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2 weeks is long enough to suggest that your file could be just sitting around with nobody doing anything. I'd send them a polite follow up email.

I'd apply the following rules to emailing London: - If others around you on the spreadsheet (those in particular who got sponsor approval after you) are getting to 'In Progress' or 'DM' then send London an email to check they received your file ok and there have been no issues here. - If your...

Ha you're matching me. I landed on Saturday at Niagara. Took about maybe 30 mins max, easy peasy. My border crossing from IEC1 to IEC2 in December took longer. It required 4 documents - COPR, passport, administrative refusal from US and Ontario drivers license (for address verification)...

Yeh I thought the vote against QE would definitely move the pound but there was no reaction until today - a delayed reaction with all the economic news considered I guess. I think there will be more QE later this year and I guess the markets do too...

Ahhh it was revealed today that Canada lost 52,000 jobs and the unemployment rate went from 7 to 7.2% in March. That's probably why the Canadian dollar lost 0.02 points right off the bat...

Also on this subject, fwiw at the start of the year I was reading analysis that said investors/markets expect the GBP to CAD rate to be around 1.54-1.55 by the end of the year. This was before it dipped considerably (down to these values) in the first few months. So I'd say if you can get...

I also use this informal method with a friend of mine whose gf is on an IEC (he is just on a visitors visa) so is always transferring money to Canada. An informal but secure exchange system like this would be amazing...

Yeh in 2004 you could get 2.5 to 1. However, as someone who now lives in Canada and gets paid in Canadian dollars I am happy to see the Canadian dollar flourish against the pound - in fact I think it should move to 1:1 ;D

Uhm the CAD to UK rate just jumped to 1.56 out of nowhere today. Good time to send pounds across - bad time to send dollars back over!

Yup CSE unless you already have any emailed responses from them for any previous enquiries (that is an email chain with your File Number in the subject line) in which case you can just reply to the email. Quite a few people have PM'd me so I'll put some information up here: Ok the best way to...

Awesome - another in the bag! There is definitely something to this theory that London works in spurts...

It sounds like when you sent in extra documents someone actually reviewed them straight away. The sad thing is that this appears to be a rare case - often the file can sit around for days/weeks/months before this happens - but congrats!

Right. So it's the $550 plus $490. So there's definitely a $490 in there! I actually already have an OHIP card on my IEC but it has an expiry date, my new one based on my PR I presume wouldn't (or would expire when my PR does) - so mine should be a very simple (LOL at the idea they'd make...

Weren't there 2 fees? I remember the total coming to just over $1,000... Don't you need a new SIN number before you can apply for OHIP?

So I tried to find out if Service Canada are open on weekends and it appears not. Does anyone know if there is any other way of getting a SIN or will I be stuck waiting till Monday morning?

If I were you first thing I would do is email London right now and explain your situation to them. Then see what their response is and take it from there. If their response is 'we understand and have posted your visa out today' then excellent. The thing is if you've gone to DM on ECAS the...

Cool thanks for the response. Pretty much everything I own I have with me in Canada now. I took all my other belongings to the charity shop in the UK a while back. I have an Ontario driving license with my address on it so that should do but I'll bring a bill too - better safe than sorry!

Awesome! It seems to me that CIC basically goes missing for weeks and then actually starts doing stuff in spurts... You're the first October applicant to turn red on the spreadsheet!

Thanks guys, glad it's now just about over... No I already tried to book Wed afternoon off work but then my COPR didn't arrive Tues so I didn't want to piss my boss round again - especially since there was the chance that CIC may have just lied to me again about it being posted out. So I'll...

My medical extension was done in just over a week pretty much. As soon as that's done the COPR is ready to go. COPR ARRIVED TODAY. At last.