Mexico

[CANzanillo]

So, lo and behold on Thursday April 29th, i received my Sponsorship Approval letter which was mailed from CPC Miss. It only took 5 weeks to arrive here in Manzanillo ! I'm pleasantly surprised as I didn't think it would arrive at all. Coincidently, the email replacement that I requested a little more than a week ago arrived in my inbox yesterday, May 1st.

 

[CANzanillo]

Congrats guys!

We are still waiting for the passport to come back. I sent an inquiry last week and received a message on Monday saying that I can check my tracking number "in a few days" and now it's Friday at 2:30 and the tracking number still hasn't been activated so I'm not impressed. Monday will be 4 weeks from the date they received it. Stupid how the last step takes the longest and is the most frustrating.

Hopefully we see some movement next week. I had wanted to buy some plane tickets by now but I guess we just keep waiting.

The long wait is almost over!! You'll probably have passport in hand by the end of next week!! It's nice you'll be landing just as summer starts!

 

[CANzanillo]

Hi everyone, not avery happy day for me as I received mail today asking me for fee payment to get ARC and aletter explaining why i should be allowed bak into Canada.
I was 99% positive i wouldnt need an ARC as i left on time, or so I thought, I aways reported myself to immigration and i bought my own plane ticket. I left canadain december 2009 so may years have gone now and today i got the surprise i have to ask for ARC. I wonder how much time will this put on my application. Really im getting too frustrated. Anybody experienced same? Could it be that VO is wrong and I didnt need an ARC? Pls comment.

Sorry to hear that Fabibeach. I don't know anything really about ARC and why you might need it, but hopefully it won't add much delay to your process. Keep the faith!

 

[Playa08]

Hi everyone, not avery happy day for me as I received mail today asking me for fee payment to get ARC and aletter explaining why i should be allowed bak into Canada.
I was 99% positive i wouldnt need an ARC as i left on time, or so I thought, I aways reported myself to immigration and i bought my own plane ticket. I left canadain december 2009 so may years have gone now and today i got the surprise i have to ask for ARC. I wonder how much time will this put on my application. Really im getting too frustrated. Anybody experienced same? Could it be that VO is wrong and I didnt need an ARC? Pls comment.

I'm interested to know about this scenario. I didn't think they asked for the ARC until near the end of the processing once the PR was approved and your processing has just begun.

 

[GUILLE]

hi everyone we will be sending my wife's passport with FedEX i have opened an account with them. my question is will mexico vo contact my wife to let her know her passport is ready ? and have to schedule a pick up or they will take the envelope to a FedEX store where it can be shipped back? i read some people are still waiting for their passports and i also read it took other people 10 days to get their passports back .maybe there is a procedure the visa office has that doesn't work with courier companies ?

 

[tishness]

Hi everyone,

I've been MIA for a while... mostly because I was so unbelievably angry with my husband for managing to screw this up. So I left it in his hands, no help, no answering questions. So here is what has happened since:

Had to travel to his place of birth (Magdalena, JAL) to get some sort of letter stating he never registered for his pre-cartilla at that location
- well they of course were closed for Semana Santa, once they reopened, he went mid April, received this letter, took a few days
Went to PV to apply for his Pre-cartilla
- waited 5 days for his pre-cartilla
Went to Tepic to apply for his PGR April 23rd
*30 days expired April 23rd
Received an extension from the VO April 30th
Is supposed to go to Tepic tomorrow to pick up his PGR, then he has to have it translated, notarized, couriered
.... ugh it's exhausting to even write!

So I was just there this past week, and now some nasty folk are on a rampage in the area, and I don't feel good about him travelling, however he insists, he isn't waiting.

So we are back on track... sort of. We may still have the liberada to deal with down the road... just crossing our fingers at this point.

Congrats to you all who have received COPR and SA or any other step along the way.

 

[CANzanillo]

hi everyone we will be sending my wife's passport with FedEX i have opened an account with them. my question is will mexico vo contact my wife to let her know her passport is ready ? and have to schedule a pick up or they will take the envelope to a FedEX store where it can be shipped back? i read some people are still waiting for their passports and i also read it took other people 10 days to get their passports back .maybe there is a procedure the visa office has that doesn't work with courier companies ?

If I'm not mistaken you should be sending a prepaid Fedex envelope along with your passport for them to use to send the passport back to you in order to speed up the process. They will not let you know it is ready. They will just send it. Can someone back me up on this?

 

[tishness]

So what happens when you go to the sede office to pick up your PGR on 5 de mayo? Well, they are closed. Luckily, the very kind security guard offered to call someone in to give my husband his PGR papers, as they told him yesterday via phone he could come today and he traveled 2+ hrs by bus to get there... phew.

So he has about 5 pages, does he need them ALL translated and sent or just specific pages? I haven't seen it yet, but he isn't sure. Any of you who have completed this that could shed some light?

Thanks!

 

[GUILLE]

If I'm not mistaken you should be sending a prepaid Fedex envelope along with your passport for them to use to send the passport back to you in order to speed up the process. They will not let you know it is ready. They will just send it. Can someone back me up on this?

Yes we sent my wife's passport along with a FedEX envelope and a international air waybill with my account number which fedex will charge my credit card. ok so the embassy will take the envelope i sent them to fedEX for return .

 

[ElleElle74]

Yes we sent my wife's passport along with a FedEX envelope and a international air waybill with my account number which fedex will charge my credit card. ok so the embassy will take the envelope i sent them to fedEX for return .

I just sent the waybill (from the US) without the envelope. We got my husband's passport back today (9 days total). If you send the FedEX envelope it may be a waste because they sent back at least half of the application and there's no way it would have fit into the envelope. They sent it back in one of those plastic FedEX bag things and inside of that was a government of Canada brown envelope.

Canz is right. They'll just courier it back to you. They won't call her to pick it up because they no longer allow walk-ins at the Embassy.

 

[fatimafnts]

Just got passport and payment request today! Off to read posts on this airway bill business! So excited.
That means he's accepted right? No way to say no now? I'm a constant worrier

 

[tink23]

So it appears that Dominican Republic is now being processed through Mexico. Seems they keep adding and adding countries into Mexico processing.

Some people from the Santo Domingo office still going through processing are very anxious about the move from SD to Mexico. Hopefully they add more visa officers into the mix to speed things up.

 

[ElleElle74]

Just got passport and payment request today! Off to read posts on this airway bill business! So excited.
That means he's accepted right? No way to say no now? I'm a constant worrier

He's in! Congratulations.

If you get an account with FedEX, that's the easiest way. The account number is linked to your credit card and won't be charged unless the account is used. Just fill out the return waybill addressed to yourself from the Embassy. Keep a copy of it, so you can have the tracking number and will be able to check when it has been sent (Another thing to obsess over. I had decided not to check it and bam! the FedEX guy was at my door.)

Good luck!

 

[fatimafnts]

He's in! Congratulations.

If you get an account with FedEX, that's the easiest way. The account number is linked to your credit card and won't be charged unless the account is used. Just fill out the return waybill addressed to yourself from the Embassy. Keep a copy of it, so you can have the tracking number and will be able to check when it has been sent (Another thing to obsess over. I had decided not to check it and bam! the FedEX guy was at my door.)

Good luck!

Thanks Elle!

 

[fatimafnts]

To CANzanillo,

I know you've taken the spreadsheet under your wing so I have a suggestion, since the Mexico VO processes other countries as well it might be helpful to specify what country the applicant is from. For example, my husband didn't have to do the Mexican police step and we just sent it at the beginning so that saved us some time.