March 2024 Inland Spousal Sponsorship

[AngelBear]

I've just had my P2 email come through! Have declared and submitted the photo.

I had a PR Portal account already (from planning an outland application a few years back) so I don't know if that made it quicker for them to just attach a case to.

Hopefully that's a good sign that it won't drag on long for everyone. Fingers crossed

Wow you are flying through. No P1 for me, I received an email saying to check my messages in the GCKey. So I do so, and they are asking for Bio fees. I did not originally send bio fees as I had done bio previously and sent to them with my application. They had me do them again, and on the instruction letter they had said:

Note: This letter is also your proof that:
• you have paid the biometric fee; or
• you have claimed an exemption from the biometric fee under section 315.1 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR). If, after reviewing your request, it is determined that you do not qualify for an exemption and are required to pay the biometric fee, you will be contacted by IRCC and your fee payment options will be explained to you.

I didn't do either, so I had called the call center for clarification. Never really got an answer about it, other than well maybe the officer waived it for you, just told to continue. So fast forward to today, They say I need to pay the biometrics fee, that since I had not paid those, they took it from the RPRF, and now want the payment to continue.

I had originally had the bio done before sending the application in, not knowing the full in's and out's of the application process, and thought doing them before might be beneficial to helping the process. Did not have them done at Service Canada though, so might be why they didn't accept them. Who knows, we all do know though, there is no rhyme or reason to the process.

So once I get that paid, I should be good to go. Just waiting for my spouse to return from an appointment.

 

[AngelBear]

hey everyone,
I applied march 6th, aor march 21st. I have had ghost updates since October 28th every day and today my tracker updated saying background check is in progress under Application History, even though it was already in progress. and gckey updated background check to in progress in may. seeing all the final decisions made me think I could be close too but now I’m worried that they forgot about me and just started the security check. I know from gcms notes in june they finished criminality and info sharing was in progress. did anyone have a similar thing happen to them recently maybe?

Hey Oulette...... I believe you are very close. The background check, as you know consists of the three phases. Sometimes, depending on your original country, and any other country that you have possibly stayed/lived in for more that 6 months will be contacted. Depending on how fast those countries take to answer and get the information back, is the key to how fast or slow the process goes. So for example I'll share my info here.... I am a USA Citizen, never traveled to another country other than here in Canada. So say for instance they send info to the USA, the department that handles such requests will receive it, and just like IRCC, there are several employees working on these, so it probably gets sent to one of the employees, and depending on how backlogged they are, of it that employee gets sick and is out or on vacation.... it may take longer for them to process the information and get it sent back to IRCC. Now say I had been to another country, not only are they dealing with my original country, they would have to wait for the other country also.

I know the waiting is horrible, but I think you are right around the corner from everything being wrapped up. Keep your chin up, you're almost there.

 

[Charlamanderxxxx]

Wow you are flying through. No P1 for me, I received an email saying to check my messages in the GCKey. So I do so, and they are asking for Bio fees. I did not originally send bio fees as I had done bio previously and sent to them with my application. They had me do them again, and on the instruction letter they had said:

Note: This letter is also your proof that:
• you have paid the biometric fee; or
• you have claimed an exemption from the biometric fee under section 315.1 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR). If, after reviewing your request, it is determined that you do not qualify for an exemption and are required to pay the biometric fee, you will be contacted by IRCC and your fee payment options will be explained to you.

I didn't do either, so I had called the call center for clarification. Never really got an answer about it, other than well maybe the officer waived it for you, just told to continue. So fast forward to today, They say I need to pay the biometrics fee, that since I had not paid those, they took it from the RPRF, and now want the payment to continue.

I had originally had the bio done before sending the application in, not knowing the full in's and out's of the application process, and thought doing them before might be beneficial to helping the process. Did not have them done at Service Canada though, so might be why they didn't accept them. Who knows, we all do know though, there is no rhyme or reason to the process.

So once I get that paid, I should be good to go. Just waiting for my spouse to return from an appointment.

Yup, for biometrics, I figured we need to wait for the instruction letter and do it. not upfront.

 

[j_2024]

So once I get that paid, I should be good to go. Just waiting for my spouse to return from an appointment.

