What Happens After You Submit Your Application Package
When the College receives your Application Form for the Individual Assessment of Educational Qualifications, supporting documents, and payment, the College will:
1. Review your Application Form for the Individual Assessment of Educational Qualifications to verify that it is complete.
- If the form is not completed in full, the College will not open an application file for you and will return the form to you for completion.
2. Verify payment of the application and registration fees.
- If you are paying by Visa or MasterCard credit card or Visa Debit card, the College will process the payment according to the
- information you provide on the Application Form for the Individual Assessment of Educational Qualifications.
- If you are paying by cheque, money order, or bank draft, the College will check to see if the payment has been received.
- If the College does not have your payment in full, the College will not continue with processing your request and will return the form to you.
- If the College cannot process the payment (e.g., insufficient funds, credit card expiry, etc.), the College will not continue with processing your request until the issue is resolved.
Once steps 1 and 2 are completed successfully, the College will open an application file for you. Then, the College will:
3. Determine what supporting documents are required for your application, and look to see that they have been submitted.
- After you submit your completed application form and payment, you may be asked to complete a phone screening with a Review and Assessment Officer to discuss your application and next steps. This step helps the College better understand your credentials so we can guide you on the process. We will email you within 10 business days of receiving your application to offer to schedule this call. This process also ensures you understand the next steps and allows us to guide you in the right direction.
- Some supporting documents are required from you, and some are required directly from organizations or institutions. It is your responsibility to submit all the required documents to complete your file. You can always check the Requirement 2: Gathering Supporting Documents to understand which documents are required.
4. Review the information provided in your Application Form for the Individual Assessment of Educational Qualifications and supporting documents to assess whether you meet all the requirements.
The final steps in the process will depend on whether you meet all the requirements for registration and whether there is any need to impose terms, conditions, or limitations (TCLs) on your Certificate of Registration, if one is issued to you. These are summarized in the following table.
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Additional questions:
How long is the processing time for applications?
Processing times will vary depending on the applicant’s circumstances, the complexity and completeness of the application package, and the phase of the process:
- Generally, once we receive a completed application form and payment, we give applicants three months to submit all outstanding documents for their application.
- Once you have submitted all required documents to complete your application, the College will assess whether you meet the requirements for registration. Applications received after July 1, 2025 should expect to receive a decision on their application about three months after they have completed their file.
- Once a decision has been made on your file, we will communicate the decision within 10 business days.
- If you pay application and registration fees by cheque, the fees are subject to a two-week hold.
- The following factors are examples of situations where your Application Form for the Individual Assessment of Educational Qualifications will be returned to you and an application file will not be opened. To have an application filed opened you must submit a completed form and full payment.
- The Application Form for the Individual Assessment of Educational Qualifications is not completed in full.
- The wrong application form is used.
- Payment issues arise such as not sufficient fund (NSF) cheques, post-dated cheques, and declined credit cards.
- The application and registration fees are not paid in full.
- The following factors are examples of situations that can cause delays in the application process.
- Transcripts, or credential evaluation reports, are submitted by the applicant and not directly from the post-secondary institution, or World Education Services (WES), as required by the College.
- Transcripts, or credential evaluation reports from WES, are missing information (e.g., transcripts or reports do not indicate whether a diploma or degree was granted, the program name, the credit value of transfer course credits, language of instruction, post-secondary institution status, etc.) or have typing errors.
- Supporting documents that the College requires are not submitted.
Can I request access to the documents that the College has in my file?
- Yes. To request access to any information or documents that the College has in your application file, send an e-mail to registration@college-ece.ca.
- Note that the College’s Registrar may refuse to give an applicant anything that may, in the Registrar’s opinion, jeopardize the safety of any person. This authority is set out in the Early Childhood Educators Act, 2007.