468 is not a bad CRS score for a married-with-children couple, as a matter of fact, with a 468 we would've gotten an ITA in 15 out of 16 draws so far, and so we did on August 12th. We were so exited we could barely hold ourselves, after 1 year of actively pursuing this (WES, CELPIP, IELTS), we had finally gotten that long awaited e-mail, and so the process begun.
We got all our documents and requested our reference letters, transferred our funds from an investment account to a joint checking account, birth certificates?, check; marriage record?, check; police certificate?, super easy online process, check. We got all our translations, sealed everything, compiled files, named folders and got ready to upload, which we started doing on a sequenced manner: we started by uploading what we already had (digital photos, certificate from WES and education, etc) and kept uploading as soon as we got new documents.We went and got our medical, and finally, on Tuesday August 27th, we finished uploading and payed all fees associated. We got the AOR.
I started reading on moving process, looking for experiences from previous families, health insurances, car? no car?, my dream of living abroad was coming true and my whole family was going to have a shot at a better life. I created a profile at http://myimmitracker.com (really recommend it) and joined the Moving2Canada web page. These were about to be the longest 6 months of my life.
On Friday the 30th, my wife calls me with an excited voice: "we got an e-mail from our application", and the first thing that comes to my head is "Medicals Passed". So soon? it's an average 30 days for Meds Passed, wow, that was fast! When we log in, our hearts sink, the words "cancelled" read on the status. We start reading as fast as we can, and finally read a message that says that it has been cancelled as incomplete because I didn't provide with the police certificate from Dominican Republic, where I have lived from 2005 to 2019... What? Of course I did! I start reading everything I can, forums, CIC page and nothing. How can they say I have not submitted? I did, I have it in the folder in my laptop!
Only that I was wrong. My wife gets into the profile and finds a list of the submitted documents, and there it is: Police Certificate, Jose Rodriguez, Document Name: Digital Photo.jpeg.
I wanted to die.
I couldn't believe that I had made the mistake that could end our family's opportunity, all because of not being thorough enough. Turns out that because of me checking so much the list of uploads, on the last "re-check", I mistakenly uploaded my photo again, not the certificate. We had no choice, we had to create another application, go back into the pool, and wait, long days, for another draw.
It has been a harrowing weekend, depressed? no, upset at myself? yes. At least we will get a refund, but knowing that only 4 days after we would've gotten an update on our cases kills my bones and aches my stomach.
There was no "Additional Documents Requested", it was just cancelled.
So please, be thorough, check your documents, name them with correct identifiers and check them after each upload is complete, if you have a partner, check them separately, don't make my mistake, don't risk the time or the emotions, for being too fast.
Here we wait, until the next draw, with our 468, hoping that it happens fast, and that I don't go full dumb again.
Hope this helps.