That's a shame there was confusion around that. On the upside, at least there is a clear reason why you didn't get a P1 at the same time. Hopefully it won't be too long once you have that paid up.

 

[AngelBear]

Yup, for biometrics, I figured we need to wait for the instruction letter and do it. not upfront.

Very true, didn't have to have bio done for visitor record or extension, but knew I would have to have them for the PR app, hadn't even started that yet, so figured I would go ahead and have it done. Boy did I learn my lesson. LOL Fees have been paid now, so fingers crossed that it's accepted and can now get P1.

 

[AngelBear]

That's a shame there was confusion around that. On the upside, at least there is a clear reason why you didn't get a P1 at the same time. Hopefully it won't be too long once you have that paid up.

Definitely a shame, but it's been taken care of, all paid so hopefully I will get the P1 either later today or hopefully tomorrow. And hey maybe I will get lucky like you did and get P2 the next day. Maybe that dream of having everything finished by my b-day will become a reality.

 

[oulette]

Hey Oulette...... I believe you are very close. The background check, as you know consists of the three phases. Sometimes, depending on your original country, and any other country that you have possibly stayed/lived in for more that 6 months will be contacted. Depending on how fast those countries take to answer and get the information back, is the key to how fast or slow the process goes. So for example I'll share my info here.... I am a USA Citizen, never traveled to another country other than here in Canada. So say for instance they send info to the USA, the department that handles such requests will receive it, and just like IRCC, there are several employees working on these, so it probably gets sent to one of the employees, and depending on how backlogged they are, of it that employee gets sick and is out or on vacation.... it may take longer for them to process the information and get it sent back to IRCC. Now say I had been to another country, not only are they dealing with my original country, they would have to wait for the other country also.

I know the waiting is horrible, but I think you are right around the corner from everything being wrapped up. Keep your chin up, you're almost there.

thank you for the kind words. I hope the background check moving to in progress is just a late update lol. my gckey said eligibility is in progress… on the day I got my AIP.

I’m extremely terrified to get into comprehensive security check since people are stuck in it for like a year and I am from Russia, but I traveled in Europe a lot and lived in Germany at some point.

I will post an update once something changes, hopefully a good one and hopefully soon.

 

[princepowler]

Noticed my background check is complete and every other item is complete but I havent received any mail or anything. Applied March 14

 

[pts1987]

Noticed my background check is complete and every other item is complete but I havent received any mail or anything. Applied March 14

I am in the same situation (applied on March 13), for some people it seems right away , for some it seems about a week or two... hopefully we get it soon !

 

[GaganPuni]

I've just had my P2 email come through! Have declared and submitted the photo.

I had a PR Portal account already (from planning an outland application a few years back) so I don't know if that made it quicker for them to just attach a case to.

Hopefully that's a good sign that it won't drag on long for everyone. Fingers crossed

May I know when you replied back to the portal 1 email?
Because I replied on the same date oct 30 within 3 hours of receiving the portal 1

 

[j_2024]

May I know when you replied back to the portal 1 email?
Because I replied on the same date oct 30 within 3 hours of receiving the portal 1

I replied within 30mins. The email I replied to had 'ClientPortalEast' so I'm guessing that's the office that's dealing with it.

Hopefully you hear something soon but as far as I can tell from other threads, I was extremely lucky to hear back so quickly.

 

[GaganPuni]

I replied within 30mins. The email I replied to had 'ClientPortalEast' so I'm guessing that's the office that's dealing with it.

Hopefully you hear something soon but as far as I can tell from other threads, I was extremely lucky to hear back so quickly.

ok, its really good that you received so quick.
Yes, I replied to the same email with 2 hours.
Thank you.

 

[Aneri13]

Did anyone from March mid got updates? I applied on March 30th, still waiting and hoping to see final decision soon.

 

[richardrocks]

Did anyone from March mid got updates? I applied on March 30th, still waiting and hoping to see final decision soon.

We applied March 31 - nothing yet.

 

[dafiiidiii]

I am in the same situation (applied on March 13), for some people it seems right away , for some it seems about a week or two... hopefully we get it soon !

Just got an update. COPR is on the tracker now. I am waiting for the P1 email