aidina said:
Not at all. If they consider the first reference letter as incomplete, there will undoubtedly reject the application without making any request.
I have to agree with aidina on this. I requested CAIPS notes on February 22, and just received it yesterday. There has been a lot of new information compared to the one I got a month ago. They have started working on my eligibility, and POF is actually part of eligibility (you won't be deemed to have passed eligibility unless you satisfy the funding requirement).
This was what my Ottawa visa officer said regarding my Canadian TA/RA work experience
PA submitted a letter of reference dated 07FEB12 which did list duties that matched the actions in the lead statement and a substantial number of the main duties under NOC 4012. PA has full-time equivalent of 1 year and 9 months of work experience
He said similar things for my US TA/RA experience, granting me instead 1 year and 2 months of work experience. This surprised me because I only claimed a total of roughly 1,100 hours from my US experience.
PA submitted a letter of reference dated 25JAN12 which did list duties that matched the actions in the lead statement and a substantial number of the main duties under NOC 4012. PA has full-time equivalent of 1 year and 2 months of work experience
And in the end of the notes, he said
Total points = 68. Applicant meets pass mark. PA claims $12,000 in transferrable funds. I will request new statement and 6 months of account history
So it looks like they checked work experience letter first before they issued document request, though it may not necessarily mean you passed the 67 points (andy.fan got rejected after he got document request due to lack 5 adaptability points for previous study), it does look like they at least accepted the work experience that you claimed.
These GCMS notes were crazily detailed. I wish this is something that can be made immediately available of the CURRENT information (not from a month ago), even if it means I have to pay maybe 10 or 20 bucks. I would've done it maybe once or even twice a month, just to see if there's been any movement on my file. This would've been minting money like crazy for the CIC.
when did ur friend mail his application?