Is it possible to go to NYC consulate in person to get my passport stamped?

[duke2013]

I just received the visa request, but my flight is scheduled for next week. I don't have much time left to get my passport posted to the consulate, before they stamp the visa on it. So, I am thinking of going to NYC consulate in person on Monday to ask for my passport stamped. Has anyone done so? Any successful experience? Thanks! :

 

[computergeek]

Not any longer:

Passports and original documents are no longer returned in person. All passports and documents will be returned by mail to Canada, Bermuda and the United States.

http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/new_york/visas/index.aspx

 

[duke2013]

Thanks a lot! But I would like to hear whether others have ever done so.

 

[computergeek]

Thanks a lot! But I would like to hear whether others have ever done so.

They used to allow it (I've been there before) but this is consonant with my reading that they stopped doing so (and while I've been to the Consulate building, I haven't been to the visa section this year.)

 

[scylla]

Thanks a lot! But I would like to hear whether others have ever done so.

As computergeek said, this used to be possible but no longer is. If you drop your passport and application off at the NY office, it will be treated the same as an application that was mailed in.

 

[duke2013]

That sounds too bad. As far as I know from the forum, people have to expect 2 weeks' time to get their passports back.

I got to know that someone went to LA to get their passport stamped, but the NYC consulate looks like very unfriendly...

 

[srip]

Can we go to or mail passport to LA consulate once we get the PP request .?

I applied it online on May 1st to NY consulate and looking at the posts in this forum makes me worried.

 

[duke2013]

I went to NYC yesterday from North Carolina, for the purpose of requesting speeding up stamping my passport. The officer there was not interested in listening to any explanations, and insisted on the formalities of mailing back passports to applicants, which takes another 2-3 weeks.

They are notoriously slow in processing applications. Yesterday (May 20), they told me that they just started to review applications mailed in on March 22, and they started to stamp visas on passports received on May 2. Their inefficiency is striking.

 

[srip]

Any word on the online application processing dates .? I know you told that they are reviewing applications of March that were mailed.

 

[duke2013]

Any word on the online application processing dates .? I know you told that they are reviewing applications of March that were mailed.

I don't know, at least my online application was processed by Ottawa, instead of NYC/LA.

 

[srip]

Thanks Duke. How do you know that your online application is processed by Ottawa .?

Are online application processed in Ottawa .?

 

[duke2013]

Thanks Duke. How do you know that your online application is processed by Ottawa .?

Are online application processed in Ottawa .?

I wrote to LA and NYC, and they asked me to contact Ottawa by CPP-CTP-OTTAWA-TRV-VRT@cic.gc.ca, which did reply to my query after two weeks, saying that my application was with them. You can also contact them. Mine took 37 days to be processed, but it was too late by the time I received passport request.