Small but trivial! Outland application

[tuffquestion]

While all the phone records I am providing are all phonecalls we have exchanged since the past year..there are about 50 pages of phone records..Should I highlight every month? just to make it more clear? similarly, we are also submitting a bank statement..should I highlight the balance in the account or what? is it ok? also, is it ok to staple the stataments together, pages of the same immigration form, phone records together etc? OR do they prefer loose paper?

 

[boyee6576]

I put a note on mine; phone record from XXXX 2009 to XXX 2010. As far as highlighting goes, I highlighted all my calls to my husband since there were other calls made to relatives. So I just highlighted the calls I made to him so it could be clear. I stapled the sets of documents together. If my documents were to thick to staple then I used huge paperclips. We also added that my husband and I have an life insurance policy and that we have a shared credit card and things of that nature and I provided copies to prove it. When all my documents were ready I organized them according to the document check list and packed it up and send it off by courier. It can be a bit overwhelming to get it all together and get your head straight to get it organized, but once you get all your stuff stapled and papercliped and use you check list to put it in order, its alot easier. Good luck

 

[AllisonVSC]

I suggest you just highlight your phone numbers on the first page so they know what to look for in the rest of the records. For the bank statement, if the purpose is to show a joint account, a common address, or shared expenditures/money transfers etc then highlight those. Otherwise, no need to highlight the balance. They will know how to read it.

I would also suggest paper clips or bulldog clips if the sections are really thick. I don't think they are crazy about staples since they will want to separate parts of your app as they are working on it. I grouped my stuff with paper clips following the checklist for the order. Then put a rubber band around the whole stack.

Good luck. It sounds like you are almost ready to send! Allison

 

[plumosa]

Don't staple things together, they'll just have to unstaple them. While I've never worked for the Canadian government, I did for the US government and we had to scan in all the pages that we sent to us. EVERYTHING gets removed, so the less work you make for them, the better.


Highlight if you want, there is nothing that says you have to. Honestly, with 50 pages of phone records they're just going to thumb through it, not scrutinize it. We didn't even send any phone records at all and I recently got a letter stating that no more proof was needed for my application.

 

[AllisonVSC]

Good points, plumosa. 50 pages is a bit much. I only sent one phone bill as a representative "sample." I never even thought of sending more.

 

[Kess]

I was able to download my phone records as a file into Excel from my cell company. I then hid any line that wasn't needed and ended up with about 5 pages of records for a 2 year period.

 

[canadianwoman]

I would not highlight anything by drawing the highlighter right over everything - just put a dot or star next to what you want highlighted. Why? Because they photocopy everything if there is an appeal, and a photocopy shows highlighter as a black line: you are thus erasing exactly what you want them to see.