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[swarupsh]

congratulations,

Can you please tell us after how many days you got your passport from CHC london VO after you got Decision Made Status on your Ecas.
Also did you use Prepaid courier services or only arranged self addressed envelop.

Thanks,

Swarupsh

 

[HANY2012]

thanks god i received my passports back with the visa stamped in one month exactly

thank you all for support wishing you success in your applications and future life

regards,

Nasser

Dear Nasser

mabrook and I wish you have nice trip to Canada but can you tell me how you received your passport

hany

 

[N.MD]

Thank you friends for nice wishing ,
I submitted my passports to the immigration consultant (premiers ) on 20/06/2013 , delivered to LVO on 21/06/2013.
Unfortunately for reasons I don't know till now , I am not able to check my status via online services from the 3 rd week of my passports submission till now.
On 21/07/2013 I received a call from premiers informing me to collect the passports.

Regards

Nasser

 

[GISHA26]

Hi,

You took medical again after expired medical ? and what is the visa validity if not medical take ?

Thx
Gisha

 

[SMSH]

Thank you friends for nice wishing ,
I submitted my passports to the immigration consultant (premiers ) on 20/06/2013 , delivered to LVO on 21/06/2013.
Unfortunately for reasons I don't know till now , I am not able to check my status via online services from the 3 rd week of my passports submission till now.
On 21/07/2013 I received a call from premiers informing me to collect the passports.

Regards

Nasser

Mabrooooooooooooook!

 

[N.MD]

Hi,

You took medical again after expired medical ? and what is the visa validity if not medical take ?

Thx
Gisha

This is the big surprise for me ,they asked for passports directly without repeating the medical test.
Also I think they want to give me one year visa validity but they don't. Coz the expiry date of one of my sons passport is on April 2014 so the whole family visa expiry will be on April 2014.

Regards,

 

[N.MD]

Dear seniors

Is Demand Draft (DD) in US$$ from ENBD bank acceptable as POF at time of landing in Toronto airport ??
I am going to do short landing to Toronto so it is wise to take DD and it is easy to cancel this draft after come back to dubai ??

Regards,

 

[AAJ]

Dear All,

By the grace of Almighty Allah, I got my passport after visa stamped yesterday...

It was a long journey of more than three years but was made easy due to this wonderful forum. This forum helped me not only to keep myself geared up during this difficult "waiting" phase but also proved to be a great and enormous source of information on every aspect of this journey.

I would like to thank all those who kept on helping others in keeping their spirits up and giving useful and valuable advice.

I am specifically thankful to Qorax for pioneering such supportive approach through this forum, which is being continued here by others as well.

I am also thankful to Coolguy, who was there to help me since the time I filled out the very first form for immigration. Without his help it was never easy...

I wish that all members (active and silent) of this forum achieve their goals....

Regards,
AAJ

 

[coolguy2010]

Congrates AAJ.....I remember the days when we filled forms together

We applied together and got visa also in almost same time

Wish u all the best for future in Canada

Dear All,

By the grace of Almighty Allah, I got my passport after visa stamped yesterday...

It was a long journey of more than three years but was made easy due to this wonderful forum. This forum helped me not only to keep myself geared up during this difficult "waiting" phase but also proved to be a great and enormous source of information on every aspect of this journey.

I would like to thank all those who kept on helping others in keeping their spirits up and giving useful and valuable advice.

I am specifically thankful to Qorax for pioneering such supportive approach through this forum, which is being continued here by others as well.

I am also thankful to Coolguy, who was there to help me since the time I filled out the very first form for immigration. Without his help it was never easy...

I wish that all members (active and silent) of this forum achieve their goals....

Regards,
AAJ

 

[nekeol]

Dear seniors

Is Demand Draft (DD) in US$$ from ENBD bank acceptable as POF at time of landing in Toronto airport ??
I am going to do short landing to Toronto so it is wise to take DD and it is easy to cancel this draft after come back to dubai ??

