dipak1 said:
Hi friends,
what is the meaning of due date inGCMS?
CAIPS
•CAIPS is an abbreviation for 'Computer assisted Immigration Processing System'.
•It is a Computer System used by all Canadian Visa Offices/Consulates to process VISA applications.
•It is a computerized record of all visa applications made by an applicant till date.
•It contains various processing stages of your visa application and comments by various visa officers.
•It also contains the transcripts of all your Canadian visa interviews in the past outside Canada.
•It is being superceded by GCMS.
FOSS
•FOSS is an abbreviation for 'Field Operations Support System'.
•FOSS is the computer system historically used by CIC offices within Canada and CBSA officers at all Canadian Port of Entries like Airports, Land Borders or Sea-Ports.
•It is used to track all immigration-related information of an applicant.
•It also contains all your past interviews or even casual conversation with CBSA officer/s at Canadian Port of Entries.
•It is being superceded by GCMS.
GCMS
•GCMS is an abbreviation for 'Global Case Management System'.
•It is a newer version of CAIPS and FOSS that CIC are rolling out across their offices.
•It is a unique computerized immigration file system without a need of two different file systems for within Canada (FOSS) and Outside Canada (CAIPS).
•Each Visa Applicant is allotted a unique Client ID which never changes irrespective of how many times or types of Canadian Visa one applies.
•With GCMS and a Unique Client ID, immigration information, historic or current is available to CIC and CBSA anywhere in the world.