March 2012 applicants, join here! : )

[assal]

If you or your sponsor is in Canada, you need to call cic to find out what happened. You should have received something by now. I would call ASAP.

ohh ok then...thank you for ur help blondie 1216

 

[assal]

You should have had a decision on your sponsorship by now. You have to contact CIC.
According to CIC site they are
"Working on applications received on July 12, 2012"

ok thanks for ur help Dr Eng x

 

[Joshmantis]

Visa arrived in mail. BUT WRONG ADDRESS!

Hey everyone,

My wife has received her passport back from the Beijing VO, today, October 8th, 2012.

We had the 2nd Decision Made (DM2) on September 12th, 2012 (25 days to arrive).

We're excited BUT...they sent it to our old address! On the eCas website, they have an option to "contact them" directly underneath your listed mailing address.

We followed that process and received an auto-generated email saying that they received our email. In that email, they state that if our request was about a change of address or phone number, that we would probably NOT get a direct reply confirming such change. But, they assured us that they would update the address. I suppose replying to so many address change emails would be far too time consuming and I appreciate and understand the need for auto-generated replies.

However, we never saw an updated address on our eCas profile. So when the Beijing VO requested my wife's passport, we also included a letter reminding them that we had changed our address and even supplied them with the new address again.

Still by the time we saw our eCas status updated to DM2, our address had not been updated. So, once again, we emailed them and got the same generic reply as before. I just figured that Visa Officer updated their file but not the whole system.

Finally when the Passport came back, of course it was sent to our OLD address. The strange thing was that they did UPDATE my wife's phone number (we updated that originally with our first email to them in August, 2012) so when the delivery guy came, he called my wife to let her know her package had arrived.

Why did they update our phone number, but not our address? Human error? Glitch?

Anyway, we're still so excited! Just be warned that if you change your address and don't see it updated on eCas, there is a strong possibility that your immigration documents will go to your OLD address.

Cheers!

 

[Joshmantis]

By the way...

If anyone is still updating the spreadsheet for March 2012 applicants, they can update that we got the visa inside the passport on Oct. 7th, 2012.


Cheers!

 

[cdn1]

Three months since file transfer to lvo, and about a month since it went to "in process."
Hopefully we can get the DM soon, it's now less than 6 months to meds expiry!
Come on lets not use those full 8 months for decision, Paris.

I'm equally surprised that there aren't many people dealing with Paris on the forum, compared to other visa offices.

 

[canadiangirl78]

Joshmantis, change if address took months for us. Better to do a case specific enquiry.

 

[computergeek]

If anyone is still updating the spreadsheet for March 2012 applicants, they can update that we got the visa inside the passport on Oct. 7th, 2012.

Congratulations!

 

[KJG]

Woohoo I finally got sponsorship approval YAHHHHHHHHHHHH my file is headed to Kingston now!

chickie72....whoo hoo.....so happy for you!!! my husband got his visa!!!!! yipppee yahoo.....hoping he will be here next month!!!!

 

[blondie1216]

chickie72....whoo hoo.....so happy for you!!! my husband got his visa!!!!! yipppee yahoo.....hoping he will be here next month!!!!

Great news!! So happy for you! Your journey is almost over!

 

[KJG]

Great news!! So happy for you! Your journey is almost over!

thank you blondie1216.....yes this journey is almost over and the next one is to begin!!!!

 

[chickie72]

chickie72....whoo hoo.....so happy for you!!! my husband got his visa!!!!! yipppee yahoo.....hoping he will be here next month!!!!

OMG i read that on the February site and cried. That made me sooo happy, we were the same day for processing so if all had went well with mine, I might have been getting excited too! But I can be excited for you for sure, at least yours will be here for Christmas and that is so special!

Blessings

 

[KJG]

OMG i read that on the February site and cried. That made me sooo happy, we were the same day for processing so if all had went well with mine, I might have been getting excited too! But I can be excited for you for sure, at least yours will be here for Christmas and that is so special!

Blessings

thank you so much chickie72......you are well underway now my friend......stage 2!!

 

[rebabe246]

Hey,

Yes London went up from 7 months to 8 months at the last revision (August 2012). London VO went very slowly in August and up to mid September apparently dealing with Tourist and student Visa's. Once mid September came they have really picked up the pace. Although the website states 8 months, if you visit the London spreadsheet 90 days seems to be the magic number when a lot of the applicants either go in-process, DM or Visa issued and the very longest applicant on our spreadsheet waited 119 days. So going by our spreadsheet 3-4 months is a better idea of how long it may take.

I know the London spreadsheet is merely representative of what is happening at London VO but that is the most accurate information we have on this forum.

Good luck

according to CIC it is for second stage

thanks for this, really does help. hoping to get visa by christmas. fingers crossed everything goes well.

 

[manispreet]

GOOD NEWS!!

Just got an email from LA for PPR. Thanks everyone for your support. I wish good luck to everyone who is still waiting for their next stages.

Cheers

 

[computergeek]

GOOD NEWS!!

Just got an email from LA for PPR. Thanks everyone for your support. I wish good luck to everyone who is still waiting for their next stages.

Cheers

Congratulations! Hopefully you get your passport back quickly.