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Did it!!! Got my request for passport to issue COPR today!!! What a process! And I'm beyond grateful to this group and forum for answering my questions, keeping me as sane as one can during this process, and for spreading the support & love. I can't wait to LAND!!

Checked my ECAS for the first time this week and it says " DECISION MADE" !!!! AHHH!!! Finally!!! But what does this mean? I'm awaiting PPR - which I suspect can take any where from a few days to a few weeks. But does this mean I'm approved? or could the decision made be a denial? I...

Got an email denying me my notes I ordered back in March today. They want proof I'm inside Canada.... isn't that indicated on my application? And aren't the notes based off of passport scans - so I assumed they would see that I'm in Canada.... Anyway - decided to print out and fill out the...

Nope. Crickets. I had to force myself to stop checking myCIC & my ECAS before I started to go crazy. I am beginning my summer work travels soon and I'm beyond anxious. It will be how it is supposed to be. I'm leaving up to the universe now.

You can order notes for yourself or have him sign the waiver for you ordering on his behalf. I was able to order my own because I visit fairly full time within Canada. I'm praying the mail them out before I leave on the 28th for two days.... we did t have to sign/fill out the waiver - sorry I...

We mailed everything to Mississauga on Nov 4th and my sponsor was approved on Nov 21st. My apps were linked shortly afterwards and nothing has changed in my ECAS since then. My BGC was in progress as of mid-Jan on myCIC and then we were asked for additional proof on Feb 11th - which we provided...

We must have the same slowwwww officer in Ottawa, my friend! Here's hoping we both get positive answers soon!

I am thinking about emailing for an update or to at least nudge Ottowa. I am due to leave Canada in 3.5 weeks for work and then will be in and out of the country all summer (I'm a wedding photographer and work in the States and visit with my partner and stepson when I'm off work) I have...

I broke down and ordered my notes today. At least now if I don't hear anything in the next 30 days - I'll hopefully be rewarded with notes from the CIC office! Woohoo!

Yep. I'm in the same boat. Just twiddling my thumbs. I am supposed to start travelling for work at the end of April and the longer I am waiting on an answer, the larger chance I'll have to cancel on my clients. It's starting to be a bit of a nail-bitter. I am sure that we will all have news soon.

Hi Everyone! Just wanted to get some feedback on this: * ECAS hasn't changed since November - still only says that my medical is passed. Still reading as "in progress" for my sponsor's approval too (which is clearly no longer the case - AOR1 back in mid-November...) * myCIC hasn't changed in...

Dropped the "X" from my application number and "passed" my medicals last night in myCIC! I'm hoping to step away from the forever-checking-for-updates while I'm on holiday in Alberta this week... but there's always wifi at Starbucks... :P

Officially was able to link my app in myCIC this morning!! It says "open" - which I am taking as our AOR1 (IRCC has received our app!) Thank you to everyone's tips & tricks on here. Super helpful! I'm relieved and anxious. Now the real waiting game begins....

Shipped our packet overnight and FedEx said it was signed for on Friday, Nov 4th. No word. At all. And unable to access ECAS (using payment receipt number) or link to myCIC. I'm pretty much convinced it's lost or being sent back. We applied common-law family sponsorship from outside Canada...

I also have this concern. My lawyer advised that we have our application before Election Day and we overnighted it to Mississauga for last friday morning. We had to wait until after Oct 28th to establish common law. So tight window! We paid for tracking and a signature from FedEx, and we...

Agreed. I am just wondering if I could show a client contract for April 2017 as proof if intention to leave rather than a plane ticket - because buying a plane ticket for April in December is going to more expensive than need be.

We definitely feel like we provided sufficient evidence of cohabition for the required period of time. We have had this application in our minds for two years. Endless receipts, selfies, and screenshots. I even have a record of our first FaceTime (literally pure luck though). I'm a...

We did consider the inland, but Outland is way faster (hopefully) and everything we found and have heard said that small breaks or absenses for work purposes are allowed when establishing the 365 needed for common law. I have proof that I have only left for work purposes and the time has been...

Hmmm. I don't see what I've been doing wrong though. I can't work on a visitor visa... and yet we have to live together for 365 days straight. That just doesn't seem like a feasible way to expect people to live. I maintain my business in the States. I have ties to my home country. I have...

It wasn't continuous. It was majority. I had to leave to work. We have been on the same lease for a year+ and have resigned for 2017. We sent in all of that proof.