BOGOTA Visa Office 2012 applicants

[p.angie]

Omgsh ;D! That is amazing news! I was starting to worry... I didn't want to wait another 3 months while doing all those errands again. He also hasn't paid his Permanent Residency Fee.. I was thinking we should pay it right now and include the receipt in the letter to make sure the process doesn't slow down. Do you know how that fee can be paid once the application is in process in Bogota? I was looking on the website and it says that foreign visa offices cannot except RPRF's paid in Canada? Seems confusing... Anyway,Thank you for all your info, its been really helpful!!!

 

[ccunnington]

Omgsh ;D! That is amazing news! I was starting to worry... I didn't want to wait another 3 months while doing all those errands again. He also hasn't paid his Permanent Residency Fee.. I was thinking we should pay it right now and include the receipt in the letter to make sure the process doesn't slow down. Do you know how that fee can be paid once the application is in process in Bogota? I was looking on the website and it says that foreign visa offices cannot except RPRF's paid in Canada? Seems confusing... Anyway,Thank you for all your info, its been really helpful!!!

I believe you have to pay the RPRF through mississauga...i think you can pay it online though...

 

[ccunnington]

It's very quiet here in the Bogota thread!!!!

 

[julycathe]

It's very quiet here in the Bogota thread!!!!

Very quiet!!!!!! and the visa office has been very quiet as well, i haven't heard of anybody getting their visas in the last couple of months, also read on another forum that somebody called the Bogota visa office and ask for the assistant on their case and it was told that the assitant was replaced by sombody else two months ago and the cases were transferred to somebody else. I been waiting for my passport since March reason being is that i had to apply for an ARC, i was advised that the processing time for this application was 6 months, a lil bit more I guess.

 

[p.angie]

How is it that people know their assistants and agents? Every time I call the embassy no one seems to know anything?.. How can you get a hold of this information? We sent in my husband's passport this week, should have arrived yesterday. Hopefully things will go a bit quicker from now on, I've seen that the average is about a month to get it back with the visa but I don't want to get my hopes up. I thought you could pay the RPRF whenever, but it turns out (as it says on the canadian embassy website) that in order to pay it you have to physically have the other from immigration and go to a bank in Colombia and pay it : .. does anyone know if this is right? I would prefer to pay it asap as every inconvenience seems to drag the process on an extra month or so.

 

[ccunnington]

How is it that people know their assistants and agents? Every time I call the embassy no one seems to know anything?.. How can you get a hold of this information? We sent in my husband's passport this week, should have arrived yesterday. Hopefully things will go a bit quicker from now on, I've seen that the average is about a month to get it back with the visa but I don't want to get my hopes up. I thought you could pay the RPRF whenever, but it turns out (as it says on the canadian embassy website) that in order to pay it you have to physically have the other from immigration and go to a bank in Colombia and pay it : .. does anyone know if this is right? I would prefer to pay it asap as every inconvenience seems to drag the process on an extra month or so.

Try this link. I paid all my fees online before we sent in the application. But since your application is almost completed in Bogota, you may have to pay there.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/sponsor/spouse-apply-how.asp#step4

 

[ccunnington]

Read through this thread too. Looks like you should pay it online. Then they will send confirmation to the VO.

http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/right-of-permanent-residence-fee-t48369.0.html

 

[julycathe]

Yes! looks like some people know their assitant number and they used to call the embasy and ask for them and they will pass the call to them right away and get info on their cases, looks like thats not hapenning anymore, the last few times that i tried calling they would ask me for the assitant number and i would ask how in the world i'm suppossed to know it? no one ever told me. how come some people know it? anyways!. the RPRF was paid in canada by my sponsor in a financial institution somtime last year, hope visas start arriving sometime soon!

 

[ccunnington]

Yes! looks like some people know their assitant number and they used to call the embasy and ask for them and they will pass the call to them right away and get info on their cases, looks like thats not hapenning anymore, the last few times that i tried calling they would ask me for the assitant number and i would ask how in the world i'm suppossed to know it? no one ever told me. how come some people know it? anyways!. the RPRF was paid in canada by my sponsor in a financial institution somtime last year, hope visas start arriving sometime soon!

