February 2020 Spousal sponsorship Outland
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Thank you! I hope China process like Ottawa ! Hindi Chini bhai bhai
You won't have to apply for a new application. If you need a new medical you will have to pay for that.
Hey, my application is transferred to Beijing, and its been around 10 days that my application is in received status.
I’m thinking about ordering Gcms notes to get some idea
When you say letter of approval, do you mean the passport request?
My understanding is you cannot land and depart immediately but need to quarantine in Canada before returning - I'm only referring to the Canadian side, so it may be further complicated by what UK requirements there are at that time.
We had a similar situation (received COPR and visas with short timeframe remaining before expiry); I wrote about our experience here:
https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/copr-expired-family-class.715135/
Short form, we wrote to the visa office (in embassy) and heard back shortly and they issued us a longer-dated visa/copr, with no new medical. (We submitted webform as well but the response from that was much later and almost useless)
What we submitted was more or less per the instructions here - but from what I've seen this is not being applied very consistently:
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/coronavirus-covid19/immigration-applicants.html#expired
Warning: I was a bit surprised at how well this worked but I have NO idea whether this is a new policy or just our visa office. Therefore I repeat: I have NO idea whether this is how they would treat your case and so it is all at your own risk. It would be preferable to land in Canada and remain if at all possible. (It was simply not feasible in our case for a variety of reasons)
I have also heard that IRCC is more-or-less automatically extending validity of medicals, but I can't say if that is an actual policy or just a rumour - but clearly they are doing so in some instances.
So all I can do is share the experience and you'll have to make your own choice. I think it may depend on the visa office you're dealing with as well.
(If I were to do again I would submit the passports with a letter requesting longer validity period of visa right from the beginning but I have no idea if that would work - when we originally submitted our intent was to depart within the original validity...)
when you open your ecas, it shows right there.
It shows the applicants name and in the next box- application status
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I read in the other forum that it is the email which contains your file number. Is that true?
i guess that is AOR 1