Guys, I've received our Passports today with the shiny Maple leaf on them. Visa issue date 4-Feb-2014, expiring 14-Oct-2014 which is the expiry date for my passport as well. My spouse also has the same visa expiry although her passport will expire in 2019...but I understand the logic.
Surprisingly there's no photo on our visas. The COPR copies does have our photos affixed to them.
Along with received WES original certificate, transcripts and 'few' referral letters. What I can't answer here is that 'few' and why not all or none at all !!!
Thanks to the lovely people here for their continued support, humor and time to time guidance - most importantly, the ability to have a clear visibility of where I stood in this race all the time, what are peoples' timelines and when can I expect what - is a USP of this wonderful thread and spreadsheet. If our hardwork is the gateway, this forum is the eye to direct your focus to the right gateway !!
Thanks once again to marvelous admins, supporters, proponents and critics, for each one of them play an important role in being what I have become today.
I'm always around. TC