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It really depends on the visa office as to when they ask for the passport. For instance, I know the Manila visa office asks for the passport very early in the process and it is not uncommon for people whose applications for permanent residence are processed there to be without their passports...

Congratulations!!! It seems like the Mexico City VO has finally picked up the pace - many of us have been getting PPR all of a sudden! Fingers crossed that it stays that way for a while. There are still some in this thread who have been waiting for over a year and have not gotten PPR. Good luck...

My eCAS changed to "In Process" this week. Passport was delivered to the Mexico City VO an hour ago, according to tracking information. Now to wait... ;D

I haven't checked this thread very often - what happened to the spreadsheet?

I got PPR yesterday!!! 8) I usually post in the Mexico thread and in my case it took 5 months from the final step before PPR (a request to submit the Mexican police certificate, which Mexican applicants cannot submit upfront) to actually get it. A couple of us applying through the Mexico City...

PASSPORT REQUEST TODAY!!!!!!!! And no interview request so we don't have to go to Mexico for that! Finally!!!!! It looks like they extended my medicals for a full extra year - according to my GCMS notes they were valid up until April 1st of this year but the PPR letter states that I have to...

They don't send you the police certificate - they forward the results of it to the visa office that's handling your case. I'm also out of Mexico and I had to send my fingerprints to the embassy in Mexico to get my police certificate. In my case they never notified me when they received it. I...

I don't have first-hand experience of this, but I've been told that even though it's *possible*, it is very difficult to get a visitor visa approved if a citizen of a country that requires a visitor visa is married to a Canadian citizen or PR, regardless of whether there's a sponsorship...

Re: Got our visas! Congratulations!!! ;D Thanks for the detailed walkthrough for those of us who are still waiting for PPR. I've never used prepaid labels to courier a package so this is very helpful. 8)

I've emailed them once in late February to confirm that they obtained my PGR and to ask whether they needed anything else from me. They responded in 2 days - pretty quickly. They didn't answer my first question at all. Instead, I got the exact same response you did - my file is in queue for...

The date of transfer to another officer was January 6th, 2015. The only notes I have are from mid-February and I'm waiting for notes I ordered in mid-March, so I don't know yet if there's been any movement in March. However, the last time I e-mailed the VO was late February and even then the...

Yes, it would be a very good idea to renew your passport before sending the PR application! CIC will not issue a visa unless you have a valid passport and it can take over a year to process applications. Plus it's not a huge hassle to get the passport renewed - last time I had to renew mine it...

Someone who is not aware that the mail service in Mexico cannot be trusted. Our lawyer's assistant sent out my fingerprints for the PGR through Canada Post's registered mail under the assumption that it would be similar to a courier service and we weren't aware that she used Canada Post until...

I just checked the notes I received last month. I also have an eligibility due date for August. It is exactly one year from the date we received SA, and the eligibility assessment says the last time it was updated was August of 2014. Also, my medicals expired in April so this has nothing to do...

Same thing for us - medical passed, criminal and security in progress, eligibility not started. Comments just say that neither of us have been married before, no children, when we first met and when we got married. The notes state that the last activity on our file was on January 6th of this...

We sent my fingerprints to the Mexico City VO via Canada Post in September so that they could get my PGR for me and in mid-October they emailed to ask for a copy of the airway bill because they hadn't received my fingerprints yet. We had to re-do my fingerprints and send them in late October via...

Yeah, it doesn't matter if you have kids, if your spouse lives in a war zone - they will not speed up the process. If a realistic average timeline is one of at least 12 months, they should quit misleading applicants by saying the average processing time for the Mexico VO is 6 months on their AOR...

We are also May 2014 applicants. We get the same response when I email the visa office - in fact, they say they can't give us an estimate of a timeline even. Are you able to get the GCMS notes of your file? The file may be stuck with the same officer or section of the VO as ours is.

Congratulations!!!!

We sent my fingerprints so they could get my PGR (I live in Canada with my wife) in late October and according to my GCMS notes, they received my PGR results in early December. We still haven't heard anything from the visa office except "your file is in queue for review" when I sent an email to...