If we move from the USA/CAN, will Buffalo transfer our file to new visa office?

[SimpleMan]

Hi,

Currently Buffalo is processing our Permanent resident visa for family class and we got the AOR. If we move to a third country overseas, do you know if Buffalo will transfer our file to the Canadian visa office responsible for the applicant home country?

We are planning to do a change of mailing address to a friend in Canada or the USA, so the mailing address will stay within Canada/USA which is the area Buffalo office is responsible for. But I am not sure if the Buffalo office will transfer the file to the Canadian visa office in the overseas country responsible for the applicant home country.

We would like Buffalo to continue processing the application, since it has a faster processing time, but we are not sure about the Buffalo visa office policy regarding the transfer of files if the applicant is no longer is within Canada/USA which is the area Buffalo is responsible for.

Does anyone know the policy of the visa offices on this? We want Buffalo to continue to process our application, but they might have a different policy and transfer the file to another visa office reduce their workload if we move from USA/Canada. Or they might even return our application documents and close the file if we move from the USA, we are not sure what they will do and we need to make sure that we understand their policy before we move overseas.

 

[RobsLuv]

The first order is the embassy that represents the country of birth or permanent residence, the second order is the embassy that represents the country of temporary status valid for at least one year. If your application is being processed at Buffalo as a result of your temporary status in the US, and you lose that status and/or leave the US and go back to your home country, the application will be transferred to the embassy that represents your country of birth or permanent residence. Likewise, if you were to leave the USA and go to another country (besides your country of birth), your application would be transferred to the embassy representing that country only if you were admitted to that country for an authorized period of at least one year . . . otherwise it would go to the embassy that represents your country of birth, even if you weren't there.

If your application is being processed through Buffalo because you are a permanent resident of the USA, then where you travel to during processing should not interfere with processing. The ap would continue to process in Buffalo - but you'd have to attend any interview in Buffalo, and when the passport is requested, it would have to be submitted to Buffalo. If you can't do that from your home country, you might want to consider whether transferring to that embassy is ultimately in your best interest anyway - as far as convenience - even if the processing timeline seems longer. Remember, those timelines are averages - they are not guaranteed. If there are complications with your application in Buffalo - like you leave and try to make it seem like you are still there - it could ultimately take a whole lot longer to get finalized than if you were just honest and got your ap moved to where you're going to be staying. (That's assuming your eligibility to be processed through Buffalo is about temporary status in either Canada or the USA.) At any rate, be very careful about "misrepresenting" yourself in any way - even about something that seems as insignificant as where you're living during processing.