Hi,
CHC is not going to verify the property.
For PR :If you are submitting property valuation to support your proof of fund, that documents should be genuine and legal. The CHC will review and assess the documents submitted. Bank deposits are preferred.
For TRV: In order prove your tie up with your country of origin ( to ensure that you will return to your country), you need to submit necessary documents such as copy of deeds for Immovable property ( land, building etc in your name ) or fixed deposits in the banks, shares etc....in addition to your professional engagement ( employment or business ).
The documents submitted should be satisfied by the VO in order to grant you the TRV.
No one from CIC will visit the place to verify the property or anything else you submitted.
Just to add our personal experience to this - we submitted 3 original estate agent valutions for our property including the business card of the consultant giving the valuation, and a letter from our mortgage company on headed paper outlining how much was left on our mortage. We then supplied a covering letter with these calculating the average of 3 estimates and deducting the amount owing on our mortgage to get our total equity, which we then converted into Canadian dollars based on the exchange rate on the day.
We also showed the minimum settlement funds required for 2 people so they could clearly see we had funds well in excess of this.
This was accepted by CIO.
Later on in the process, we had saved additional funding in a savings account so we sent this additional funding by way of bank statements to the visa office once they had received our file.
I know of someone on another forum who provided estate agent valuations for proof of funds when sending their documents, but visa office asked them to prove how they were going to fund the remainder of the process (RPRF, medical fees etc) so they needed to provide evidence of a small amount of real bank funds at the visa office stage.
Hope this helps,
Wayne.
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