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Turki1975

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My wife is sponsoring me. I live in Saudia Arabia. She received an email that my application is been forwarded to the Visa office in London. What does that mean? Why London? What do they do there? Do I have to travel to the U.K?!
Thank you
 
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Nzingo

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Same here my file was transferred from Sydney to London after two weeks they asked me to do medical . I did it last week and results were posted that I have passed . What's next
 

Savior

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May 7, 2013
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Category........
Visa Office......
London, ON
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
01-01-2011
AOR Received.
01-03-2011
Med's Request
01-01-2013
Med's Done....
22-01-2013
Passport Req..
PPR 1 : 24-07-2013 PPR 2 : 15-08-2013
LANDED..........
23-10-2014
My wife is sponsoring me. I live in Saudia Arabia. She received an email that my application is been forwarded to the Visa office in London. What does that mean? Why London? What do they do there? Do I have to travel to the U.K?!
Thank you
No, it doesn't mean that you need to travel to London UK. It simply means that your application is submitted to the London UK office for further processing. Such as verification of documents, the information provided and determining the next steps.

CIC has a region-based office around the globe. So based on where you are from the file/case/application goes to the nearest office for processing.

I hope this helps.
 

Turki1975

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Mar 9, 2020
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Same here my file was transferred from Sydney to London after two weeks they asked me to do medical . I did it last week and results were posted that I have passed . What's next
Thank you for the reply. I did my medical 3 weeks ago. After it was received in Canada then my application was transferred to London.
 

Savior

Star Member
May 7, 2013
102
7
Category........
Visa Office......
London, ON
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
01-01-2011
AOR Received.
01-03-2011
Med's Request
01-01-2013
Med's Done....
22-01-2013
Passport Req..
PPR 1 : 24-07-2013 PPR 2 : 15-08-2013
LANDED..........
23-10-2014
Same here my file was transferred from Sydney to London after two weeks they asked me to do medical . I did it last week and results were posted that I have passed . What's next
One your medical is accepted by CIC, that means that you are almost there. The next step is they may ask for further documents if they wish. Else, they will ask you to submit the passport with the latest photographs (they will specify that).

I hope that helps.
 

Turki1975

Member
Mar 9, 2020
11
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One your medical is accepted by CIC, that means that you are almost there. The next step is they may ask for further documents if they wish. Else, they will ask you to submit the passport with the latest photographs (they will specify that).

I hope that helps.
Do you know how long that might take?
thank you so much
 

Savior

Star Member
May 7, 2013
102
7
Category........
Visa Office......
London, ON
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
01-01-2011
AOR Received.
01-03-2011
Med's Request
01-01-2013
Med's Done....
22-01-2013
Passport Req..
PPR 1 : 24-07-2013 PPR 2 : 15-08-2013
LANDED..........
23-10-2014
there are some CIC region who does the processing of the cases and some does processing + issuance of visas. In my case our process was done via London UK office but visa were issed from Abu Dhabi office. Secondly, it all depends on workload the office has.
 
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Savior

Star Member
May 7, 2013
102
7
Category........
Visa Office......
London, ON
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
01-01-2011
AOR Received.
01-03-2011
Med's Request
01-01-2013
Med's Done....
22-01-2013
Passport Req..
PPR 1 : 24-07-2013 PPR 2 : 15-08-2013
LANDED..........
23-10-2014
Do you know how long that might take?
thank you so much
it all depends, I think CIC would have asked you to submit your travel history if so now they must be verifying that. All I know that within 1 year of medical the process is completed and you have to land in Canada. E.g: if your medical was done in 15-Sep-2019 then you have to land in Canada by 14-Sep-2020.
 

Nadster85

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Oct 24, 2018
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My wife is sponsoring me. I live in Saudia Arabia. She received an email that my application is been forwarded to the Visa office in London. What does that mean? Why London? What do they do there? Do I have to travel to the U.K?!
Thank you
when did your wife apply for you?
 

Turki1975

Member
Mar 9, 2020
11
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Wow and your file already moved to London? Ours hasn't moved and I applied for my husband in October 2019. inshallah you get an answer soon! It's a good sign that things are moving!
Oh no we applied way before that in June, the application was returned to us for some missing papers. We resent it in October, and processing started in December.
 

Nadster85

Hero Member
Oct 24, 2018
389
132
Oh no we applied way before that in June, the application was returned to us for some missing papers. We resent it in October, and processing started in December.
oh ok! then i think they would restart you from October so we are around the same timeline! awesome. My husband is in Qatar so all GCC countries go to London Visa Office.