journey here and we're gonna those of you who've probably entered your own your own profile are very familiar with this but I'm gonna I'm gonna walk you through this process so that you guys can watch it with me how I do this so I'm just creating one now just as a little test so whoops I don't want to do that so I'm just going through the eligibility section and by the way my Express entry complete step-by-step guide to doing yourself actually walks you guys through this so I'll say I want to live in Alberta and then a language test sure I've created my IELTS and I'll just say I did it in February or something here this is just a it doesn't really matter and then I better have a score that's high enough right otherwise otherwise they'll say you're not eligible to apply no I don't have any French here so we'll skip that section and then in last three years have you had work experience in Canada yes and by answering that that will make me qualified for the Canadian experience class and my skill type I'll say is a I'll say I was a lawyer but you don't really have to say that and then low and behold I qualify hooray okay now I have to enter my name in so I'll just put here hold the mark and then we'll put in here I am male and date of birth hey let's put my actual date of birth then you guys can see how old I really am 1972 do you believe that I do not feel like I'm an old fogy but apparently I am I'll just say I'm single never married so that it can enter this quickly and here we are okay and now I remember as I've gone through this that I've actually created the profile you guys have to laugh with me you guys have to laugh with me my brain is functioning on about three hours sleep and what that means is how I'm even able to do these live Q&A s and think coherently is a miracle well today that miracle is not a reality because I'm not thinking straight in fact in fact I am I am so flustered here why did I waste all this time doing the profile well the reason I have no clue because the statutory questions are not in the profile there in the EAP our portion which I actually can't show you because the only way I can do that is with live client files which of course I can't disclose that so let's just see here I don't let's see we're not done yet guys we're not done I don't want to waste a lot of time doing this because because I want to get to your questions especially you guys who've been so patient and have tuned in here at the end but the statutory the statutory declaration questions let me just see if I can find see if I have a file with that let's see let's see not statutory declaration let's scratch crap that it is the let's see if I have if I've got something here I've got so many different versions of this that let's see if I might have something huh saved ah okay I don't quite cuz that's a live one okay I've given up I have officially given up you guys there is no point to trying to make this work because yeah it is falling apart okay what am I trying to say here okay I'm gonna stop sharing my screen here because you guys are probably thinking mark you are so crazy like just get with it your this is just the worst ie live Q&A in the history of EE live Q&A s that I've done this is so awful okay what I mean by properly disclosing information on your statutory declaration is the fact that the questions ask you have you ever been refused well what's the best way of describing it have you oh hey success guys I found one okay I'm gonna share my screen again here and we're gonna go into here cuz these ones I actually did redact which is super important because now I can actually show you the ones that I was looking at hooray everybody everybody's tearing okay so here's the questions that give people the most issues okay have you been convicted of a crime or offense in Canada have you ever been arrested or charged and I shouldn't say just in so this is which a pardon has not been granted have you committed or being arrested or charged or convicted with a criminal offence in any country okay have you made a previous refugee claim have you been refused refugee status and this is the important part an immigration or permanent resident visa or an application or visitor or temporary resident visa to Canada or any other country any other country and I can't tell you how often I hear people say well it happened a long time ago seven or eight years so you don't even have to list it don't even it's not even worth notifying them well if it's Canada there's a record of but regardless when you submit your express entry you are attesting that everything is true incorrect and Canada does have information sharing agreements with other countries and so if you do have a prior refusal it's not that the issue isn't whether you're whether or not you got refused like or or why who cares it doesn't matter it's just answering truthfully and so when people say no and then they just continue on as if they have never ever had that refusal then they get this letter from immigration saying hey we think that you didn't answer that question properly it can result in misrepresentation which results in a five year ban from Canada so if I'm scrolling down here a little bit further it asks about a whole bunch of other stuff it asks has you ever been refused a visa or permit denied entry or ordered to leave Canada or any other country well yeah you need to explain that when I look at a visa or permit refusal and then I look up here at this one that asks have you ever had a temporary resident visa to Canada or a visitor or an application for a prevention Albany Program all these different things there's a lot of overlap so I'll often put the same answer in both just because I'm not entirely certain what exactly they're looking for and you know what that's great I just remembered that was the one I was going to include on my panel for Express Entry so all right so this is the issue guys this is where we're at these are the things that can cause people problems and when you don't answer these questions truthfully it can result in you getting your permanent resident application