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this is from a notice that was posted today: http://www.cic.gc.ca/English/department/media/notices/2016-06-22.asp For approximately six weeks, starting the week of May 9, 2016, additional dedicated staff joined employees and partner organizations already working in the Middle East to process...

there's been lots of cases where CIC doc requests disappear into our spam folders and cause unnecessary delays. missing a doc request from CIC could also lead to your application being cancelled. unless you're in the habit of checking your spam folder regularly, it's wiser to disable your spam...

i'm a canadian citizen with a foreign wife. my wife wants to come and study here in canada, and i'm the only one providing her financial support so she'll be living with me. will this be a problem when she applies for her study permit? i can show them a bank statement proving that i have money...

i'm sponsoring my pakistani wife. it has been 6 months since i submitted the application to sponsor her and there's no telling how much longer it'll take. meanwhile she has finished her studies and is waiting for the sponsorship process to complete. she doesn't work either. we both miss each...

my wife and i agreed to move to the UAE if the CIC ended up taking longer than 10 months to process our sponsorship application. it has currently been 6 months, so there's 4 more months to go. i know that CIC works at a snails pace, so i'm trying to get myself ready for this possibility in...

i'm a sponsor residing in canada with a pakistani PA being processed at the london visa office. i'm about to move soon and want to update my address. there's an online service for updating addresses, but i guess i can't use that since my case isn't being processed in canada, correct? how else do...

just curious... how susceptible is CIC to corruption? what i mean by that is if for example an applicant has powerful connections within the govt, could he/she use them to speed up their process? the reason i'm asking is because i know someone personally who was able to get through the family...

i feel like i didn't send in enough proof when we submitted the app, so i've now voluntarily sent more proof (call logs and western union receipts). the problem is that it seems they take 30 days just to get around to an email... does that mean it'll take them 30 days to add the voluntary proof...

It's been nearly 40 days since I sent a case specific enquiry to London VO with additional info about my application, but they haven't replied back. Could they have added the info to my file without notifying me, or do they always notify the sender? I'm wondering whether or not I should follow...

one of my friends got married overseas in Pakistan. he wasn't there for long, but after the marriage, he and his wife stayed together at his parents' house for 4-5 days before he had to fly back to canada. in the application, they've written down that 4-5 days under the question that asks for...

a friend of mine is about to get married overseas (in Pakistan), and I'm going to bw helping him with the sponsorship process once he's back next month. he was asking me questions about how eligibility works and we got to talking about what things the CIC might consider red flags. one of the...

My wife is a Pakistani applicant being processed at LVO, and from what I'm seeing, it's common for them to ask for more proof of relationship just to ensure that communication is ongoing. So there's a chance that they'll ask me to submit more proof as well, but I want to avoid any delays where I...

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In the article linked below, McCallum says that his "single top priority is to reduce those backlogs and to reduce the processing times". If their intention is to reduce backlogs, does this mean that they're going to put new applications on hold until the backlogs are cleared? My application was...

I've been looking at some of the spreadsheets here for apps being processed at LVO, and I don't know if I'm looking at the wrong sheets or whether people haven't been updating their rows, but it seems that there haven't been any DMs from this visa office since December 2015. Three months have...

The number hasn't really gone by up much, but what they're proposing here is to change the way they prioritize cases. The plan now is to give greater priority to family/spouses (that's us) and refugees, while giving less priority to applicants from the economic stream. It's unlikely that we'll...

Just curious, when we get a doc request from the VO asking for an original marriage certificate, can we use that to guess what stage the application is that?

My wife's police certificate was 2 months old when I mailed our application, and there was a 6 month expiry date mentioned on the certificate itself. Now the certificate is close to expiring and I'm wondering what I should do. Will the VO still consider it valid for 1 year or will they ask me to...

If I order GCMS notes on March 1st and get them on March 30th, what date would they actually take the notes from the case file? Would it be somewhere within the last 7 days before the deadline? I'm just trying to figure out how recent the notes are by the time we get them.

I'm asking this on behalf of a friend. His English is very weak so I'm trying my best to help him out here. His girlfriend is the sponsor, and he's the applicant. When his girlfriend got her PR a few years back, she had been in a common-law relationship for over 1 year. However, due to some...