How long until I receive letter from CIC after getting my csq (spouse sponsorship)

[Nadik]

Hello!
I got my CSQ two days ago and im kind of in a rush to get my letter from CIC that is saying Im eligible for PR
Im an international student here and if I wont get this letter my husband and I will pay 4 times more than the "standard" tuition fee.
Normally we wouldnt have a problem but these are not normal times and we could really use this "discount".

I know its not a process that will take a month but people told me I need to wait 6 months for my CSQ and it arrived after two months.
Are they speeding the process due to COVID for some magical reason?
Can anyone tell me how long it took them to get the letter from CIC after getting their CSQ?

And another question, on the letter they sent with the CSQ it said that they've contacted the CIC to tell them about the approval, but do I still need to send them the CSQ also?

Thank you for any help we can get!

EDIT:
This is what the university is requiring:
II - Letter from Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC)
students must present a letter from CIC, addressed to the student, which indicates that they are eligible to apply for permanent resident status within Canada under one of the following categories:

• Humanitarian cases
• Category of spouse or common law partner
• Live-in caregivers

I dont understand which letter they are talking about, of course Im eligible to apply, as I already did. The university itself has been unhelpful.

 

[Immstu]

Hello!
I got my CSQ two days ago and im kind of in a rush to get my letter from CIC that is saying Im eligible for PR
Im an international student here and if I wont get this letter my husband and I will pay 4 times more than the "standard" tuition fee.
Normally we wouldnt have a problem but these are not normal times and we could really use this "discount".

I know its not a process that will take a month but people told me I need to wait 6 months for my CSQ and it arrived after two months.
Are they speeding the process due to COVID for some magical reason?
Can anyone tell me how long it took them to get the letter from CIC after getting their CSQ?

And another question, on the letter they sent with the CSQ it said that they've contacted the CIC to tell them about the approval, but do I still need to send them the CSQ also?

Thank you for any help we can get!

Sorry for my naivety but I have never heard IRCC issuing any letter saying that you are eligible for PR. Once people submit their PR application, they get AOR in few months but at the moment people who submitted their application in July 2019 are still waiting on AOR.
Others can correct me if I am wrong here.

 

[Nadik]

Sorry for my naivety but I have never heard IRCC issuing any letter saying that you are eligible for PR. Once people submit their PR application, they get AOR in few months but at the moment people who submitted their application in July 2019 are still waiting on AOR.
Others can correct me if I am wrong here.

First, thank you for responding, it is much appreciated.

It was adressed to my husband but I did get an AOR two months after applying for PR.

Here is what was written at the top of that letter:

"This is an automated system-generated letter to acknowledge the receipt of your application. Due to current delays, your application has not been assigned a unique file number at this time. A second letter containing a unique file number will be sent to you on a later date."

I also now saw that I dont need to give biometrics due to COVID and the fact that I already gave them when I applied for a study permit. I believe this can help speed the process a bit as well?

 

[Laurahd]

Sorry for my naivety but I have never heard IRCC issuing any letter saying that you are eligible for PR. Once people submit their PR application, they get AOR in few months but at the moment people who submitted their application in July 2019 are still waiting on AOR.
Others can correct me if I am wrong here.

I'm not sure where you're getting your information but I will correct it for the benefit of all.

IRCC does send eligibility letter to inland applicants (SCLPC or Canada Class). It's commonly called Approval in Principle (AIP).

Applicants from July 2019 have long received their AOR. Many have also landed.

 

[Immstu]

I'm not sure where you're getting your information but I will correct it for the benefit of all.

IRCC does send eligibility letter to inland applicants (SCLPC or Canada Class). It's commonly called Approval in Principle (AIP).

Applicants from July 2019 have long received their AOR. Many have also landed.

I hope hundreds (if not thousands) of inland applicants here on this forum and elsewhere correct your last line also for the benefit of all.
Edit : I doubt if you know this particular forum and thread is about QSWP applicants as is OP. More than 30K applications under QSWP are piled up unopened at NS processing center. It's a well known fact among users of this particular forum. No one (or maybe a small percentage which I or other people here are not aware of) has got AOR after July 2019, leave aside landing part.

 

[Laurahd]

Hello!
I got my CSQ two days ago and im kind of in a rush to get my letter from CIC that is saying Im eligible for PR
Im an international student here and if I wont get this letter my husband and I will pay 4 times more than the "standard" tuition fee.
Normally we wouldnt have a problem but these are not normal times and we could really use this "discount".

I know its not a process that will take a month but people told me I need to wait 6 months for my CSQ and it arrived after two months.
Are they speeding the process due to COVID for some magical reason?
Can anyone tell me how long it took them to get the letter from CIC after getting their CSQ?

And another question, on the letter they sent with the CSQ it said that they've contacted the CIC to tell them about the approval, but do I still need to send them the CSQ also?

