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ok thanks, that is good to know! my common law partner is from Recife, and has lived in Canada for school almost 10 years. he goes back to visit family in Pernambuco and Bahia once every two years, and i have been lucky enough to visit as well. he is just about to graduate from Concordia with...

hi all - i am not planning a marriage anytime soon, and it will most likely take place in Canada but all this talk about marriage in Brazil - does this mean if we want to move to Brazil as a married couple and/or apply for my PR status in Brazil we would have to follow same procedures or would...

hey bonacker, this usually just means that there is a high volume of sponsorship applications being sent to Buffalo currently, so they will forward to an affiliate office (NY, LA, Seattle, Detroit) in hopes to speed up the processing times. it will be up to the NY office to review and decide...

bonacker i have overseen recent applications which went to NY or LA for processing recently and within 2 months the passports were requested for visa issuance! def. not a bad thing, especially if you submitted police certificates and compelted medicals already!!!

Hey Annieann, 1) Details to re-establish in Canada: I would have your husband print out any email correspondence he has made with his company about transferring - if he has not done so then he can speak with his supervisor to request a) a breif email reviewing the process for transfers to the...

Then it is your AOR! They may also send you a hard copy in the mail but I guess they are trying to reduce printing as many CIC offices are emailing general communications. If you do not receive any communication from them within 90 days, you should contact them via email...

THANKS USAGI! congrats to you too! Did they provide a file number? IE. B000000000?

:D E-cas finally up!!! Decision was made March 10, 2010 and application forwarded to MICC!!! HORRRRAYHOORRRAH!

you will receive either by email or mail Buffalo's AOR in about 1 month after receiving your approval letter.

CPC M is usually pretty accurate, however since January they have been all over the place. once member said when speaking with a CIC agent they indicated that the CPC-M office had made a mistake and missed processing a bunch of applications received in January and skipped to late January and...

hey all! as we wait, on another thread about the processing times at CPC-M someone noted that when they called the CIC call centre, she was informed that there was a mistake while going through the applications and they skipped a bunch and now have had to go back a few weeks. some hope is...

thanks kiwigirl for the insight! the agent i spoke to just said not to trust those who said they have received approvals as it is on a first come first serve policy! well, hopefully we will hear soon enough....i am on 50 days waiting for ecas or a letter! good luck to all :)

no luck. spoke to a sweet lady but she couldn't tell me anything apparently. just the same '64 days' you have to wait and see.... 64 days will come on March 24, 2010. :'( SEEMS LIKE FOREVER!!!

lucky! i would love to be in brazil now in the warm sunshine, at the beach, eating picanha hahaha...and to be out of the dampness here in montreal, although its been mild and hopefully there won't be anymore snow coming along! i just spoke to an agent at CIC and she was very nice but not...

thanks saggit19! i am a citizen, so hopefully i can still have them look me up with just personal info. i am just so frustrated with the website processing times... i will try reaching them now!

yeah, it must be since the earthquake was Jan. 12/2010 if i remember correctly - the Hatian applications must be flooding in now... still makes no sense that apps. in FEB. have been approved...but there is nothing we can do about it :'( i will have to get my partner to apply for his post grad...

Saggit19 - when you called the CIC center and spoke to an agent, what information did you have to provide? all i have is the receipt number from my online transaction and i submitted back in mid-January with no e-cas update or letter...panic is starting to set in! thanks!

OMG i am going to cry....or pull my hair out!!!!!!!!!! the CIC website went from saying they are processing applications from January 26, 2010 in 38 days - to processing applications from January 7, 2010 in 64 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! patience is not my...

thanks ambar! your timeline includes processed application and sponsor approved - was this information you got off of E-cas? i cannot access that information with my online payment confirmation number and my name or my partner's name....i think if still no sign of letter on monday i will try to...

WOO! congrats ambar!!! fingers crossed that my approval will arrive shortly so i can stop going crazy ???