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[canadiangirl78]

What were the reasons for CIC to send the entire package back to you? More to the point, what was wrong with those IMM forms?? Did they specify the problems?

This is not good at all...it means that they might send back packages quite late, as you should have already been approved according to the timelines...plus I read on this forum that they do an initial check to make sure everything is complete, so if you haven't received anything back from CIC after about 2 months of waiting, it supposedly means that the package is complete...I guess that theory is no longer valid...

At least you have a UCI number! Don't worry, just correct whatever they need corrected and get it back to them ASAP!!

FS

The package was complete. It was just full of errors. That's something only the officer will know. The whole package was probably sent back just to keep everything together. The app has a UCI so it will take less than a month to get approval.

 

[mameelynn]

so I have now sorted through our whole pile of paperwork again and put it all back in order... who would have thought they could make such a huge mess if it so fast?! Now I just have to fill in the forms again and then I'm going to get posit tabs and label the re-filled out ones and stack them on top of the incomplete copy of it and send it out hopefully tomorrow! I'm feeling much better now than I was when I got the mail today and like I said at least I have our UCI now!

 

[canadiangirl78]

Great job! And don't worry this is a minor setback.

 

[Yasmine_GRL]

so I have now sorted through our whole pile of paperwork again and put it all back in order... who would have thought they could make such a huge mess if it so fast?! Now I just have to fill in the forms again and then I'm going to get posit tabs and label the re-filled out ones and stack them on top of the incomplete copy of it and send it out hopefully tomorrow! I'm feeling much better now than I was when I got the mail today and like I said at least I have our UCI now!

No need to panic at all, if you have an UCI they're waiting for you! In 2-3 weeks you might have the approval. Chin up!

Wish you all the best!

 

[srdjan11273]

am i crazy or what?! there is nothing for me! and my application was received on february 7th! when i call, they say they are still processing my file! what is wrong!?!?

 

[eskimokiss]

am i crazy or what?! there is nothing for me! and my application was received on february 7th! when i call, they say they are still processing my file! what is wrong!?!?

Oh my! I'm sorry to hear that srdjan.

 

[canadiangirl78]

am i crazy or what?! there is nothing for me! and my application was received on february 7th! when i call, they say they are still processing my file! what is wrong!?!?

It sounds like your case isn't straight forward. There's almost always a reason for delays like this. You can order the notes on your file.

 

[srdjan11273]

It sounds like your case isn't straight forward. There's almost always a reason for delays like this. You can order the notes on your file.

they're all mad there! how can they seperate children from his father?!?!?

 

[canadiangirl78]

they're all mad there! how can they seperate children from his father?!?!?

They have to go through the application process. If the sponsor is Canadian citizen they can live abroad with their spouse and children.

 

[Fencesitter]

I don't think they intentionally try to separate families. I agree with canadiangirl; they are just going through the application process. When applications are delayed, it's usually for a reason, whether pedantic or not. You just have to hang in there and be patient (I know, everyone tells you to be patient...this process sucks!).

What I hope is that they move on to March applications next week. I really want to get approved before the end of July so that my wife's application can be in Hong Kong before September. If that happens, it's very possible she will get her visa before her medical expires on March 1, 2013.

We're going to Hong Kong around August 13-14 for a few nights. We're staying at the Courtyard by Marriott which is very close to the consulate. I think I will pop in to ask a few questions and see how backlogged they are...according to the latest update, HK is taking 18 months for 80%...so at least the timeline has improved, if only by a month.

Good luck to the February applicants who are still waiting...you'll get approved VERY soon!

FS

 

[ThunderSoul]

I finally got sponsorship approval - after almost 125 days.

Application submit on feb 6th. Cic asked for missing signature by mail on may 16th. I replied by normal mail on may 18th. Then approval email received on June 11th. Long waiting......

Now down to 2nd stage waiting. Hope cic won't delay the process again

Good luck to everyone here waiting

Good work! Does anyone know what happens in the Manila office? any VO AOR? Passport request? What is the 2nd step? I have no clue...

 

[ThunderSoul]

2-3 weeks. Some visa officers send an AOR and some do not. Just keep checking ecas.

Are you sure the foreign VO updates e-cas?

 

[ThunderSoul]

no....never in my wildest dreams did I think CIC would take so long.....I was set to wait once it reached the VO office but I truly thought I would have had my approval in May......and my "long" waiting period would have started then...LOL....how naive I was......

Precisely.
Instead of the advertised 42 days when I first sent the app, it ended up being over 130 days. :\ That's over 4 months.

 

[ThunderSoul]

Don't worry KJG you will be approved very soon, from today in 10 days.

If you check the Feb's spredsheet you'll see more than half people approved without an AOR. Your approval could be happen at anytime.

My case is very diffucult, all I need is passing the first stage, the rest I don't care too much.. If they deny me than everything will be upside down.

Good luck and keep fingers crossed. Best regards,

Why do you think there's something wrong with your first stage?

 

[ThunderSoul]

Nothing for me today either, been checking my email like MADDDDD but nothing I was really positive that it was going to be this week since they did the 24th to 27th last week but bummer nothing. This is the time it gets really depressing........

ROFL and now their time is beginning to drop. Going down to 82 days and it will eventually go back to 55 days. Why in the Nine ****ing Hells did ~we~ have to send our app when it was the worse time possible!? Goddam f***ing unfair. It's 55 days for years and years and BAM, I send our app, 130 days. We pass first stage, it is going back down. WTF!