2014 APPLICANTS - NOVA SCOTIA NOMINEE PROGRAM(WITHOUT JOB OFFER)

[evelyn24]

Jus curious - What kind of trouble ? or questions

She said I must provide wes evaluation, I gave confirmation from wes that am already on it. Yet she has refused to accept it.

 

[tenkrun10]

Both myself and my wife are Indian citizens working on H1B in US for more than six years. We have a son who is US-citizen. Recently, by god's grace and support from everyone, we had received nomination from NSNP. Now, we are asked to to submit the federal immigration application to CIO-Sydney. We had filled the Visa office as India (unknowingly but it seems managable)

We have specific questions w.r.t. the following in IMM5690E document checklist:
1. "Police certificates and Clearances: You must get a police certificate from each country or territory where you have lived for six or more months in a row since the age of 18. You are strongly encouraged to submit your police certificates with your application to the CIO. If your are unable to obtain all the necessary police certificates, you may still send your application to the CIO without them. However, we strongly recommend that you take steps to obtain your police certificates now to avoid future delays. You must be ready to submit them when requested by an officer".
(a). Stay in India: As per CIC website /security/police-cert/asia-pacific/india.asp (which says Non-Resident Requests Applicants should contact the Indian embassy or consulate.), we are planning to submit request for PCC at Indian consulate in SanFrancsico. Does any one how long it take for the Indian embassy to give the police certificates? Is there anything else required from India?
(b) Stay in US: We have received fingerprint reports from FBI. Is there anything else required for stay in US?

2. Paying fees: Which mode of payment is preferred? Payment on Internet or Using Payment fee form?

3. How long does it take after we submit the application to CIO-Sydney to receive PR (or COPR)? Any pointers or hep will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Shallow purple - congrats on your nomination.

1b) I would get a PCC from the USA too along with that from India. You've lived in the US for 6 years, and I reckon...in India too over the past 10 years.


2. Many factors affect payment preference. For me, online payment makes the process easier for the processor. You mail them the receipt - payment is processed and they can move on to other areas of file assessment.

3. Plan for a year being a provincial nominee (that is post nomination). Generally it's taking 17 months per CIC timeline for Ottawa Processing Center. I researched timelines on this site for PNP applicants filing via office in Canada. The key milestone is when your status reads "in process- IP". generally per current timeline, the in process stage lingers for 5 - 6 months. It goes from IP to decision made (DM) if no extra documents are needed, you don't have a common name that requires extra verification, and no complications. from the DM to request for passport it's not taking more than 2 months for applicants with straight fwd apps. Understand that this is a normal case scenario, no complications and all.


I'm also based in the US, and recently asked to correct documents - I was asked to change my visa office too. I plan on Ottawa as the New York office is closed. Any reason why you chose Sydney ? This may be helpful to me too.




Other tips:

1 - Starting August 1st, 2014- Information and fees relating to dependents have changed. Read it to see if it applies to you as you mention you have a child. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/fees/result.asp?lob=pn&cat=perm

2 - I've heard on this forum that it's often beneficial to anticipate and "front load" documents and fees - That is...submit everything and pay for your Right of Permanent Residence Fee in advance to save yourself and CIC an extra step of inquiring from you, waiting to receiving it and then advancing on your process.

Finally -

Please fill out the form (see link in my signature)..this helps forum members with information to project timelines, answer questions etc based on the data points we have. We've been able to project and answer questions as a result of the benefit of the data we're collecting from other applicants so please take a moment and enter your details.

- Also, were you asked to correct any forms or for additional documents prior to nomination ? what were they (if yes ?). Thanks a congrats to you

 

[bensonams]

Shallow purple - congrats on your nomination.

1b) I would get a PCC from the USA too along with that from India. You've lived in the US for 6 years, and I reckon...in India too over the past 10 years.


2. Many factors affect payment preference. For me, online payment makes the process easier for the processor. You mail them the receipt - payment is processed and they can move on to other areas of file assessment.

3. Plan for a year being a provincial nominee (that is post nomination). Generally it's taking 17 months per CIC timeline for Ottawa Processing Center. I researched timelines on this site for PNP applicants filing via office in Canada. The key milestone is when your status reads "in process- IP". generally per current timeline, the in process stage lingers for 5 - 6 months. It goes from IP to decision made (DM) if no extra documents are needed, you don't have a common name that requires extra verification, and no complications. from the DM to request for passport it's not taking more than 2 months for applicants with straight fwd apps. Understand that this is a normal case scenario, no complications and all.


