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ECAS is an electronic case management system which is supposed to show the most up to date info about your application. Looks like only FSW2014 and Refugees have ECAS access and everyone else is getting that same message. My personal opinion is that ECAS will never come back for EE applicants...

One of the guys on the forums found a visa officer job description and it said they have shifts and work holidays and weekends. So I hope holidays won't affect their schedule.

DM stands for Decision Made. It used to be one of status types in ECAS back in the days when ECAS was an actual case monitoring system.

Not entirely true for outland fsw and pnp. Only a few lucky applicants with cases in certain outland visa offices have seen rather quick app processing. But these are exceptional cases rather than the norm. Most of applicants from July onwards are still stuck

There could be in terms of doing background checks for two persons versus one

For the US PCC, you have to mail your request along with fingerprints to FBI Make sure that: you are fingerprinted by a professional you include several (at least 3) sets of fingerprints you provide a US return address (of a relative or a friend who can scan to you - not mandatory but makes...

We touched this issue a little bit and it sparked some controversy. My personal understanding is they have diverted ECAS servers to better serve growing number of refugee applications. Here is the proof of recent ECAS updates for them while none of us has had ECAS recently...

I am still not convinced that they have not transferred at least some if not significant part of their resources. Check out this recent parliament standoff where McCallum professionally avoids the question by saying: "..no people [agents] have been displaced from other REFUGEES. There will be no...

Congrats dukhi! Looks like no more June FSW AORers left so they will hopefully clear July backlog by the end of the month and start August and September in January.

I still recommend you to request FBI PCC. Admissibility check is the very last step of the application and you can never be sure. It is only $18 per applicant but it will save you a lot of hassle (and 3 months of additional wait) in case they do ask for it. Also make sure you provide FBI a US...

Well, according to CIC guidlines, you have to have lived 6 months and more: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/infORmation/security/police-cert/intro.asp However, CIC has been randomly asking for FBI PCC's even for much shorter stays. If I were you, I would have sent the request to FBI right after...

Agreed. Congrats on your PPR by the way :)

Here: https://services3.cic.gc.ca/ecas/;jsessionid=005B949F47FF8EEF06F603F76814B088?app=ecas&lang=en

I would say given current trends earliest update for you would be in late January.

I refuse to accept the mentality that they are doing me a favor by considering my application. Nonetheless, I am not doing Canada a favor by applying as well. It should be a two way street. I have options and they have options. I have chosen Canadian values and economic prosperity over my other...

Good for you! I hope you have already submitted your request to the FBI though. Because if you haven't wait times have gone up to 13 to 15 weeks now and even the 90 days could be not enough. On the other hand, I still wonder if CIC will clear the refugee backlog to process our applications at a...

This is a quite interesting report. I have been anxiously waiting for the annual update for this (presumably coming early next year). But from what we have there, my assumption is that at around 1500 ITA pace per draw we are not going to see scores dropping below 450 since there seems to be a...

Methods from the 30s have prevailed in some advanced countries, my friend. You should consider yourself very lucky since whoever has spent more than six months in the US is under FBI PCC curse :D

I have heard they are collecting comprehensive fingerprint databases, so they need to do detailed analysis on fingerprints. Just in case they need for future reference. Otherwise, accessing our info from databases would take minutes if not seconds. I even asked them to provide PPC based on name...

Tell me about it. FBI is like doubling down on the stress level that usual applicants take. All in all, express entry is the slowest thing with the word "express" in it. You have to take IELTS, get ECAs, get PCCs, get POF with 6 months of averages, and then wait for at least 6 more months to get...