Dear All,
First of all I'd like to apologize for a long post
Secondly, a good news...
By the grace of Allah, after a long 804 days of submitting our application (2 years, 2 months and 2 weeks), we have finally received our passports with VISA along with COPR. Alhamdulillah!! It has truly been a test of patience. In fact, our application was the first one to reach Canada from Bangladesh back in 2013. After that, I've seen loads of applications being processed, all submitted after ours.
Frankly speaking, when I saw applicants of 2014 getting MRs, a bit of a disappointment along with a bit of jealousy hit me, which I overcame with the help of the members of this forum. This forum is a platform of many different applicants, with different history and background. I felt that I was not alone and there are a lot of applicants out there in the same situation as me, in fact some in a worse one. All these made me pray more towards Him, so that I can have more patience.
In the beginning I was quite an active member of this forum, but later the waiting game defeated me, gradually I became a silent member. I gathered strength from reading the stories of applicants who were in the same situation, and how they are dealing with it. There are times I posted something which might have come to a help of others, hopefully, but most of the time I was silent. I feel grateful to the members of the forum who are constantly helping others, despite of their own situation, I never could have been such a big hearted person, RESPECT to those members. Everyone knows who they are.
From my experience, it is tough being this patient. But we have nothing else to do other than praying and being strong and keeping our eyes open all the time. From the bottom of my heart I believe one thing; all those who submitted actual documents, no matter with the help of unauthorized agents or authorized agents or by himself, will pass the patience game and land in Canada. Some a bit earlier, some a bit late, thats only the difference.
I have applied for GCMS notes a couple of times, from those and from others' notes I learned the following. This is only my hypothesis, I may be wrong:
SGVO "starts" processing the files in a FIFO basis. The very first thing they look for is a "clean" file with no complicity. They start processing the clean files and those files get cleared in 8-12 months.
The more complex files gets to another round of review, and goes to a second batch. If the files get passed in this review, the processing starts and is cleared within 12-18 months.
If the file raises more concern and is not passes, it goes for a background verification. In previous years these verification hardly used to take place in Bangladesh, but as we have a tremendous opportunity to fake docs in our country and we've started utilizing the opportunity, the BG verification has started quite strictly, and will get even stricter in the upcoming years. Files in this category takes more time to be cleared.
So based on how clean your file is, the processing of time depends. Thats why we can see a lot of May-June applicants waiting while some are already in Canada. Same will happen to September-December applicants as well.
Another important observation is, there are 3 study sessions in Canada, starting on every September/October, January/February and May/June. Just before these 3 sessions, the PR application processing comes to a slow as SGVO processes hundreds of student VISAs. As the number of students in English medium is rising in BD, and also the spending ability of this belt is getting higher, more and more students are applying to study in Canada, thus SGVOs PR application processing time is getting lengthier. You'll see just after these particular months, the MRs and SLUs come in a higher rate.
One last thing. I believe (ekantoi amar belief) that SGVO wont take any drastic measure against the applicants who took the help of unauthorized agents. They'll try to figure out if there is any misrepresentation in any form, they might review those files a bit strictly. Based on the reviews if they sense any foul play involved, they'll ask for an explanation through a fairness letter. If they find everything okay, the file should pass the review and go for further processing; ie Medicals etc. The process should take a bit more time. But the main thing is, they wont take any harsh measure without sending a fairness letter. Those who've used their agents email address should keep in touch with them constantly. And also should ask their agents NOT to send anything without consulting with the main applicant.
Anyways, enough bokbokani. I hope and pray that everyone gets his/her MR/PPR/DM in due time. And don't lose Faith on Him, things which are happening are happening for a reason, and for a good one.
Below is my detailed timeline:
NOC: 1112 (Later from GCMS note I found out that they have processed my application under 0111 as they thought my JD matched more with 0111. Thats why my file was not particularly a "clean" one, they had to take some sort of approval)
VO: SGVO
Application sent: 5th May, 2013 (Via UPS, the fastest for sending parcel to Canada)
App received by CIC: 9th May, 2013
PER received: 4th July, 2013
AOR received: 26th August, 2013
Second line update: 13th October, 2014 (Yup, SGVO didn't process a single file of 2013 from May 2013 to September 2014, from what I've heard, they were in some sort of strike :-O..SGVO started processing files of 2013 and 2014 together/simultaneously)
MR & RPRF received: 3rd June, 2015
Medicals done: 7th June, 2015 (At Wahab's)
Meds & RPRF receipt sent: 8th June, 2015
Third line update: 12th June, 2015
PPR received: 29th June, 2015
Decision Made: 30th June, 2015
Passport sent via VFS: 1st July, 2015
Passports received at SGVO: 6th July, 2015
Visa Stamped:
Passports despatched from SGVO: 21st July, 2015
Passports received at VFS Dhaka: 23rd July, 2015 (2 years, 2 months and 2 weeks of LONG wait!!)
Now starting another chapter, have loads to do before flying......Then another long chapter of waiting.....waiting for a decent job......blah blah...
Thats my story. Again, apologies for the long post.
Bye for now. May Allah give us all the strength to keep our patience and guide us. Adios...
Tausif.
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