refused okay I've officially spent enough time talking about that topic I will close off just with a very quick summary that basically confirms once again these are my top five reasons are sort of my top four reasons okay so reference letters police clearances proof of funds issues and lying on your application okay all right we have spent enough time doing that it is now time to shift over and get to all of you awesome people's questions and I think let's see here it is getting it's actually the Sun starting to get a little bit lower in the world okay so here is makka muhammad cool is asking a whole bunch of questions give your number well do you have a whatsapp I don't but for those of you and this is where I would have Stephanie help me here I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna open this up and I am going to shift right back to my screen and I'm gonna type this in right here if you would like to book a paid consultation this is the link that you send it to okay and I've put that in the comment section below so this you can go here and you can schedule a consult put your information in here and we will get back to you right away all right okay so we are now at the stage and I see Yaya is laughing at me that's good you guys should all laugh at me I'm like comic relief today this is what it looks like when a lawyer is trying to function on no sleep the cognitive abilities are at a definite they're definitely been compromised I guess is what I'm trying to say okay so now what I want you guys to do is those of you who are kind enough to join me at this late hour and it's so crazy that there's so many people that are actually live here watching this I never would have suspected it because I felt awful because the time actually is two hours almost three hours later than it should be so for the last fifteen minutes I'm just gonna spend the whole time answering you guys's questions okay so here we go let's start off we'll start off with Muhannad which the question is if the PCC is in English while stamped in local language do we need to translate the stamp Muhannad I actually do I don't leave anything to chance because remember in some countries that stamp is the one that says there's no criminal record and so yes I would translate that so anything that doesn't have a corresponding English translation already pre-printed on the police certificate I would definitely get the stamp translated will it be a problem for every single officer well maybe it won't but I do not deal in possibilities no I do not deal in probabilities which is oh it's more than likely that an officer's not gonna have an issue with that I don't deal with that I ask that I ask myself the question is there a chance that one officer out there in the hundreds that are processing Express entry applications could refuse this application because that stamp was in a different language that's the question I ask myself and that's how I advise my clients ok next question is from parth all right from India parth I'm going to receive a huge sum of money from a life insurance policy that will mature in July on my birthday do I need to prove this to CIC where the money came from or do I need to mention it in a gift deed well it's not a gift deed if it's a life insurance policy then someone has died and that's what's given you as a beneficiary access to those funds so that I would simply include a copy of the policy or whatever it is that is triggering the release of those funds and then just show where it came from because IRC see that's why they want to see six months they want to see where the money is coming from and if you have a huge injection of money well their biggest concern is that it's not alone because you can't use alone for settlement funds in Canada they prohibit it all right great question okay next one is ariane says what would you think would be the next CRS cutoff keeping in mind that we already have had a four week gap you were 100% correct I am gonna go with let's see here hmm what am I gonna go with okay I'm gonna type it here I am going with mm-hmm this is what I'm gonna say it is I'm going with this that's what I'm going with and I'm gonna put it nice and big right there that's what I'm that's the score that's the cutoff score I'm going with maybe it's a little high with is probably true but I'm gonna go with about 460 cuz like you said before it has been four weeks like it's been a long time I sure hope it's not that high I hope it's around 450 you know 450 to maybe they'll have more candidates maybe they'll have a larger scoop into the pool with more people given I TAS but the reality is it's entirely possible that it could be a little bit higher and I've got a client who really really needs to get an ITA and so having a score that is that is this high actually could harm them because they need that ITA in order to get there EAP are submitted and get their bridging open work permit filed so I'm hoping it's not this high but that's probably the range I'm guessing okay yeah yeah says you asked us to laugh yes I did you should laugh at me at least those of you who are staying up late can use me as comic relief okay you honest says hi mark on my reference letters from my EAP are valid for java application when I get to Canada I think you on I think you asked this last time and the answer is yes there if they're they're very detailed they cover off all kinds of information about your your work history and so 100% an employer is gonna look at it and accept it okay zishe and says hi sir how I apply for Express entry well you just go to the government website search up Express entry and it will give you all the information that you need and because I am a kind person and no person's questions are too simple I'm gonna go in here and I'm gonna show you Express entry i RCC Express entry right here okay general questions filling out your profile work experience apply online so these are general questions from the Help Center that are most commonly asked by people I'm gonna put this right in here and I think Zhi Shan I'm gonna put that link right