Venn Account-Opening Guide

Last updated: 2026-08-24

This is a working, step-by-step guide for actually opening the corporation’s business bank account with Venn — the decision itself is tracked as DP-0001, and this document exists to execute it rather than to re-argue it. Where a document already exists in this repository, it’s linked directly. Where one doesn’t, that’s stated plainly rather than assumed.

Contents

• Corporate documents
• Personal documents for the account signer
• Before submitting
• Downstream consequence

Corporate documents

All seven of these are already on file and catalogued in registers/corporate-records-register.md:

• Certificate of Incorporation — CR-1001
• Articles / Notice of Articles — CR-1003, contained within the Certificate of Incorporation above
• Incorporation Agreement — CR-1004
• Organizational Documents (confirms officer/director roles) — CR-1005
• Share Certificate (100% ownership, Arva Yusuf Ezzi) — CR-1006
• Ontario Extra-Provincial Registration (OCN 1001423284) — CR-1007
• GST/HST Registration Confirmation (BN 756719233) — CR-1008

Personal documents for the account signer

Arva Yusuf Ezzi, as sole director and 100% shareholder, is the account signer.

• Current immigration status document (Bridging Open Work Permit) — available, not yet added to this repository. The C11 docket contains an earlier work permit document (under “Canada Proof of Residence”), but that predates the current BOWP and should not be used in its place — it’s linked here only so its existence and vintage are clear, not as a substitute.
• Updated Social Insurance Number (SIN) document — available, not yet added to this repository. No SIN document currently exists anywhere in this repository.
• Driver’s licence — already on file in the C11 docket (“Canada Proof of Residence” folder, Arva’s ON driving licence), same address as the current residence. Confirm it hasn’t expired and the address is still correct before relying on it — the file in this repository is a snapshot from the original C11 filing, not necessarily the current physical card.
• A recent bank statement — personal chequing statements exist in the C11 docket covering January through October 2025, but by the time of an actual account-opening submission those will likely be older than most institutions accept as “recent” proof of address (commonly within the last 3 months). A fresh statement should be pulled at the time of application rather than reusing the ones on file.

Before submitting

Venn’s own specific accepted-document list has not been independently verified against this guide. Confirm directly with Venn before submitting, particularly:

• Whether they accept a driver’s licence and a bank statement as two distinct proofs, or want something further given Arva’s current work-permit-bridging status
• Whether the BOWP alone is sufficient as a status document, or whether they also want to see evidence of the PR application it bridges

Downstream consequence

Not part of this guide, but the reason banking matters beyond its own sake: once the corporate account exists, the corporation can enroll directly on Amazon KDP rather than continuing under Arva personally, per the provisional arrangement recorded in governance/decision-log.md (2026-08-20 entry). For US tax purposes, the corporation can claim benefits under the Canada-US Tax Treaty (Article XII, royalties) via a completed W-8BEN-E using the corporation’s Business Number as its foreign TIN — no separate US EIN is required for that step.