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[nelly*]

Got sponsorship approval today!!! YAY!

congrats! good 4 u

 

[chelseaviel]

Hello Friends...

Got my PPR Today...
Finally my wait for PPR is finished....

Now again the next wait begins....
All d best to all

Congrats smvi!!!!

 

[chelseaviel]

Got sponsorship approval today!!! YAY!

Congrats!!!

 

[najh786]

Hello Friends...

Got my PPR Today...
Finally my wait for PPR is finished....

Now again the next wait begins....
All d best to all

congratz smvi!!! all the best for whats left

 

[najh786]

Got sponsorship approval today!!! YAY!

congratZZZ!!

 

[ps123]

Hello Friends...

Got my PPR Today...
Finally my wait for PPR is finished....

Now again the next wait begins....
All d best to all

Congrats smvi!!! thats really gr8 news... hope we will be next soon

 

[Sweden]

CIC updated the website... a whole long week has passed yet they only managed to cover 3 days from the last update: now processing 18th May applications...

I have a situation, hope someone could enlighten me, please:

I am actually singaporean and Australian PR applying for Canadian PR (spouse). I've been living in Sydney for the past 4 year so naturally i put Sydney office for my stage 2 application.
I read the Sydney office thread and realised someone there who was an Indian citizen and Australian PR, also initially putting Sydney office had his application transferred to New Dehli office because of his citizenship.
Now if my application gets transferred to Singapore office the wait would be 21 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I certainly don't want that happen, but what can i do if that happens?

unfortunately I don't think you can do anything. You can ask for a VO but CIC can also decide to send your application to another one, if they think it's more appropriate to your case. However, you might still be transferred to Sydney if you have been living there for 4 years and show more links to Sydney than to Singapore.


And at the meantime, I have been approved for Australian citizenship. Since Singapore doesn't allow dual citizenship it means I will have to give up my S'pore passport once my Australian citizenship takes place - i'm still waiting for DIAC to schedule my citizenship ceremony but it hasn't been scheduled. Should I write to Sydney visa office once my stage 1 is approved to hold on to my files in Sydney because I will give up my S'pore passport very soon? will it work that way?
As soon as you have a file number etc - if you have an AOR you might already have one - then write to CIC Mississauga to tell them about your australian nationality, it might help to convince them that your VO should be Sydney, as you reside there, and you also have the nationality. Explain that you don't have your passport yet because of wiating for the ceremony, but attach the proofs etc.

CIC decides from Mississauga to send your file to the VO - so it's them that you need to inform, and preferably not wait until you have been transferred already.

Legally, you can choose to apply either in the VO of your citizenship, or the one of your residence, if you hold a legal residence in another country and have been admitted in the country for more than 1 year. So you qualify for Sydney, but I don't know on which basis CIC decides for one or another. It is the same for some applicants who are in the US but not from the US - they are sometimes transferred somewhere else. However, it is mostly the case if they have "temporary status" in the country, and retain more links to their country of origins - which doesn't seem to be the case.

I hope for you that you can get an AOR, with a file number etc - as soon as you have that you can add information to your file.

I am not sure that once CIC has decided to transfer your file to a VO you can ask to change...

Good luck - I hope everything will go well for you.

Cheers,
Sweden



any thoughts/insights are welcome!

 

[farnardo]

thxxxxxxxxxx God today I have received my sponsorship approvalllllllllll...
june applicants are going fast

 

[KJG]

thxxxxxxxxxx God today I have received my sponsorship approvalllllllllll...
june applicants are going fast

congratulations!!! ;D

 

[farnardo]

Hello Friends...

Got my PPR Today...
Finally my wait for PPR is finished....

Now again the next wait begins....
All d best to all

congratsssssssssssssssss smvi

 

[smvi]

thxxxxxxxxxx God today I have received my sponsorship approvalllllllllll...
june applicants are going fast

Congrats..all d best for stage 2....

 

[miniejungle]

As soon as you have a file number etc - if you have an AOR you might already have one - then write to CIC Mississauga to tell them about your australian nationality, it might help to convince them that your VO should be Sydney, as you reside there, and you also have the nationality. Explain that you don't have your passport yet because of wiating for the ceremony, but attach the proofs etc.

CIC decides from Mississauga to send your file to the VO - so it's them that you need to inform, and preferably not wait until you have been transferred already.

Legally, you can choose to apply either in the VO of your citizenship, or the one of your residence, if you hold a legal residence in another country and have been admitted in the country for more than 1 year. So you qualify for Sydney, but I don't know on which basis CIC decides for one or another. It is the same for some applicants who are in the US but not from the US - they are sometimes transferred somewhere else. However, it is mostly the case if they have "temporary status" in the country, and retain more links to their country of origins - which doesn't seem to be the case.

I hope for you that you can get an AOR, with a file number etc - as soon as you have that you can add information to your file.

I am not sure that once CIC has decided to transfer your file to a VO you can ask to change...

Good luck - I hope everything will go well for you.

Cheers,
Sweden

thanks Sweden! that's why the wait for AOR is even more antagonising for me, so many things at stake now. I also try to speed up the citizenship ceremony on my ends here too, so that I can have the PR on the new passport. never knew things could turn out to be so complicated.
i continured reading the Sydney visa office thread, and was comforted to find out that was more like a one-off case, cos there were other prs whose files were processed by sydney office. possibly because New Dehli has shorter time frame than Sydney, that's why they sent his application there?

 

[nelly*]

YAYYYYYYYYY...
we got the approval on AUG 23
approval n my hubby's bday at the same day!

 

[smvi]

YAYYYYYYYYY...
we got the approval on AUG 23
approval n my hubby's bday at the same day!

Congrats...n all d best for stage 2...
Happy bday to yr hubby.... The best for this year given by u to yr hubby........

 

[miniejungle]

Congrats, farnardo and nelly*!!! Welcome to stage 2!!!!

I noticed once AOR are received the progress will seem to flow faster. Wondering if anyone else here gotten AOR this week? Cic is slowing down again huh?

With my predicament i'm getting even more impatient now.