Regards,

NO PROBLEM FOR SHOWING ONLY TO FILL UP THE FORME677, U CAN USE ANY CURRENCY NOTE OR DD

 

[rejis]

Did you also try to take the G test?

Yes. But I got the appointment for a day after my planned return date...
So, next time...

 

[NN74]

Our landing experience!

Yesterday, finally we had landed at Toronto Pearson airport.

Lets start with few words about airline. Against the advises of all friends, we had chosen Egypt Air to travel due to cost (5 passengers US$4,100/- return). There were various opinions about Egypt Air; not good air line as per safety view, no good staff, no good handling during flight (one had told that there's always water shortage during flight etc.). However, we have a pleasant experience, new 777-300 ER planes from Dubai to Cairo (3hrs) and then Cairo to Toronto (11hr flight). They accepted 2 pieces of luggage (23kg each so total of 46 kg per pax) plus 8-10kg of hand bag incl children allowance. So as a family of 5 we carried 6 hand pcs. At Cairo, there was 8 hrs stay so Egypt Air provided a 4* star hotel (free visa on arrival) and hotel pick & drop along with good dinner; all inclusive in airline ticket with no extra charge. Ground staff insisted to take rest with great hospitality. The onboard staff was very cooperative and food, water, kids meal, juices, etc served thru all the 11 hrs duration without fail. So, over all its a pleasant experience (we thought of this as PIA of Egypt) but the service standard was as matching as UAE's Emirates! Only issue with ground staff was their English language skills, I hope that it would be improved in years to come but Egyptians are very soft & nice friendly people!

At Pearson, the process was very smooth. No need of filling PR card forms in advance. The immigration officer (a lady of hardly 24 years & Muslim) had guided to new immigration counter & there another lady (again very young) had done the paper work within 5-10 minutes (may be due to an infant with us) and completed our formalities quickly! She said, 'you will get your PR cards in 60 days!'

Another pleasant experience, was at with CBSA counter. With 9 pieces of 62" baggage and almost 8 hand carry bags on 3 trolleys, the CBSA officer while holding dual copies of B4A forms with printed lists, had asked us only about photos of jewelry that would be shipped later. We didn't had that, so he informed us that "Pl go ahead now and bring the photos later (say in next 10-11 months) and complete your customs process (means handing over the stamped form of GOODS TO FOLLOW) then." So in next 5 minutes, we were out of airport with pleasant surprise! No bag was touched by custom officer!!!!

Just out of airport, with so much baggage, we were not able to accommodated in our friend's car. Police man standing there came forward and asked a taxi driver to take all our luggage in one taxi (though as per law only limited bags are allowed) and hence just for CAD$45 he took all out stuff in one go to our friend's place close to Etobicoke! Thanks to Canada Police Officer!

As Egypt Air staff had given us good seats (helping us to get seats where no other was booked, so each took three seats to sleep peacefully), hence after keeping our luggage & kids at friend's place, we proceeded to Services Canada office and started working f or our SIN. Canadians appeared to be very friendly and hence the lady at SIN office, guided us to another lady where we completed our SIN (only passport & COPR stamped by immigration officer, is required) process. The lady also handed over printed material to get social benefits claims for kids, if we want to for which we are not interested in. So we politely refused that as of now we are not interested in any social benefits for kids.

Around 12:30 CAD time, we moved to TD bank office to open our account. TD is offering new account (maintaining CAD5,000 average balance monthly) holders with a Samsung 7" tablet, so me & my husband had opened our account in 30 minutes, our debit card, cash deposit, locker, cheque book request (will get in next 7 working days) all done during that time even we were given preference to deposit cash though there were many standing in a que! Very friendly staff and nice experience there but that time were we tired!

