Applications filed through NS --> Buffalo (Filed from USA)

[Pasi]

Its has been 10 days and I am boiling.

You are sure to get it. dont worry. keep checking your mails.

 

[Anil_Toronto]

Hi Guys,

I had a query regarding the time taken after the notification is sent for a file transfer.

I got an email from the Buffalo office on May 11th that my file was transferred to New York, It stated:

In order to expedite the processing of your application, your file has been sent to:

Canadian Consulate General, New York, New York 10020-1175.

The Canadian Consulate General in New York will complete the analysis of your application and determine if a personal interview with a visa officer is required. Your file number remains the same.


At the end of the letter it states: Do not request the status of your file within ninety (90) days of the date of this letter.

The current status on e-cas shows: Received at Visa office

I wish to know if the 90 day no contact for status request is a general rule applied to all by the Visa Office when a file is transferred or it's just me who got this stated in my letter.

So far i havent heard anything in email/ mail on an update after they received my file..

 

[corazon3]

Theoretically, yes you can. However, you need to take the following in your consideration:


People who have a valid study permit must be studying during their stay in canada except in the scheduled school break, and if the school informs immigration canada that you are not attending, your legal status will be suspended and your study permit will be revoked, and you will be asked to leave the country.

If your school, did not inform immigration canada about your status, you would stay legally in the country until the expiry date of your study permit which is not going to be extended under any circumstances because you will have no proof of attending any school during the last 2 semesters at least.


When you apply under category 3, you will have to be attending any school at the time of your application, and Buffalo visa office is going to ask you for an updated documents for your current attendence to the school in a later stage for 2 reasons; the first is that you have to meet the requirments at least until they make their assessment at the visa office and not only at the CIO, the second is related to the background checks which will make them ask you for the proof of attendence from your school later, tuition fees receipts...etc, in order for them to know what have you been doing in canada exactly during that period of time.

one of the documents they might ask for it later is the T220 tax return assessment from canada revenue agency to make sure that you have been studying and paying your tuition fees, so it will be either an updated proof of enrolment or the t220 document.


a prospective result of the above situation( because of the lack of the updated documents), might lead to deep background checks on your application which can further delay the processing time to exceed the expiry date of your legal status in canada, so that you will not be able to send them a proof of extending your status after the expiry date.

I personally do not recommend you to do so, think deeply and wisely before you make this step because you might lose everything and be banned from entering canada not only the permanent residence application.

Those people (the immigration officers) are not easy, so do not try to play with them.

Good luck.

Thanks for your response! I have already applied and expect my PR application to be finalized within 6 months. When I called CIC, what the consultant/officer recommended is this: don't try to change my status to visitor, and stay on study permit. She said I'm fine, as long as my study permit is valid, whether I'm enrolled in school or not. I was a little confused and asked for her confirmation again. She put me on hold for a minute probably to check with her supervisor and returned and repeated the same answer. She was 100% sure that I don't need to change my status but instead wait out the PR app process while staying on study permit, although she added I might have trouble renewing my study permit later when it expires two years later, which I don't really care, because by that time, I'll have received my PR.

 

[beauhoe]

Thanks for your response! I have already applied and expect my PR application to be finalized within 6 months. When I called CIC, what the consultant/officer recommended is this: don't try to change my status to visitor, and stay on study permit. She said I'm fine, as long as my study permit is valid, whether I'm enrolled in school or not. I was a little confused and asked for her confirmation again. She put me on hold for a minute probably to check with her supervisor and returned and repeated the same answer. She was 100% sure that I don't need to change my status but instead wait out the PR app process while staying on study permit, although she added I might have trouble renewing my study permit later when it expires two years later, which I don't really care, because by that time, I'll have received my PR.

I wish you good luck then...

 

[beauhoe]

You are sure to get it. dont worry. keep checking your mails.

