How long it took to get biometric letter and acknowledgment letter?
My PR is through Express Entry Economy category. Yours is perhaps under Family, so, although our stages are the same, our timeline for each stage is different.
I got my AOR Sep 26 2019. I received the biometric letter and medical pass (for our category, we give up front medical) on 18 October 2019. My file then transferred to Nairobi end of October.
I received biometric payment request from them in January. I was surprised as I did already and shared with them my initial receipt. In February, they requested my non-accompanying spouse’s biometric and also if i am changing spouse to accompanying (they misunderstood a follow email I sent to them prior to their request), so I informed them that I am not changing anything and they should cancel the biometric request for the spouse. Normal process: biometric is not needed from non-accompanying dependents.
In March, they stopped working on PR. Requested GCMS in May and received it end of May. GCMS clarified to me that biometric spouse is and was a mandatory request whether spouse is accompanying or not. I paid the fee in June and asked for biometric letter.
So long story... We received the letter last Thursday and gave the bio on Monday.