Hey I was looking for such a thread, my case is almost the same except I am applying from Pakistan.I stopped from submitting since there were so many ambiguities.
I started on the IRCC portal and the documents I was asked to submit at the end of the form were only, passport, US visit visa(which I recently received) my national ID and marriage certificate, proof of job.
No other financial documents, no cover letter etc.
On research, I learned about CAN plus category. I was happy and I was about to submit the form when someone told me it's not the case and I should submit financial documents and some other documents as well.
Then I tried filling the form through IRCC secure account,using GC and on that platform I was asked other documents which were not included in IRCC portal.
Like financial documents and some other forms were there which I was to down load and fill them and upload.ine of them was family information.
This badly confused me and I am here clueless what to do.
I have to travel in June July 2024 to US and I want to avail this opportunity to visit Canada for tourism purpose and I have to apply ASAP.
If you have USA valid visa, better to use IRCC portal.
Yes, when you use IRCC portal and enter your US visa information, the system will ask you only Passport, US visa, NIC only. but you have 1 "Additional Docs" option too. You have to add 1 pdf file with all your EXTRA documents in it.
I will suggest to add
1. Writeup Cover letter 1-2 pages max. Explain Purpose of trip and Ties to home country. Better to make it like Tablular form to be easy for viewer (Remember this is the first thing which the officer will look at. It should be impressive and precise, no long stories.)
2. Family FRC
3. any supporting docs issued by government, such as Property Docs, taxpayer certificate, tax return certificate, professional membership certificates(such as Engineering/health council), etc
4. Social ties documents, such as family support papers, kids school papers etc,
5. bank statement last 4-5 months
6. University degree
7. bank saving certificates, bank life insurance policies etc
You can add other documents which YOU THINK that they will help showing your financial status, family/social/economical ties to pakistan.
Make sure you merge all these documents in sensible order and compress them to 2MB max. you can use ilovepdf .com for this purpose.