The latest from CIC

[arethinn]

I now need to send them "[an] updated certified true cop[y]" of a letter of reference from my current employer (not, in my case, that this has changed from my current employer a year ago when I made the application), recent proof of income, and updated information about my funds in bank accounts and the like. I also need to do the medical examination. All of this has to get back to them in 90 days from the date of the letter, which is a tad annoying since, as you can see, the date of the letter is nearly a month ago already. The postmark on the envelope, from New York, was April 19th, so it wasn't the mail being slow. It just somehow managed to take it a month from this decision to actually being sent out in the mail. Gotta love "bureaucrazy"...

The thing I wonder is, why a copy of a letter of reference? Why not an original (and have me keep the copy), when they require that it be on letterhead and signed? As for "certified true copies", you can't get such a thing notarized in California, or at least so I was told by a notary when I originally inquired about all this crap they wanted me to notarize way back when. (All they do here is certify that you are who you say you are, apparently, for purposes of things like powers of attorney and such.)

Comments

[juuro.livejournal.com]

Unless I know that I with absolute certainty can get another original, I don't want to let the original leave my hands. I'm a bureaucrat by training and have been by occupation. I advice you to keep the original whenever feasible.

In this country, two identified witnesses is sufficient to certify a copy to be true. We don't really notarize things much, perhaps titles to property, but nothing lesser.

Leader text "Copy certified as true by the signed" and then signature with name and address of residence from two persons. But you'd do well to check the Canadian requirement.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

In the original application it specified "notarized copy" for a lot of things, and when I was told by a notary that he couldn't do so under the law, I explained this in the letter and it seemed to be sufficient. Still, I have asked the question in misc.immigration.canada (where there are some actual consultants answering questions), can anything besides notarization suffice for "certification" of a copy.

[tiggrrl.livejournal.com]

Good luck! At least things are clearly moving along, even if it's taking a while and mail is a pain.