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Pat2016

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Oct 25, 2016
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Finally found some time this weekend to link our account and just failed my first five times. I have a couple of questions about this.

In the linking, it says give your city of birth and country of birth OR give passport details. Four out of five times, I gave both. Then the last time I gave just the passport information (thinking the city (which has different spellings in English) is a potential source of error). It didn't blank out the city and country lines though, which makes me wonder if I got rejected for not filling all slots.

Second question: how many times should I try before I contact them?

Second question and a half: Is it straight-forward to contact them for not being able to link or is that another problem in itself?

What a head ache! Now I understand what people have been complaining about so much!

Thanks,
Pat
 

KandyK

Hero Member
Feb 9, 2017
686
202
Canada
Category........
FAM
Visa Office......
CPC Mississauga
App. Filed.......
13-03-2017
Doc's Request.
O4-04-2017
AOR Received.
28-03-2017
File Transfer...
05/10/2017
Med's Request
19/07/2017
Med's Done....
03/08/2017
LANDED..........
10/19/2017
I had the same issue back in March. I tried every single day with no success.
I was finally able to link it 2 weeks later
 

HeyKenGuy

Hero Member
Mar 10, 2017
406
132
Vancouver
Category........
FAM
Visa Office......
Manila
App. Filed.......
04/04/2017
Doc's Request.
n/a
AOR Received.
04/27/2017
File Transfer...
06/01/2017
Med's Request
05/01/2017
Med's Done....
05/04/2017:Meds Passed 05/12/2017
most have had success by just entering the bare minimim...no passport info, no city of birth

what seems to be confusing most people is number of applicants and whether to include the sponsor or just the principal applicant and dependants
 
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Oulrish

Hero Member
Apr 24, 2017
667
428
Winnipeg
Category........
FAM
Visa Office......
Pretoria
App. Filed.......
04-04-2017
Doc's Request.
14-05-2017
AOR Received.
Applicant - 12-05-2017, Sponsor - 13-05-2017. AOR2 - 30-06-2017
File Transfer...
12-06-2017
Med's Request
30-08-2017
Med's Done....
04-09-2017
Interview........
N/A
Passport Req..
18-09-2017
VISA ISSUED...
03-10-2017
LANDED..........
13-10-2017
My working combination

1. Log in with GCKey account
2. Permanent Residence - Family Class (Spouses)
3. Application Number and Unique Client Identifier (UCI) - Insert application number and UCI from email
4. City of Birth - Insert PA's City of Birth
5. Country of Birth - Select PA's Country of birth
6. Passport Info - Insert Passport number, issuance and expiration info
7. Other Application Info - Fill out the other application info as per your application (Province, City and marital status) and put '2' as the number of members in the application for sponsor + spouse (add +1 per dependent, if any)
8. Click on the 'Search for my application' tab
9. Then on 'Link my application' tab

Good luck everyone!
 
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Pat2016

Full Member
Oct 25, 2016
48
4
Yay it worked! Thanks for your advice, everyone! I used a mix of what you said. Here's what worked for me:
1. Log in with GCKey account
2. Permanent Residence - Family Class (Spouses)
3. Application Number and Unique Client Identifier (UCI) - Insert application number and UCI from email
LEFT THIS BLANK: 4. City of Birth - Insert PA's City of Birth
LEFT THIS BLANK: 5. Country of Birth - Select PA's Country of birth
6. Passport Info - Insert Passport number, issuance and expiration info
7. Other Application Info - Fill out the other application info as per your application (Province, City and marital status) and put '2' as the number of members in the application for sponsor + spouse (add +1 per dependent, if any)
8. Click on the 'Search for my application' tab
9. Then on 'Link my application' tab
 

VIRGIEWOOLF

Star Member
Jul 8, 2017
88
53
Toronto
Category........
FAM
Visa Office......
Mississauga
App. Filed.......
28/12/2016
AOR Received.
19/1/2017
Med's Request
Upfront
Med's Done....
Successful
Interview........
Not Required
Passport Req..
Valid Passport pages Requested 07/11/2017
LANDED..........
15-12-2017
Hi all,

Tried so many times. Nothing works for me. :((
Hi i'm quoting Naveedali because this method worked for me after months of trying.

Logged in with GC Key account.
2. Permanent Residence > Family Class (Spouses)
2. Application Number and Family Name - Copy/pasted application number from email (including the F) and entered PA's last name.
3. City of Birth - I entered 1 space (hit spacebar once)
4. Country of Birth - Selected PA's country of birth
5. Passport Info - Did not enter any passport info
6. Other Application Info - Filled out the other application info as per our application and put '2' as the number of members in the application.
 
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raphmih

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Aug 16, 2011
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Hi i'm quoting Naveedali because this method worked for me after months of trying.

Logged in with GC Key account.
2. Permanent Residence > Family Class (Spouses)
2. Application Number and Family Name - Copy/pasted application number from email (including the F) and entered PA's last name.
3. City of Birth - I entered 1 space (hit spacebar once)
4. Country of Birth - Selected PA's country of birth
5. Passport Info - Did not enter any passport info
6. Other Application Info - Filled out the other application info as per our application and put '2' as the number of members in the application.
thanks a lot....i'll give a try tomorrow
 

Nakaa

Star Member
Jul 17, 2017
181
37
hello !
What i should write against this question: ( Number of family members, including the primary applicant, that are part of this application ).

I want to link existing application to receive updates from VO. So i dont know what to write either 1 or 2. My wife lives in canada and sponsoring me only. She is now in canada and i am here.

Pl help!
 
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