Letters of support and photographs
Jun 23rd 2011, 1:26 pm
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Letters of support and photographs
Question 1: We are nearly done compiling our outland common-law sponsorship application, but are now stuck as the letters of support sent by our friends and family can't get to us due to the Canada Post strike (we both currently live together in Canada and the letter writers are in the UK and the US).
Does anyone know if it would be acceptable to used faxed or scanned versions of the letters instead? I suspect it could be weeks before the letters get to us via Canada Post and we really don't want to wait too long as the current UK processing time is already 9 months!
Question 2: Also, the section that asks for photographs specifically states that the photos should be "loose"--not bound into an album or anything similar. All of our photos are digital, so we printed a few per page with captions detailing the date, location, and people pictured. Will this be considered sufficiently "lose" or do we actually need to cut the photos down to 3x5 or 4x6 like the kind one usually gets from a photo processing centre? (Seems tedious and ridiculous, but I'd rather do that than get our whole application returned for a stupid reason!)
Does anyone know if it would be acceptable to used faxed or scanned versions of the letters instead? I suspect it could be weeks before the letters get to us via Canada Post and we really don't want to wait too long as the current UK processing time is already 9 months!
Question 2: Also, the section that asks for photographs specifically states that the photos should be "loose"--not bound into an album or anything similar. All of our photos are digital, so we printed a few per page with captions detailing the date, location, and people pictured. Will this be considered sufficiently "lose" or do we actually need to cut the photos down to 3x5 or 4x6 like the kind one usually gets from a photo processing centre? (Seems tedious and ridiculous, but I'd rather do that than get our whole application returned for a stupid reason!)
Jun 23rd 2011, 2:13 pm
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Re: Letters of support and photographs
Question 1: We are nearly done compiling our outland common-law sponsorship application, but are now stuck as the letters of support sent by our friends and family can't get to us due to the Canada Post strike (we both currently live together in Canada and the letter writers are in the UK and the US).
Does anyone know if it would be acceptable to used faxed or scanned versions of the letters instead? I suspect it could be weeks before the letters get to us via Canada Post and we really don't want to wait too long as the current UK processing time is already 9 months!
Question 2: Also, the section that asks for photographs specifically states that the photos should be "loose"--not bound into an album or anything similar. All of our photos are digital, so we printed a few per page with captions detailing the date, location, and people pictured. Will this be considered sufficiently "lose" or do we actually need to cut the photos down to 3x5 or 4x6 like the kind one usually gets from a photo processing centre? (Seems tedious and ridiculous, but I'd rather do that than get our whole application returned for a stupid reason!)
Does anyone know if it would be acceptable to used faxed or scanned versions of the letters instead? I suspect it could be weeks before the letters get to us via Canada Post and we really don't want to wait too long as the current UK processing time is already 9 months!
Question 2: Also, the section that asks for photographs specifically states that the photos should be "loose"--not bound into an album or anything similar. All of our photos are digital, so we printed a few per page with captions detailing the date, location, and people pictured. Will this be considered sufficiently "lose" or do we actually need to cut the photos down to 3x5 or 4x6 like the kind one usually gets from a photo processing centre? (Seems tedious and ridiculous, but I'd rather do that than get our whole application returned for a stupid reason!)
1) I would include the faxed and scanned letters , include a covering letter to say why you've done that ( not unreasonable seeing as the Canada post situation). You can always send of the originals latter when postal thing is sorted
2) i don't think you need to trim them . I'm 100% sure that other people have done exactly what you have described. they just don't want your photo albums or staples or other crud
Jun 23rd 2011, 8:35 pm
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Re: Letters of support and photographs
yup I just piled all my normal size pics in an envelope labelled "pictures" - I think it might be because they would scan them into a computer along with your application so to have to take em out of folders / remove staples would be time consuming.
Anything to help CPC work efficiently
Anything to help CPC work efficiently
Jun 24th 2011, 4:35 am
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Re: Letters of support and photographs
Thank you both! (This forum saves my sanity . . . )
I also spoke with CIC today and got extra confirmation that scanned/faxed letters would be fine, especially with a note about the Canada Post strike affecting delivery.
I also spoke with CIC today and got extra confirmation that scanned/faxed letters would be fine, especially with a note about the Canada Post strike affecting delivery.
Jun 24th 2011, 1:57 pm
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Re: Letters of support and photographs
Question 1: We are nearly done compiling our outland common-law sponsorship application, but are now stuck as the letters of support sent by our friends and family can't get to us due to the Canada Post strike (we both currently live together in Canada and the letter writers are in the UK and the US).
Does anyone know if it would be acceptable to used faxed or scanned versions of the letters instead? I suspect it could be weeks before the letters get to us via Canada Post and we really don't want to wait too long as the current UK processing time is already 9 months!
Does anyone know if it would be acceptable to used faxed or scanned versions of the letters instead? I suspect it could be weeks before the letters get to us via Canada Post and we really don't want to wait too long as the current UK processing time is already 9 months!
Question 2: Also, the section that asks for photographs specifically states that the photos should be "loose"--not bound into an album or anything similar. All of our photos are digital, so we printed a few per page with captions detailing the date, location, and people pictured. Will this be considered sufficiently "lose" or do we actually need to cut the photos down to 3x5 or 4x6 like the kind one usually gets from a photo processing centre? (Seems tedious and ridiculous, but I'd rather do that than get our whole application returned for a stupid reason!)
