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Thanks a lot. It makes sense to allow it but it is important to check. I am worried that my email to them led to an automated reply promising a proper reply within 28 working days. Hopefully they will reply sooner as it just feels like a really ultra convenient way to do this. Anyone do...

Dear All, I've just received an email requesting my passport from the Vienna office. I have 30 days to get the passport sent to them. Since I will be visiting Vienna on business in mid-June, I was wondering whether it is possible to submit the passport in person and pick it up in person without...

Dear All, I've just received an email requesting my passport from the Vienna office. I have 30 days to get the passport sent to them. Since I will be visiting Vienna on business in mid-June, I was wondering whether it is possible to submit the passport in person and pick it up in person without...

Thanks for your quick response and good luck with Stage 2. Any reason to be worried that we haven't heard anything since AOR? Is 11 days a 'worry' zone or is 4 days just very quick and smooth? Thanks a lot everyone.

Hi everyone, Our application arrived in Mississauga on November 5 2014 and we received an email on February 4 2015 informing us that our application was received as well as the information that allows us to check our status online (UCI, Application Number etc.) - I was just wondering what is...

I waited as long as possible for the medical, doing it two days before sending the application just so to buy as much time as I can. It is a hassle re-doing it as here at least you end up waiting 5 hours for paperwork etc. for a medical that takes less than 10 minutes. BTW, are we allowed to...

Just one more question - I see that COPR's are usually linked with medical validity - I see that you did your medical more than a year ago and just got your visa recently - how long is COPR? How generous are they usually with the time allocated to move to Canada?

I will absolutely take up your offer, thank you so much once again. The GCMS stuff is also duly noted, this is the first I've heard about it (probably because all my forum searching was to do with the application itself rather than the process after it).

Thank you so much Avadava. We should be a pretty straightforward case so hopefully all the luck in the world is already in the sent envelope's :-) but there is always that worm in your head that never let's you trust a bureaucratic process, no matter how efficient, too much :-) I am not...

Thanks for the head's up. So basically little alarms should go off if I don't hear from them for a couple of months, i.e. after the processing time it takes for sponsorship approval :-) I don't have an UCI but from what I see on other threads, following the process can be a frustrating...

Also to check - it says in IMM 0008 and IMM 1344 that all communication will be via email - does this apply to approval/rejection letters etc or just additional document requests and clarifications?

...and the entire package should be in Mississauga by Thursday the latest. I see a lot of posts complaining about radio silence from the CIC for weeks and months after sending everything in - I know it takes them 40+ days to process the sponsor eligibility but is there some email, note...

After spending nearly 3 months waiting for the South African and Zimbabwean police certificates, I am not gambling with a Balkan post office delivering the package :-) Maybe I would be less enthusiastic about using DHL if our application was the size of some I've seen here (in thousands of...

Yes, we are also writing the contents on the envelope. I guess it simplifies things to do it as I originally planned - just clipping everything to the relevant form. So all letters and evidence for IMM 5540 are clipped with the form and so on. I think it will make it easier for them as they...

I guess that depends on their own competence rather than the way we pack everything since they will unpack it all once it reaches Mississauga. I guess it is more important to have copies of everything on standby should something fail to materialise. One last question - the 8 Immigrant photo's...

So CIC will look at everything and not just the Sponsor's forms when we mail it in? That is a relief because it means that they will then probably just forward everything to Vienna as well. Thanks a lot.

Hi, I've seen some pretty elaborate setups here about how people went about compiling and organizing their application. Still a few things are unclear. What we have organized at the moment is as following: One envelope for the Sponsor's forms and One envelope for the Principal Applicant...

Thanks a lot. We are the same (living together 7 years, married 4 years, one baby daughter), never been apart ofr more than a couple of days since 2007 so I guess no need to worry about that side of things 3901 is that checklist that covers certain regions - I just had a look at 3902 as for...

Hi all, One quick question about children - my sponsor and I have a baby daughter who has received her Canadian citizenship certificate. We list her in a few forms that require us to list our kids but form 3901 question 8 says to provide information re: children and then basically only talks of...

Thanks a lot - we are very confident and our case looks pretty straightforward...but once you start looking at all these generic questions, guides etc. the confidence starts to ebb away a bit :-) Thanks for the help and the encouragement.