Thank you for any help we can get!

EDIT:
This is what the university is requiring:
II - Letter from Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC)
students must present a letter from CIC, addressed to the student, which indicates that they are eligible to apply for permanent resident status within Canada under one of the following categories:

• Humanitarian cases
• Category of spouse or common law partner
• Live-in caregivers

I dont understand which letter they are talking about, of course Im eligible to apply, as I already did. The university itself has been unhelpful.

The university is asking you for the eligibility letter which you receive when you get AIP. There is absolutely no way to give an approximate timeline, especially for QC applicants.

I'm assuming that you applied around March 2020? What I can tell you from the 2019 timeline tracker, the latest applicants to receive AIP are from October 2019. Being one of them, we received AIP 4 months (118 days) after CSQ approval. Hopefully, it will be faster now as they said they want to complete 50000 applications by December. I just want to add that there are many earlier applicants that are still waiting.

 

[Immstu]

The university is asking you for the eligibility letter which you receive when you get AIP. There is absolutely no way to give an approximate timeline, especially for QC applicants.

I'm assuming that you applied around March 2020? What I can tell you from the 2019 timeline tracker, the latest applicants to receive AIP are from October 2019. Being one of them, we received AIP 4 months (118 days) after CSQ approval. Hopefully, it will be faster now as they said they want to complete 50000 applications by December. I just want to add that there are many earlier applicants that are still waiting.

This line of yours - 'they want to complete 50000 applications by December.'
Can you please share the source of this assertion, for benefit of all here, as it clearly defies the quota declaration for 2020 and 2021, keeping in view the existing inventory of unprocessed and in-process files.
By 'they' do you mean MIFI or IRCC?
Thanks.

 

[Immstu]

First, thank you for responding, it is much appreciated.

It was adressed to my husband but I did get an AOR two months after applying for PR.

Here is what was written at the top of that letter:

"This is an automated system-generated letter to acknowledge the receipt of your application. Due to current delays, your application has not been assigned a unique file number at this time. A second letter containing a unique file number will be sent to you on a later date."

I also now saw that I dont need to give biometrics due to COVID and the fact that I already gave them when I applied for a study permit. I believe this can help speed the process a bit as well?

My knowledge is quite limited in case of spousal sponsorships. I hope someone who's in a similar situation as you can answer you knowledgeably.

Also AFAIK after csq and during the PR process, what I have read on this forum is that the parent applicant can't pursue studies as otherwise they get notice from MIFI (again I maybe wrong here but this is what I interpreted).

Better book an appointment with a lawyer to clarify these doubts rather than repent later.

Just out of curiosity - Did you or your husband apply before July 2019 or later. Maybe they issued AOR to family reunification cases after July 2019.

Thanks and all the best.

 

[Laurahd]

I hope hundreds (if not thousands) of inland applicants here on this forum and elsewhere correct your last line also for the benefit of all.
Edit : I doubt if you know this particular forum and thread is about QSWP applicants as is OP. More than 30K applications under QSWP are piled up unopened at NS processing center. It's a well known fact among users of this particular forum. No one (or maybe a small percentage which I or other people here are not aware of) has got AOR after July 2019, leave aside landing part.

I see that you were highly triggered. Spouse sponsorship is not a Quebec Immigration program but it's a federal program under the Family Class. If you are in doubt, you can read the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations for yourself. The title of the thread clearly states SPOUSE SPONSORSHIP. I even specified the class in my reply so I don't understand what you're on about. July 2019 applicants under this program have already received AOR. Therefore, I stand correct. You were wrong about saying that there is no eligibility letter sent to the applicant. It is not a subject to debate. I was just sharing in which case IRCC sends eligibility letters to PR applicants.

 

[Immstu]

I see that you were highly triggered. Spouse sponsorship is not a Quebec Immigration program but it's a federal program under the Family Class. If you are in doubt, you can read the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations for yourself. The title of the thread clearly states SPOUSE SPONSORSHIP. I even specified the class in my reply so I don't understand what you're on about. July 2019 applicants under this program have already received AOR. Therefore, I stand correct. You were wrong about saying that there is no eligibility letter sent to the applicant. It is not a subject to debate. I was just sharing in which case IRCC sends eligibility letters to PR applicants.

A heavy burden of ego won't let you walk much. For your good, please shed it a little. You are walking around here like a pompous fool inflated in your all visible buffoonery throwing figures (50000 by December LOL) around without any fact or substance. Stop misleading people here.

 

[Laurahd]

A heavy burden of ego won't let you walk much. For your good, please shed it a little. You are walking around here like a pompous fool inflated in your all visible buffoonery throwing figures (50000 by December LOL) around without any fact or substance. Stop misleading people here.

