ABBREVIATIONS/ACRONYMS THAT ARE CONSTANTLY USED FOR EXPRESS ENTRY AND CANADA VISA APPLICATION

SOME EXPRESS ENTRY ABBREVIATIONS

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It may consist of a group of letters or words taken from the full version of the word phrase.
They can be seen in every area of our daily lives, because it's an easy way of shortening and pronouncing words.

We will be stating some of the abbreviations and acronyms related to Canadian Express Entry..


ACRONYMS:

AVO   -  Accra Visa Office

PCC   -  Police Clearance Certificate

FSW   -  Federal Skill Worker

EE      -  Express Entry

ITA      -  Invitation To Apply

PPR   -   Passport Requirement

MR     -   Medical Request

POF   -   Proof of Fund

CRS   -   Comprehensive Ranking System

NOC   -   National Occupation Clarification

AOR    -  Acknowledgement of Receipt

PER    -  Positive Eligibility Review

COPR -  Confirmation of Permanent Residence

PEI      -  Preliminary Evaluation for Immigration

AOR    -  Acknowledgement of receipt letter.

BDEC  -  Background Decision

CC       -  Credit Card

CHC     -  Canadian High Commission –  Refers to the Canadian embassies, Visa offices, and Consulates.

CIC      -   Citizenship and Immigration, Canada – the umbrella body which governs both CIOand local CHC offices.

CIO      -   Centralized Intake Office in Sydney Nova Scotia – where you sent your application.
Sometimes it is mentioned as CIU (Centralized Intake Unit).

DD       -   Demand Draft (Bank Draft / Certified
Cheque / Money Order)

ECA     -   Educational Credential Assessment

ECAS  -   Client Application Status, an official CIC service which allows to view the status of your application on-line

FD       -    Fixed Deposit

SLU     -    Second Level Update

FILE BF'D TO - File Brought Forward date

FINDEC -   Financial Decision

FOSS     -   is a central database of applications

GCMS    -   Global Case Management System

IMMCAT -   Immigration Category

JD          -   Job Description

M01-M07 -   level of Medical assessment. M01 means perfect

MEDDEC - Medical Decision

MI           -  Ministerial Instructions

MR         -  Medical Examination Request

NCR       -   No Criminal Record

NOC       -   National Occupation Classification

OREQ     -  Other Requirement

PCC        -  Police Clearance Certificate

PER        -  Confirmation of Positive Eligibility Review from CIO

PI            -   Principal Immigrant

POF        -   Proof of Funds

PPR        -   Passport Request

PPS        -   point at paper screening stage

PS           -   Prescreen (another explanation is Paper selection)

PSDEC   -   Paper Selection Decision

RPRF     -    Right of Permanent Residence Fees

SEC CRIM - Security criminal

SELDEC -    Selection Decision

SS          -    This spreadsheet

SW1       -    Skill Worker 1

UCI         -    Unique Client Identifier, an 8-digit identification number. People usually get it from CIC in a PER confirmation

VO          -    Visa Office

RBVO     -    Received by Visa Office

XREF      -    Cross referenced applicant

PR         -     Permanent Residency

NA          -     Not Applicable

IP           -     In Progress (1 or 2) and refers to the status of your background check

NBG       -     Next Step is to Conduct a Background Check

BOWP    -     Bridging Open Work Permit

PGWP    -     Post Graduation Work Permit

CSIS      -     Canadian Security Intelligence Service