why is the CFAI so unreasonable?

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@ jcole21
I got this job offer AFTER I registered. I was fully expecting to have my passport at the time I registered for the exam. Plus I don’t get what’s wrong with providing them with the proof? Im not asking for a waiver on the ID altogether. I have a letter from the home office saying they have my documents. My embassy is giving me a letter confirming my nationality. I have a national identity card which provides the same info. In fact that will provide them with more than enough proof of my identity which at the end of the day is what matters.
 
how long has the UK home office kept your passport? perhaps you need to press them for some expedite processing. CFAI > UK Government. pick your battles wisely
 
Black Swan wrote:Well the passport rule came into being as a response to increasing international candidate presence, they needed a standardized form of identification that had fairly universal requirements and official weight. The rule is clear from the beginning. Why would you sign up for the CFA if you weren’t sure you could meet the ID requirements? Look, I feel for the OP, but every year they get bombarded with requests for this reasonable accommodation and that reasonable accommodation. When it adds up to 145 thousand it becomes one large unreasonable accommodation. So in a sense, yes, I do believe having a ton of candidates is a just reason for denying ANY accommodation strictly based on resources and logistics. It’s like anything in life. As the group size becomes larger, the rules become increasingly legalistic and suffocating as a necessary size effect. I don’t like it, but I can understand where it comes from. This is pretty much the #1 reason I avoid large groups when possible.
I also feel the OP, but I also have to agree with this.
I hate the CFAI for their ridiculous gestapo, though. I’ve read my share of horror stories.
 
ubermensch, did you manage to go to the exam?
 
no, wasn’t able to. Couldnt convince CFAI and the pulling my passport back from the home office was too risky. I got different answers from different people about calling back my passport. Some said my application would be put on hold while others said it would be considered a withdrawal of my application. Also, it would take a couple of weeks for me to receive my documents if I had requested them.
On the bright side, they are taking a look at my application for exceptional circumstances so that I might be able to do the exam in June without paying again.
Thanks for asking, appreciate it!
 
Sorry to hear of the troubles, good on you for taking this as well as you could.
 
In that case let’s hope you can get CFAI to have you take the exam in June without paying again. You might have flunked the exam anyway had you been able to take it (many people do). The only thing I don’t quite get is why you had to let go of your passport for such a long stretch of time, are you sort of immigrating to the UK or changing your citizenship to UK?
 
Yeah you could say I am kind of immigrating because I got a job quite suddenly a few weeks ago. Wasn’t it expecting it, just happened. So according to UK law when you get a job with a company willing to sponsor you, you need to apply for a tier 2 work visa which means you need to send all your travel documents to the homeoffice. It takes about 6 weeks to do a background check to make sure you are who you say you are and that you haven’t been in any trouble with the law in the country. Once I realised I had to do this I contact the CFAI to tell them about the situation and they were like we cant do anything for you. I even went to my embassy and got a letter identifying myself and another letter from the home office saying they had my documents.
Also I know the passing rate is not very high but I studied my ass of for it and that’s why the unfairness of it was even more frustrating.
 
That really is quite a shame that they couldn’t make an exception for you. It sounds like you had more than enough to prove your identity given all the supplemental docs from the UK. Hopefully, CFAI gives you the exam for free in June, but I (and you) I”m sure would not be surprised if they said ‘no’ to that as well.
 
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