FEBRUARY 2015 OUTLAND

[misteece]

Guess what it's AOR 2 from Singapore VO...

 

[MommyBear888]

Couldn't find a thread for February 2015 Outland applications, so thought I would start one. Application went in the mail today. Now we wait!

Hi! Newbie here our application was received by Missisauga on Feb. 25, 2015. Now we did upfront medical. Just want to ask, mgnotify pa ba ang manila office pag nareceive na nila docs natin from Missisauga? Application received pa rin kasi status on my PR application e. Thanks in advance guys!

 

[roozbeh]

Guess what it's AOR 2 from Singapore VO...

CONGRATULATIONS!

 

[Garry2008]

Guess what it's AOR 2 from Singapore VO...

Congrats and Best of Luck.

 

[Mapleson]

Hello everybody:
CIC released case processing time for spouses by Visa Office.
http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/427337d0-7c36-4fed-8428-c6a63f8c19b3

Below is the data for the last period of 12 month (October 01, 2013-September 30, 2014). You can download table and sort data by type of cases and see % number of cases completed within X months or less and total number of cases by VO.
Here all data related to Family Class (Priority – Spouses & Partners)

You got my hopes up that they'd released a quarterly update. As an aside, try using the table/row/cell tags next time for more readable pasting.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/opendata-donneesouvertes/data/000001-eng.xls
http://www.cic.gc.ca/opendata-donneesouvertes/data/000009-eng.xls - Number of cases back to 2002 and destination by province. Includes data on application withdrawals, which basically amounts to not receiving SA.

 

[irvah]

Thank you, Mapleson
I am still new here, I kept trying to insert data in table with no success((
So, decided that some information is better than no information)

In my case I got a hope to be in 50% of cases that Tel Aviv VO will complete approximately in 7 months and meet my husband here in December 2015

 

[Mapleson]

Thank you, Mapleson
I am still new here, I kept trying to insert data in table with no success((
So, decided that some information is better than no information)

In my case I got a hope to be in 50% of cases that Tel Aviv VO will complete approximately in 7 months and meet my husband here in December 2015

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[tr][td]Row 1[/td][td]Column 2[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Row 2[/td][td]Column 2[/td][/tr]
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Row 1	Column 2
Row 2	Column 2

 

[irvah]

Thank you for your help, Mapleson

 

[Sheps]

Man... Tempted to see if I can get more information. Gives me an interesting thesis idea. haha.

 

[Mapleson]

Man... Tempted to see if I can get more information. Gives me an interesting thesis idea. haha.

You can always file a $5 FOI request. I've got a pretty good idea of what information they have in what directories and file names, and I've recreated the raw data on the locked pages if you're interested.

 

[Sheps]

It would be very specific demographic information so I don't know if they would give it up. Basically a sanitized version of cases with names redacted.

I would be interested in trying to build a model to predict whether a case is approved or refused. When I have more time, I will talk with my department chair (I work at a university that has good NSERC contacts) and see if it is something I could do.

 

[Mapleson]

Hmmm, very interesting. I'm not sure you'd be approved (or if approved receive the data in a reasonable time frame for your use). There would still be too much identifying information. For example, my brother-in-law immigrated from Cuba last June to Hamilton. There were 302 federal Cuban Spousal Cases last year, of which, 130 were approved and settled in Ontario. That's just one factor and with a fuller dataset, I'm sure I could match the case to the person with only a handful of conditions (I'd guess: month of approval, province of landing, sex of spouse, number of children, and level of education).

You might be able to create a good dataset from here. It depends on the scope of your analysis. It might be better to first identify what percentage of people are eliminated due to obvious conditions. If the overall approval rate is 86% and 90% of the remainder is explained between lack of evidence of relationship, criminal backgrounds, or medical exclusion, would it be worth while to dig deeper into the data to explain the remaining 1.4%?

What's your field of study?

 

[Sheps]

Right now nothing... I have a 3 Year BSc in IS, 7 years of industry experience.

I am looking for options for a Masters in Comp Sci. One option was the OMSCS through Georgia Technical, but if I could do something local that would be nice.

 

[Sheps]

You might be able to create a good dataset from here. It depends on the scope of your analysis. It might be better to first identify what percentage of people are eliminated due to obvious conditions. If the overall approval rate is 86% and 90% of the remainder is explained between lack of evidence of relationship, criminal backgrounds, or medical exclusion, would it be worth while to dig deeper into the data to explain the remaining 1.4%?

I was originally thinking of developing an app that would replace the spreadsheets, collect a lot more information but keep most of it hidden (except for allowing some analysis to be done on the data). I was mainly interested in type of "proof" that was submitted, Age gap, Same Sex vs Opposite Sex, Race vs citizenship, etc. I have the database partially modelled but no interface.

I haven't had time and I have 2 other projects I want to complete first (My own Framework and a project that is tied to that framework)

 

[Mapleson]

I wasn't sure if you were coming at it from the tech side or the social sciences side.

For your app, I think you could do it easily through a Google Form. First page for the spreadsheet data, second page for optional analysis details.
Another alternative would be to build the dataset from the QR codes on the last page of applications. Less work for the source generally means better data.

The main issue would be getting a sample size large enough to make the category of rejections statistically valid.

It's a very interesting project. Let me know, if it ever gets off the ground.

I'm a Civil Engineer with an Option in Software Engineering (my class was the only one to graduate before it was axed, so I'm one of 6 people with that set of qualifications). For our thesis project, we built a program that would optimize signal network signal timing based on real-time traffic data.