Hi everyone, I’m preparing an Outland common‑law sponsorship, and I need to submit documents with translations, so I’m dealing with notarized “certified true copies”.
I’m confused about the best/accepted way to notarize multi‑page and multiple documents:
1) Can a notary certify one “bundle” that includes different document types together (IDs + bank statements + credit card pages + phone bills + payslips), and then I scan it as one file?
Or does IRCC expect separate certified true copies per original document?
I thought to certify + upload a bundle of documents for a certain section (proof of cohabitation, and then proof of relationship).
It’s asking for the name of the document as one of the certification requirements, so I want to understand if it’s possible to group similar documents together. How specific does the name need to be? If I’m grouping phone bills together, can it be from many time periods and each of our names?
2) For monthly documents (credit card “monthly activity”, bank statements, phone bills):
- Do you notarize each month as its own certified true copy, or can you combine multiple months into one certified copy set?
- If there are documents for two different people (me + my partner, different bank accounts/credit cards), can those be certified together, or should it be separate per person/account?
3) For people who were approved: how did your notary handle multi‑page docs?
- Did they stamp/sign every page, or only the first/last page?
- Did they write the certification wording on each page or just once per document (with page count, binding, initials, etc.)?
If you can share what you did and it was accepted by IRCC, that would really help. Thank you!!
I’m confused about the best/accepted way to notarize multi‑page and multiple documents:
1) Can a notary certify one “bundle” that includes different document types together (IDs + bank statements + credit card pages + phone bills + payslips), and then I scan it as one file?
Or does IRCC expect separate certified true copies per original document?
I thought to certify + upload a bundle of documents for a certain section (proof of cohabitation, and then proof of relationship).
It’s asking for the name of the document as one of the certification requirements, so I want to understand if it’s possible to group similar documents together. How specific does the name need to be? If I’m grouping phone bills together, can it be from many time periods and each of our names?
2) For monthly documents (credit card “monthly activity”, bank statements, phone bills):
- Do you notarize each month as its own certified true copy, or can you combine multiple months into one certified copy set?
- If there are documents for two different people (me + my partner, different bank accounts/credit cards), can those be certified together, or should it be separate per person/account?
3) For people who were approved: how did your notary handle multi‑page docs?
- Did they stamp/sign every page, or only the first/last page?
- Did they write the certification wording on each page or just once per document (with page count, binding, initials, etc.)?
If you can share what you did and it was accepted by IRCC, that would really help. Thank you!!
