Timelines for the credentals process in Canada by the Allaince.

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All required information as per Alliance requirement were provided with initial applications. In my initial post on the thread, I stated that I was not the first applicant from my university doing the Alliance credentialing, heck I am not even the first from my set. I am very familiar with the Alliance credentialing requirement. Take a look at the link of the status update I posted in my preceding post and you will find out that majority of the applicants that applied within the last 15 months or thereabout appear to get this "we have mailed your assessment result, we need more information" outcome on their initial evaluation regardless of how many previous applicants have applied from the same institution. It is one major reason why the process is now clogged up. There also appear to be a correlation between this trend and the employment of external assessors to do the initial evaluation.

The point here is, if the requirement for the presentation of course details has been changed by the Alliance, it is in everyone's best interest that the Alliance made that clear before initial documentations are accepted for evaluation rather than make everyone submit as per usual, wait over a year only to be told that we now require this and that. It clogs up the system and that's quite evident now isn't it.

Are you currently going through the process yourself or have you recently gone through?

Hi else,
I just want to know why all that is happening. To be clear, English is my second language so whcih might cause some misunderstanding in the discussion. The same thing you said was mentioned by Dana another applicant here within the same thread which is :

The Alliance asks for information which had been provided with the intial application !! and then you say the alliance wanted more information like course descripation !! Does that mean your school will send same course information for the second time. Yes, I read that many form your same school are licenced or registered now, but did they provide same course and documents as you did!!

Yes, I applied around 5 months ago ............... I am begin to feel worried after reading your experience and another applicant here

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Hi else,
I just want to know why all that is happening. To be clear, English is my second language so whcih might cause some misunderstanding in the discussion. The same thing you said was mentioned by Dana another applicant here within the same thread which is :

The Alliance asks for information which had been provided with the intial application !! and then you say the alliance wanted more information like course descripation !! Does that mean your school will send same course information for the second time. Yes, I read that many form your same school are licenced or registered now, but did they provide same course and documents as you did!!

Yes, I applied around 5 months ago ............... I am begin to feel worried after reading your experience and another applicant here

No problem mate, I understand you clearly. I have highlighted the issues raised in my evaluation result as I understand it with my institution and provided a copy of the evaluation report to the school. It is quite likely they will send the same documents as they can not be amended, lest it will be misrepresentation. I think they will have to provide clarification and appendixes about some course contents and some areas that might have been highlighted on course curriculum but not represented on transcript due to the fact that they were not examined as stand alone modules but were covered extensively as part of a broader course. An example that comes to mind here is "Human growth and development (child psychomotor development)". While we didn't cover this as a stand alone module, this was covered extensively under pediatrics neurorehabilitation. This has never been an issue with the Alliance prior to recently. To the best of my knowledge, the Alliance credentialing officers are quite familiar with this type of variation in presentations and overlap of course content across different countries. As I said before, it is looking increasingly likely that the external assessors who now do the initial evaluation are not yet familiar with this variability or the Alliance has become a bit more prescriptive as to how course information should be presented. Either way, it is causing a huge problem for most applicants.

Do you know of anyone from your institution who have completed or are well advanced into the credentialing process? It may give you some ideas of what to expect in your case. You may be one of the lucky ones, who knows