Recent content by sgsmrp

Good to see some updates! It's interesting how few comments our thread has compared to others hahaha. A little update of my own: I got my OWP application accepted and the permit itself was delivered a few days ago. One step closer, hopefully! Good luck, everyone

I try to limit it to twice a week :)

Waiting and waiting and waiting is what this is all about! Hahaha. I think that applying for an extension of your visitor permit is a good idea but other more knowledgeable people than me in the forum could prove me wrong. I can only say that I was in a pretty similar situation to yours and it...

I was in kind of a similar situation when I applied. I only had a month and a few weeks left in my visitor permit so waiting for the AOR to apply for an OWP wasn't an option but what @scylla suggested would've been ideal. I'm not sure if it'll be any different for you but when I applied for an...

Maybe they meant BIL?

AOR stands for acknowledgment of receipt, so yeah, that is the AOR :)

The fact is that 6 months is for all intents and purposes instant. It's also true that for most people their applications won't go that fast. I think it's better in the long run for our mental health to accept this as soon as we can and also to accept the current processing times as real even if...

I know for a fact (I myself applied on December 2024 although it was inland) that the wait is hard, but you folks really need to try to relax a bit or the wait is seriously going to kill you hahaha. Trust the process, it will be alright.

A watched pot never boils! I know it's tough but seriously try to force yourself to not check the status for a day, then try two, then three and so on until the amount of days you deem necessary while still checking your email in case you get any important updates. If you have anyone you could...

I'm guessing they meant MP

I'm still thinking about this and I really don't think that a percentage is representative of anyone's chances of approval or denial. The percentages that we could more or less guess from what we've seen here don't really affect the applications themselves. It doesn't matter if the chances of...

I often wonder about statistics as well, but considering that every case is its own world and has so many different variables to account for, I'm not sure if relying on statistics matters much :) But again, I understand the desire to have some actual numbers to look at.

Same-sex relationships shouldn't encounter any more scrutiny than heterosexual relationships in Canada :) I'd be very surprised to see your application suffering delays because of that, and if it does and you suspect that it's due to you being in a same-sex relationship I'm sure that you could...

Congrats! I applied around the same day but inland. Not going to lie, with these processing times I really wish I had known before that applying outland from within Canada was a choice hahaha. Happy for you though.

Yeah! I use both the tracker and my gckey account but thanks for the suggestion. That's what I was thinking, I guess I'll have to wait for the next update :) Thanks for confirming it!