Thank you Pasi! The waiting is terrible-

 

[beauhoe]

Do not worry, soon you will get it. I know actually that your IO is a little slow because usually they ask for the passport within 2 or 3 days from updating the e-case to show the reciept of your medical results, but do not worry, you are almost there my friend.

OIs from Buffalo ask for passport the same day from updating the e-cas but I have no idea with Detroit.

 

[rahmanrahat]

@Anil_Toronto

I got a similar email from Buffalo in April when my file was transferred to Detroit. The "90 day" text is generic.

In my case, they haven't started processing my file yet and it hasn't been 90 days since they transferred my file to Detroit. I'll keep you posted as I approach the 90 day mark.

 

[Anil_Toronto]

Thanks for updating Rahman!!

I will keep you posted as well in case i get to hear anything from them.

 

[professional 1]

Thanks for your response! I have already applied and expect my PR application to be finalized within 6 months. When I called CIC, what the consultant/officer recommended is this: don't try to change my status to visitor, and stay on study permit. She said I'm fine, as long as my study permit is valid, whether I'm enrolled in school or not. I was a little confused and asked for her confirmation again. She put me on hold for a minute probably to check with her supervisor and returned and repeated the same answer. She was 100% sure that I don't need to change my status but instead wait out the PR app process while staying on study permit, although she added I might have trouble renewing my study permit later when it expires two years later, which I don't really care, because by that time, I'll have received my PR.

I agree 100% not to change your status, i have not even recommended this option because you stil have almost 2 years in your study permit.

Anyway, if you feel it is safe, wish you the best of luck, and hope that you have not given the call center your client ID number during that call because they could have recorded some notice about your status on their system, if you have told them that you are going to quit studying and stay in canada until the expiry of your study permit.


Good luck.

 

[MarkCan]

@ Anil_Toronto

I got a similar email from Buffalo in April when my file was transferred to Detroit. The "90 day" text is generic.

In my case, they haven't started processing my file yet and it hasn't been 90 days since they transferred my file to Detroit. I'll keep you posted as I approach the 90 day mark.

I see that you are kinda in the same situation as I am (except the "transfer" part -- mine is stuck in Buffalo). I remember when I started this thread you were one of the first people to respond. I hope things move before in the positive direction for us. Good luck.

Mark

 

[MarkCan]

I agree 100% not to change your status, i have not even recommended this option because you stil have almost 2 years in your study permit.

Anyway, if you feel it is safe, wish you the best of luck, and hope that you have not given the call center your client ID number during this call because they would have records some notice on your status if you have told them that you are going to quit studying.


Good luck.

Pro, is your home country Syria?

Mark

 

[professional 1]

Pro, is your home country Syria?

Mark

No it is Jordan, but how did you get the guess that close to my country !

 

[MarkCan]

I have a feel that some of us are taking longer than others because of background and security checks. Especially if you have lived in quite a few countries across the world. Sigh.

Mark

 

[MarkCan]

No it is Jordan, but how did you get the guess that close to my country !

Just a wild guess. I have many Jordanian friends and I have been to a lot of Middle Eastern countries. Jordan is a very peaceful and friendly country.

Mark

 

[professional 1]

Just a wild guess. I have many Jordanian friends and I have been to a lot of Middle Eastern countries. Jordan is a very peaceful and friendly country.

Mark

Haha, yes actually it is a very small country, we are only 4 million population.

By the way, Mark,

I was thinking about the background checks matter, many people think that if you have lived in many countries, the background check will take longer.

It might be right, but i was thinking that when someone is living in only one country, and he knows some people who have a power in that country, it will be very easy for him to hide many information (if there is any) related to criminal records and that stuff (by erasing them from the system), but if he has been living in many different countries and provided police clearance from each one of them, it will be impossible that he knows powerful people in each one of them who help him in hiding some criminal records from the system.

As a result, he will have more than one witness (more than one country) by providing police clearance from each of them. So why cannot we think that the person who has been living in one country only, needs more background check than the one who has lived in many different countries and provided clearance from each of them !

That was just a personal thought.