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Hi all, I remember from a few years back that the processing times for visitor visas and super visas for Pakistani applicants used to be a month or two, but now according to this page, the processing time is roughly 16 months for both types of visas! Can anyone shed some light on how accurate...

My wife landed in November 2016. She is a Pakistani national and a permanent resident of Canada. Is it possible for her to visit the US or would she need to apply for a US visa beforehand? If she needs a visa, then would she need to apply for one every time she wants to enter the US or can she...

My wife landed in November 2016 and has condition 51 on her COPR. She is from a non-visa exempt country (Pakistan). She is planning to visit her home country in September of this year and will stay there for about two months. Is my wife allowed to stay outside of Canada that long? What is the...

She landed in November 2016 and did not work for the remainder of the year. I was supporting her financially during that time.

I sponsored my wife through the outland spousal sponsorship stream and she'll be landing in Ontario in a few weeks time. What's the earliest she can apply for an OHIP card? I've read through some of the other threads on this forum, and I see that some people are able to apply for OHIP cards even...

The CIC has released key figures on how many Syrian refugees have landed and how many are still being processed (see here). 19,475 refugee resettlement applications in progress: 3,645 applications in Jordan 8,393 applications in Lebanon 4,152 applications in Turkey 3,285 applications in other...

back in june, the CIC posted this notice and it caused a lot of excitement: http://www.cic.gc.ca/English/department/media/notices/2016-06-13.asp the notices says that the CIC has launched a backlog reduction exercise which applies to both outland AND inland applications. however, so far it...

i'm trying to figure out how accurate the "eligibility" status is in MyCIC. maybe i'm mistaken here, but from what i've seen so far, the eligibility status stays as "review in progress" until the app is finalized even if the applicant actually has passed eligibility. if there's anyone here who...

my canadian passport expired last month but i'll be travelling soon, so i'm thinking about travelling on my british passport instead. will i be able to re-enter canada if i keep my expired canadian passport with me as proof of citizenship and show it to the CBSA officer when i return?

Is there anyone here whose eligibility status has changed to "passed" before their application had been finalized? Everyone who has gotten sponsor approval has their eligibility status as "review in progress", and I've seen a few people who have background checks in progress even though their...

I don't know if anyone will be able to answer this, but does anyone know how CIC handles voluntary proof sent to them through email? Do they actually print out whatever we send them and add it to the physical file, or do they only keep the soft copy we send them and link that to the application...

Source: https://www.hilltimes.com/2016/08/03/feds-consulting-on-two-tiered-immigration-processing/75535

i was looking over my GCMS notes from a few months ago and i noticed there's a due date set for the eligibility assessment, and that due date is 2017. does anyone know what this means? does it mean they're not going to begin processing my wife's app until 2017? the app was filed in december 2015...

i'm a sponsor who just linked my wife's app to my MyCIC account. if she ever ends up getting an additional doc request, will she still get an email from the visa office? or will we now have to log into MyCIC on a daily basis to check our messages?

So they've been promising us changes to speed up the processing of family class apps, and apparently those changes will be introduced this fall. They took their sweet time with it. Source...

i'm helping my wife fill out this form and we have a couple of questions we need help with. 1. the form asks for employment history even though she has none. those are required fields as well so i'm not sure we can leave them blank. what do we do here? 2. there's a question asking how much...

I'm helping my wife apply for a TRV. After having looked through this forum, I see several cases where the applicant was rejected and given a 5 year ban for misrepresentation. What shocked me is that for some of those cases, the visa officer accused the applicant of misrepresentation for...

my wife (who is also being sponsored by me) is applying for a TRV, and i'm wondering what happens if they reject her application. will she have to inform the VO where her spousal sponsorship app is being processed? the reason i'm asking is because i recall one of the forms for the spousal...

i noticed it's common for LVO to ask the applicant to submit additional proof of an ongoing relationship in the form of messaging logs and pictures of recent visits. i don't have a problem with providing proof of communication, but pictures of recent visits is going to be a huge problem for me...

i'm asking this on behalf of a friend who's about to get married. she's single at this time and is close to getting her study permit. if she gets married in her home country before travelling to canada on her study permit, is there a chance that the cic would revoke her permit and have her...