Hello all
It’s been 4 and a half months past my AOR . My lawyer told me that ‘Background check is in progress’. I just want to ask what are the chances of refusal at this stage,with so many months passed. Experts please contribute.
As someone who has received PPR already, here are my suggestions:
1) Chances of rejection at this stage are slim. Also, if you are someone who hasn't paid your RPRF upfront, the verbiage on the RPRF request (when you receive it) is usually a giveaway as to where you are in the process. My colleague received his RPRF request after about 4 months with the wordings "your admissibility is in progress". Some people receive RPRF requests with the words "your eligibility and admissibility" are in progress. In the first case, your eligibility is usually done. In the second case, your eligibility is still being evaluated.
If you have already paid your RPRF upfront, you won't get the RPRF request and so wouldn't be able to see that verbiage. In that case, your best bet is to order GCMS notes. But I honestly don't think there's great benefit in doing that since it'll take a month to just get the notes.
2) With 4 months down, no additional document requests and no rejection...I think you're doing okay. There's very little chance of rejection at this stage.
3) Also, don't read too much into the online statuses. Mine literally just never changed beyond "We will let you know when the background check starts". But I still got my PPR. Even on the day I got my PPR, my attorney told me that my online profile still shows "We will let you know when the background check starts". I think the online statuses are just not updated immediately.
4) Also, don't read too much into ghost updates and things of that nature. They will keep you unnecessarily obsessed and occupied. In your case, since you have an attorney, my guess is you don't have access to your MyCIC account - your lawyer probably has access to it. So you are probably not getting those ghost updates -which is a good thing. I applied via an attorney too and therefore didn't get any ghost updates. I honestly think that is a good thing. I have friends who applied themselves and they kept obsessing over every ghost update and every tiny irrelevant thing - it is as if they had stopped living their lives.
The timeline is 6 months and I don't think there's any need to panic till 6 months are up. There's very little chance of anything going wrong at this stage. Also, don't expect any movement till after the New Year. With the holiday season, chances of anything moving over the next few days is slim.