CPP-Ottawa

[rhcohen2014]

Wow, congratulations and thanks a lot for writing us your detailed "landing story". We were all missing your absence but had an idea that you must be busy. On behalf of the forum, I wish you good luck in your future endeavors.

thanks! i still read the forum, and will be sharing my two cents when it's necessary. now that my husband is back at work, it's easier for me to sneak some time in.

 

[crawf307]

Landing story and additional post-landing bureaucracy:

So I packed up my few worldly possessions, counted, inventoried and filled out my B-4 forms. I rented a car for the journey, as I was going from Connecticut to Toronto and we don't have a vehicle. I had more stuff than I wanted to ship or check for a flight.

I crossed at the Rainbow bridge at about 5 pm on Saturday, August 30 and it was very busy. I got up to the first border guard, happily said, I'm moving here and gave him my COPR and passport. He grumpily directed me to an area to park and go inside. The first guard took my passport and COPR and made me wait in another room for about 5 minutes. I was then called up for processing, which took about 2 minutes. I had to sign my COPR and she stamped my passport and wrote my immigration number in there.

Then they passed me on to customs to examine my B-4 forms. The first person did not know how to process a landing and I was shuffled to two other people. The guy looked at my forms, asked if I had a car, to which I replied "no" and then handed my forms back to me. I asked "should you stamp them or something?" and he said "well I trust that everything in that rental is what you have on this list and I'm not going to go out there and search through it all." and he told me I could go.

That was that. Very painless and so much more anti-climactic than I thought it would be.

Since then I've gone to Service Ontario to apply for my OHIP. There was no line at all and they required my proof of address (lease), my COPR and my passport. They snapped my photo and told me it should come in the mail in a few weeks, but I can't use it for 3 months.

Today, I went to Service Canada to get my SIN. The wait was about 30 minutes and all they needed was my COPR, passport and some personal information. Also, the weirdest question ever "were you a single child or a twin?" not sure how that data is relevant for my SIN, but oh well!

I've now got my SIN, so I plan to get put on my husband's bank account and open a secured credit card to start building my Canadian credit.

Last stop will be Service Ontario again for sorting out a driver's license. I don't really want to give up my Connecticut driver's license, but the website implies that I will have to surrender it.

 

[Subbanator]

We officially mailed our application on the 4th and it was delivered on the 8th! So excited and also kind of worried that something must be missing and ruin the application, I hope that that is a common feeling that turns out to be for nothing. I must ask, how/when should we find out that our application has been received and is in the beginning stages of processing? Do they email? I have information to log in for a previous visa extension request is that the same place I would go to keep updated on our application?

I know there is a spreadsheet somewhere so whoever is in control of that can feel free to add us and ask if there is any information needed I'd love to pitch in to the information available for everyone.

Thanks for any help and good luck to everyone else out there!

 

[Mariac819]

Landing story and additional post-landing bureaucracy:

So I packed up my few worldly possessions, counted, inventoried and filled out my B-4 forms. I rented a car for the journey, as I was going from Connecticut to Toronto and we don't have a vehicle. I had more stuff than I wanted to ship or check for a flight.

I crossed at the Rainbow bridge at about 5 pm on Saturday, August 30 and it was very busy. I got up to the first border guard, happily said, I'm moving here and gave him my COPR and passport. He grumpily directed me to an area to park and go inside. The first guard took my passport and COPR and made me wait in another room for about 5 minutes. I was then called up for processing, which took about 2 minutes. I had to sign my COPR and she stamped my passport and wrote my immigration number in there.

Then they passed me on to customs to examine my B-4 forms. The first person did not know how to process a landing and I was shuffled to two other people. The guy looked at my forms, asked if I had a car, to which I replied "no" and then handed my forms back to me. I asked "should you stamp them or something?" and he said "well I trust that everything in that rental is what you have on this list and I'm not going to go out there and search through it all." and he told me I could go.

That was that. Very painless and so much more anti-climactic than I thought it would be.

