I got an e-mail from the Canadian visa office

[ahmedsaid50]

Dear friends,

How are you?

I hope you are fine and in good health.

Sorry for bothering you again; but i want to ask you a question.

Today i recieved an e-mail from the the immigration section at the Canadian Embassy in Egypt asking me if i am still interested in immigrating to Canada or i want to withdraw the application and get refund.

Please find below a copy of the e-mail:

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This letter is in reference to your application for permanent residence in Canada, received on 27-12-2007. Citizenship and Immigration Canada requests that you confirm whether or not you are still interested in immigrating to Canada.

If you are no longer interested in immigrating to Canada and you wish to withdraw your application,
please contact the Canadian Embassy in Cairo.
You can send us a letter or an e-mail at the address below within thirty (30) days to confirm your mailing information,
and we will return your full application fee.

If we do not hear from you within this timeframe, we will assume your continued interest in immigrating to Canada.
Your application and fees will be retained for future processing. No further offers to return your fee will be sent.

When we are ready to actively begin processing your application we will contact you to request your updated information,
however at this point you will not be eligible for a refund of your processing fee.

Thank you for your interest in Canada. If you are no longer interested in immigrating to Canada
and would like a full refund of your application fee, please notify us within the next 30 days.

Immigration Section

Canadian Embassy

Cairo, Egypt
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- What do you think?
I think that they are about to ask me for my documents as i submitted only the immigration application, the passport and the processing fees.

- Do i have to send them an e-mail or letter to inform them that i am still interested in immigrating to Canada?

sorry again for this long message but i really need your help bec. all my friends were Quebec nominee and they didn't get this letter.

Thank you in Advance.

Best Regards,
Ahmed said

 

[Leon]

It means what is says. If you have changed your mind about immigrating to Canada, let them know and you get your fee back. If you still want to immigrate to Canada, do nothing.

They are probably getting ready to start processing your file.

 

[ssanndy]

Dear friends,

How are you?

I hope you are fine and in good health.

Sorry for bothering you again; but i want to ask you a question.

Today i recieved an e-mail from the the immigration section at the Canadian Embassy in Egypt asking me if i am still interested in immigrating to Canada or i want to withdraw the application and get refund.

Please find below a copy of the e-mail:

***********************************
This letter is in reference to your application for permanent residence in Canada, received on 27-12-2007. Citizenship and Immigration Canada requests that you confirm whether or not you are still interested in immigrating to Canada.

If you are no longer interested in immigrating to Canada and you wish to withdraw your application,
please contact the Canadian Embassy in Cairo.
You can send us a letter or an e-mail at the address below within thirty (30) days to confirm your mailing information,
and we will return your full application fee.

If we do not hear from you within this timeframe, we will assume your continued interest in immigrating to Canada.
Your application and fees will be retained for future processing. No further offers to return your fee will be sent.

When we are ready to actively begin processing your application we will contact you to request your updated information,
however at this point you will not be eligible for a refund of your processing fee.

Thank you for your interest in Canada. If you are no longer interested in immigrating to Canada
and would like a full refund of your application fee, please notify us within the next 30 days.

Immigration Section

Canadian Embassy

Cairo, Egypt
*****************************************

- What do you think?
I think that they are about to ask me for my documents as i submitted only the immigration application, the passport and the processing fees.

- Do i have to send them an e-mail or letter to inform them that i am still interested in immigrating to Canada?

sorry again for this long message but i really need your help bec. all my friends were Quebec nominee and they didn't get this letter.

Thank you in Advance.

Best Regards,
Ahmed said

This sounds funny to me too.
Why would they ask if you're still interested ? If you were not u would have communicate that to them

Could be that

1. They think that you wont get through and giving u a chance to withdraw your application
OR
2. Because of the new changes o be put in place , theyy are asking applicant to comfirm that they are still interested.


Lets hope its the latter

bUt i agree with Leon.. do nothing if you are still interested or reply by email that you are still interested.

 

[Leon]

The London office has been sending out letters like that too. As far as I know, it has nothing to do if they think you will make it through or not. It probably more because it takes a long time to process these FSW applications and people who are waiting may have a different situation by the time their application goes through, maybe they don't want to immigrate anymore or maybe they already immigrated somewhere else.

I would think that they have problems with people all the time who want a refund after their application is already processed because they have changed their mind so now they seem to be giving people a chance to back out and get a refund if they want or otherwise inform them that they will not get a refund if they change their minds later. It could also be to cut down on the waiting list since there is no point in processing someone's application if they aren't going to go.