You have a very aggressive language. The latest announcement to speed up the process of for spouse sponsorship applications is to bring it up to an equivalent of 6,000 per month. That is what they aim but as the sentence indicates, planning is not predicting the future. Even the number of 6,000 is just a target. And for your information, 50000 applications is way less than the 2020 expected "quota". (In quotation, since the FRP does not have a limit but rather a target) A well-know immigration law firm wrote an article stated the same: "in all, this will result in 49,000 applications receiving decisions by the end of this year."

The Immigration Level Plan of 2020-2022 was targeting 70,00 spouses, partners and children among the 341,000 new immigrants Canada planned to welcome in 2020 (pre-COVID). The updated data of admitted PR is available on Open Data on the government's website, as are the recent announcements regarding the speed up of the application processing and the Immigration Level Plan posted earlier this year.

It's clear that you don't know anything about the Family Reunification Program so why don't you inform yourself instead of speaking savagely? In general, thankfully, people in this forum speak like adults and don't behave in such a barbaric manner. There is enough going on; the world does not need more hatred and arrogance.

 

[Immstu]

You have a very aggressive language. The latest announcement to speed up the process of for spouse sponsorship applications is to bring it up to an equivalent of 6,000 per month. That is what they aim but as the sentence indicates, planning is not predicting the future. Even the number of 6,000 is just a target. And for your information, 50000 applications is way less than the 2020 expected "quota". (In quotation, since the FRP does not have a limit but rather a target) A well-know immigration law firm wrote an article stated the same: "in all, this will result in 49,000 applications receiving decisions by the end of this year."

The Immigration Level Plan of 2020-2022 was targeting 70,00 spouses, partners and children among the 341,000 new immigrants Canada planned to welcome in 2020 (pre-COVID). The updated data of admitted PR is available on Open Data on the government's website, as are the recent announcements regarding the speed up of the application processing and the Immigration Level Plan posted earlier this year.

It's clear that you don't know anything about the Family Reunification Program so why don't you inform yourself instead of speaking savagely? In general, thankfully, people in this forum speak like adults and don't behave in such a barbaric manner. There is enough going on; the world does not need more hatred and arrogance.

This is last reply to your inane melodrama. Unlike you, I try to help people here instead of just showing off around.

FYI - IRCC decides numbers according to quota released by Quebec and not leading immigration law firm. Start from basics.

In the initial reply I wrote to OP 'Sorry for my naivety' but you stomped around here like Her majesty privy to Immigration Ministers of both federal and Quebec, throwing around your delusional figures, and, when asked for source of these figures going back to your inane loopy melodrama.

 

[Nadik]

My knowledge is quite limited in case of spousal sponsorships. I hope someone who's in a similar situation as you can answer you knowledgeably.

Also AFAIK after csq and during the PR process, what I have read on this forum is that the parent applicant can't pursue studies as otherwise they get notice from MIFI (again I maybe wrong here but this is what I interpreted).

Better book an appointment with a lawyer to clarify these doubts rather than repent later.

Just out of curiosity - Did you or your husband apply before July 2019 or later. Maybe they issued AOR to family reunification cases after July 2019.

Thanks and all the best.

Hey!
If I had money for a lawyer I wouldnt be in such a rush getting my PR before the tuition deadline haha

We applied on February 2020
I came here with a study permit so I can study here for sure while waiting for my PR

 

[Nadik]

The university is asking you for the eligibility letter which you receive when you get AIP. There is absolutely no way to give an approximate timeline, especially for QC applicants.

I'm assuming that you applied around March 2020? What I can tell you from the 2019 timeline tracker, the latest applicants to receive AIP are from October 2019. Being one of them, we received AIP 4 months (118 days) after CSQ approval. Hopefully, it will be faster now as they said they want to complete 50000 applications by December. I just want to add that there are many earlier applicants that are still waiting.

This is so so helpful!
Thank you for telling me about the letter, it feels like the university itself didnt know what letter it is.
I applied on February 2020,
4 months is not too bad, and I am hoping that since I dont need to give my biometrics (as I already gave them for my study permit), the process will be quicker.

And last thing, did you send them your CSQ even though it says you dont need to? I saw some posts saying they did anyways to prevent any delays.
Thank you for your reply!

 

[Immstu]

Hey!
If I had money for a lawyer I wouldnt be in such a rush getting my PR before the tuition deadline haha

We applied on February 2020
I came here with a study permit so I can study here for sure while waiting for my PR

Some friends took a single appointment with a lawyer costing between 200-300 cad. However, I myself am against exorbitant lawyer fees but sometimes they are bit of savior.

You as a spouse, I assume won't have issues with continuing studies after csq and wait till PR but Principal applicant in similar situation risk losing csq. I don't have link of those threads here but I am quite sure that after csq a Principal applicant can work only till they get PR after which there aren't any such restrictions. I am not sure if continuing studies are treated separately to starting a new course.

Why not call MIFI and clarify it? Hear from horses mouth.

All the best.