there okay and then I'm gonna go back here and I'm going to go to the separate link which is how Express entry works and this is a really good spot to explain how it works and how you can start so I'm going to put that in there and then finally zation if you want to save yourself hundreds of hours searching and reading and reviewing everything the best bet for you is to go to this do-it-yourself step-by-step guide that I actually created for all of you guys which will walk you through the whole process at a fraction of the cost of hiring an agent in your country so that is what I would recommend you do my friend okay next is okay so this one is will lead how many IELTS score needed for work permits there is no real minimum score but realistically I personally feel if you're gonna come and work in Canada you're probably gonna need at least a clb5 so that's kind of my the Canadian language benchmark that's that's really what when I'm thinking so you know for instance with your IELTS probably at least a five that's that's where I would put it okay mirage says mark i have my proof of fund from my country before I left for Canada at 2016 do I have to update it or it is sufficient one hundred percent Moreau's you're gonna need to update that having something that is almost three years old is not going to be useful to to i RCC within an Express Entry application that is just too old my friend you need you'll definitely need to get updated bank letters cuz everything could change that money could be entirely gone okay our Iain says hey Mark should the PCC the police clearance certificate or police certificate be valid for six months when I apply for my EAP are my PCC is four months old but it's valid for another two months I'm expecting and I T in the next draw Arion the expiry date that the country has put on that police certificate that they've given you doesn't apply it doesn't mean anything the reality is you must submit your application before if you're still living in that country before six months are up so immigration puts a six month expiring in on that so if you are still living in the country and you've obtained that police certificate then you need to make sure that you've submitted your EA PR before six months of duration on your PCC okay if you're no longer there then the police certificate doesn't expire if you have obtained it after you left the country all right next question is yo D we submitted bank statements signed and stamped by the bank officials and our application is already submitted can we now submit the letter from the bank as proof of funds well well yo D I can tell you that you should have done that at the beginning now an officer may accept those stamps as being okay this is an official legalization of this statement it's not just something you've printed off your online bank statement but it's an official document because of that seal so maybe that that's sufficient it's up to the officer but you've seen as we've talked about it excuse me I always make sure that I try to adhere as close as I possibly can to what I RCC is asking me to provide for express entry so in your case yo D if you wanted to get another letter and update it you can always do that but there's no guarantee an officer has to look at it or consider it you would do it through a case-specific inquiry all right and for those of you who are wondering what's this case specific inquiry let's just pull it up so it's basically the IR CC web form and this is I'll put it into our comments below okay next question Mumtaz says sir I'm from Pakistan and I have lived in three cities actually sorry I'll just share my screen just for a second here and then you guys can see this is the web form that I was talking about for yo T so this is the web form and this is where you can submit your case specific inquiry right here okay and you fill all the information in and then you even have the ability to attach documents once you advance from this stage to the next maybe I should do a little quick little video on IRC C's webform just to give people guidance and direction I should do that sometime all right not today though not today all right okay next question here is from Richie and he says hello how long does it take to issue a spousal open work visa for my wife applied from Cameroon and it's been 15 weeks today I'm a student in Canada Richie this is all about Express entry of my friend processing times are posted on the IRC C website but they have they can process whatever they want so I can't even answer that question all right if it's truly stalled out and you don't have a decision you know you can book a consult we can look into it with more more detail but at the end of the day it takes a long time for them to process those applications and they're definitely not easy to get all right Muro says and can I use it to apply for my spouse's student visa not that old so moroseness question was about as proof of funds if you've got funds that are designated for express entry and then you're also trying to use those funds to support a study permit well that's that's just not possible unless you have so much money that you can cover both of them then that's one thing but as far as maintaining funds holding them out as being available for express entry and then also holding them out as being available for student permit that is an issue and I don't think that would any officer if they if there was only enough funds to support Express entry and you were trying to show and demonstrate for two different applications at the same time that ain't gonna work my friend okay Partha says do we need to show income tax returns in case we were paid in cash and we have reference letters pay stub still we have to produce think of tax returns it doesn't matter how you're paid like if you if you have pay stubs and you have your reference letter that's what IRC C asks and they can always come back and ask for them but I wouldn't if I've got a good reference letter and pay stubs I wouldn't worry about needing to in tax forms I wouldn't okay there's a question about a Saskatchewan