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mina_rhm
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Thanks a lot farrous13 and canuck25 for your replies. I asked him to call CIC and inform them about our time abroad.
Re the RQ form, I am trying to be positive. I provided strong evidence and lots of records of my presence and life in Canada, including studying, working, property, etc. I also got the RQ after the test and send my documents to the Montreal office in the envelope given to me by the officer who interviewed me. So my hopes are high for now :S |
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vmax86
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1200 new citizen btw the 4 dec and the 11 dec and juste kristal schedule for the 11 guys update ur statut plz
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vmax86
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sorry 1600
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EasyRider
Top Member Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Location: Montreal Status: Offline Points: 1512 |
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farrous13, have you heard from your sister? |
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farrous13
Junior Member Joined: 28 Oct 2013 Location: Montreal Status: Offline Points: 74 |
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Just got the news...
She passed the exam 20/20. She said it was very easy. They had a situation at the office where a fire alarm forced everyone to leave the building.
When she came back, the agent asked her about her travels. Then flipped through the passport to verify the dates. After, she was informed that she will receive her oath in 2 to 4 months.
Overall she was very happy. Hehe. Hope she gets invited to one of the Dec oath ceremonies.
Good luck to you EasyRider!
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EasyRider
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Thank you, farrous13. So, they quote 2-4 months in Montreal. In Mississauga they have it either same day or next week now, wish it was like that here. I have test in couple of days, so will update later. |
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montreal
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Good Luck EasyRider
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oswald555
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My cousin had the interview with a CJ at the Montreal CIC office yesterday morning. Following the interview, which consisted mostly of test questions out of the Discover Canada booklet, the CJ ended the hearing and dismissed her - giving her no indication whatosever of whether she had "passed" the interview or not. I was under the impression that CJ's would render their decision on the spot... Now she is even more worried.. Does anyone know if CJ's communicate their decision to the applicant immediately following the interview? If not, how long after the interview can an applicant expect to know the CJ's decision?
Any help or insight on this subject would be highly appreciated...
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farrous13
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EasyRider. How was your test? Update please :)
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EasyRider
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Ok, did my test/interview at 1025 Rue Saint-Jacques today. Took little more than 1 hour for the whole process. At the entrance you show invitation paper and attendant let you in. Everybody were gathering in a waiting room with the seats until it was the time printed on invitation. There were 70-80 people in total. Then agent came and folks over 55 were invited to a "ceremony room" to do interviews with the agents, they were called by their names. Everybody else proceeded to a test room.
Test was very easy-- I didn't have any dates at all and one question with the names I had was something about Sir John A. Macdonald, what can be simpler? The level of difficulty of question is on the same level as on training websites, i.e. nothing tricky and sophisticated. The study booklet can obviously be used to produce much more difficult questions that are in the current versions of a test. When you complete the test, you put booklet with questions with answer sheet in a basket and proceed directly to the "ceremony room". By the time people were starting to finish their tests, agents in the "ceremony room" were finishing interviewing people over 55. There was no delay, i.e. we didn't have to wait for everybody to complete their tests to queue up for an interview. Somebody was bringing up applicants' cases in folders with checked answer sheets to the "ceremony room" and putting them into baskets of interviewing agents. There were total of 4 agents in this room doing interviews, plus another one who was interviewing in another room, because there were not enough tables in front for 5 people in that room. Agents were taking cases from baskets and calling up the applicants. Organizers tried to sit applicants as far as possible from the interviewers, so it'd be not so easy to hear the interview dialogs. I'm under impression that interviewing people had nothing to do with your case directly before an interview, i.e. they were not specifically designated to do your interview. One interviewer just took several cases from another one when he ran out of cases from his own basket. I wouldn't say all interviews were especially short, at least not for everyone, some people were questioned for 10, maybe even 15 minutes. One interviewer was asking someone about different periods of time in Canada and was pretty thorough. My interview was rather short and lasted for about 5 minutes. Agent asked for ID's (PR, health card and drivers license), copies of bio-pages of current passport and passport related to a 4-year period, also asked to show a COPR original and provide copy of a COPR. Agent had a checklist form with lots of items on that list, maybe about 15-20, each of them had a checkbox and a comment field related to a specific question. So, when doing interview an agent would tick a checkbox and/or write something in a comment field. Basically, agent is filling "Part B - Inverview" part of a File Requirements Checklist (see here) while conducting interview and resolving additional questions, if any. The interviewer went through the passport stamps and compared them with a residence calculator printout while ticking the in and out dates that were matching stamps in passport. I had all the stamps matching trips, so there was no problem. Also, the agent refused to use my reference table with trips/stamps I had prepared for interview. Other questions that were asked:
* * * One other thing I noticed I'd mention that may be related to interview or maybe not. Somebody was checking my LinkedIn account as anonymous user 2 hours before test and between 2-3 weeks ago, right around time when I received test notification or notification could be issued. I thought that was unusual-- 1st, I don't remember anonymous users checking my profile before, second, timing seems suspicious to me. So, maybe it's CIC "googling". Here's how it looked when I got back from the test: LinkedIn member This member chose to be shown as anonymous 2 hours ago LinkedIn member This member chose to be shown as anonymous 2 weeks ago I didn't know that somebody could peek on your profile in LinkedIn while remaining completely anonymous (and that's actually feature of this service, as it turns out) and I don't like it. I found there's lots of discontent about this feature among users of this site-- it was supposed to be a professional network site based on openness, instead they allow groups who want to remain secretive peek on you without going for any lengths whatsoever. Seems there's no way to disable this feature for own profile either. I'm disappointed in this service. Edited by EasyRider - 20 Dec 2013 at 12:21pm |
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