Job Offers / Housing / Severing Ties??

[loussica]

I just got a request for more information that seems impossible to fulfill, especially within a month.
“This must be received at our office by 2019/12/27.”

Credible evidence of your and your spouse’s plans to establish yourself and your family in Canada (i.e. house-hunting trips to Canada, job offers in Canada for each of you and your sponsor , plans to facilitate the establishment of your children, other settlement arrangements, etc.);

- Credible evidence that you and your spouse have severed, or have begun to severe, your ties to Taiwan (i.e. letter of resignation from current employer, sale or real estate sale listing of your home in Taiwan OR termination of lease, evidence of transition of financial interests and assets from Taiwan to Canada, sales or confirmed shipment of furniture, transition of financial interests from Taiwan to Canada, disposal of other assets, etc.);

 

[loussica]

1. We don’t know if or when we’ll be approved. How can they expect people to drop everything (6 months to a year before) for a chance?
2. Who even offers jobs or apartments/houses 6+ months ahead?! We are nobody special, why would anyone wait around for us? If they have a position open, they just freaking take the available candidates!
3. I think it’s possible to get letters from our employers and landlord acknowledging that we will leave around the spring or summer but the exact date is not for certain, because DUH.

 

[canuck78]

1. We don’t know if or when we’ll be approved. How can they expect people to drop everything (6 months to a year before) for a chance?
2. Who even offers jobs or apartments/houses 6+ months ahead?! We are nobody special, why would anyone wait around for us? If they have a position open, they just freaking take the available candidates!
3. I think it’s possible to get letters from our employers and landlord acknowledging that we will leave around the spring or summer but the exact date is not for certain, because DUH.

Many people never relocated to Canada after being approved so you currently need quite a lot of evidence to prove you are actually coming back to Canada.

 

[loussica]

If anyone is curious or also in this situation I’ll put updates here.

After some consideration, we think we can submit these things (haven’t gathered)

• One-way plane tickets
• Research we’ve done about pets’ air travel, as we have a dog that is moving with us. We need to know the regulations and prepare a proper cage.
• Records of transfers made to Canadian bank accounts
  
• Screenshots of apts we’d be interested in, possibly explanation of reasoning (cheap area, want to be close to Skytrain, whatever).
• An explanation letter about our specific plans (move out of our apt to MIL’s apt in April, quit jobs in April/May, fly out in May). I’ve read on these forums that a future moving date may be deemed too far from approval and be cause for rejection, so I’ll explain that we made our plans based on the 12 month processing time (submitted very end of May).
• Emails of attempts to contact potential employers, stating our intent to move in May. Whether or not we get the inevitable responses of “no we don’t hire 6 months ahead” we’ll just use the attempt as proof of intent.
• Acknowledgement from current employers that we’ll quit in April/May.

 

[loussica]

Has anyone submitted a resignation as proof before? Do they want your written letter, or do they want written acknowledgement from your boss?