Hi everyone,
I have also discovered this forum today and found very interesting information. Thank you all for sharing them, because this credentialling process is really frustrating! Like some of you, I am stuck at "we received and accepted the documents we needed to begin your assessment" since they started posting the status online (was it June, July or August 2011?).
I studied in Belgium, and went to a French-speaking University, graduated 10 years ago. Nobody from my year has left Belgium for Canada. Actually, I don't know anybody from my uni who went to the non-Québec part of Canada, and only one PhD student from my uni who got her PhD in Québec. That's all.
But what I do know, is that the education system and the health care system in Belgium and Ontario are very similar. Of course, there are differences, but I have talked to physios here in Ontario, and we all agree, we have the same education, in the end. I am now living in Ontario, for personal reasons - nothing to do with a potential physio job, and I find that I started my application process long enough in advance: they received my application package in Nov/Dec 2010, but asked for a signed consent form to translate my documents from French to English (they say that you can send the docs in E or F, but they don't mention that you will lose 3 months (or more) when you send them everything in F!). They finally received everything on February 3, 2011, and sent me a letter in June, to tell me the process is delayed and might take 40 weeks in total. I understand the 40 weeks start in February, which means I will get the results in November: nothing. Then June 16 + 40 weeks = March 22, 2012. Next week?!? Doubt it from what I just read on the forum.
So now I have to make up my mind to find a job as something else than physio - for the moment or forever, who knows? I read someone on this forum has been working as an assistant? Is it possible to work as an assistant, while we are waiting for our results? If so, does anyone know what would be required? I know there is a 2-year course you can follow, but I don't really have the time to go to school for 2 years. I'd rather do something else, then, and forget about physiotherapy.
I have the feeling that those Alliance timelines vary, and I think that the newly unprecedented files still take less time than the really unprecedented files...
No doubt this process takes way too long!
I wish you good luck and a lot of patience, to those who just started, as well as to those who are desperately waiting for an answer - maybe next week..., maybe next week?