Hi, guys, I checked some of the posts made by people with delayed applications. Let's get some stuff clear. I'll give two examples:
- A person added the spouse 1 year later and the new documents were requested, as well as proof of relationship, which his/her lawyer sent 5 months after the request. The request was made in September, but the documents were sent in March. Thus, this adds 5 months of delay in there, plus a background of the spouse that started 1 year after the application, or maybe only now in March 2018, after the additional documents were sent. If it takes about 2 years for a normal person nomination, for this applicant, these 2 years may have started counting in March. That person must get ready for more medicals in case he/she sent them before, new police certificates, updated schedule A, IELTs, new proof of funds, updated jobs and addresses lived, jobs... basically everything again.
For me, I can't stress how easy it is to prove I'm married and I wonder why someone would take 5 months to do that. It raises flags for me, and also for CIC. I would change my lawyer. This person's case is very unfortunate.
---- for every check where they need additional documents, you get back to the start of the line and it adds about 2 months to your processing time. It is the website: To avoid delays, send all documents, be truthful and complete.
- Another guy's delay: In this case, this person changed jobs after getting a nomination and did not notify either the province, or cic, or both. This was done - or not, the post was asking for advice - 7 months after that, because he needed an BOWP, or something similar. I couldn't follow all the story and don't know if it he/she had a nomination from a job offer stream which would lock the applicant to the employer. Even if the nomination is not locked to an employers, when you change jobs, your job history changes, and you have to update your documents. Don't wait for a request and be proactive, use the webform and upload the documents to notify CIC.
Failing to notify is an honest mistake, but it may cause delays. Not so sure about his/her nomination conditions. But here goes what affects processing time:
---Lets suppose this was a job offer based stream, when the applicant asks for an open work permit, this automatically raises flags for CIC, who will contact the province or may ask for additional documents proving you still works with the employer (this adds about +2 months). Why would someone who has a work permit support letter ask for an open work permit? Is this person violating the nomination conditions? Several genuine reasons may exist, such as employer delays in placing a job offer in the employer portal, the applicant had an open work permit and wants to ask for a BOWP, don't want to leave Canada and the permit is expiring. Genuine request, but they will check and it takes time.
Didn't look at more posts because I do not have the time.
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Come on guys, if you had more documents asked, did not send them within 30 days, was asked, sent but they did not receive, and if there is any complication, like marriage, birth, new travels, change of job, change of nomination circumstances or anything similar, you have to tell us, as this makes the processing obviously more complex, and you cannot say you are simply waiting 22-26 months without giving us the details. Specially when there is a 1 year 5 months delay on the applicant's part, we cannot add that to a general equation.
We are here trying to help, figuring if it is the nationality, countries you lived, travels, dependents, and THE MOST IMPORTANT details like these are overlooked. If application is not clean and straightforward, it takes time.
For cases where the person is not thoroughly with the documentation, not honest with CIC (and probably not honest in this forum), or if someone is not completely satifying with CIC with additional documents requested, this makes matters worse. This person cannot blame CIC for the delay and place him/herself in the same package as the rest of us. That will obviously be delaying the application for him/her and increasing the average for everyone else.
Tax declarations, T4, amount and proof of unencumbered funds, education, age, previous jobs, travels, visited addresses, how your visited addresses matched the information you gave to the official at a border of countries like US, difference in age of married couples, political views, religion and racial profile, social media and even your phone location will be used by them, and believe me, this will not be in the GCMS notes. They know everything and they will not make themselves guilty by putting weird notes on the GCMS, they will use technical terms such as "was not able to fully satisfy the officer" and that is it!
If you said you were going to a Marriot at an specific address in US, broooo... You better go there and log in to that hotel wifi and you better upload your travel photos to Facebook! Or if this information does not match what you told the official... oh boy, you are doomed!
Now, with that in mind, is anyone else with long processing times willing to give more important details that make your application more complex, so we can really figure the reasons?
It would be really great to be able to clarify all the reasons behind a paper based processing time for the sake of all the users and 30,000+ people per year that wants to move to Canada.
