BOWP Rules Changed !!!!

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The positive eligibility assessment is considered to be made once the status of the Eligibility field in GCMS is set to “Passed” (or “Met” for FSWC applications submitted prior to January 1, 2015) and an Acknowledgment of Receipt letter or email has been sent to the applicant.

CIC never send an Acknowledgment of Receipt letter or email to any applicant for Eligibility Passed. We will come to this status from GCMS note only. In my case, I came to know from GCMS note that I am Recommend Passed for Eligibility-1 but I never received any letter or email for that. I applied for BOWP on Nov 5th. I attached only my AOR.

CIC is purposely making all this rules to get rid of from the old applicants??? Ridicules!

 

[may4ank]

This is bad, . First they dont process our applications on time and then to give more stress they are changing such rules.

 

[Choc24]

What really pisses me off about this besided the obvious, is that they added a requirement that we have no way of knowing if we comply other than asking for the notes, which are outdated by a month by the time we get them, and we might get refused for this and lose 250 dol! This is outrageous.

 

[Dubliner74]

I'm wondering who gave the input to apply this change. Probably due to the time, this is still a decision made by the old government and implemented now.

Wondering if the new Minister of Immigration or someone in his staff is aware of this change.

 

[SinaCEC]

I have the exact same issue, which is frustrating.
My Work Permit expires in April 2016 and I was about to apply for BOWP, however reading the new rules which includes having AOR AND Eligibility "Passed" disappointed me.
I called CIC today and figured out my Eligibility for CEC hasn't even started. I submitted my file on August 8 and got AOR on November 11 and no update after that....
She told me though, as soon as I apply for BOWP, I'll be under implied status and will be able to work till either I receive my PR or BOWP!

 

[Choc24]

That is a lie. If they refuse the bowp before getting your pr you'll have to leave the country.

 

[Dubliner74]

I have the exact same issue, which is frustrating.
My Work Permit expires in April 2016 and I was about to apply for BOWP, however reading the new rules which includes having AOR AND Eligibility "Passed" disappointed me.
I called CIC today and figured out my Eligibility for CEC hasn't even started. I submitted my file on August 8 and got AOR on November 11 and no update after that....
She told me though, as soon as I apply for BOWP, I'll be under implied status and will be able to work till either I receive my PR or BOWP!

Yes, you'll be able to work under the implied status, but if your eligibility did not start once you applied for the BOWP, I would assume that they will reject it.

 

[zareef]

Re: BOWP Rules Changed ?

I just got off the phone with the call centre again. This time the agent was absolutely sure that this change will only affect people that are ready to apply from today onwards, and that people that have already applied for their BOWP will not be affected, so I'm not entirely sure why the one August applicant was refused on these grounds...

We don't know when this new rule came into effect. I'm sure the call center doesn't know either.

This page has been last updated yesterday, but, as the notes at the top says, "this section contains policy, procedures and guidance used by CIC staff." It is not for us; might be that the rules already changed quite a while ago and the guides for the staff are being updated to assist them in processing the applications correctly.

 

[SinaCEC]

Yes, you'll be able to work under the implied status, but if your eligibility did not start once you applied for the BOWP, I would assume that they will reject it.

Correct, if that's the case then MY BOWP gets rejected and I have to leave the country before my current WP expires.
That's totally unfair, as I couldn't apply earlier for BOWP since it expires on April 4 (more than 4 months)

 

[Choc24]

Re: BOWP Rules Changed ?

We don't know when this new rule came into effect. I'm sure the call center doesn't know either.

This page has been last updated yesterday, but, as the notes at the top says, "this section contains policy, procedures and guidance used by CIC staff." It is not for us; might be that the rules already changed quite a while ago and the guides for the staff are being updated to assist them in processing the applications correctly.

I thought so too. For all we know this has always been there. But there's a guy from the august bowp thread that got his app refused on these grounds...

 

[nuke noodles]

Re: BOWP Rules Changed ?

I thought so too. For all we know this has always been there. But there's a guy from the august bowp thread that got his app refused on these grounds...

My 2 cents are AOR in the past is equivalent to positive eligibility and implies eligibility has passed. Now SOMEHOW cic made "eligibility passed" to be the eligbility started, completed and passed on GCMS just to give us more setback. It looked like the trend that cic is more than happy to reject WP extension without LMIA inconsiderably. This is a very hostile policy on 2014 backlog CEC and PNP applications.

 

[Dubliner74]

My application has been sent to the CIO Sydney in Nova Scotia and subsequently they moved it to the CPC in Ottawa.

May this be considered as a "positive eligibility assessment" ?

I mean, the CIO assested that all the papers I submitted were compliant with the PR application.

 

[akil_f1]

My application has been sent to the CIO Sydney in Nova Scotia and subsequently they moved it to the CPC in Ottawa.

May this be considered as a "positive eligibility assessment" ?

I mean, the CIO assested that all the papers I submitted were compliant with the PR application.

Even i think the same. not too sure how these rules are applied. some ppl got their approval today in this forum and for some they rejected based on this rule last week.

Another person mentioned that the CIC call center agent told that this rule is applicable only for the new submissions.

 

[hegarty147]

I think people need to relax. I still think this is the same rules as last year. CIC are bad but what benefit would they have to refuse BOWP....our Pr applications still have to be processed. So do people really think they would do that...pat themselves in the back and then u come back to Canada two months later.

Wait until more people get refused ...just relax

 

[Pearl1]

what is this APR ?

my current wp expires in april and i was ready to apply for bowp in a few days, until i saw this change.

anybody knows what this APR stands for ? does it not apply to EE applicants only ? does it imply that 2014 cec applicants for whom eligibility has not started yet, will be refused the BOWP ?