Egyptian Citizens inland and outland, let's Connect here
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I am wondering the samemaged_mmh said:what about the medicals expiry??
Aren't you supposed to land before they expire?
what I heard is that there's no counsular section anymore here in Egypt, all files are processed either in London or OttawaWolverine17 said:
Some Egyptian Express Entry applications never end up in the hands of the Cairo visa office. Some paper-based PR applications still do (these are 2014 FSW/CEC applications that are still incomplete, plus some Provincial Nominations (especially investors).Wolverine17 said:
If you submit your passport for travel document to the Cairo visa office after your PR is approved, you are inviting them to review every single part of your file so its easier and safer to just send it to Ottawa.
The consular section will always exist in Egypt (in some form or another) because it serves Canadians who need help abroad. I think you meant to say the 'visa section' is no longer here.maged_mmh said:
Actually, there is at least one Canadian expat at the Embassy as chief visa officer at present. However, most applications for temporary statuses (work/study/visit) are processed in Ankara. The visa office in Cairo seems to do work like conducting interviews (any applicable category), fraud detection, and managing high-litigation risk cases.
wow there are new details I have just known about.. I remember I saw one egyptian applicant in a spreadsheet who got ppr after 2.5 months of AOR date! so we are supposed to wait more than 6 month + our OINP waiting time! I guess there is no consular office since they changed the embassy's location from garden city to nile city towersanytimebutnow said:
No, I meant consular section.anytimebutnow said:
there was no visa office here, there's only "officers" for interviews and such but a visa office which grants the visa and stamp it was never in Egypt at all.
"Consular assistance" is help and advice provided by the diplomatic agents of a country to citizens of that country who are living or traveling overseas. Such assistance may take the form of: provision of replacement travel documents. advice and support in the case of an accident, serious illness or death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consular_assistance
The consular section has nothing to do with visas or immigration.
There has always been visa officers in Cairo and you can find more information about them on the federal worker directory at the website for Foreign Affairs and Trade Development Canada.
The FSW applications that I have seen (many) are invited to send the passport to Ottawa for travel document. This is problematic because some applicants cannot buy a pre-paid envelope to return the passports back to Cairo after they are stamped. The passport request letter offers an alternative, to submit the passport to your nearest embassy to have the travel document placed inside. Electing this option and sending your passport to the Canadian embassy in Cairo opens you up to having the entire application reviewed again. My only point was that it may be beneficial to send the passport to Canada and not let a visa officer here mess you up.
The consular section has nothing to do with visas or immigration.
There has always been visa officers in Cairo and you can find more information about them on the federal worker directory at the website for Foreign Affairs and Trade Development Canada.
The FSW applications that I have seen (many) are invited to send the passport to Ottawa for travel document. This is problematic because some applicants cannot buy a pre-paid envelope to return the passports back to Cairo after they are stamped. The passport request letter offers an alternative, to submit the passport to your nearest embassy to have the travel document placed inside. Electing this option and sending your passport to the Canadian embassy in Cairo opens you up to having the entire application reviewed again. My only point was that it may be beneficial to send the passport to Canada and not let a visa officer here mess you up.
hahahaaa thats truemaged_mmh said:what about the medicals expiry??
Aren't you supposed to land before they expire?
"Dream killers" . The whole idea is that visa officers in Cairo, are aided by people experienced with the Egyptian forms. They can easily detect fraud that including (fake bank statements, fake experience letters, and all other documents within the application). I was denied a student visa to canada last year and the rejection came from the Cairo Office. Indeed most cases are processed outside Egypt, since we are one of the countries with limited computer access system for the express entry for instance. However, i think that now they are able to process various visas including EE immigration. just make sure your papers are bullet proof and hope for the best!Ok now am a little confused ,what decides where the visas are processed,our nationality of the country of current residency?
I never said the consular section handles immigrants applications!anytimebutnow said:
What I said is just that: they do not have a consular here anymore, just embassy, how do I know? Simply from our Canadian coworkers, they ought to write/send/travel to Turkey each time they have something to do that cannot be done online. BTW, this was not the case before 2011, I hope it's clear.
As for the visa office; I never even once saw a CoPR stamped by Cairo, that's why I "think" what they have here are just agents not decision makers to grant of refuse an application.
for the prepaid envelope: do we need to secure that ourselves? any idea how?
your current place of residence. e.g. Inland applicants are all handled by Nova Scotia office or New York office regardless of their nationalities.Wolverine17 said: