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kg.jadu

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re (2) which helps answer (1): you are not required to send paystubs or t4/t4a's: on the document checklist these are all examples of 'additional supporting documents' which may be included; hence not essential.

I am having exactly the same problem as you because of the way in which RA appears on the T4A. This is to do with internal processing, I believe, RA's can be a mix of pay and fellowship/scholarship -- all of which goes on the T4A -- and in from a tax point of view are different from work. Yet all this doesnt matter because RA is still part of the NOC 4012 and at present at least definitionally 4012 - in its entirety - still qualifies. Whether they change that and stop accepting RA/TA as work experience is (as another member pointed out) a waiting game. For our purposes, however, I think we have to work on the assumption that RA work will count. Whether or not and what additional documentation you submit is your own choice; it might help or it might cause them to ask more questions: thus less could be more or more could be less.
Agreed. T4s and T4As are not required for the application. I assume, if CIC wants to see these forms, they could always request them from an applicant.
 

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I sent an email to CPP-O this morning to see if they have my original police certificate or not.
 

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It seems there is not much activity here these days. So let's listen to this ;-) http://www.cbc.ca/thisisthat/blog/2013/10/11/canadian-border-guard-bullies-cbc-radio-host/
 

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mehroonir said:
It seems there is not much activity here these days. So let's listen to this ;-) http://www.cbc.ca/thisisthat/blog/2013/10/11/canadian-border-guard-bullies-cbc-radio-host/
:)
The forum is like a ghost town :)
 

beh467

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Can we show the fund in out TSFA account?? or it should be in a chequeing account??
This is their proof of fund request email "Please provide evidence of funds which are completely available, transferrable and unencumbered by debt or other obligations.".

I don't know about TSFA account but you should make sure that it satisfies the above conditions.
 

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They replied my email. This is their response:

"In reply to your email, and after verification, I can confirm that we have your Police Certificate on file.
Your application is still under review.
While we process applications as expeditiously as possible, each application is unique and we are unable to guarantee a specific time frame for its completion.
Please be assured that you will be contacted if further documentation is required of you.
Please consult our website for further details on how to extend your stay as a visitor: www.cic.gc.ca. "
 

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Is there a way to find out the current number of applications in the PhD stream? CIC updates on its page only numbers for noc codes. I'm curious whether my application got in or not :)
 
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Hi, all. I am new to this forum. I need some advice for claiming the RA/TA working experience. I am really getting headache about it. Please help me out by your smart brain and enriched knowledge of FSW phd stream. Thank you.
I recently got my phd degree and would like to file the application under phd stream soon. I will have more than 67 points for sure as long as they acknowledge my working experience.
I started my program in 2009 Jan and I worked as hourly RA since 2012 may until this June which gave me about 900 hours working experience (about 63 hours/month). Also I did five semesters since 2009 Fall TA which gave me about 700 hours working experience. All these 1600 hours can be reflected in the letter from human resource clearly, and the income associated with this is all taxable which was all on my T4s. My first concern is that I am not sure whether I can use this combined RA/TA experience to meet the eligibility as at least one year full time working experience (30 hours per week come to 1560 hours as one year?) under NOC 4012.
Actually I have been doing RA since I was first enrolled. However, all my income from university was as either PhD award or faculty scholarship before 2012 May. Those incomes were all on T4A other than T4 that the letter from the university human resource cannot provide the working hours under all the non-taxable income. Moreover, I got my scholarship from school through my second and third year. My prof mostly funded me in the first year in terms of nontaxable phd award and in the last several semesters as taxable RA. Can I ask my supervisor to write me a letter stating I was also doing RA during my first year as well (The monthly income for first year is different from the one of the last year)? Can I also claim the RA hours for my second and third year when I did not get money from my supervisor (the amount for scholarship is also different from my prof,s fund)? In that case i will have 2000 more working hours. I am worried that even I claim in this way, CIC will not take it into account since the letter from my prof would not be matched with my income record.

Last question. Does the required one year working experience have to be in Canada or not? I did have more than 2000 hours RA working experience in my home country. Does this help at all?