Since then I've gone to Service Ontario to apply for my OHIP. There was no line at all and they required my proof of address (lease), my COPR and my passport. They snapped my photo and told me it should come in the mail in a few weeks, but I can't use it for 3 months.

Today, I went to Service Canada to get my SIN. The wait was about 30 minutes and all they needed was my COPR, passport and some personal information. Also, the weirdest question ever "were you a single child or a twin?" not sure how that data is relevant for my SIN, but oh well!

I've now got my SIN, so I plan to get put on my husband's bank account and open a secured credit card to start building my Canadian credit.

Last stop will be Service Ontario again for sorting out a driver's license. I don't really want to give up my Connecticut driver's license, but the website implies that I will have to surrender it.

thank you for sharing this. It gives me a lot more piece of mind! I am moving from NY!

I really do not want to surrender my NY license either haha.. It is so pretty and they JUST changed it to the new ones

 

[ckizaks]

thanks! i still read the forum, and will be sharing my two cents when it's necessary. now that my husband is back at work, it's easier for me to sneak some time in.

Contrats on your landing! Still waiting...hopefully soon!

 

[beebrown]

My husband CPR was printed on August 18th 2014. He is coming on September 29th 2014. Thank you very much for all your help!

 

[ckizaks]

My husband CPR was printed on August 18th 2014. He is coming on September 29th 2014. Thank you very much for all your help!

That's great news! Congrats!! ;D

 

[A1482]

I see from long time that there is no update in anyones case from Otawwa....i ve been following that spreadsheet...I ve payed rprf about a month ago but dint hear nothing yet, and looking at that spreadsheet i think nothing is happening from ottawa side right now. ???
is that alright or i am beinga little impatient ... coz cant wait to see the status changed to Decision made over there ;D ;D

 

[kneekick]

From what I've been reading, it seems like things have slowed down for a lot of people waiting on the Ottawa office. *sigh* I paid my RPRF in July and haven't heard since. My bring fwd date was Sept. 9 so my fingers are crossed that I see "In Process" on my ecas soon. I get so down when I see "Application Received." One of these days. Meanwhile, good luck to all of us still waiting and congrats to those who are getting great news!

 

[iNick89]

Random question...

In August, Ottawa e-mailed my partner and I, saying they had completed the initial assessment of his application, and asked us for a scanned copy of his passport, and 1 missing document. We mailed those 2 things 2 days after we got the request.

We thought we were almost at the end of the process since they requested his passport, but I noticed our ECAS still says "Application Received" and not "In Process"...

Does this mean we aren't even close?!

 

[chala]

Random question...

In August, Ottawa e-mailed my partner and I, saying they had completed the initial assessment of his application, and asked us for a scanned copy of his passport, and 1 missing document. We mailed those 2 things 2 days after we got the request.

We thought we were almost at the end of the process since they requested his passport, but I noticed our ECAS still says "Application Received" and not "In Process"...

Does this mean we aren't even close?!

I have noticed that generally there is a 60 day wait period after CIC requests additional documents, so they most likely will not look at your file until that time, the "bring forward" date. But remember that with CIC nothing is certain.

 

[iNick89]

I have noticed that generally there is a 60 day wait period after CIC requests additional documents, so they most likely will not look at your file until that time, the "bring forward" date. But remember that with CIC nothing is certain.

After looking through the Ottawa spreadsheets, this is not entirely true. Dozens of people have docs PLUS passports requested on the same day, and get COPR anywhere from 10-30 days after the docs were requested.

So I guess I will just have to wait and see.

 

[keesio]

Basically if you send them documents electronically (e-mail), they usually get back on your file fairly quickly.

If you send them documents via standard mail, it can take some time.

 

[Trav0370]

If it makes you feel any better mine has said "in process" for the past month. So that stage doesnt mean a whole lot to me.

 

[keesio]

Yeah, my wife's went from "Application Received" to "Decision Made". And it finally flipped to "Decision Made" the day before she got COPR in the mail.

eCAS updates depend on the officer working on your case. Some are quick to update eCAS while others not so much.