FSW-O USA why so long?
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There's not an immense amount of sharing btw the US of A & Canada. All they share is demographic info. like fingerprints, DOB, Entry/Exit/Crime info. and nothing else. Read the Intergovt'al agreement btw CBSA & DHS, you'll know better.
TealTokki
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- Mar 31, 2017
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- Ottawa
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- 16-05-2017
- AOR Received.
- April 5 2017
- IELTS Request
- Jan. 7 2017
- Med's Request
- May 3 2017
3 more people updated myimmitracker this evening. So that is at least 5 in our group to be passed today. Its nice to see progress.
Today my background check status changed from "Your application is in progress. We will send you a message when we start your background check" to "We are processing your background check. We will send you a message if we need more information." It was never in "Not Applicable" status, so is this IP2 or just a different wording for IP1? I think I read somewhere that it can skip over the "NA" status, but I know these statuses also vary quite a bit in their wording and sequence-- in other words, they don't always follow the same predictable pattern. Has anyone else residing in USA seen this particular sequence?
Same thing happened to me yesterday. After medical pass, it was next step is to background check for one week and yesterday it changed to we are processing your background check. Even I am not sure if it would be IP1 or IP2. It was never in NA status at all. It's just one week from medical pass, and time frame seems too short to be IP2.
Me! My background check status followed the exact pattern as you mentioned.
Thank you for your replies! Very interesting... this seems to be a pattern for FSW-O USA residents to skip "NA". I agree that it seems too soon for IP2, so it is probably just a variation on IP1.
I guess so. I've been sitting on that status since June 20th, probably another indicator that it's not a real IP2.
I just found the full timeline of an applicant whose BG status went through the same pattern. On Mar. 24, @harmanm had their BG status change from "next step is to conduct a background check" to "background check is in progress" with no "NA" in between:
Yesterday they received PPR and apparently the BG status never changed (to NA or IP2) prior to the application being approved... it stayed at "IP1" the whole time, for a total of 120 days!
So it's possible that our applications will stay in this BG status the whole time without ever cycling through "NA" and "IP2"... and it could stay that way for a long time. I think the lesson is that you can't always tell what stage your application is at based on the wording of the BG status.
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True.. that's just people's guesswork. I know someone from March, an US resident, who went through same pattern. He cleared medicals on 56 th day, then had NBG for 17 days and then background in progress for one week and then passport request. So this is probably the flow for inland/ US applicants.
I checked his case.. It has taken six months months for ppr despite being cec. That seems abnormal for the stream. He probably needed a longer background check or chosen for additional clearance or audit case?
Good to know that it can proceed faster even with this pattern of BG status changes... PPR after one week of IP1 is amazing! Is this person on the Tracker? It would be nice to see the details of the case.
Well if ppr came in one week, from the time it turned in progress, it should be called ip2 at least for him..
Here is the link..
https://myimmitracker.com/ca/trackers/march-2017-aor-permanent-residency-tracker/cases/case-21524