ORIGINAL POST BY ASHUNANDAL
you need to be in Canada to apply or your sponsor can order GCMS notes for you. there are 2 forms you need to download, you need to sign one consent form authorizing your spouse to get information about your case from CIC.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/forms/IMM5563E.pdf
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/forms/IMM5475E.pdf
Step by step:
Print off IMM 5563 (05-2012) E - Access to Information and Personal Information Request
Section A:
1. Access to Information Act
2. English/French (your choice)
3. Email (fastest way)
4. No (because you do not live in Canada you cannot request on your own, your spouse will have to officially request for you)
Section B:
This section is for you to fill out.
Family Name (Last Name)
Given Name(s) (First Name/Middle Name)
DOB
Electronic Files - Status of an Appliacation - File Number (you would get this from the AOR or Approval, ours started with an 'F') - Location (in your case its New Delhi, India)
DO NOT fille out the Immigratrion File in Canada section or the next section down that says Physical File
Section C:
This section your spouse that lives in Canada will fill out:
Tick the box "this request is usbmitted by a Canadian Citizian or PR"
Mr. Mrs. Ms
Family Name (Last Name)
Given Name(s) (First Name/Middle Name)
Full Address
Phone Number
Email
Requesters Signature: your spouse to sign and date
NOW:
Print off IMM 5475(12-2004) E - Authoriy to Release Personal Information To A Designated Individual
Choose One:
Tick off the first box "i authorize"
Questions 1-4 are for you, the principal applicant to fill out
1. Family Name and Given Name
2. DOB
3. Name of Office:New Delhi, India Location of Office: New Delhi, India
4. File Number or Client ID
Questions 5-6 are for your spouse, the Canadian citizian or PR to fill out
5. Family Name and Given Name
6. Address, Phone and Email (make sure to use the same email that you provided when you first submitted the application)
7. Principal Applicant to sign and date/Sponsor to sign and date
Pay the $5 online, print the receipt and fill it out with your sponsors information and email all 4 pages.
fill the forms out and then scan them and emailed them, the email address is at the bottom of form IMM-5563
good luck
However, on the contrary it is also appalling that many applicants including myself have not even heard anything on our files at all. I do believe that there is a certain curriculam that the CIC/NDVO must follow, and serve the applicants on a first come first serve basis. Also, the applicants who does not even have a 'straight forward' case, according to the first come first serve, the NDVO should first process their files and get back to them with appropriate feedbacks. I strongly believe that there is either a favoritism and a discrepancy going on or the CIC/NDVO totally lacks in professionalism.
