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Spousal Sponsorship in-land Applications 2016 timeline and updates

sylvain1

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Nov 2, 2016
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Quebec
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Montreal
App. Filed.......
12-08-2015
AOR Received.
07-11-2015
Med's Request
07-12-2016
Med's Done....
21-12-2016
LANDED..........
26-05-2017
Totally based on your postal code, and which office is closest to it. You cannot change that.
One thing I don't know is if you are living closer to an office that is in another province, does CIC invites you to the closest office... or the closest office in your province?
Edit: but, @f0rni on the DM letter that you will receive (maybe tonight!), you will know which office will later contact you for the landing.
 

profiler

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Aug 10, 2016
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CPC-Mississauga
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
02-MAR-2016
AOR Received.
13-MAY-2016
IELTS Request
Upfront
Med's Request
Upfront; Passed
Interview........
Waived
LANDED..........
05-MAY-2017
One thing I don't know is if you are living closer to an office that is in another province, does CIC invites you to the closest office... or the closest office in your province?
I can't comment on that either. I think each office will have a catchment radius. It would be probably based on the series of postal's found in that catchment radius. Just a guess, but that's certainly how I would design the assignment sub-system...
 
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profiler

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13-MAY-2016
IELTS Request
Upfront
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Upfront; Passed
Interview........
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05-MAY-2017
I can't comment on that either. I think each office will have a catchment radius. It would be probably based on the series of postal's found in that catchment radius. Just a guess, but that's certainly how I would design the assignment sub-system...
@sylvain1 I just made something similar WRT filtering out naval positional anomalies when vessels are near ports... same case applies: You have GPS co-ords and need locate ports within a given radius. Funny, that was how my monday started, and now we talk about it tuesday afternoon :)

(good thing I did that before 11! holy mathing!)
 
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profiler

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AOR Received.
13-MAY-2016
IELTS Request
Upfront
Med's Request
Upfront; Passed
Interview........
Waived
LANDED..........
05-MAY-2017
I wonder...

I bet @f0rni can send me GPS co-ords of the city they are in, and I bet I can use the same stuff I built to figure out which CIC office will get the landing

Ya, let's do that... profiler likes to play with neat things he built
 
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pedropil

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Dec 2, 2015
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FAM
Visa Office......
Case Processing Centre - Mississauga, Ontario
App. Filed.......
16-05-2016
AOR Received.
09-06-2016
Med's Request
18-04-2017
Med's Done....
18-05-2017
Interview........
06-07-2017
LANDED..........
06-07-2017
@profiler did your spouse receive her PR card? How many days from landing to your mailbox.
Thanks
 

harpreet657

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Jun 2, 2017
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My wife was landing in Montreal (which is also a busy office) and we had to wait 8 weeks for the landing appointment letter, and 2 more for the actual appointment. But it's just a matter of time now, so you can start to plan your party anyway! ;)
Lolz... thanks for the reply !! Hopefully everything goes well !
 
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f0rni

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Feb 3, 2016
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AOR Received.
24-08-2016
Med's Request
08-06-2017
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07-07-2017
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06-09-2017
@profiler

How long did you say it usually takes from DM on ECAS to landing invitation letter?
 

profiler

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BTW: I am now ready to take co-ords (find your city on wikipedia, or just paste me a googlemaps link to the downtown area of where you live)....

#GeoDataNerd
 
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profiler

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profiler

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@profiler

How long did you say it usually takes from DM on ECAS to landing invitation letter?
Variable. It will depend on the landing office, and when they have time. Up to 8 weeks.

If you shoot me the city you are in (or a google maps to downtown) I can give you the landing office (for certain).
 
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profiler

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Interview........
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05-MAY-2017
@sylvain1 when you make little things like this, it makes one upset just how much extra road one must drive on.

Straight line it would have been 9.72761222525 to kitchener.
 
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f0rni

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06-09-2017
Variable. It will depend on the landing office, and when they have time. Up to 8 weeks.

If you shoot me the city you are in (or a google maps to downtown) I can give you the landing office (for certain).
Creston BC
 

profiler

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App. Filed.......
02-MAR-2016
AOR Received.
13-MAY-2016
IELTS Request
Upfront
Med's Request
Upfront; Passed
Interview........
Waived
LANDED..........
05-MAY-2017
Creston BC
Looks like my money is on CIC-Calgary. 289.88083194325 km radius. Vancouver is ~733. Surrey is ~702km.

@sylvain1 note: I did not math this. This was already done. All I needed to do, was mine the CIC office locations (co-ords) from google maps. Now I just repeat a query over and over :)
 
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f0rni

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08-06-2017
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06-09-2017
Sweet! I hope it will be Calgary! I have a relative there, so I`d have place to stay over night etc. Thanks @profiler
 

profiler

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CPC-Mississauga
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App. Filed.......
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13-MAY-2016
IELTS Request
Upfront
Med's Request
Upfront; Passed
Interview........
Waived
LANDED..........
05-MAY-2017
Sweet! I hope it will be Calgary! I have a relative there, so I`d have place to stay over night etc. Thanks @profiler
Mathing never lies... I feel badly how far you have to go... yikes! Our landing was 9 km radius from where we live...