Guys,
Finally, after two excruciatingly long years, my application has been approved in the system. Tracker not activated yet, but it's a matter of time I believe.
We applied as a couple and my wife was the primary applicant. Unfortunately, she had to move back to home country in Oct 2019 because her US visa had expired. They asked for updated proof of funds from us in Mar 2020 and we gleefully assumed that everything else has been approved seemingly and that they just want to validate that we have enough funds to resettle. But guess what? Once in a lifetime pandemic, Coronavirus, hit, the world was turned upside down and our application was put on hold again. To our surprise, we got an update in our profile and to our disbelief they issued PPR to us in Aug 2020, however, when they learned that we are not together in US anymore, they put our application on hold again. But I had already sent my passport to CPC Ottawa by then, which they returned after a couple of months without COPR, citing that they cannot issue COPR to me without first doing it for the primary applicant. Seems like bad luck was not going to leave us so easily.
We constantly kept a track of Canada Visa offices/VFS in home country from Aug 2020 onwards. They finally opened in mid Dec 2020 and as soon as they opened, my wife sent her passport to VFS and got the coveted COPR in mid Jan 2021. There were no bounds to our happiness but job was half done yet. Immediately she emailed a copy of her COPR to me, which I then sent along with my passport and photographs to CPC Ottawa, that was received by them on Jan 13, 2021. Like a ritual that I had been following for the last couple of months, today morning I checked my profile again and to my complete pleasant surprise my application got approved in the system after almost two months.
Below is the timeline for a quick reference:
AOR: Mar 2019
Submitted updated proof of funds: Mar 2020
PPR: Aug 2020. PPR put on hold though.
Primary applicant (Wife) sent passport to VFS: Dec 2020
Wife got COPR: Mid Jan 2021
Secondary applicant (myself) submitted passport to CPC Ottawa: Jan 13, 2021
Application approved in system: Mar 10, 2021.
Note: To make matters worse, we got married in 2018 and had to celebrate our first two anniversaries away from each other due to travel restrictions put in place due to COVID-19. But as they say, all's well that ends well. So hang-in tight there my fellow CanadaVisa forum members.
Now we need to start planning our moves, which is another Herculean task.