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JUNE 2016 - OUTLAND SPOUSAL APPLICANTS

proudCanadian15

Full Member
Feb 15, 2016
37
0
Hello All, I submitted my spouse PR application on June 29th ( received by cic). My wife is currently living in the United states ( studying) and she is a citizen of Bangladesh by birth. So we chose the General Asia Information guide as our document gathering guide and attached the guide checklist with the application.

I assumed that as she is currently living in USA the cic will chose one of the US visa office to process her application. But as we used the general Asia information guide, would it cause the CIC to forward her application to Singapore visa office ( Bangladesh citizens' applications are processed in Singapore)??

If anyone has any insight regarding this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
 

Sidsmt

Star Member
Jul 6, 2014
165
14
Category........
Visa Office......
NDVO
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
Hi Guys,

Processing time reduced if you have applied in Canada for Sponsoring a family member outside Canada.

I dont know what does that mean because we all apply in Canada :p

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/
 

just a square

Hero Member
Mar 12, 2016
219
23
Category........
Visa Office......
Warsaw
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
21-06-2016
AOR Received.
08-07-2016
File Transfer...
SA 08-08-2016, AOR2 16-08-2016
Med's Done....
06-05-2016
Interview........
waived
Passport Req..
23-01-2017
VISA ISSUED...
15-02-2017
LANDED..........
14-03-2017
Sidsmt said:
Hi Guys,

Processing time reduced if you have applied in Canada for Sponsoring a family member outside Canada.

I dont know what does that mean because we all apply in Canada :p

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/
it means for those applying outland.
my country went down from 17 months to 15. even though my VO is Warsaw, which is 11 months (went up from 10).
 

die4sky

Star Member
Jun 20, 2016
96
45
Toronto
Category........
Visa Office......
NDVO
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
13-June-2016
AOR Received.
30-June-2016
IELTS Request
NA
File Transfer...
SA -08-Aug-2016 AOR-2 19-Aug-2016
Med's Done....
09-Feb-2016
Passport Req..
10-Jan-2017
VISA ISSUED...
27-Jan-2017
LANDED..........
28-Jan-2017
wow !!!!Processing time reduced from 17 months to 13 months great news :)
 

ImABule

Champion Member
Mar 4, 2016
2,406
96
Ottawa, Ontario
Category........
Visa Office......
Singapore
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
February 25, 2016
Doc's Request.
None
AOR Received.
March 24, 2016 AOR2 April 15, 2016
File Transfer...
SA April 5, 2016
Med's Done....
February 02, 2016
Interview........
Queue- August 29, 2016 Waived- November 15, 2016
Passport Req..
November 17, 2016 DM- November 18, 2016
VISA ISSUED...
November 29, 2016
LANDED..........
December 19, 2016
proudCanadian15 said:
Hello All, I submitted my spouse PR application on June 29th ( received by cic). My wife is currently living in the United states ( studying) and she is a citizen of Bangladesh by birth. So we chose the General Asia Information guide as our document gathering guide and attached the guide checklist with the application.

I assumed that as she is currently living in USA the cic will chose one of the US visa office to process her application. But as we used the general Asia information guide, would it cause the CIC to forward her application to Singapore visa office ( Bangladesh citizens' applications are processed in Singapore)??

If anyone has any insight regarding this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
CIC will either send the application to either the VO responsible for the country of residence or the VO responsible for the country of citizenship.

Usually, the country of citizenship is chosen.

Therefore your application will most likely go to SVO.

However, if your spouse has been living in the USA for a long time, they may decide to process it in Ottawa.
 

ImABule

Champion Member
Mar 4, 2016
2,406
96
Ottawa, Ontario
Category........
Visa Office......
Singapore
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
February 25, 2016
Doc's Request.
None
AOR Received.
March 24, 2016 AOR2 April 15, 2016
File Transfer...
SA April 5, 2016
Med's Done....
February 02, 2016
Interview........
Queue- August 29, 2016 Waived- November 15, 2016
Passport Req..
November 17, 2016 DM- November 18, 2016
VISA ISSUED...
November 29, 2016
LANDED..........
December 19, 2016
just a square said:
it means for those applying outland.
my country went down from 17 months to 15. even though my VO is Warsaw, which is 11 months (went up from 10).
The posted processing times are not at all accurate anyways, and they change frequently. I believe it is based on a rolling average.

All the timeline posted means is that CIC processed 80% of applications for that country within the posted time frame. If you have a straight forward application, you can expect processing time to be significantly less than the posted time.
 

proudCanadian15

Full Member
Feb 15, 2016
37
0
ImABule said:
CIC will either send the application to either the VO responsible for the country of residence or the VO responsible for the country of citizenship.

Usually, the country of citizenship is chosen.

Therefore your application will most likely go to SVO.

However, if your spouse has been living in the USA for a long time, they may decide to process it in Ottawa.
Thanks a lot for the info. Appreciate it :).
 

