Hong Kong timeline

[oasisfairy]

Dear Sugus,

I am so happy to hear such good news from you !!!!! Congratulations!!!! Now you can start to pack the luggages and order the tickets. Which city are you going ? Maybe you take a look at Air Canada website, as it has very good sales now(5 days left). I wish your family and you have a nice trip to Canada! Keep me post, if you have any exciting news.

Best regards,

Dear Oasisfairy,

Finally............we received the passport back and the letter of confirmation of PR in Canada today.

Actually, this is my wife application and I am her sponsor.

Here we share the timeline for your reference.

AOR2: Nov 18 2013
Passport submitted: 08 Jan 2014
Police Cert. sent to VO: 22 Jan 2014
Application Status Changed to "In Process": 08 May 2014
Passport received: 22 May 2014
Day 1 to now: 6 months and 4 days.

Cheers........Good Luck to you all.......... 8) 8) 8)

 

[littleern]

Just the enquiry hotline of the police clearance cert. section ..You can just search on the police department website...

i still waiting the uci number from cic
checked hk police cert was sent on apr 3, its a long waiting on my application

 

[acapeg]

i still waiting the uci number from cic
checked hk police cert was sent on apr 3, its a long waiting on my application

The Visa section of Hong Kong VO will be moved to Quarry Bay from 3 June. Hoping they will pick up the processing of our cases very soon. And according to the CIC website, Hong Kong VO just needs 7 months to handle 80% of the cases. This is way faster than many other VO. I remember it was said that they needed 19 months to process 3 years ago, and then 12 months 2 years ago, and now 7 months. Very impressive efficiency...

 

[Gelato]

Hello everyone,

I'm newbie.

I'm a Canadian citizen now residing in HK. I wanna apply the Family class sponsorship for my husband.

I become housewife since Jan, 2014 so I don't have any personal incomes. Will that be a problem for our application?

Any support or advice is much appreciated.

 

[steaky]

Hello everyone,

I'm newbie.

I'm a Canadian citizen now residing in HK. I wanna apply the Family class sponsorship for my husband.

I become housewife since Jan, 2014 so I don't have any personal incomes. Will that be a problem for our application?

Any support or advice is much appreciated.

No problem. Just follow the guidelines and complete the forms in the CIC website. Should you have any questions after reading the guidelines and forms, just post here.

 

[Gelato]

No problem. Just follow the guidelines and complete the forms in the CIC website. Should you have any questions after reading the guidelines and forms, just post here.

Thanks!

We read thru the forms and have some questions:

My hubby and I knew each other for over 15 years. We didn't keep documents and/or emails in early period to prove our relationship. We only found few birthday cards, just wondering if these are ok. Can we send scanned copies?

For photos, we found that some of our photos didn't have date. Is it okay?

Do we have to organize the photos in chron. years and use paper clips to clip the photos yearly?

 

[minnekei]

I received my GCMS notes yesterday. The notes is updated to June 18...but very sadly...it shows nobody has viewed my case after AOR2...which is Feb 19.

All the last updated dates related to my information is Feb 19...it's four months ago...

What are HK VO doing???!!!

 

[elreymateo]

I received my GCMS notes yesterday. The notes is updated to June 18...but very sadly...it shows nobody has viewed my case after AOR2...which is Feb 19.

All the last updated dates related to my information is Feb 19...it's four months ago...

What are HK VO doing???!!!

Sorry to hear that Minnekei. It seems like moving the consulate to a new location has slowed things down there a huge amount. I have AOR2 for early April, so it looks like I should just settle in for a long wait. I hope you hear something very soon. and thanks for posting. It is at least good to hear from somebody else who is in the same boat.

 

[BunnyB]

I am a March applicant and AOR in June, seems that things have slowed down a lot these months, let's hope HKVO starts speeding up soon.

 

[acapeg]

can any one let me know what AOR2 means ?

 

[ABCml]

can any one let me know what AOR2 means ?

Application Officially Received 2nd stage (or second visa office) - i believe :

 

[Misguided]

Does anyone know what year and month that they are processing for portent catergories?

My sponsorship approved in 2012 and submitted my parent's application in May 2013, did medical on August 2012 and applied police check in Nov 2012.

In Dec 2012 we received an email from cic comfirmed received our documents, since than we have not heard back from them.

I sent email to hkvo and they replied in Feb this year and told us we are in line. However according to the website it stated only take 12 months to process the application under parent catergories.

My parent is getting very depressed and feel no hope ..... What should I Do?

 

[ABCml]

Does anyone know what year and month that they are processing for portent catergories?

My sponsorship approved in 2012 and submitted my parent's application in May 2013, did medical on August 2012 and applied police check in Nov 2012.

In Dec 2012 we received an email from cic comfirmed received our documents, since than we have not heard back from them.

I sent email to hkvo and they replied in Feb this year and told us we are in line. However according to the website it stated only take 12 months to process the application under parent catergories.

My parent is getting very depressed and feel no hope ..... What should I Do?

You could request the GCMS notes from http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/atip/requests-atip.asp - Might give some greater details of where you at in the processing in HK..

 

[Misguided]

Hi AMCml

Thank you very much for your reply.

I submitted GCMS note last Monday but have not heard back yet.

I am wondering if I should send a letter to HKvO for status?

If i do so, will it delay my process?

 

[ABCml]

Hi AMCml

Thank you very much for your reply.

I submitted GCMS note last Monday but have not heard back yet.

I am wondering if I should send a letter to HKvO for status?

If i do so, will it delay my process?

That's a good question. I've wondered the same...
Not sure. Maybe someone else reading this thread would have some experience of possible delays due to their having to stop and reply. It would be typical of most bureaucracies.

With regard to the GCMS notes, my own experience of this request took almost eight weeks for a reply, but they were still recovering from the Foreign Worker's strike back then. I've recently made another and will post that timeline when I hear anything..., maybe others reading this will share their more recent GCMS stories?