wenbee222 said:
i am not sure in which situation they will return the application? language? photo? or other else?
Any of those could have been the reason for CIC to deem the application incomplete. Educational records for children have been an issue that has caused a lot of confusion and consternation. Blanks left in the form . . . gaps in address or work history . . . there are a lot of detailed elements in the application which are screened for
completeness, and when CIC identifies one of these it deems the application to
not be complete.
The statute says that an application is
made when the
complete application is signed.
CIC has broad authority, within the parameters prescribed by statute, to dictate what is necessary for an application to be complete. Indeed, CIC specifically utilized this authority to make today, June 11, the date upon which only applications using the new forms would be complete, but did not make these forms available before today (still had not the last I looked a bit ago) . . . thus effectively precluding anyone being able to submit a complete application as of today but dated before today. Thus establishing an absolute cut off.
This was a rather tricky maneuver by CIC, manipulating the technical scope of its authority, typical of the Harper government, perhaps questionable legally but most likely without recourse or remedy (except at the ballot box, for those paying attention to the manner of governing, not just the substance of this government's actions). But it works. It is accomplishing what this government obviously wanted: to give minimal advance notice of when this was going to happen, to do so
before most people expected it (most expected it to happen no sooner than June 19th, and July 1st the most common bet), and then establish an absolute cut off.
Mission accomplished.