immigrant nominee program that's also separate from what we're covering here in Express Entry so I can't I'm not gonna spend too much time talking about the the symp programs okay Manny says I have a job offer from a Canadian company what is the what is the best possible get a work permit come and work and then transition to permanent residence it's as simple as that Manny now the question I have for you is is your job offer actually valid is it real or is it a is there a labor market impact assessment supporting that job offer and I'll just go back here I'll put this up here and I'll show you that the last one just last week I cover that length job offers what they look like why they're so hard to get and I recommend you go back and watch that video on the Canadian immigration Institute YouTube channel and you'll be able to see and determine whether or not you think your job offer is actually real maybe it is maybe it's an intercompany transfer or some other job offer where you don't have you're not required to provide a labor market impact assessment but there's just no way of for me knowing okay Tracy says my friend has been refused three times visa not uncommon once you've got that first strike it's really hard to overcome it Manny says I have a master's degree in four years of work experience I got a job offer from a Canadian company what document do I need to ask for employer to support for PR process watch okay I'm gonna show you Manny watch carefully okay so we're gonna go back here we're gonna go back to my youtube channel excuse me because it's the easiest way to find these videos I found so you can also just watch up I think it might still be up here if you're watching this on the Canadian immigration Institute the the actual Facebook page where I'm broadcasting now you can go back and watch the video but right here job offers this one right here is the one that goes into great detail and then you'll know exactly what is required and this is awesome I've got two thumbs down which are definitely consultants who I've probably slagged and told them they have no business practicing because they're terrible and then they keep putting negative comments so thank you my friend that is so awesome okay so here I'm just gonna put in here share and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna copy that link and I'm gonna put the link to this video right in the comment section for you my friend alright good stuff so watch that video okay Yaya says I have filled the form on the website you have mentioned before I'm just wondering why I haven't still received an email can you kindly check it absolutely yeah yeah I'm not sure why it would not have gone through so 100% my sincerest apologies I'll make sure that I have Stephanie send you an email tomorrow because remember for those of you who are tuning in late I'm leaving at 7 a.m. in the morning tomorrow getting on a plane that's when I'm supposed to leave so I actually have to be there probably about 6 a.m. to board a plane and I'm flying to Winnipeg for our national immigration conference which is happening on Friday and Saturday of this week but I have our National Executive Committee meetings all day through Thursday and it takes me a while to get there so I have to fly a day before which is Wednesday so it'll be fun because that's where I went to law school and I'm excited to get back but this week is a super busy week for me and there's going to be tons of lates full we always invite all of the head government officers the judges the heads of the departments and they come and they speak and I have the privilege of presenting on express entry with my good friend Sarah Fagan and and then we have the government officers who are joining us as well on our panel to talk about the wonders of express entry all right okay let's see okay Santhosh says after receiving ETA can we file work permit extension sure the ETA doesn't that just allows you to board the plane if you're coming from a country that doesn't require a visa I'm assuming maybe you meant after receiving an ITA I don't know if it's ETA that's just your ability to board the plane I work from an extension is if you're already in Canada you can submit it alright not quite the question there is okay parthis is actually it's not actually a life insurance policy but my parents bought it when it was when I was okay quite young and now at a certain age that policy is maturing okay yeah just just upload confirmation of what the policy is and that that money is real liquid money that is not tied up in some asset-backed investment scheme or anything like that that it is truly liquid and available for you to use for settlement all right Zuk Zuk Tarr here has invited sagem to join us very cool those of you who are watching this share this with other people invite them to join okay um okay muhannad says please raise a concern in your meeting tomorrow that processing times nowadays exceed the six months and there are also delays in releasing the GCMs there are 5000 billion million hundred gazillion trillion people making GCMs access to information requests and the processing times I can tell you you you guys who were applying after 2015 when Express entry you guys are spoiled you do not understand that there was a time before Express entry was created when it could take six or seven years to process a permanent resident application and you guys and I'm not I'm not being harsh with you Mahad but you guys have a lot of impatience when the reality is you name a country in the world anywhere name another country in the world where you can go from having no connection to that country to becoming a permanent resident in that country instantly within six months why don't you even add seven months or eight months or nine months so sometimes you have to take into consideration how fortunate you really are with the programs now why processing times are increasing it's because the numbers of applicants are increasing and it takes time for an officer to go through no matter how you know basically automated the whole process is okay okay parse