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Thanks! Currently on vacation together after celebrating our 1st wedding anniversary 3 days ago!!! :D Moscow visa office only forced us to be 7 months apart during that year!... >:(

Good news! My wife has arrived safely in Canada a few days ago, PR visa in hand. She went to pickup her visa in Moscow (her passport was already there as she sent it before to save time). Took only 10 minutes and because her visa was already on her passport she didn't have to come back later...

You have to make arrangements with either Pony Express or IOM (MOM). Or go there...

Re: Coming to Canada from Russia A little off-topic :-[ but still useful information worth sharing I think: Airplane tickets from Russia to Canada: I first tried skyscanner.net (http://ca.skyscanner.com/ from Canada) but the flights we wanted (TransAero/Lufthansa) were not available there...

Absolutely! Only $5 and a few minutes to fill. I did it every month to see progress (not much at first). It takes about a month to receive reports so it's always a snapshot of your file 30 days ago or more but still worth it as consulate gives no feedback at all.

Re: OUR VISA IS READY!!!! We hardly could believe our eyes. At 15:00 they sent an email to my wife telling her that visa is ready (her passport was already there). We spent the next 2 hours booking flights, etc. She will be coming next Tuesday! :D It is exactly 7 months to the day since...

Fazimy: congratulations!!! I am happy for both of you. I hope we will also have good news to report soon; this process is starting to get on my nerves quite a bit :-X Donhollio: thanks for the details. BTW here's a nice list (with explanations) of acronyms used in immigration discussions...

Donhollio: I'm sorry, I am trying to understand but I am confused by your post. 1) Your profile says you got AOR Jan 1st 2011 and application received Jan 25. It is usually the other way around. 2) You paid the residence fee (C$490) on June 28? Is it maybe July 28? Voluntarily or after being...

You got POVL? Congrats!! That proves my theory: address disappearing = POVL on the way. So far it worked for 3 of the 4 cases where address disappeared in the last week or so. WE are the 4th case ;) ;D

I think that these numbers are indeed erroneous in some way. OTOH the shortest AOR-POVL time so far was 62 days.

Re: a NEW RECORD ! Someone going to Quebec (like us) just set a new processing record for Moscow office: PRV Application sent to Mississauga: Apr 26 2011 Documents in Moscow: Jun 04 2011 AOR: Jun 24 2011 # days from Mississauga to POVL: 115 :o # days docs in Moscow to POVL: 76 :o :o # days...

Re: e-CAS address disappearing = POVL? That's what I first thought but researching forums showed me a probable correlation between address disappearance and one of 3 actions above. I think this is due to the fact that the database record is locked during modifications by visa officers. It...

You're welcome! ;)

As official times are calculated from the moment the docs are received in Moscow I added this data (2nd column) to previous table # days from Mississauga to POVL 237+ 161 192 181 194 ? 210 245 256 217 187 180 245 # days docs in Moscow to POVL 198+ 117 143 121 111 156 169 207 202 175 175 146...

Re: e-CAS address disappearing = POVL? My wife (the applicant)'s street address disappeared from her e-CAS page. Nothing changed from mine when I log under my UCI#. Check yours and report here please. Based on info from different forums this means one of three things that can happen within a...

Re: Photos for visa?? To those who received POVL letter from Moscow recently: do they still ask to send additional photos with passport and letter/form to get your PR visa? Russia USED to require additional photos (2) but does not anymore I think. Just checking. Kiev does not require...

Here are some of the BEST times we could compile from the most recent Spousal PR applications who received the POVL from the Moscow visa office. Some of you may recognize themselves as this data was collected from many forums. Some notes about the first column: 87 days was for someone going to...

Normally about 2 weeks after being approved as sponsor your e-CAS status should show that documents have been sent to the Moscow visa office. This is when the official countdown for months starts (the now 10 months processing time). Then about 4-6 weeks later the immigrant should receive a...

Kiev went down from 11 to 7 months while Moscow went up from 9 to 10 months even though Moscow visa office has more officers and less (yes less) cases to process than Kiev.

Exactly! This fact should be known on Russian forums as well. People should be aware of this abuse.