Phase 5 · Write and submit
Final submission check
The last pass before you upload, covering the things that get applications returned.
Who this is for:Candidates at any stage
ICE publishes its own checklist in the Professional Review Guidance and you should work through that one. This is a second pass over the things that most often go wrong.
Content
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Mechanics
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Before the upload button
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The last three questions
Have I confirmed — not assumed — that both sponsors have uploaded?
ICE makes this your responsibility explicitly, and it is the most common reason an otherwise complete application is held up.
Would I be comfortable being questioned on every page of this?
Everything in the report and appendices is open to questioning, and reviewers go where the writing is thinnest.
Has anyone with authority cleared the confidential and security-sensitive content?
It is much easier to check now than to explain afterwards, and ICE recommends your information security manager reads it.
Related pages and tools
- The applicationWhat goes in, in what order, and the administrative details that hold applications up.
- The report5,000 words in which two strangers have to see your competence: what ICE asks for, how to structure it, and how to edit it.
- AppendicesChoosing evidence that shows your involvement, staying within the limits, and making it legible.
- Review dayWhat to prepare, what to bring, what is prohibited, and how the day runs online and in person.
- Reasonable adjustmentsHow to ask for adjustments, what ICE has said it provides, and why asking early matters.