Hi,
I am a PhD candidate in the US officially graduating in August 2018, however my work and research are essentially finished. I have a postdoc offer from UBC that I had accepted and it is supposed to begin on June 1st, 2018. I am a foreign national here in the US on an F1 visa.
I had applied for a Canadian temporary work permit back on 27 April 2018. The application was online and required filling out the form IMM1295 along with other supporting documents. My employer filed for a LIMA exemption and I had included these details with my application.
Additionally, I had also asked for a two week expedited processing by uploading a request application before submitting my final application.
It's been more than a month now, and I have not seen any update or decision on my status page. The page states that the application is still in process. Immediately, after submission of the application in April I was asked to provide biometrics, which I did the next day.
The online processing time calculator states that the average processing time for work permit applications from the US is about 3 weeks. For my case, nearly 5 weeks have passed since my submission.
It would be nice if someone over here can provide some advice on how to proceed or what, if anything, could be done or if I could contact them directly. Someone with prior experience, please kindly shed some light on the matter.
Any help or guidance is appreciated.
I have already written a query to questions@cic.org and also to the IRCC online query system, but have not heard anything back.
Sincerely,
U
I am a PhD candidate in the US officially graduating in August 2018, however my work and research are essentially finished. I have a postdoc offer from UBC that I had accepted and it is supposed to begin on June 1st, 2018. I am a foreign national here in the US on an F1 visa.
I had applied for a Canadian temporary work permit back on 27 April 2018. The application was online and required filling out the form IMM1295 along with other supporting documents. My employer filed for a LIMA exemption and I had included these details with my application.
Additionally, I had also asked for a two week expedited processing by uploading a request application before submitting my final application.
It's been more than a month now, and I have not seen any update or decision on my status page. The page states that the application is still in process. Immediately, after submission of the application in April I was asked to provide biometrics, which I did the next day.
The online processing time calculator states that the average processing time for work permit applications from the US is about 3 weeks. For my case, nearly 5 weeks have passed since my submission.
It would be nice if someone over here can provide some advice on how to proceed or what, if anything, could be done or if I could contact them directly. Someone with prior experience, please kindly shed some light on the matter.
Any help or guidance is appreciated.
I have already written a query to questions@cic.org and also to the IRCC online query system, but have not heard anything back.
Sincerely,
U