 

[ahmedsaid50]

Thank you Leon and ssanndy for your posts.

I think i will send a letter to the Canadian Embassy to comfirm that i am still interested in immigrating to Canada to save time as i don't want to wait two or three years to immigrate to Canada.

Below is a copy of the letter i am intending to send to the Embassy. Can you review it. If you have any comments on it please send it directly as i am intending to send it by Saturday.

Regards

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Dear Sir/Madam,

Your e-mail which was sent to me on Sunday, 12 October, 2008 was received with great pleasure. Thank you.

Please be informed that I hereby declare and confirm that I am still interested in immigrating to Canada also I am still interested in living and settle in Manitoba permanently and I am waiting for your forthcoming e-mail or letter to request my updated information.

A copy of the e-mail is attached to this letter.

Thank you very much and I wish you a wonderful day.


Best Regards,
**************************************

 

[adnan_hsn]

Ahmed, I dont even think you need to write to them that you are STILL interested. The letters are only for those who are no longer interested in having their applications considered and want a refund. If you dont write to them, they will presume that you still want to go to Canada anyway. Based on the assumptions that immigration staff in any country do not have very high IQ levels, if I was you I'd rather keep quiet and not make things complicated for them!

 

[ghiaskhan]

Whenever you receive a letters from CIC, you have to reply if they require you to do so.If a reply is not required by them they will ask you to ignore the letter. Perhaphs they do not have time to write unnecessary letters.

Immigration staff are trained people and deal with individual cases very professionally, in accordence with the marrit of the case.It is highly unjustified to say "that immigration staff in any country do not have very high IQ levels".

All comments on this forum must be weighed carefully by the readers as partcipents are not immigration lawyers,consultants or otherwise experts in immigration matters.

I understand keeping in mature bounds of respect & decent norms must be adhared to while making comments.

 

[ferojpuria]

Hey budy,
Nothing special in that... Some other persons are also getting this type of letters/mails. THay may be want to remove unwanted cases to increase their efficiency and productivity..so its good for all of us..
Roop

 

[ghiaskhan]

Yes you are exactly right to say that. Because of longer queues many people change their mind.The objective of such letters is to screenout unwilling applicant.Thats why I suggest "You must reply CIC letters if they want you to do so".Not replying is not in your own interest.

 

[adnan_hsn]

Esteemed members are also requested to check spellings before posting new notes as errors can potentially cause complications for some readers (As a suggestion, MS Word can be a helpful tool for spell check if someone cant do it him/herself)

Also I'd like to clarify that I made that comment about immigration staff from my own experience of having applied for and visited 8 countries on short/long term visas and having seen how very minor things can confuse immigration staff at visa posts/missions/embassies and at the airports. I believe I was fully equipped to make that comment which came from personal experience rather than from stories of 'friends'. Still I have the audacity to be humble and say that no one has to agree with me!

 

[ghiaskhan]

"Still I have the audacity to be humble and say that no one has to agree with me!"

These remarks donot match with rest of your statement.

We can appreciate your effort & contribution of "13" posts on this forum.Now we also know that you had the opportunity to visit "8" countries with lots of difficult experience at the hands of immigration officers. After all they had been doing a duty assigned to them.

I understand IO's are confident individuals with a capacity to deal all cases effeciently. As a result of bad experience one should not become sentimental & arrogant.

A lot depends upon your own attitude as well. Be polite and you will see IOs will be polite to you in return. If you pretend to be a so called immigration "specialist", they know how to handle such "experts". Arrogance is Virtue of an (....). Adopt a good attitude,be patient, polite & donot jump on to make immature conclusions. You will achieve great results. good luck

 

[coolguy001]

Read the whole letter carefully they have asked you a updated documents ...If you still want to go to canada then send your updated documents (like ur qualifications certificates,experience certificates,ielts certificates and others also whatever they have asked you to send) to canadian embassy.dont send any other letter that ur interested.if you dont want to go to canada then write a letter to embassy that u r not interested then they will refund you.

Regards,
Akhil

 

[Leon]

We can appreciate your effort & contribution of "13" posts on this forum.Now we also know that you had the opportunity to visit "8" countries with lots of difficult experience at the hands of immigration officers. After all they had been doing a duty assigned to them.

Quantity of posts of members says nothing. Just because the member is recent here, if he is trying to be helpful to someone, we should take that at face value. In one month, he could have more posts than you.

 

[ghiaskhan]

I respect your views "Leon"