It's just about impossible to talk to anyone at the embassy, and the way I understand it now it that you can't communicate directly with your case officer, at least by phone. If your RPRF was already paid, they should have receipt of this on file. You're pretty close to the end I think!

 

[ccunnington]

With regards to the criminal background checks...did anyone on here get it done before sending in your application or did you wait until you received the instructions from Bogota??? We want to proceed now and get it done ourselves to save time, and I'm just wondering which file number we should use.... The UCI number or the file number that starts with an F. I understand though that VO's issue new file numbers that start with a "B" once they open the vile at the visa office. Will this be a problem? Let me know what you guys did for this. Thanks!

 

[esims2003]

With regards to the criminal background checks...did anyone on here get it done before sending in your application or did you wait until you received the instructions from Bogota??? We want to proceed now and get it done ourselves to save time, and I'm just wondering which file number we should use.... The UCI number or the file number that starts with an F. I understand though that VO's issue new file numbers that start with a "B" once they open the vile at the visa office. Will this be a problem? Let me know what you guys did for this. Thanks!

We had ours done before sending in the application, but were requested to send a new one recently. We were also requested a birth certificate, new medical exam and the passport. These items were all sent together about 2 weeks ago. Have not heard anything yet from the embassy.

 

[ccunnington]

We had ours done before sending in the application, but were requested to send a new one recently. We were also requested a birth certificate, new medical exam and the passport. These items were all sent together about 2 weeks ago. Have not heard anything yet from the embassy.

Sounds like your case has been in process a long time!

 

[Ecuadorian]

Hi. I'm ecuadorian, married to canadian, this is our timeline:
Canada immigration office received our application and medical papers on november 3, 2011
Decision made of the approval of my husband as sponsor on january 13, 2012.

Then no news, but my husband called the canadian immigration service on may, 2012, to ask them what was going on.
The person said that our application was in colombia by then and that counting from then, we have to wait till 16 months...


We don't have a specific official date of when the files were transferred to colombia. just from what the guy said on the phone they were probably in colombia by january after my husband was approved as sponsor.

Then still no news till today September 11...I got a letter from the embassy of colombia, they just confirmed me they have received my application and they gave me a file reference number and they mention in the letter that the proccess of application for permanent residence takes within 10 months...I'm kind of confused about if they mean ten months since now that I got the letter or 10 months since they got the files transferred to them like around january, 2012...anybody can help me to clarify this?

 

[ccunnington]

Hi. I'm ecuadorian, married to canadian, this is our timeline:
Canada immigration office received our application and medical papers on november 3, 2011
Decision made of the approval of my husband as sponsor on january 13, 2012.

Then no news, but my husband called the canadian immigration service on may, 2012, to ask them what was going on.
The person said that our application was in colombia by then and that counting from then, we have to wait till 16 months...


We don't have a specific official date of when the files were transferred to colombia. just from what the guy said on the phone they were probably in colombia by january after my husband was approved as sponsor.

Then still no news till today September 11...I got a letter from the embassy of colombia, they just confirmed me they have received my application and they gave me a file reference number and they mention in the letter that the proccess of application for permanent residence takes within 10 months...I'm kind of confused about if they mean ten months since now that I got the letter or 10 months since they got the files transferred to them like around january, 2012...anybody can help me to clarify this?

CIC starts counting from the day your sponsorship gets approved for stage 1....which is usually considered the day of transfer to the visa office as well. So when they refer to 10 months, that is 10 months from january, when your husband was approved as the sponsor.

 

[julycathe]

Well looks like tha VO is moving again! just yesterday I received an email from them saying that our case its on queu to be processed and finalised and that they are not able to inform me the exact time but they will contact me as soon as they proceed with my case. I hope some time soon!!! this gives me and my wife some hope after months of not knowing anything. on March/2012 I received an email saying that my case was assigned for an interview and that they did not know the exact time of the interview and that they will inform me once they knew the date, then 3 days later I received a call from the assistant to inform me the date and time and what documents to bring with me. I sure hope this time again they contact me 3 days later! or sometime soon!