natzau94
Star Member
- Mar 23, 2017
- 56
- 21
- Category........
- FAM
- Visa Office......
- London
- App. Filed.......
- 10-02-2017
- Doc's Request.
- 26-05-2017
- AOR Received.
- 09-05-2017
- File Transfer...
- 25-07-2017
Hi everyone,
This is quite a battle so far lol.
My partner (Canadian) is sponsoring me (Polish). We sent our original application in February, but we received no AOR1 for more than 30 days. We became concerned, so we contacted my partner's local MP. She kindly phoned IRCC on our behalf and since then, she's been a vital part of our application, allowing us to resolve issues with communication between us and IRCC.
However, after her intervention someone got annoyed at the IRCC office, as our application was returned to us due to.. missing "n/a" in one line of one of the forms (ridiculous). Luckily, our MP was on it and she requested that the application is kept on file, and we only resend the "incorrect" document. And so we did. It was still taking a long time to hear back from them. Yet another intervention in a form of a phone call from the MP. Again, success. They sent me an AOR1, then my partner, too. After a struggle (as everyone or most here) I managed to link my account through myCIC.
My partner got a sponsor approval a week or so after (I need to check to fix my exact timeline!), and a letter informing that Schedule A and PPCs will be required from me, and a request will be sent to my account and email address within 5 working days. Unsurprisingly at this point, I received nothing for longer than 7 working days. Back to square one, we asked our MP for help again. Again, unsurprisingly, it only took one of her phone calls to have IRCC fix their website glitch as I was not receiving any messages in myCIC due to the glitch. Our MP also forwarded Schedule A and PPCs on to them through a direct email address that only MPs and other bodies of government can use. A couple of days later when checking myCIC account, I found a message date a day after our MP called IRCC, requesting the above mentioned documents. Just to be on the safe side, I uploaded them there, too, even though they should be by now added to our file (as MP forwarded them directly to IRCC).
What should we expect next granted my Schedule A and PPCs are all okay? Med exams? Did all of you needed med exams completed, or not? How long did it take to receive a message from IRCC after submitting your Sched A and PPCs?
Lesson learned - if you're having ANY troubles with contacting or communicating with IRCC, have your Canadian sponsor contact their local MP. Without that, we'd be still probably waiting on AOR1.......
Here's our timeline (if someone could add to spreadsheet, it'd be great):
Application sent: February 10th 2017
Application received by IRCC: February 21st 2017
MP contacted: March 30th 2017
Application on hold: March 30th 2017 (agreed to send the incorrect/incomplete form)
Form re-sent: April 4th 2017
AOR1: May 9th 2017
Account linked online: May 10th 2017
Sponsor approval: May 11th 2017
Schedule A and PCCs requested: May 26th 2017
Schedule A and PCCs sent (through MP): May 25th 2017
Schedule A and PCCs sent (through myCIC): May 30th 2017
This is quite a battle so far lol.
My partner (Canadian) is sponsoring me (Polish). We sent our original application in February, but we received no AOR1 for more than 30 days. We became concerned, so we contacted my partner's local MP. She kindly phoned IRCC on our behalf and since then, she's been a vital part of our application, allowing us to resolve issues with communication between us and IRCC.
However, after her intervention someone got annoyed at the IRCC office, as our application was returned to us due to.. missing "n/a" in one line of one of the forms (ridiculous). Luckily, our MP was on it and she requested that the application is kept on file, and we only resend the "incorrect" document. And so we did. It was still taking a long time to hear back from them. Yet another intervention in a form of a phone call from the MP. Again, success. They sent me an AOR1, then my partner, too. After a struggle (as everyone or most here) I managed to link my account through myCIC.
My partner got a sponsor approval a week or so after (I need to check to fix my exact timeline!), and a letter informing that Schedule A and PPCs will be required from me, and a request will be sent to my account and email address within 5 working days. Unsurprisingly at this point, I received nothing for longer than 7 working days. Back to square one, we asked our MP for help again. Again, unsurprisingly, it only took one of her phone calls to have IRCC fix their website glitch as I was not receiving any messages in myCIC due to the glitch. Our MP also forwarded Schedule A and PPCs on to them through a direct email address that only MPs and other bodies of government can use. A couple of days later when checking myCIC account, I found a message date a day after our MP called IRCC, requesting the above mentioned documents. Just to be on the safe side, I uploaded them there, too, even though they should be by now added to our file (as MP forwarded them directly to IRCC).
What should we expect next granted my Schedule A and PPCs are all okay? Med exams? Did all of you needed med exams completed, or not? How long did it take to receive a message from IRCC after submitting your Sched A and PPCs?
Lesson learned - if you're having ANY troubles with contacting or communicating with IRCC, have your Canadian sponsor contact their local MP. Without that, we'd be still probably waiting on AOR1.......
Here's our timeline (if someone could add to spreadsheet, it'd be great):
Application sent: February 10th 2017
Application received by IRCC: February 21st 2017
MP contacted: March 30th 2017
Application on hold: March 30th 2017 (agreed to send the incorrect/incomplete form)
Form re-sent: April 4th 2017
AOR1: May 9th 2017
Account linked online: May 10th 2017
Sponsor approval: May 11th 2017
Schedule A and PCCs requested: May 26th 2017
Schedule A and PCCs sent (through MP): May 25th 2017
Schedule A and PCCs sent (through myCIC): May 30th 2017
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