I'm also based in the US, and recently asked to correct documents - I was asked to change my visa office too. I plan on Ottawa as the New York office is closed. Any reason why you chose Sydney ? This may be helpful to me too.




Other tips:

1 - Starting August 1st, 2014- Information and fees relating to dependents have changed. Read it to see if it applies to you as you mention you have a child. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/fees/result.asp?lob=pn&cat=perm

2 - I've heard on this forum that it's often beneficial to anticipate and "front load" documents and fees - That is...submit everything and pay for your Right of Permanent Residence Fee in advance to save yourself and CIC an extra step of inquiring from you, waiting to receiving it and then advancing on your process.

Finally -

Please fill out the form (see link in my signature)..this helps forum members with information to project timelines, answer questions etc based on the data points we have. We've been able to project and answer questions as a result of the benefit of the data we're collecting from other applicants so please take a moment and enter your details.

- Also, were you asked to correct any forms or for additional documents prior to nomination ? what were they (if yes ?). Thanks a congrats to you

Great!

 

[shallowpurple]

Shallow purple - congrats on your nomination.

1b) I would get a PCC from the USA too along with that from India. You've lived in the US for 6 years, and I reckon...in India too over the past 10 years.
I already got the fingerprinting report from FBI. Is that what is referred to as PCC for USA. For India, I am planning to get it done from Indian consulate. My question is do I have to wait for Indian consulate to give me the PCC or can I just proceed to the federal immigration application to CIO-Sydney (the instruction do say "If your are unable to obtain all the necessary police certificates, you may still send your application to the CIO without them", but wanted to hear anecdotal experience on it)

2. Many factors affect payment preference. For me, online payment makes the process easier for the processor. You mail them the receipt - payment is processed and they can move on to other areas of file assessment.

3. Plan for a year being a provincial nominee (that is post nomination). Generally it's taking 17 months per CIC timeline for Ottawa Processing Center. I researched timelines on this site for PNP applicants filing via office in Canada. The key milestone is when your status reads "in process- IP". generally per current timeline, the in process stage lingers for 5 - 6 months. It goes from IP to decision made (DM) if no extra documents are needed, you don't have a common name that requires extra verification, and no complications. from the DM to request for passport it's not taking more than 2 months for applicants with straight fwd apps. Understand that this is a normal case scenario, no complications and all.


I'm also based in the US, and recently asked to correct documents - I was asked to change my visa office too. I plan on Ottawa as the New York office is closed. Any reason why you chose Sydney ? This may be helpful to me too.

I didn't choose visa office as Sydney, I think you mean why did I choose New Delhi, India as visa office - well to be frank, I didnt knew. I am Indian citizen and our present visa (H1B) is based on job etc., and I want to play safe. So, Instead of choosing Ottawa, I choose delhi (in case I am asked for personal interview). I might have challenge sending the passport to India - let's see how it goes.


Other tips:

1 - Starting August 1st, 2014- Information and fees relating to dependents have changed. Read it to see if it applies to you as you mention you have a child.

2 - I've heard on this forum that it's often beneficial to anticipate and "front load" documents and fees - That is...submit everything and pay for your Right of Permanent Residence Fee in advance to save yourself and CIC an extra step of inquiring from you, waiting to receiving it and then advancing on your process.
Thanks for the tips!
Finally -

Please fill out the form (see link in my signature)..this helps forum members with information to project timelines, answer questions etc based on the data points we have. We've been able to project and answer questions as a result of the benefit of the data we're collecting from other applicants so please take a moment and enter your details.

- Also, were you asked to correct any forms or for additional documents prior to nomination ? what were they (if yes ?). Thanks a congrats to you

I just filed it

 

[sjulien]

1) PCC - you can submit later on also. It is not mandatory while you are going to submit application. Sometime, PCC will take longer time. However, if you are submit PCC with application that much better.

 

[bensonams]

Today is going to be a good day!

 

[gaurav2571]

Dear Friends,

Please find the reply, I received on 11-Aug-14.

Good day,

Thank you for your patience. We understand it can be frustrating as you wait to learn about the status of your application.

