Mexico

[mask8]

Congratulation.
Please tell me if the ecas was changed, i have the same timeline like you, and i my ecas the last update yesterday is :

We received your application for permanent residence on May 30, 2013.

We started processing your application on January 15, 2014.

Thank you

I want to know too if this is a good change on ecas.. Mine too just changed and saying they started processing.. but it's like 1 and half year ago they received our application and it has been just sitting there??? We did receive additional document request that we responded like year ago.. I'm so confused

 

[gamyover]

My Ecas change in December after I got PGR letter, it change to "in process"

It said they started processing my app Nov 19th

No other change for now.

I still not believe it's almost over, I say almost because it's going to be over when I have my passport back with the visa

 

[gamyover]

I got PGR letter on December 2nd, after 3 weeks I got AOR.

The Embassy got it Dec 27th.

 

[JimE2013]

We received my wife's passport request yesterday! We filed in June One question. It would probably be easier for my wife to fly directly into Canada since she would need a US transit visa to go through the US. Which airlines offer directly flights from Mexico to Canada? Thanks!

 

[OhCanadiana]

We received my wife's passport request yesterday! We filed in June One question. It would probably be easier for my wife to fly directly into Canada since she would need a US transit visa to go through the US. Which airlines offer directly flights from Mexico to Canada? Thanks!

Congratulations!!!

Air Canada, Aeromexico, WestJet, and Air Transat fly direct. Other options may emerge if you look up your specific city combinations on non-airline specific sites (e.g, matrix.itasoftware.com) or arrivals/departure boards for airports near the cities she would depart/arrive in.

 

[cmartin]

Hi everybody,

Have you translated your GPR? If not, it has not caused a problem?

Thanks!

 

[OhCanadiana]

Hi everybody,

Have you translated your GPR? If not, it has not caused a problem?

Thanks!

You don't need to translate the PGR certificate if you are submitting it directly to the Mexico visa office.

 

[Tna]

Congratulation! That's a good news.

How much time it took beetween the GPR request and the PPR?

Thanks!

They didn't ask for passeport yet

 

[Tna]

We received my wife's passport request yesterday! We filed in June One question. It would probably be easier for my wife to fly directly into Canada since she would need a US transit visa to go through the US. Which airlines offer directly flights from Mexico to Canada? Thanks!

Cogratulations!!!!

Did you receive passeport request in your email. Thank you

 

[JimE2013]

Yes, I did. David Cohen is handling our case, so we get emails immediately after receiving letters from the embassy.

 

[JimE2013]

Congratulations!!!

Air Canada, Aeromexico, WestJet, and Air Transat fly direct. Other options may emerge if you look up your specific city combinations on non-airline specific sites (e.g, matrix.itasoftware.com) or arrivals/departure boards for airports near the cities she would depart/arrive in.

Thanks. One question. The embassy in Mexico City is requesting a pre-paid, self-addressed envelope for the return of my wife and stepson's passports. We are going to use FedEx, since it is very quick. The problem is that there is no FedEx facility in my wife's town. She has to pay a delivery guy go to the capital city to the FedEx facility there. He hasn't let us down before. If we give him instructions to take the passports, put them in the envelope going to the embassy, get a return envelope and fill in the information, and then seal everything, should we run into problems? As I said, the guy is pretty reliable, and we don't have a lot of choice since there is no FedEx facility in my wife's small town. I suspect much of small-town Mexico is the same in terms of no UPS, FedEx, etc.

 

[OhCanadiana]

Thanks. One question. The embassy in Mexico City is requesting a pre-paid, self-addressed envelope for the return of my wife and stepson's passports. We are going to use FedEx, since it is very quick. The problem is that there is no FedEx facility in my wife's town. She has to pay a delivery guy go to the capital city to the FedEx facility there. He hasn't let us down before. If we give him instructions to take the passports, put them in the envelope going to the embassy, get a return envelope and fill in the information, and then seal everything, should we run into problems? As I said, the guy is pretty reliable, and we don't have a lot of choice since there is no FedEx facility in my wife's small town. I suspect much of small-town Mexico is the same in terms of no UPS, FedEx, etc.

An alternate idea for you to consider: if she is close enough to Mexico City that she pays a delivery person to go to FedEx there, could she just go to the Embassy to get the visas and CoPR herself? Usually if you go in person and drop off the passports off in the morning, they process the immigrant visas and CoPR that same day and return them to you in the afternoon. That way, the passports stay in her direct control or the Embassy's.

 

[JimE2013]

She is in Sonora, by Arizona. I've run the idea of her going to Mexico City by her, and she's not too keen on the idea.

One other question. The passport request letter indicates

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 193, Colonia Granada, Del. Miguel Hidalgo, 11520, Mexico D.F. Mexico

as the embassy's address, but correspondence from David Cohen's office says

Schiller 529, Col. Bosque de Chapultepec (Polanco)
Del. Miguel Hidalgo
11580 Mexico City, D.F.
Mexico

is the address. Which one is correct? Thanks.

Jim

 

[OhCanadiana]

The Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra address is the Immigration Section's (i.e., Visa Office's) address (it moved out of the Embassy of Canada in Mexico itself, which is on Schiller, a couple years ago IIRC).

ETA: To put your mind at ease, take a look at http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/mexico-mexique/visas/update-how_mettre-comment.aspx. This is important enough that I'd want to double check things myself

 

[JimE2013]

I'll check with the lawyer on Monday. I see both addresses on that site. Check out this link.

http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/mexico-mexique/contact-contactez.aspx?lang=eng

One other potential problem has arisen. We've decided to send my wife and stepson's passports and other documents to the embassy via UPS. Again, there is no UPS facility in my wife's town, so, as indicated earlier, we will have to send a messenger to UPS in the capital of my wife's state with the package and to pick up the pre-paid envelope. Now, according to the guy at UPS, UPS doesn't ship to my wife's town, so on the pre-paid envelope, we'll have to put the address of the UPS facility as the "to" address and then the guy from UPS will arrange shipment to her hometown once the package arrives at UPS. Now, how that means that UPS doesn't ship to my wife's hometown, I have no clue. To me, that is UPS shipping to her town. I'm just repeating what the guy said to my wife.

My question is this. If the representative from UPS does in fact write the UPS facility in the capital city of my wife's home state as the "to" address on the pre-paid return envelope, will my wife then have to change her mailing address in the cover letter to match the UPS facility address? This is only a one-time thing for the purposes of receiving her and my stepson's passports and visas back. Or, would my wife keep her mailing address in the cover letter as her current mailing address in her hometown and instead enclose a note with the documents explaining to the embassy why the return envelope shows the "to" address as the UPS facility in the capital of my wife's state and make it clear that this is only being done one time only for the purposes of getting her passports and visas back? Would this be considered a change of mailing address to the embassy, and could it cause delays? Please get back to me as soon as possible. Thank you, and have a good weekend.