Eligibility for dependant won’t start. You added spouse after AOR, they don’t asses spouse’s points - it’s irrelevant. They only check for the spouse Medicals, Criminality and Security.
Adding spouse after AOR
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Yeah, same like us - you’ll be added to the queue and only God knows how much more you’ll be waiting. I’m waiting more than 2 months, there are lots of posts here of people waiting since Jan23. It’s hard to say how long it can take, likely not less than another 2-3 months, but you never know.
For reference:
https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/all-stages-passed-waiting-copr-track-here.720758/page-29#post-10423390
https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/copr-details-in-application-status-tracker.789316/page-3#post-10421808
After nearly ~29 months (AOR Nov 2020) of waiting (and about 15+ months after adding Spouse - since Jan 2022). We finally got our PR portal email today!
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Thanks. Nothing changes in the new Tracker or even the old IRCC portal.
My wife Eligibility & Background check still show Not Started
Even for me, Background also shows Not Started.
There is no new entry in the application history whatsoever!
Basically, on Tuesday (Apr 11), I got an email saying they have received my documents (this is the ADR on relationship questionnaire they requested back in January). On Apr 13, medical status changed to You passed the medical exam (on the old IRCC account), a few hours later they sent the portal emails. These came from IRCC Etobicoke, (last time I checked my GCMS note, the file was with VO Montreal)
Thank you for sharing, I would imagine that it’s much easier and faster for them to send eCOPRs vs. RFV emails, so it will last longer in my case. We are in 29th month right now and 10 months since I added spouse.
I just checked again today on the new Tracker:
- Spouse Background and my Background are updated to Complete.
- Spouse Eligibility is still Not Started
- There is a new entry in the history related to the change in Background Check status (dated Apr 13)
We also just saw the new COPR number in the new Tracker.
Hope you get a close on your case soon, this journey has been too long... We finally have some closure now
@baryonix did you get GCMS notes by any chance? Did you see what was your print queue number there?
My COPR was issued on 4-Feb-23 and my queue is PQ-COPR-6023-14 and I can tell you that we're 2.5 months now past since COPR was generated and RFV wasn't sent yet.
For the rest who didn't see my previous posts - from GCMS, CBSA and CSIS notes I can tell that all stages were passed and Security was passed on 4-Feb-23, so the only missing step is actually for the agent to reach the queue and click on the button to send RFV as he himself has requested it to be done in the notes. Also I can share that no webforms had any effect on my VO and I've sent at least 5 since then, even with screenshots of GCMS notes showing them that there are no more stages left to pass. They still didn't open the file and didn't click on the button to send RFV.
If all of us in similar situation could just share the timeline of queues and then actual date of issuance of RFV (or be it eCOPR for inlands), we could tell when our queue would be reached. Else there's no way to tell.
My COPR was issued on 4-Feb-23 and my queue is PQ-COPR-6023-14 and I can tell you that we're 2.5 months now past since COPR was generated and RFV wasn't sent yet.
For the rest who didn't see my previous posts - from GCMS, CBSA and CSIS notes I can tell that all stages were passed and Security was passed on 4-Feb-23, so the only missing step is actually for the agent to reach the queue and click on the button to send RFV as he himself has requested it to be done in the notes. Also I can share that no webforms had any effect on my VO and I've sent at least 5 since then, even with screenshots of GCMS notes showing them that there are no more stages left to pass. They still didn't open the file and didn't click on the button to send RFV.
If all of us in similar situation could just share the timeline of queues and then actual date of issuance of RFV (or be it eCOPR for inlands), we could tell when our queue would be reached. Else there's no way to tell.
I requested 2 GCMS note back in 23 March, I might get it before 23 April but this note might not up to the date of my Approval since it came only last week..
But note that we're inside Canada so I think we won't get RFV. We just got portal email to go and confirm our address and send photos for PR cards.
But i'll check once the notes arrive
Received RFV (PPR) today! After a call to Call centre yesterday, it’s a lottery to get through but it seemed to help 
Received RFV (PPR) today! After a call to Call centre yesterday, it’s a lottery to get through but it seemed to help
Yay! So happy for you!
Agree that it's a lottery in terms of their service queue... >_<
Hi everyone - any latest update?
Let me share my timeline
AOR: Dec 6, 2022
Informed immigration about marriage: January 28, 2023
Request for Documents: March 3, 2023
Documents submitted: April 2, 2023
Several ghost updates in between
Tracker says everything completed for both principal applicant and dependent, except biometrics for spouse.
Received BIL: April 13,2023
Biometrics completed: April 19,2023
Now waiting for further updates
Let me share my timeline
AOR: Dec 6, 2022
Informed immigration about marriage: January 28, 2023
Request for Documents: March 3, 2023
Documents submitted: April 2, 2023
Several ghost updates in between
Tracker says everything completed for both principal applicant and dependent, except biometrics for spouse.
Received BIL: April 13,2023
Biometrics completed: April 19,2023
Now waiting for further updates
Any updates bro ..
I had a question
what is the current processing time if I add my spouse after AOR . And also if I raise a webform submitting all the documents upfront with fee payment saying that I am married and want to add my spouse what would be the processing time including webform acceptance till the ecopr .