{"id":7281,"date":"2025-12-10T15:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/?p=7281"},"modified":"2025-12-12T08:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:36:35","slug":"notice-to-applicants-holiday-office-closure-and-key-deadlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/news-articles\/notice-to-applicants-holiday-office-closure-and-key-deadlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice Regarding Holiday Office Closure and Key Deadlines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario will be closed from the afternoon of December 24,\u00a02025\u00a0to January\u00a01, 2026.\u00a0The office will reopen at 8:30 a.m. on January 2, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are an active applicant, please review the\u00a0important information\u00a0below to help avoid delays in your registration.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key reminders<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Applications will not be&nbsp;processed&nbsp;and phone or email messages will not be checked&nbsp;during the office closure.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you plan to begin working as an occupational therapist in Ontario on or before January 2, 2026, please&nbsp;submit&nbsp;all outstanding documents by&nbsp;end&nbsp;of day&nbsp;December 15, 2025.&nbsp;Processing of documents received after&nbsp;December 15,&nbsp;2025&nbsp;may be delayed because of the holiday closure.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To see what is outstanding for your application,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/otportal.coto.org\/SignIn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">log in to your account<\/a>&nbsp;and review your application checklist&nbsp;to see what is&nbsp;outstanding&nbsp;to complete your&nbsp;application.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Once all documents have been received and approved, you will receive an email from the College with a link to pay the registration fee needed to complete your registration.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Once the registration fee is paid, you will be issued a registration number.&nbsp;You must be issued a registration number from the College before starting work as an occupational therapist in Ontario.&nbsp;\u2018Working\u2019 includes orientation, job&nbsp;shadowing&nbsp;and training at the workplace.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions, please contact&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:registration@coto.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">registration@coto.org<\/a>&nbsp;or call 416-214-1177\/1-800-890-6570 extension 230.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario will be closed from the afternoon of December 24,\u00a02025\u00a0to January\u00a01, 2026.\u00a0The office will reopen at 8:30 a.m. on January 2, 2026.\u00a0 If you are an active applicant, please review the\u00a0important information\u00a0below to help avoid delays in your registration.\u00a0 Key reminders&nbsp; If you have any questions, please contact&nbsp;registration@coto.org&nbsp;or call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-articles"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7321,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281\/revisions\/7321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}