Unable to provide letterhead from Financial Institution

Express Entry Proof of Funds
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Hello,

I am unable to get a letterhead from my financial institutions before my submission deadline. I have already attached 6 months bank statements from all my banks and other financial institutions where I have fixed deposits. The bank branches are in US and I am currently in India.

Will this be an issue as I am submitting all other documents. Also, will I be able to update any of this after I have submitted my documents and paid the respective fees? Please help.

2

I am in similar situation. Did you had any issue with submitting just the statements?

3

My experience:

  • I submitted what I had (As written above)
  • I have submitted a LOE in the “Other Document section”. This came after I attached all documents.

I do not know if there will be any issue as I have not heard anything back. But I guess it should be okay for now. I have requested letters from my financial institution just in case I would be asked to submit any documents.

If you are in India. One suggestion would be to get a letter from your bank in India, if you have any money in it. It can also be from your spouses account. But you would need to have a signed letter from the spouse saying the money is available to you. I did not have this option but just a tip.

Hope my answer helps you.

4

Yeah I am in US too. I bank with BofA and Ally and they have refused to provide any such letter.

Thanks for responding though. I may have to go same route.

5

That’s strange because BofA provided the 6 and 12 months balance letter signed and stamped by branch head a year back. Did they say it’s not a policy ?
You could raise an online request and then receive the hard cop from branch.

6

We uploaded any letter that the banks would provide (ownership, average balance or verification of deposit) and attached statements from the past 6 months.

7

Weird. As @usa2can has mentioned, Bofa and Chase told me that they can provide me the letter provided I come into a branch directly. As I am currently not in US, this was not possible for me.

Talk to their customer care and Branch manager once. Either one of them should help.

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FWIW, I got PR by submitting just the bank statements. I didn’t get a specific letter from any bank detailing the balances etc.

All I did was added a cover letter mentioning the total like:

Bank 1: X USD = Xc CAD 
Bank 2: Y USD = Yc CAD
.
.
Total : Z USD = Zc CAD

(1USD = 1.xx CAD on date dd/mm/yyyy)

AOR to PPR took about 3 months. (probably sticking to the format may have reduced that time further)