The Nova Scotia Office of Immigration has received a large number of applications to the Regional Labour Market Demand stream. Currently we are logging and assessing these applications. We are accepting 150 nominees through this stream. It may be helpful for you to know that applications are being assessed on a first-come, first-served basis. Once these 150 individuals have been identified, all remaining applications will be returned to applicants. Successful applicants – as well as those who are unsuccessful – will be notified.

This is a complicated process that takes time. It would be a difficult and time-consuming task to check the status of each individual application. As such we cannot provide individual status updates, timeframes for completion, or information pertaining to assessment up to specific dates.

Please find below some answers to questions that you may have:

Q: When will 150 applicants be nominated under the RLMD stream?
A: Recognizing that people are anxious to know the status of their application, we are working hard to process applications as quickly as possible. As you can appreciate, there is a lot of complicated work involved and it does take time.

The Nova Scotia Office of Immigration does not have a set date whereby the applicants will be nominated. We will have this work done as quickly as we can.

Q: How far along are you with regard to nominating 150 applicants under the RLMD stream?
A: We are just under 50% complete.

Q: Why is it taking so long?
A: The assessing of applications is complicated work. The Nova Scotia Office of Immigration needs to do our due diligence with every application we look at. It is not work that should be – or can be - completed in haste.

Q: Will you be reviewing all applications?
A: We will continue to review applications until we have reached 150 nominations. All unprocessed applications will be returned after the cap has been reached.

Thank you,

Nova Scotia Office of Immigration
Website: http://www.novascotiaimmigration.com

 

[gaurav2571]

Dear Friends,

Please find below the auto reply I received from NS :-

Hello:

Please note that the Regional Labour Market Demand Stream is closed to new applications as of 5:00 pm April 28, 2014. We will only accept applications postmarked before this date.

Due to the large number of applications we can not give you an update. You will be contacted when your application starts processing. If you have not been contacted it has not entered processing.

For further details please visit our website novascotiaimmigration.ca

If you are are interested in applying for Immigration to Nova Scotia our Skilled Worker Stream (requiring a job offfer) and our Family Business Worker Stream are still up and running. We have a total of 700 nominations we can make this year (only 150 are being used for RLMD).

There are other ways to immigrate to Canada as well, you can find information related to this on cic.gc.ca - the website of Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

Nova Scotia Office of Immigration

 

[ms3242]

Any one received the hard copy of the nomination certificate..??

Yes, I did. They mailed my nomination (In the U.S.) and I received it a week after the nomination email.

 

[imani007]

Dear Friends,

Please find below the auto reply I received from NS :-

Hello:

Please note that the Regional Labour Market Demand Stream is closed to new applications as of 5:00 pm April 28, 2014. We will only accept applications postmarked before this date.

Due to the large number of applications we can not give you an update. You will be contacted when your application starts processing. If you have not been contacted it has not entered processing.

For further details please visit our website novascotiaimmigration.ca

If you are are interested in applying for Immigration to Nova Scotia our Skilled Worker Stream (requiring a job offfer) and our Family Business Worker Stream are still up and running. We have a total of 700 nominations we can make this year (only 150 are being used for RLMD).

There are other ways to immigrate to Canada as well, you can find information related to this on cic.gc.ca - the website of Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

Nova Scotia Office of Immigration

Thank you for sharing

 

[Ukhps]

Yes, I did. They mailed my nomination (In the U.S.) and I received it a week after the nomination email.

Thanks

 

[canadian_dream2015]

Hello


My officer asked me This question :

When did you find out about the Regional Labour Market Demand Stream ?

Kindly can anyone help me in this question cuz i searched over the internet and I didn't found an answer .

Thx alot

 

[ms3242]

Hello


My officer asked me This question :

When did you find out about the Regional Labour Market Demand Stream ?

Kindly can anyone help me in this question cuz i searched over the internet and I didn't found an answer .

Thx alot

I have subscribed to www.canadavisa.com news letter and that's where I got this information from.

http://www.canadavisa.com/eligibility-requirements-nova-scotia-nominee-program.html

 

[tenkrun10]

Sent off my documents today per the documents requested. Fingers crossed!

 

[shallowpurple]

Hello


My officer asked me This question :

When did you find out about the Regional Labour Market Demand Stream ?

Kindly can anyone help me in this question cuz i searched over the internet and I didn't found an answer .

Thx alot

I think you should be truthful in your application and should say the approximate date when found about the it. You can add that I had document prepared well ahead in advance (just in case anything comes about).