My husband wanted to go back home but I insisted to talk to Estate Agent to complete the flat renting process, means signing the lease/contract. Before, arrival, we had (with the help of our friend plus Internet surfing) had chosen the flat (our friend had shown us the live photos of flat thru Skype) and deposited a bank's Pay Order to book the flat. The lady over there was very friendly, with our passport & COPR copy, she has handed over the lease contract (2 bed ground floor apt in Etobicoke for CAD$ 950/- month incl of hydro) and thats it, she gave us the flat keys and walked with us towards flat to inspect if anything further is required as part of flat maintenance. That's all with keys, we have our flat on our first day in Canada! Thanks to Canadian system its very friendly, smooth, & helping to newly landed immigrants!

Again, I wanted to take a SIM card, so we visited nearby shopping mall, Wall Mart, to get Chatr SIM. Their new offer is $20 pm with Ontario wide calls/text free and we have our new phone SIM in next 15 minutes.

I hope that we had done many things on our first day, so we returned back to our friends' place. Overall, weather is too good unlike UAE. It's like Dec or Jan UAE's weather, nice cool breeze and cloudy sky; a time to sit out side in lawn and enjoy! Canada is a lovely place, lush green parks, wide roads, organized system, no humidity, and friendly people! 'Thank you' and word of 'my apology' often used!

The only thing we missed is our Roza, as it is Ramadan, but we were passengers and in Dubai it was hot summer with 50 deg centigrade and handling of luggage, kids, and transportation was little difficult with fasting. Inshallah from tomorrow onward we will start fasting as we have visited the nearby Mosque to send our two kids for Holy Quran learning's!

While moving out of Dubai's home, I had prayed to Allah that 'O Lord! please make our this journey as easy as possible -as I have 3 kids- and successful as leaving our Dubai home is a tough decision (as my husband is leaving a good lucrative VP level bank job in Dubai but ready to do any sort of job without ego, after all Rizk is given by Allah, salary or job is only a mean) because we had spend 10 years of our sweet life here in this city!' I think Allah has listen to my prayers!

I'd be happy if our landing experience might help others in any way!

 

[GISHA26]

Dear Fourm Members,

My agent inform me Every single case have two File Number, Is it correct Huh? ,Kindly clarify ...

Sha.

 

[SMSH]

Dear Fourm Members,

My agent inform me Every single case have two File Number, Is it correct Huh? ,Kindly clarify ...

Sha.

Yes 1st number you will get from CIO
and 2nd form LVO

I also have 2 numbers and after receiving 2nd file number you are not suppose to use 1st File number in your future corress...

 

[rejis]

Our landing experience!

Yesterday, finally we had landed at Toronto Pearson airport.

Lets start with few words about airline. Against the advises of all friends, we had chosen Egypt Air to travel due to cost (5 passengers US$4,100/- return). There were various opinions about Egypt Air; not good air line as per safety view, no good staff, no good handling during flight (one had told that there's always water shortage during flight etc.). However, we have a pleasant experience, new 777-300 ER planes from Dubai to Cairo (3hrs) and then Cairo to Toronto (11hr flight). They accepted 2 pieces of luggage (23kg each so total of 46 kg per pax) plus 8-10kg of hand bag incl children allowance. So as a family of 5 we carried 6 hand pcs. At Cairo, there was 8 hrs stay so Egypt Air provided a 4* star hotel (free visa on arrival) and hotel pick & drop along with good dinner; all inclusive in airline ticket with no extra charge. Ground staff insisted to take rest with great hospitality. The onboard staff was very cooperative and food, water, kids meal, juices, etc served thru all the 11 hrs duration without fail. So, over all its a pleasant experience (we thought of this as PIA of Egypt) but the service standard was as matching as UAE's Emirates! Only issue with ground staff was their English language skills, I hope that it would be improved in years to come but Egyptians are very soft & nice friendly people!

At Pearson, the process was very smooth. No need of filling PR card forms in advance. The immigration officer (a lady of hardly 24 years & Muslim) had guided to new immigration counter & there another lady (again very young) had done the paper work within 5-10 minutes (may be due to an infant with us) and completed our formalities quickly! She said, 'you will get your PR cards in 60 days!'