KATHMANDUNEPAL

Star Member
Jan 2, 2015
144
2
Canada
Category........
Visa Office......
New Delhi
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
June 13 2016 (app received date)
Interview........
Skipped, Not required :)
Passport Req..
Dec 2016 for TRV and Feb 2017 for PR, all APPROVED
VISA ISSUED...
Trv approval mid December 2016,,,Decision made Feb 1 2017 for PR and Passport request Feb 6 2017 for PR
LANDED..........
(Visitor and PR both approved, Happy :) :) :) ) We couple already in Canada!
that's only about 80% cases. And the rest 20% cases which are straight and which IRCC assumes to be real relationship takes no more than 3-5 months for decision made. That's why many people's receive passport request within 3-5 months.
 

gkountouris

Star Member
Apr 22, 2014
168
2
Category........
Visa Office......
Rome
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
11 July 2016
AOR Received.
AOR 2 : 23 Aug 2016
File Transfer...
25 Aug 2016
Med's Done....
Upfront
Interview........
Nope....
VISA ISSUED...
09/02/2017
Hi there

We sent our application at 28/6 from Greece and still waiting for the receive confirm from Missisaga.. Do we have to worry about something?Is that normal?

Thank you.. :)
 

ohhhhcanada

Star Member
Jun 23, 2016
103
4
Toronto
Category........
Visa Office......
Sao Paulo
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
21-06-2016
Passport Req..
11-11-2016
VISA ISSUED...
22-11-2016
ImABule said:
CIC will either send the application to either the VO responsible for the country of residence or the VO responsible for the country of citizenship.

Usually, the country of citizenship is chosen.

Therefore your application will most likely go to SVO.

However, if your spouse has been living in the USA for a long time, they may decide to process it in Ottawa.
Question; the AOR1 will be sent by e-mail, not regular MAIL?
I am not sure, when we filled out our applications, we both added our email addresses, which says that, the email will supersede the mail address....maybe that is why some people get MAIL and others email???
 

asagalen

Hero Member
May 22, 2010
646
13
Edmonton
Category........
Visa Office......
Manila
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
February 18, 2010
AOR Received.
April 3,2010
Med's Request
April 3, 2010
Med's Done....
April 14, 2010
Passport Req..
May 21, 2010/Ecas: DM June 23 2010
VISA ISSUED...
July 14, 2010
LANDED..........
july 17, 2010
gkountouris said:
Hi there

We sent our application at 28/6 from Greece and still waiting for the receive confirm from Missisaga.. Do we have to worry about something?Is that normal?

Thank you.. :)
You can track it with the courier you used and see if it reaches the CIC office.
 

Mrs. Mekeni

Star Member
Feb 10, 2016
168
2
Category........
Visa Office......
Manila
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
01-06-2016
AOR Received.
22-06-2016
Med's Request
Upfront
Med's Done....
23-05-2016
Okay so I've been reading through other threads, and something caught my attention. I just had to ask: if the principal applicant has a rejected TRV under his name, does he for sure have a UCI?

Back story: My husband tried to apply for a TRV when I was pregnant so he could be here for the birth of our daughter. Of course, it was rejected. We didn't lie about it on the forms. We specified that he tried to visit but was denied. However, we didn't know that he was supposed to already have a UCI number from that application so we didn't indicate that on our sponsorship forms. Is this going to be a problem?
 

AladdinsGirl

Hero Member
Dec 3, 2014
255
8
Cairo, Egypt
Category........
Visa Office......
CAIRO
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
16-06-2016
AOR Received.
05-07-2016
File Transfer...
12-08-2016
Med's Done....
10-05-2016
Passport Req..
12-10-2016
Mrs. Mekeni said:
Okay so I've been reading through other threads, and something caught my attention. I just had to ask: if the principal applicant has a rejected TRV under his name, does he for sure have a UCI?

Back story: My husband tried to apply for a TRV when I was pregnant so he could be here for the birth of our daughter. Of course, it was rejected. We didn't lie about it on the forms. We specified that he tried to visit but was denied. However, we didn't know that he was supposed to already have a UCI number from that application so we didn't indicate that on our sponsorship forms. Is this going to be a problem?
The same thing happened with us and I didn't realize the TRV had UCI's until recently, so I hope it won't be a problem. I guess I will wait to see what others say!!!
 

Decoy24601

Champion Member
Aug 13, 2015
1,511
52
Vancouver, BC
Category........
Visa Office......
Ottawa
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
06-04-2016
AOR Received.
28-04-2016
File Transfer...
SA 27-05-2016
Med's Done....
23-03-2016 Upfront
Interview........
Waived
VISA ISSUED...
07-06-2016
LANDED..........
06-07-2016
It won't be an issue. You can put the previous UCI on the application if you have it/remember it. It's not mandatory, even if you already have one.
 

strength2

Hero Member
Jul 5, 2016
732
160
App. Filed.......
23-05-2019 (recieved)
Doc's Request.
06-12-2019 (biometric)
Med's Done....
30-01-2020
My application was received on May 31st, Got AOR1 by email on June 18th. ECAS does not show any results if I search with UCI or file number under sponsor or applicant name, DOB and country of birth! Any advice?

It says We were not able to identify you using the information you provided.