I hope so as well. It's annoying there's no average timeline for everything. I look at your timeline and mine. You had AOR almost 6 weeks before me but got your medicals as passed a month after mine. An average timeline would help calm everyone's nerves down!
Hopefully mateIt means that you are in a final stage of the processing
I guess it all differs in terms of stages now, because in my RPRF letter it says:
"This is in reference to your application for a permanent resident visa, which has been found eligible in the class for which it was submitted. Admissibility review (security, criminality and medical) is still on going; you will be contacted if additional
information is required for that purpose.
At this time our records indicate that you have not paid the required Right of Permanent Residence Fee (RPRF). You must pay this fee before a permanent resident visa can be issued....." , so "Medical>Criminality>Eligiblity>Security" is not always a standard process.
Anyways, every case is unique
Ohh, did your letter specifically said that admissibility with medicals, criminality & security stages are still in progress?I guess it all differs in terms of stages now, because in my RPRF letter it says:
"This is in reference to your application for a permanent resident visa, which has been found eligible in the class for which it was submitted. Admissibility review (security, criminality and medical) is still on going; you will be contacted if additional
information is required for that purpose.
At this time our records indicate that you have not paid the required Right of Permanent Residence Fee (RPRF). You must pay this fee before a permanent resident visa can be issued....." , so "Medical>Criminality>Eligiblity>Security" is not always a standard process.
Anyways, every case is unique
Yeah I can imagine. Someone with an extensive travel history would have a different timeline than mine with my one or two trips a year. All we can do is wait! Fingers crossed for everyone!Well there is a timeline for overall application processing (6 months), so as long as you are within those 6 months, you shouldn't worry about it.
Making an average timeline for stages would be quite complicated for them, because people are applying from all over the world, and the documents check etc requires completely different amount of time depending on the country, travel history, medical history, criminal background etc.
I think by the end of September you will already send your passport to the local VO
okay, thanks for the detailed infoYup. This is exactly what it says in the letter I received:
"This is in reference to your application for a permanent resident visa, which has been found eligible in the class for which it was submitted. Admissibility review (security, criminality and medical) is still on going; you will be contacted if additional
information is required for that purpose.
At this time our records indicate that you have not paid the required Right of Permanent Residence Fee (RPRF). You must pay this fee before a permanent resident visa can be issued....."
You see, according to it, only my eligibility is passed. However, I passed my Medicals back in August, as well as other stages, as I was told by the agent yesterday, a day after the RPRF payment.
I am quite positive that there is no a certain timeline of Processing Stages in terms of what they check first and last.
If you look through the timelines of those who received PPRs, you will see that some people got their Medical under review until 2-3 days before the PPR email. So for them starting all 3 other stages (Background, Security and Criminality) and completing them in 2 days is quite unrealistic.
From what I saw in peoples' GCMS notes that they posted (you can also google them), Security and Criminality were passed one after another within a few days, so I assume they make requests to check those at the same time, because both of those stages require quite a decent amount of time.
Security check is done by Canadian intelligence and security agencies, with or without cooperation of proper authorities in countries you lived/stayed in, and it is done completely independently from CIC - CIC only gets result, which will be positive or negative, without any explanation (as it is classified). At this stage they "dig deeper" into your life, activities and associations to find out if you are/were involved or are/were associated in any way with anyone who is/was involved in espionage, terrorism, organized crime, radical movements, crimes against humanity, war crimes, etc.
Criminal check looks into your police certificates and verifies with relevant countries to see if you have a criminal record that may make you inadmissible to Canada. Therefore it would make sense if the two stages were done together.
But either way I am not an expert, and I guess no one knows what exactly CIC has in their mind
It's just the usual update email you get in ur email. And then it tells you you have something in the account to view.
i submitted my passport on 1st september and received it on 15th septThose of you, who received the PPR last week, could you guys please share how long it took your passports to be delivered back to you? I think it will be a useful info for everyone here
