Hi! I want to sent my new application to FSW this week to NS CIO, however would appreciate if someone could help understand if my old application was actually refused.
Back in Jan 2008 (a month before the change in requirements for the FSW) I applied to my local Visa Office per old instructions. By that time I did not know that the requirements were going to change on Feb. 2008.
However, anyone would think that even though I submitted my application Jan 28th and was received at the office Jan 29th the new requirements would not applied to me (Feb 08). Suprisingly wrong, since I know other offices respect dates of arrival, however It took the Visa Office 1 year and 3 month (May 2009) to send me a letter telling me basically that in Feb. 2008 there were new requirements and that application on or after that date should comply with them. I did send letters and support documentation of DHL tracking dates to my Visa Office showing that they did received it before Feb. 28th but their answer always was that they register my application till May 08 and therefore new rules applied. Not really playing fair to the rules in my opinion.
And so they assessed my application under the new process with only the 38 NOCs being considered.
Unfortunately due to an honest mistake I chose a wrong NOC back them when submitting my application
0114 Adminstrative Mgr. instead of 0111 - Financial Manager or Controllers - my real title with 1yrs experience -have proof from HR)
As you know 0114 is not in the NOC list and therefore in their letter the Visa Office said that
" As your occupation(s) are not included on the list of eligible occupations, we are unable to process your application at this time.¨ Those this mean that my application was refused or just that I did not have the right requirements and by no means I should considered as refused.
I asked these questions since now I am reapplying, I have 2 more years of experiece as Controllers for a total of 3 years, but I have 2 doubts on how to fill my application properly in order to finally send it.
1: There is a question is the application Schedule 1 that says ¨Have you been refused status in, or an immigrant or permanent resident vida to Canada" - Should I say NO or YES, should I explain that my previous application was intended to be process by the old system but that coincided with the change of new system and therefore I am resending my updated application or Should I just say NO and not explain anything? (Please Help)
2: In this application should I not correct the NOC 0114 to 0111 and just leave it as 1 year 0114 and 2 years of 0111, however the job descreptions would be really similar. This would be in order to avoid more explanation if they verified that I applied before and now I have no 0114 on my application but instead 3 years of 0111.
Thank you, I would really appreciate your answers promptly since I found out yesterday that the NOC list may change and would be really sad to see that now 0111 is gone from the list just before I reapplied. Hopefully since now applications are being sent to NS CIO, must probably applications dates are actually being respected here vs. my Visa Office per prior experience.
Thank you very much in advance for your advises and opinions
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