says I was always paid in cash and I was always under this slab for income tax and hence never filed an E shame shame but now since I planned to migrate to Canada so in order to prove that the cash salary I filed the tax returns for the years okay 2017 through 19 in March this can this raise a few eyebrows of the visa officer no don't worry about it if you've got your reference letter and you have your pay stubs well that you're fine if they come back and ask for tax documents you say well I had to back I had to file my taxes late because I didn't file them the previous year's not an issue okay Johanna says thanks for your answer mark I guess I missed the last EE live session please have yourself some sleep we need your healthy as much as your family do tears you're right you wanna and you guys can see me I'm like okay there's been so much stress lately and I love to eat so I've just spent eating eating eating I don't drink I don't smoke I've got I don't have all those vices that you know I don't drink coffee I don't do all those things but oh my goodness what's probably worse is I love to eat and I eat tons of junk and I've got to stop that because I haven't been riding my bike as much and I haven't been feeling well and it's a vicious cycle and I've got to get back in shape I've got to take better care of myself cuz you're right your honor otherwise I'm not gonna be around alright even though I do have some good life insurance policies for my family I think they'd rather have me than the money I'm hoping alright madam are says hi do information employment and study permit has to go with one you mentioned to apply for PR I have no clue actually what you are asking there her met madam are to information employment in study permit has to go with one you mentioned to apply for PR it needs to be consistent yes I think is what you're asking so you don't want to have conflicting information then the question is well which one is true and if you've misrepresented on one then the officer is going to think well what else have you misrepresented on so you need to be truthful okay may Roach says another question if the proof of fund is on my name can my wife use it to apply for a student visa thanks a lot for answering my questions well once again understand that you would need to show that those funds are available for your spouse are you going with her are you you know is she going on her own so the funds always you have to show that they're truly available to that person and maybe that requires a statutory declaration saying the funds that are available it just depends on the circumstances okay met our met amar says meaning I wrongly entered dates of employment in study permit would this be a problem for PR well I always correct it I always correct the submit the proper information and and I never perpetuate something that I've entered improperly before okay because it's hard for an officer to know if you were just putting the wrong information in because that information if you had put it in could have resulted in your study permit getting rejected in the first place so they look at that they they you know those doubts an officer that are created in an officer's mind can result in your application getting rejected okay Roden says hi Marc can I present my proof of funds with just three months maturity in the bank account was like two years ago however a chunk of the money was deposited and stayed in my account for three months can I go ahead and request for the letter or should I have it as a gift deed as the money came from my aunt well if the money came from your aunt I would always get a gift deed like it sometimes when you've got money that's been in your account for three months or otherwise you want to provide some proof of where it came from and that it's not just a loan you could be sitting in your account for three months but it could have been a loan from your end three three months ago so I actually do even though it's after the fact that money has been given I'd have some form of sworn statement from your aunt saying that yes that is truly all for Roden and is not alone it's an actual irrevocable gift okay ariane says what do you say oh nice so we'll just keep going here okay mumtaz sister you did skipped my question oh well do you know what I can tell you I have gone through each of these in order so it's entirely possible Mumtaz I have lived in three cities of Pakistan do I need PCC for each city separately or one is enough follow the specific instructions in the Pakistan Police certificate instructions on the IR CC website all those explicitly if they say you need one for each of your residences which in the past has been the case for Pakistan then you need to provide it if that has changed then follow those instructions specifically okay Vamsi says hi mark is there any pathway to get PR started with a job offer and at the same time employers reluctant to do lmia which can offset low IELTS score specifically anything through ynp you have to have a job offer from an employer who's actually willing to support you and to get through if you're not in Canada you require an lmia from that employer it's as simple as that okay we're just about done here guys Diego says I got three hundred eighty three points work experience job offer from Alberta and diploma from Nate but I have not received a notice of interest from Alberta would I be able to get a notification of interest anytime soon Diego why don't you just go through the Alberta opportunity stream or if you have a job offer from Alberta your diploma was from Nate are you living in Alberta right now if you're currently working with an employer then go through the Alberta opportunity stream and that's the best route to go which is outside of Express Entry if you are not in in Canada then then it then obviously they have the ability to choose who they want to select and maybe your work experience is not in an area where they really feel there's a shortage in Alberta all right morover says one more if the median level wage is higher than this same level position in the company will