February 2020 Spousal sponsorship Outland
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MY TIME LINE IS ALSO SIMILAR. MEDICAL IS GOING TO EXPIRE IN LAST WEEK OF MARCH. AFTER 2ND AOR NO UPDATE.
Hi guys... I keep hearing people say 'contact your MP'. How do we do that? Can anyone share an email address? My application changed to Application Received on 22nd Feb... 1 year mark completed on the 27th Feb. thank you!
You will need to pick an address (eg postal code) where either sponsor or PA lives or expects to live or has some family connection (eg relatives live there).
https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en
This site (parliament site) will let you search by postal code etc. Once you find the MP, there is a contacts page. You want to contact the office, which you could do by email, or calling, or fax, or even by mail. You may have different success by calling the office and getting email of a staff member - but depends on the office.
Note: contact the constituency office, not the office on the Hill (i.e. in Ottawa); constituency office serves constituents.
They will require a form to be signed (privacy reasons) before they can do anything. The first step will almost always be them 'inquiring' about your file - getting information for you.
Do NOT expect them to work miracles, they have no direct influence on IRCC. For files that are in 'normal processing', not much they can do but inquire. For files that are older, they MAY be able to be the 'squeaky wheel' and write the Minister, etc, and that MAY just may help a little bit to encourage the visa officer to pick up the file and deal with it.
It may not do much but it is something you can do that is not expensive.
No AoR yet, we contacted our MP, when they reached out to IRCC they got the same response we always get...hey! Did you get an AOR yet? We are in the same boat
Sorry to hear you're in the same boat, over a year and not even sure if our apps will be sent back to us.
When were you in contact with MP? Try again. That is too long to not even have got AOR.
We've been in contact over the past three or so weeks. They tried reaching out to IRCC 2 weeks ago.
Keep asking them to do more / write the minister. This is NOT remotely normal processing.
Frankly in your situation I'd re-apply.
I've thought about reapplying but am hesitant to fork over the money to do so.. things are already tight - and though I've submitted outland I am actually inside Canada and would not be able to get a new police certificate from the states without crossing the border, which would likely mean I wouldn't be able to come back in to Canada for some time.
it's a pretty crummy situation to say the least. I wonder if I could resubmit with my old police certificate and cite the pandemic as reason for submitting an old one?
I believe it is possible (but don't know how) to cancel an existing app and not lose the money.
I don't know about US police certificates. I'd be pretty surprised not possible to get without physically showing up, but no personal knowledge.
Hi, I got my FBI clearance online.
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/medical-police/police-certificates/how/united-states.html
You can get fingerprinted at places like this-
https://www.drivercheck.ca/fingerprinting-services
Same situation, been in Canada for seven months now - thought about reapplying, it is not even worth it. My MP office is five minutes away, I am thinking about dropping in and showing the amount of HST I have paid thus far and asking if they can help me out.
I have not received AOR 2 yet. File was transferred to LVO more than a month ago. Where did you get info that most Feb applicants have received AOR 2 ?