Another pleasant experience, was at with CBSA counter. With 9 pieces of 62" baggage and almost 8 hand carry bags on 3 trolleys, the CBSA officer while holding dual copies of B4A forms with printed lists, had asked us only about photos of jewelry that would be shipped later. We didn't had that, so he informed us that "Pl go ahead now and bring the photos later (say in next 10-11 months) and complete your customs process (means handing over the stamped form of GOODS TO FOLLOW) then." So in next 5 minutes, we were out of airport with pleasant surprise! No bag was touched by custom officer!!!!

Just out of airport, with so much baggage, we were not able to accommodated in our friend's car. Police man standing there came forward and asked a taxi driver to take all our luggage in one taxi (though as per law only limited bags are allowed) and hence just for CAD$45 he took all out stuff in one go to our friend's place close to Etobicoke! Thanks to Canada Police Officer!

As Egypt Air staff had given us good seats (helping us to get seats where no other was booked, so each took three seats to sleep peacefully), hence after keeping our luggage & kids at friend's place, we proceeded to Services Canada office and started working f or our SIN. Canadians appeared to be very friendly and hence the lady at SIN office, guided us to another lady where we completed our SIN (only passport & COPR stamped by immigration officer, is required) process. The lady also handed over printed material to get social benefits claims for kids, if we want to for which we are not interested in. So we politely refused that as of now we are not interested in any social benefits for kids.

Around 12:30 CAD time, we moved to TD bank office to open our account. TD is offering new account (maintaining CAD5,000 average balance monthly) holders with a Samsung 7" tablet, so me & my husband had opened our account in 30 minutes, our debit card, cash deposit, locker, cheque book request (will get in next 7 working days) all done during that time even we were given preference to deposit cash though there were many standing in a que! Very friendly staff and nice experience there but that time were we tired!

My husband wanted to go back home but I insisted to talk to Estate Agent to complete the flat renting process, means signing the lease/contract. Before, arrival, we had (with the help of our friend plus Internet surfing) had chosen the flat (our friend had shown us the live photos of flat thru Skype) and deposited a bank's Pay Order to book the flat. The lady over there was very friendly, with our passport & COPR copy, she has handed over the lease contract (2 bed ground floor apt in Etobicoke for CAD$ 950/- month incl of hydro) and thats it, she gave us the flat keys and walked with us towards flat to inspect if anything further is required as part of flat maintenance. That's all with keys, we have our flat on our first day in Canada! Thanks to Canadian system its very friendly, smooth, & helping to newly landed immigrants!

Again, I wanted to take a SIM card, so we visited nearby shopping mall, Wall Mart, to get Chatr SIM. Their new offer is $20 pm with Ontario wide calls/text free and we have our new phone SIM in next 15 minutes.

I hope that we had done many things on our first day, so we returned back to our friends' place. Overall, weather is too good unlike UAE. It's like Dec or Jan UAE's weather, nice cool breeze and cloudy sky; a time to sit out side in lawn and enjoy! Canada is a lovely place, lush green parks, wide roads, organized system, no humidity, and friendly people! 'Thank you' and word of 'my apology' often used!

The only thing we missed is our Roza, as it is Ramadan, but we were passengers and in Dubai it was hot summer with 50 deg centigrade and handling of luggage, kids, and transportation was little difficult with fasting. Inshallah from tomorrow onward we will start fasting as we have visited the nearby Mosque to send our two kids for Holy Quran learning's!

While moving out of Dubai's home, I had prayed to Allah that 'O Lord! please make our this journey as easy as possible -as I have 3 kids- and successful as leaving our Dubai home is a tough decision (as my husband is leaving a good lucrative VP level bank job in Dubai but ready to do any sort of job without ego, after all Rizk is given by Allah, salary or job is only a mean) because we had spend 10 years of our sweet life here in this city!' I think Allah has listen to my prayers!

I'd be happy if our landing experience might help others in any way!

Nicely written...
I am one among the unfortunates who decided not to fly with Egypt air and paid double for Emirates