there be any issues for getting approved lmia yeah you have to your wage for an lmia has to be at the prevailing wage rate which is that median level and if the company is only offering you something that's lower well unless it's some kind of a unionized environment or it falls under one of the exceptions like the agricultural stream where there are lower wage levels because there are other benefits that are given to the foreign worker unless the understand unless there's one of those exemptions applies you have to have your your job offer supported by a labor market impact assessment okay Santhosh says after receiving an ITA can we file a work permit of course you can not a problem at all yo D says can we withdraw our Express Entry application if it's still in submitted status and get a refund if we made a mistake while submitting documents via AOR you can always withdraw your application you always can you just need to make sure that you properly explain why why you're withdrawing and correcting the error because once you've submitted your EA PR it forms a part of the record even when you've submitted your profile and you've updated your profile it re-enters that information in and when you request your GCMs notes you can see all the changes that you made to your profile after you submitted it so the same thing goes with an EA PR but be wary if you have a comprehensive ranking system score that's that's lower like in the 440s you could withdraw and then never get another ITA yo D I recommend yeah that we set up a consult and we talk and we look at this before you make any decisions about withdrawing your your EAP our ok part winter says how can marine engineers proof my friend it ain't gonna happen if you have contracts Immigration Canada doesn't care immigration and refugees immigration refugees and Citizenship Canada doesn't they don't care about that if you can't show continuous work experience that's being paid for one year then you don't qualify alright ok parth your DIY paid course includes videos of post ITA process and till the co PR like whole of the process after ITA and how to fill the info I keep forgetting part that not everybody sees what I do I'll just share my screen with you quickly 100% that's the that's the value with this course so if you go to this page here this link for the course this is a complete video tutorial I walked you through every aspect of the process and in here you can see learning the basics Express entry profile let's see here just get us in I'm just it's it's this is like I've got 500 people who are waiting for me to come home and they're texting me and sending me messages here so bear with me as I'm midstream here and now I'm distracted okay here okay all right so here you can see preparing your profile and then this is actually completing your profile this section here and then if you keep going down you'll see there's a whole bunch of additional courses all on the EAP are part this is after you can see here receiving your invitation to apply and normally all the way through everything and then there's even a section entirely dedicated to your documents and there's a massive member resource section that contains videos on all different kinds of things job offers language work experience eligibility non accompanying spouses and it goes on and on and on and on all right so there you go my friend okay so yep subscribe and I can I can guarantee it'll be worth it ah Fazal says outer status inside canada what to do book a consult my friend and let's talk about it that's the best thing that i can tell you and then the last one that i'm going to answer today is below and bilal says hi mark I forgot my username and password of express entry can I make another by using the same email oh you're gonna have to test that one out my friend I'm just not sure alright okay I'm gonna end there guys because I've got a run it's 6:14 right now a little bit longer than I intended on doing this I want to remind everybody I'm gonna be away this week so next week on May let's see so the 28th is today so June the 6th I'm gonna be covering immigration medicals some of the ins and outs of that that topic isn't too massive but there's some important information that people need to understand about it including some of the inadmissibility x' and things like that that people can get caught up with alright so be prepared for that one June 6 and as always guys if you have a question that you want me answer all that you need to do and I'll scroll down here is send an email to right there Stephanie my assistant at Stringham CA and don't forget to put a live Q&A in the subject line the questions relating to medical inadmissibility will be responded to prior to our June while during our June 6 the E live Q&A if you have desire to book a consultation with me the best way to do that is to and I'll share my screen again let's see if I've got it here it looks like I've got to recreate it I'll put the link in here but if you go to this link right here and I'll copy and I'll paste it in here again off so this is where you let's see did I get it in there there it is oh I'm dancing around here with the wrong page I somehow created a new window okay so right here this is where you can schedule a consultation with me that is the best way because if I showed you guys my inbox you would think it is absolutely crazy at how many emails I get every day and it's entirely possible yours could slip through this doesn't because it goes to it goes to Stephanie and it's automatically input into our intake software so no one gets lost from here although I do have to figure out what happened with with our other listener here who had sent in an inquiry to figure out why that one somehow didn't get responded to all right ha ha thanks for joining me guys it was another awesome ee live Q&A my apologies once again for for starting so late and you know I do the very best I can and sometimes I fall short so thanks for your patience I want to wish all of you guys the very very best as you navigate this crazy world that we all call Express entry take care