background check/application info

[kittyandpipit]

My husbands background check was completed on August 6th...so it expires nov.6th

I'm waiting on my noa, which should be here tomorrow or the next day...

Do I just need to get the application in before his background check expires? Or is it already too late?

Also on the top of the sponsor ship application it says applicant name....is that the sponsors name or the PR applicant....thanks!!!

 

[zardoz]

If you mean the PCC, it must be less than 3 months from the date of issue when the application package is *officially* received by CIC. That's not the date the courier/post say they delivered it... It might be a few days later.

 

[keesio]

My husbands background check was completed on August 6th...so it expires nov.6th

Wow that is cutting it close. You better get your application mailed out immediately after you get your NOA. And mail it with overnight service.

 

[kittyandpipit]

Just got my noa!!!!

So I can overnight tomorrow!!!

This is cutting it close but I want it done and gone.

All my paperwork is filled out...I just have to organize it.

Do I put all the paperwork together and then just organize the documents with tabs or something? No binders right?

 

[sounion]

Just got my noa!!!!

So I can overnight tomorrow!!!

This is cutting it close but I want it done and gone.

All my paperwork is filled out...I just have to organize it.

Do I put all the paperwork together and then just organize the documents with tabs or something? No binders right?

Paperclips and staples and such are not suggested, as they take the application apart when they receive it. I organized mine into the relevant sections and forms (and actually stapled things which I am sure annoyed some clerk over at CIC as they ripped them out ).

Also of note, when sending the application, make sure you are able to track it so you can see when it was received (requiring a signature helped in my case sending it from within Canada because I could see when it was received and by whom). And, it took a while to receive notification that they received my application (almost 4 weeks), but when they did notify me, it had the same day that the post office said it was delivered.

 

[lynz213]

Hey out of curiosity do you receive any other communication from CIC after they approve your sponsor? Mine just still says application received for the past 3 months. I know it takes a while but I just imagine it getting lost under a pile of papers or something...
Also they won't need another background or medical check if they take longer to finish processing the application will they?

 

[keesio]

Hey out of curiosity do you receive any other communication from CIC after they approve your sponsor? Mine just still says application received for the past 3 months. I know it takes a while but I just imagine it getting lost under a pile of papers or something...
Also they won't need another background or medical check if they take longer to finish processing the application will they?

After the e-mail saying sponsorship approved, we (my wife and I) did not hear a thing until they asked for a copy of her passport 5 months later (actually they first asked for some other documentation that they lost but then they found it a few days later and then just needed the passport copy). The lack of communication can be frustrating and is probably one of the hardest things to deal with.

They normally don't ask for another medical/background check unless the application takes abnormally long.