December 2018 AOR - join here

[jm90]

I did my med on Dec 20 and submitted my application on Dec 24.

 

[USProgrammer]

You're right, I traveled very little outside of the US in the eight years I lived there. Most of the international travel was to visit with family or get US visas stamped in Canada (another pain in the ass with H1Bs).

I will stop worrying for now. I think I'm going to post this question in the June-September forums to see if people with extensive travel histories were adversely affected in any way.

Would you let me know by PM if you hear anything? I'm interested.

 

[USProgrammer]

I did my med on Dec 20 and submitted my application on Dec 24.

It may add a few days or it may not. I did my medical 2 days after getting ITA, so it was done/submitted well before AOR. Sorry I can't offer more advice.

 

[jm90]

It may add a few days or it may not. I did my medical 2 days after getting ITA, so it was done/submitted well before AOR. Sorry I can't offer more advice.

On second thought, I think it doesn't matter when the med info is submitted.
Because the IRCC views all applications by AOR. The info will already be there when the IRCC opens my application.

 

[derkdsou]

Allow 41-42 days from your AOR at current processing rates.

My doc said they submit the medical info to Canada about 10 business days after medical. I am a 24Dec-AOR
So do the dates mentioned on myimmi include those 10 days, or should I count my 40 approx days after 4 Jan?

Thanks!

 

[derkdsou]

10 days is the max. interval before they report the results to IRCC, and 10 days is quite normal.
Also, it is not the IRCC looking at your medicals, but Health Canada. And HC likely reviews our files well before our MEP dates and clears them for IRCC to mark as passed. At the moment, we're likely just waiting for IRCC officers to work through the winter backlog.

On second thought, I think it doesn't matter when the med info is submitted.
Because the IRCC views all applications by AOR. The info will already be there when the IRCC opens my application.

 

[derkdsou]

Yessir!

Would you let me know by PM if you hear anything? I'm interested.

 

[jm90]

10 days is the max. interval before they report the results to IRCC, and 10 days is quite normal.
Also, it is not the IRCC looking at your medicals, but Health Canada. And HC likely reviews our files well before our MEP dates and clears them for IRCC to mark as passed. At the moment, we're likely just waiting for IRCC officers to work through the winter backlog.

Thanks for your reply.
Reading the past conversation here, I am guessing if you get no furtherance early on after submitting med, you'll probably get MEP without any furtherance requests.
Hmmmm.

 

[derkdsou]

With a grain of salt, of course.

Thanks for your reply.
Reading the past conversation here, I am guessing if you get no furtherance early on after submitting med, you'll probably get MEP without any furtherance requests.
Hmmmm.

 

[jm90]

With a grain of salt, of course.

hahaha

 

[TheNorms]

I'm wondering about whether my international travel will bring up any issues. Other than the US, where I was born and live, I have only traveled to:

• Mexico as kid, long ago, when all we needed we needed was a driver's license and no passport
• Canada for one day a few years ago when I was in Seattle for vacation (did not receive a stamp on my US passport)
• UK for a week (received a stamp in my old passport)
• Several cruises
  • Each cruise went to Mexican and Caribbean destinations like Cozumel, Belize, Grand Cayman, Bahamas, Jamaica, Honduras
  • None of those travels resulted in passport stamps, because you just get off the boat in the port and then get back on the boat at the end of the day.
  • I did pass through US Customs upon arrival back in the US, so I assume the US CBP has records of my arrivals, which I hope Canada also has access to under their joint intelligence sharing agreement.

All of that is a long way to say, I have a bunch of 1-day trips to a bunch of Caribbean/Mexican destinations and no passport stamps to accompany them. I hope this doesn't pose an issue. On each cruise travel that I disclosed, I put the reason was a cruise in the e-APR. I had to add a lot of 1 day trips.

Hi USProgrammer, I’m also wondering the same regarding cruises, I’ve been on a cruise and both me and my wife have no stamps in passports. We flew from the uk to meet the ship in Barbados and flew back to uk from St Kitts no stamps at all. I really hope this doesn’t become a issue.

 

[cansha]

Hi USProgrammer, I’m also wondering the same regarding cruises, I’ve been on a cruise and both me and my wife have no stamps in passports. We flew from the uk to meet the ship in Barbados and flew back to uk from St Kitts no stamps at all. I really hope this doesn’t become a issue.

Its not an issue.

 

[USProgrammer]

Hi USProgrammer, I’m also wondering the same regarding cruises, I’ve been on a cruise and both me and my wife have no stamps in passports. We flew from the uk to meet the ship in Barbados and flew back to uk from St Kitts no stamps at all. I really hope this doesn’t become a issue.

Surely, it can't be the first time they've encountered cruises. I just wish I had stamps to go along with my travels. I was quite happy to receive my first and only stamp when crossing the border in the UK.

 

[derkdsou]

This is a luxury problem that comes with having a first-world passport.

Surely, it can't be the first time they've encountered cruises. I just wish I had stamps to go along with my travels. I was quite happy to receive my first and only stamp when crossing the border in the UK.

 

[USProgrammer]

This is a luxury problem that comes with having a first-world passport.

I'm pretty sure they allow any country's citizens to go on cruises as long as you're allowed in the country it's departing from, right?