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[Cam1234]

Good Morning Everyone:

Question - I realize this is somewhat premature, but does anyone know how much time they give you to land in Canada, once you have your PR Visa in your passport? Obviously many of us have to go through some time-consuming arrangements before we can land... so I was wondering if they give you enough time...

Thanks,
Cam

 

[canady]

One year

Good Morning Everyone:

Question - I realize this is somewhat premature, but does anyone know how much time they give you to land in Canada, once you have your PR Visa in your passport? Obviously many of us have to go through some time-consuming arrangements before we can land... so I was wondering if they give you enough time...

Thanks,
Cam

 

[Cappuccino]

One year

It's one year from the date of your medicals, since the meds are valid for 1 year, not from the date you receive your visa. So if you take your medicals on 1st November 2010, and receive your visa after PPR on say 1st February 2011, then you must land by 1st November 2011 (not 1st February 2012).

So the length of time VO takes to issue PRR+Visa after eats into the 1 year you have available.

Wayne.

 

[Cam1234]

Thank you Candy and Cappuccino. So if I understand correctly one would get around 9 months... approximately of course.

Cam

 

[Cappuccino]

Thank you Candy and Cappuccino. So if I understand correctly one would get around 9 months... approximately of course.

Cam

Yes that's correct - if VO took 3 months from the date of your medicals to request passports and get the visa to you, then you would have 9 months in which to land.

In theory if they are very slow you may have to re-take medicals if they expire (i.e. takes longer than 12 months) although I have never heard of a case like that which has happened.

Reading by what people have said - one can usually expect 1 to 2 months from medicals to get passport requests, and 1 to 2 months after passport requests to get the visa. So I guess 3 months would be a decent average, but it largely depends on volumes at the time of year and also the visa office.

Wayne.

 

[basmalahh]

Thnx Carl (i'll call them as much as i can), Alex (i'll try to contact m.hamshour as well), Canady (i'll threaten them), Amro (i'll do my best & keep my spirits high)...

 

[humsafar]

Well may be the low number of applications as compared to pre June times, as mentioned in CIC website, is due to the fact that earlier they were having accounts and IT related NOCs, and generally every market is saturated with these two occupation, so naturally the inflow of these NOCs was ver very high, but since these are not there any more, therefore the number of applications are reduced drastically.

Just a thought

 

[Cappuccino]

Someone from another forum pointed out that they think the AOR is sent by the visa office, not by CIC. At first I didn't think this was right, but it might explain why May/June applications are noticing significant differences in AOR times from encashment. Offices such as London and Buffalo seem to take longer.

So perhaps we won't get any AORs until the visa offices actually receive the files?

Wayne.

 

[Dr.Alex]

Well we all seem quite divided in opinion on this one, don't we?

Given that the completeness check is done very quickly (usually CC/BD cashed within a few days of the application arriving) I cannot believe that they have only RECEIVED 2226 applications which passed the completeness check. All of September and most of October would therefore be included in this total.

1) 2226 with eligibility review complete sounds to me a lot more realistic, since most of September and all of October would yet to be figured into this total.

2) Counting an application towards the cap before the eligibility review is complete is madness IMO, since an ineligibile application can be taking up a place and stopping an ELIGIBLE person emigrating to Canada. It's ludicrous!

3) The main area of their web site concerning Federal Skilled Workers specifically says "considered for processing".

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-who.asp

And "considered for processing" is mentioned again in the FAQ for skilled workers:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/faq/immigrate/skilled/changes-fsw-faq05.asp


An application cannot be considered for processing until it has had its first eligibility review, since processing is done by the visa office, not by CIC.

But basically I think people are barking up the wrong tree thinking that CIC have only received 2226 complete applications, they simply abbreviated "complete applications considered for processing" to "complete applications" when they put up this recent list IMO (it does confuse things, I realise).

Sorry for arguing this one to death! I'll shut up now

Wayne.

I agree with u Wayne.
Depending on the phone calls done by some peoples here....I believe that on 18 october 2010 they just finished completeness check + payment + 1st eligibility review for 2226 applications which approximately received till end of August & they still didn't consider the applications received within september & october cause these applications just passed the completeness check + payment only and there's no eligibility review done for it.....So, they can't count it towards the CAP.

 

[Dr.Alex]

Wayne, I find your logic and arguments structured and valuable, so if you think you should keep silence for a while on this or other topics, then don't do it ;D, please keep going.

I have one thing to ask you and other forum members:

I reviewed my application package recently and noted I did not tick IELTS and 2 envelopes boxes in the checklist, but did provide these. My card was charged, though, on 7 Sep 2010. I know that we are all at risk until we have our visas stamped in our passports, but still, do you guys think I might have problems from this specific omission?

I dn't think it'll affect anything.....think u r safe dear

 

[Dr.Alex]

Thanks for all your help in completing the app.... please add my information to the tracker as well..

noc:1122
vo:buffalo, ny
app recd:Oct-20-10
payment : cc
encashed: hopefully soon
pcc: no

added dear...best wishes

 

[Cappuccino]

I agree with u Wayne.
Depending on the phone calls done by some peoples here....I believe that on 18 october 2010 they just finished completeness check + payment + 1st eligibility review for 2226 applications which approximately received till end of August & they still didn't consider the applications received within september & october cause these applications just passed the completeness check + payment only and there's no eligibility review done for it.....So, they can't count it towards the CAP.

Well seems at least some of us are on the same page now

So the only question is, when do we get AORs? Are these issued by CIC or are they going to leave it for VO to issue?

I am glad they finally published some information on their website, but IMO they could be a bit more specific with regards what the numbers mean, and what is happening with AORs.

Well, hopefully the next week or two will bring a lot more information.


Wayne.

 

[khai]

Well seems at least some of us are on the same page now

So the only question is, when do we get AORs? Are these issued by CIC or are they going to leave it for VO to issue?

I am glad they finally published some information on their website, but IMO they could be a bit more specific with regards what the numbers mean, and what is happening with AORs.

Well, hopefully the next week or two will bring a lot more information.



Wayne.

If the theory about AORs coming from VO instead of CIO is true..i would be doing some somersault out of joy.. Because if this is the case, things will happen faster indeed..spared from 1st/2nd AOR..then we can expect MR right away..

 

[Pippin]

I would love to hear what theories you have on the many apps that were received in July and later that have NOT been returned OR had their fees charged/encashed? Some of them are well over 12 weeks now and still waiting. Thoughts??

 

[CB]

I dont think so. If they have completed elegibility review up to aug then where r returned applications which failed elegibility review,usually it takes 7-10 days by ordinary post

Well seems at least some of us are on the same page now

So the only question is, when do we get AORs? Are these issued by CIC or are they going to leave it for VO to issue?

I am glad they finally published some information on their website, but IMO they could be a bit more specific with regards what the numbers mean, and what is happening with AORs.

Well, hopefully the next week or two will bring a lot more information.


Wayne.