bad news about vancouver office :o

[xsinanss]

Hi friends

my wife went to the vancouver local office yesterday and asked them what is happening in my file and what they told is unbelievable!!! its still sitting on the shelf!!!but when we went there couple months ago they said they are working on in?? cic local office sent my app to vancouver april 2010 since then nothing happened no letter no interview no nothing and im going crazy every single day!!!and i have a question do i have to have visitor visa during the processing time,i thought i have to have but yesterday in the office they said no so im lost now????and also passport do i have to have valid passport during the time?anybody has any idea about whats going on or what should i do?

 

[robrod]

Valid passport, yes, for sure.
It's like my application sitting also at my local office awaiting it's turn to be completed, I guess...
We have no choice but to keep waiting. Although someone went to her MP on similar circumstances to inquire and did get a response right away.

 

[xsinanss]

what sould i do?keep waiting waiting waiting another 6 months...

 

[xsinanss]

they started to process nov 2009
transfer to vancouver april 2010
so it has been 13 months and they want me to wait another 6 months (at least)

 

[xsinanss]

We received your application for permanent residence on September 30, 2009.

We started processing your application on November 10, 2009.

Medical results have been received.

We sent you a letter on February 10, 2010 to xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,. If you have not yet provided the information or the requested documents, please do so as soon as possible. Please wait until you receive the letter before sending us additional information, as the letter will outline all information that is required. Please consider delays in mail delivery before contacting us. If we have sent the letter to the wrong address, please contact us.

We received the requested information on March 1, 2010. Thank you for providing the information.

We transferred your application to the Vancouver Admissions office on April 6, 2010. The Vancouver Admissions office may contact you.

 

[robrod]

Sounds like your application was transfered to your local office without AIP (mine was transfered with AIP).
If that's the case, it can take up to a year or more for you to get your interview scheduled. When they transfer without AIP, applicants have to wait for their interview.
Sorry about this. The good news?, your application was not refused but transfered instead at this point.

 

[xsinanss]

what is aip?

 

[robrod]

Approval In Principle, now known as First Stage of Approval.

 

[xsinanss]

you have been very helpfull thank you very much! so i will just wait wait and wait omg!!!

 

[robrod]

You are welcome!.
The comfort of this inland application is that at least while we wait forever, we are together with our loved ones... that is a big plus.
Good luck!.

 

[robrod]

Latest update as of this evening:
I received finally my COPR appointment letter in today's mail!.
There is light at the end of the tunnel!.
Hang in there!.
Rob.

 

[reginac]

I'm in the same boat here, I sent my application in August 18 2009 and they transferred to Vancouver office in April 8 2010. I called CIC in September 2010 and the agent said they would send me a letter in October 8th with a date for my appointment with local office (I thought about an interview) I never received the letter and call again, this time the agent said my file was sitting there waiting for an agent to work on it. I called again and this time the agent was a very nice woman and she told me that an agent cannot know if a letter will be sent and she doesn't understand why they gave me this information, the only thing she could see in my case is that someone was finally working on my file.
I decided not to call again because I'm always hearing a different answer, It's very frustrating being here and not being able to work, study nor see my family and more frustrating that they don't give an answer just say whatever they want to say.

 

[robrod]

I did notice that situation with the Call Center agents.. I called a couple of times before submitting the application and always got contradictory info, so I decided not to call them again ever. Going in person to my local office was just as displeasing as guy working the counter didn't even pretend to care when I was waiting to receive my landing appointment letter from there...
I landed last wednesday finally, though. But now I do feel sad as I see and learn of other applicants still waiting and waiting, being transfered to local offices or being refused. And here I am landed and everything..
I wish everyone would be approved especially the ones who in my opinion are clearly on legit marriages.
I hope you get good news finally, best of luck.
Rob.

 

[reginac]

Thanks for your words RobRod and congratulations! Reading your post made me have a new HOPE!

 

[robrod]

You are welcome, ReginaC!... Your local office will contact you eventually and hopefully with the best news ever!... The landing appointment is all worth the wait... it's so easy but the best noun to describe it is: sweet.
Hang in there!.