Lesson 01 covered the immigration process itself; this lesson covers the paper trail that goes with it — the physical and digital documents newcomers collect, submit and receive, plus the polite fixed formulas that wrap them in a formal letter.
The first half is the documents: une pièce justificative, un justificatif de domicile, une pièce d'identité, and the specific certificates an application usually asks for — un acte de naissance, un acte de mariage, un certificat médical, un extrait de casier judiciaire, une déclaration sur l'honneur, la déclaration de revenus. Two pairs are easy to confuse, so keep their functions straight: un accusé de réception is the notice an office sends you to confirm it received your file, while accuser réception de is the verb for that same act; un récépissé is a simpler proof-of-filing slip you get on the spot.
| to attach a document | joindre une pièce |
The second half covers the verbs of handling paperwork — remplir un formulaire, joindre une pièce, fournir une preuve, justifier de, délivrer, légaliser — and the fixed opening and closing formulas of a formal administrative letter: j'ai l'honneur de vous informer que to open, je vous prie de bien vouloir to make a request, vous trouverez ci-joint to point at an attachment, and veuillez agréer, Madame, Monsieur, l'expression de mes salutations distinguées to close. These same formulas reappear in the letter-writing kit later in the course — here they are taught as vocabulary in their own right, since Canadian immigration and civil-status correspondence uses them constantly outside the exam too.
