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With so many players operating within the international education landscape, document authenticity is a genuine concern. Key documents have been falsified by bad actors in the past, often without a student鈥檚 knowledge. University and college admissions teams need to be vigilant, but identifying whether a document is real isn鈥檛 typically quick or easy.

It can be, however, thanks to 鈥擜pplyBoard鈥檚 smooth answer to this prickly issue. Thanks to our secure, sector-leading ApplyProof solution, document authentication comes built-in with 星空影视application submissions to most Canadian institutions. Many key documents, including Canadian letters of acceptance and some language proficiency test results, are automatically made verifiable when submitted through our platform.

Here鈥檚 how.

Strengthening the Sector

As part of our Strengthening the Sector series, we鈥檙e exploring the many ways that 星空影视pushes the international education sector forward.

This time, our focus is on document authentication through ApplyProof, which helps ensure that fraud or misrepresentation is found and mitigated for student applications submitted through ApplyBoard.

Read the other articles in this series as they鈥檙e published:

• Recruitment Partner Vetting
• Ongoing Performance Monitoring
• Sector Training
• Application Pre-Screening
• Study Permit Approval Advantage

The Importance of ApplyProof

A lack of trust in international student documents negatively affects study permit outcomes and enrollment conversion. It also creates delays in study permit and admissions processing. Regular reports of fraud hamper institutions鈥� and Canada鈥檚 international education brand.

Recognizing the need to build trust and efficiency in the sector, 星空影视created ApplyProof, a digital interface for verifying key documents required in the admissions and study permit approval processes.

The tool is designed to support everyone involved in the international student enrollment process, from Canadian immigration officials and educational institutions to recruitment partners, students, and their families.

To confirm that a document is genuine, stakeholders use unique identifier codes, enabling them to securely access the up-to-date digital original through ApplyProof within seconds.

The key to ApplyProof鈥檚 efficiency: students do not pay to have their documents ApplyProofed. Moreover, they can share the document and have it verified as many times as needed, without additional cost. For verifiers, no login account is required; the document itself enables verification.

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How ApplyProof Builds Trust

ApplyProof provides three types of verification:

Proof of Acceptance

ApplyProof enables officials to quickly verify the validity of letters of acceptance (LOAs) submitted as part of a Canadian study permit application.

How it works: A unique ApplyProof identifier code is appended to each ApplyProofed LOA. By entering this code on applyproof.com, officials can access and view the digital original. They can then easily compare the original document against the document submitted.

ApplyProof is easy to use鈥攏o login or account is required for verifiers. And the technology has been integrated with existing student information systems, CRMs, admissions software, and applicant databases.

ApplyProof has built a network of institutions across Canada and made over 600,000 LOAs verifiable to date.

Proof of Financial Support

ApplyProof has teamed up with RBC to offer Canada鈥檚 first digitally verifiable Guaranteed Investment Certificates (GICs). GICs are among the most trusted documents students can use to show proof of financial support as part of their study permit application. Students applying through Canada鈥檚 are required to provide proof of a C$10,000 GIC.

How it works: As with ApplyProofed LOAs, our GICs include an ApplyProof code that immigration officials can use to verify the submitted GIC. Verifiable GICs can help students build stronger study permit applications and improve the chances that their applications are approved.

ApplyProof has also partnered with Flywire, one of the most trusted names in the international transfer of funds, to enable students to make digitally verifiable tuition payments. Tuition payments made through Flywire come with immediate, official, and verifiable payment receipts, which can then be submitted with a student鈥檚 study permit application as proof they鈥檝e paid their tuition. To date, students have made over C$6 million in tuition payments verifiable on ApplyProof.

Did you know? In 24% of study permit refusal cases from 2021 and 2022, IRCC was not satisfied that the applicant鈥檚 assets and financial situation were sufficient to support their stated purpose of travel.

Proof of Language Proficiency

ApplyProof has partnered with Pearson Education and with ETS to provide verifiable PTE庐 and TOEFL庐 scores for millions of tests each year.

How it works: When students include their test scores in an application, admissions officers and immigration officials can simply enter the appointment number provided on the test results on applyproof.com to access the official scores in a matter of seconds.

Srikant Gopal, Executive Director of the TOEFL庐 program, commented on ApplyProof鈥檚 efficacy when the partnership was first launched back in 2021.

鈥淎pplyProof facilitates a more seamless process in the verification of documents, like TOEFL scores, for both the students and institutions who rely on them for high-stakes decisions,鈥� said Gopal.

鈥淎pplyProof is more than just a promising solution. It accomplishes something very important for Canadian international education, bringing the kind of document security and efficiency we need to be responsible and competitive.鈥� 鈥� Dr. Walter Lee, Senior Vice President, Yorkville University

Study Permit Approval Advantage

At a time when concerns about fraud remain high, ApplyProof鈥檚 Proof of Acceptance, Proof of Financial Support, and Proof of Language Proficiency solutions help build trust across the international education sector.

They鈥檙e also a key component of ApplyBoard鈥檚 study permit approval advantage.

For students and their advisors alike, the benefits of access to vetted recruitment professionals, application pre-screening, and document verification seem self-evident. But for anyone on the fence, the numbers, too, tell a clear story of student success. Students who use 星空影视have historically been approved for their Canadian study permit at a higher rate than students who don鈥檛鈥攅specially students from countries with below average approval rates, such as Nigeria.¹

For the full story, look for the final entry in our Strengthening the Sector series, coming soon. Subscribe to ApplyInsights to ensure you don鈥檛 miss a thing.

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FOOTNOTES:

1. Per 星空影视calculations and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) data.