Parents & Grandparents Program(PGP) 2022
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Hi All,
My in-laws' PR application was finally approved today with IRCC dispatching their passports with one-time visa (I know it was approved because GCKey account says so with details of their one-time visa which is valid for 1 year from the date IRCC received their medical results). You can find the detailed timeline in my signature, but I wanted to shed some light on another topic, which seems to be of common confusion/concern on this forum.
My in-laws received passport submission request on Oct 23, 2023. At that time, they were in Canada but were planning to leave for US in a week's time. For family reasons, they could only extend their trip for a month as they needed to be in the US by US thanksgiving (i.e. around Nov 20). We decided to take a chance and go for virtual landing. We sent a note to IRCC, requesting virtual landing for them on the same day. However, IRCC never got back to us asking for follow-up information. Around Nov 10th, we realized that we wouldn't have enough time to *initiate* virtual landing process, so we decided that the in-laws would go to US asap, and send their passports to VFS for stamping. We sent the passports to VFS around Nov 12/13 and after some missing documentation which we separately provided, they were forwarded to IRCC on Nov 22 for further processing (last day of their 30 day window - phew!!). After a silence of about two weeks, we received a notification that IRCC has sent the decision envelope back to VFS. Their GCKey account show application was approved and shows details of one-time visa as well.
Hope this helps someone who's in similar situation.
My in-laws' PR application was finally approved today with IRCC dispatching their passports with one-time visa (I know it was approved because GCKey account says so with details of their one-time visa which is valid for 1 year from the date IRCC received their medical results). You can find the detailed timeline in my signature, but I wanted to shed some light on another topic, which seems to be of common confusion/concern on this forum.
My in-laws received passport submission request on Oct 23, 2023. At that time, they were in Canada but were planning to leave for US in a week's time. For family reasons, they could only extend their trip for a month as they needed to be in the US by US thanksgiving (i.e. around Nov 20). We decided to take a chance and go for virtual landing. We sent a note to IRCC, requesting virtual landing for them on the same day. However, IRCC never got back to us asking for follow-up information. Around Nov 10th, we realized that we wouldn't have enough time to *initiate* virtual landing process, so we decided that the in-laws would go to US asap, and send their passports to VFS for stamping. We sent the passports to VFS around Nov 12/13 and after some missing documentation which we separately provided, they were forwarded to IRCC on Nov 22 for further processing (last day of their 30 day window - phew!!). After a silence of about two weeks, we received a notification that IRCC has sent the decision envelope back to VFS. Their GCKey account show application was approved and shows details of one-time visa as well.
Hope this helps someone who's in similar situation.
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Yea, mine is the same situation with Vancouver office , last I heard was in Feb for Biometrics and NOTHING after that. Can see only applications from Mississauga office being processed very regularly and quickly.
Its even more frustrating considering that I live very close to Mississauga, so I cant understand why they decided to send our file to Vancouver office
. Although I do understand that they have provided the general 24 months timeline, but how come there is so much discrepancy between Vancouver and Mississauga office ? and on what basis do they even decide the office ( cause its clearly NOT based on where we live) ??Question for pros. I see a lot of posts talking about which office is the application assigned to. Seems like some offices are very fast to process application. And some offices are very slow to process application,
My question is how is this application assigned to an office? Is it based on sponsors address? If so does it mean IRCC needs to be informed when sponsor changes addresses?
My question is how is this application assigned to an office? Is it based on sponsors address? If so does it mean IRCC needs to be informed when sponsor changes addresses?
Yea, mine is the same situation with Vancouver office , last I heard was in Feb for Biometrics and NOTHING after that. Can see only applications from Mississauga office being processed very regularly and quickly.
Its even more frustrating considering that I live very close to Mississauga, so I cant understand why they decided to send our file to Vancouver office
If we monitor closely only Indian and afghan applicants are being processed at Mississauga office at fastest pace , rest of south Asian and all other applicants are thrown to these dead sleepy offices like Vancouver , Montreal, and London . so NDP is doing good job in collaboration with liberals . Its unfortunate but its true. no offense to anyone but I am monitoring it with 2020, 2021 and 2022 applicants.
Please keep me posted if you get any updates. Our CPC was Mississauga. Also, my parents are in Canada on Visitor's visa. What is your situation ?
I dont think thats the case though, cause my parents are also from India. But yes, Vancouver office is not just slow, its extremely slow and has a major difference in processing speed, specially compared to Mississauga office , based on multiple people's experiences and the freely available trackers, where people post their updates. I understand there are multiple files and that they are probably working hard, but atleast give us some updates !!!
Today I finally graduated! My parents in China received their Passports sent from Canada Visa Center. I got a lot of information from this forum. Really appreciated. I wish all others still in the process reach the shore sooner!
Hi
My parents have received pre arrival letter on October 13,2023.
No updates after that
Does anyone experiencing the same ?
How long does it take after pre arrival?
My parents have received pre arrival letter on October 13,2023.
No updates after that
Does anyone experiencing the same ?
How long does it take after pre arrival?
Its so confusing- did you scan all blank pages of your parent's passport?? Plus I am not sure why the guide says to upload all pages in Additional supporting documents while there is already a place to upload a passport under Travel documents/ Passport.
Yes, we scanned all blank pages as well and saved them as JPG, then combined, converted to PDF and compressed the PDF file. It went to 3.5mb for each Passport.
We compressed the PDF file using a website and then used another website to compress it further. Make sure the quality should be good enough to be readable. don't compress it too much as the quality will get worse.
We uploaded parents and sponsors passport under Support Documents (Travel documents/Passports).
Yes, same here. I got Status update - 17th october - Final decision is in progress
18th October - Received Pre arrival letter
NOTHING after that so far...