Close the applicant’s file

Close the applicant’s file in your organization’s information system and manage all related information according to internal policies and procedures.

 

  • Close the applicant’s file in the information system and mark it as completed.
  • Manage file-related information to:
    • conform to your organization’s records retention and disposition policy as well as applicable legislation on personal information protection and privacy;
    • facilitate retrieval for purposes such as:
      • serving as a precedent to guide the assessment of similar academic credentials;
      • responding to requests from the applicant for additional copies of the assessment outcome or for a reassessment (for a different purpose or with additional documents);
      • responding to requests from third-party users for verifying the assessment outcome;
      • rescinding the assessment outcome if fraud is detected after the assessment outcome was issued.
Comply with the Pan-Canadian Quality Assurance Framework for the Assessment of International Academic Credentials (QAF)
  • This step complies with guiding principles 13, 16, and 34 of QAF.
  • Consult QAF to get more information.