table of contents and aditional details

[agold]

Im reading post of how people organize their application,
I keep seeing that a lot of them at the beginning of the 3 folders (sponsor, applicant, proof of relationship) they add
a "Table of Contents enumerating all the forms and documents included with number of pages"

Is this consider necessary? how many of you have actually done it? Seems to be repeating the checklist except for number of pages so dont know if i should do this.

Also did you paperclip every form? or just the full set for example of all sponsor papers which are only 30 pages..
i did paperclip separately the photos, or proof of comunication since they are a lot of pages..but is it recomended to separate every form with a paper clip?

And finally..all the proof of relationship is on the 3rd folder...after the sponsor questionaire, where it says..provide any additional details of your current relationship...did anyone added an extra page at the end of this form saying please refer to the proof of relationship folder? is it recommended to refer them to that folder or they will understand it and theres no need for this extra sheet or should it say something else?

Thank you so much!

 

[MissRepresentation]

If that table of contents was necessary, CIC would have requested it. Like you said, as long as you include everything that's requested in the checklist, you'll be fine, even though some people seem to think that adding a table of contents will make the officer's job easier, but I won't go out of my way to make their life easier...it's up to you! In the end, you don't want to give them more unncessary paperwork to shuffle through.

Paperclips: I only used them to clip together certain forms where I ran out of space and need an additional information sheet.

 

[rhcohen2014]

i used 1 paper clip for the sponsor's stuff, 1 paperclip for the applicant's stuff and proof of relationship, then clipped them both together and put them in 1 envelope. i did not use any table of contents, indexes, tabs, folders or anything. my additional pages were labeled and directly behind the application page it belonged to, i hand wrote "please see additional sheet" where necessary, and had no issues whatsoever with my application.

like the other member said, to each their own... it's just not necessary to make it more complicated than need be - making it "pretty" has no bearing on how quickly the application is processed or what the outcome is. what counts is that the applicaiton is complete, is truthful, and makes sense.

 

[agold]

Thank you so much for explaining that!! Makes a lot of sense, i really appreciate it.