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[Gatca]

they mailed a letter to me to state interview is waived and require to do hong kong police check, however they dont update any info on the ecas nor send any email.

 

[bobokiko]

they mailed a letter to me to state interview is waived and require to do hong kong police check, however they dont update any info on the ecas nor send any email.

I know that if ask u tohv the police check,then is the last part, congraulation to u .
I hope my case is same as u

 

[Gatca]

Thanks! Yes, I hope so, I got my fingerprint in canada and mailed it to hk police department.hopefully I can get the passport request on late sept la

I submitted my case on June 2012, and the process is pretty fast, the HK VO actually work pretty fast on processing the application

Hope u will get a good news very soon

 

[bobokiko]

Thanks! Yes, I hope so, I got my fingerprint in canada and mailed it to hk police department.hopefully I can get the passport request on late sept la

I submitted my case on June 2012, and the process is pretty fast, the HK VO actually work pretty fast on processing the application

Hope u will get a good news very soon

Good Luck for you, you send your application on June , and ask to get the police check, really very very fast. But I send on March , but no any news until now. Are you living in Canada or Hong Kong ?
My case is I sponser my hunsband and daughter , all of us are living in HK. We married over 15 years and have a daughter 14 years old, my case also strong , but don't know need for a long time to approval. How about your case? Can you tell me more ?

 

[zeushk]

Our timing is pretty close to gifkins, we submitted our application in Nov '11 as well, and just received "in process" on August 31. So, hopefully, we can get confirmation soon!

 

[bobokiko]

Our timing is pretty close to gifkins, we submitted our application in Nov '11 as well, and just received "in process" on August 31. So, hopefully, we can get confirmation soon!

Good luck for all

 

[Fencesitter]

It's strange how each case is processed differently in terms of time. CIC received our app on April 13 and I was approved as my wife's sponsor on July 13. The Hong Kong visa office received our app on July 19 and the AOR was e-mailed and received on July 25. The e-cas status changed to 'in process' for my wife on September 3, and it shows that they started processing my wife's application on August 30. We have been together since 2005 and married in 2009. We had our first child on Oct 30. Lots of trips together and tons of supporting documents and evidence + solid proof of our intention to return to Canada.

So, I wonder what differences there are between our case and others and if our cases are all similar, what causes such a difference in processing times?

FS

 

[Gatca]

Good Luck for you, you send your application on June , and ask to get the police check, really very very fast. But I send on March , but no any news until now. Are you living in Canada or Hong Kong ?
My case is I sponser my hunsband and daughter , all of us are living in HK. We married over 15 years and have a daughter 14 years old, my case also strong , but don't know need for a long time to approval. How about your case? Can you tell me more ?

You are right, your case is strong. There are some diff between our cases,first, my sponsor and me are living in Canada and got secured jobs, so they dont need to consider whether our intention to return canada.(this may be the strong reason for the delay), and I submitted the case less than a month after marriage , we dont have any children, we have similar educational backgrounds and both are HK citizens.

I do think they process the case in a batch( mar, april, may), and maybe by a group of immigration officer, so when the IO opened my case and it is very straightforward, they can make the decision easier.

btw, I got the letter for interview wavied in mid aug and they just updated the ecas on Aug31, so I believe they started processing without updating the ecas

Hopefully everyone here will get a good news very soon!

 

[bobokiko]

It's strange how each case is processed differently in terms of time. CIC received our app on April 13 and I was approved as my wife's sponsor on July 13. The Hong Kong visa office received our app on July 19 and the AOR was e-mailed and received on July 25. The e-cas status changed to 'in process' for my wife on September 3, and it shows that they started processing my wife's application on August 30. We have been together since 2005 and married in 2009. We had our first child on Oct 30. Lots of trips together and tons of supporting documents and evidence + solid proof of our intention to return to Canada.

So, I wonder what differences there are between our case and others and if our cases are all similar, what causes such a difference in processing times?

FS

Fencesitter , your case is similar to me , the timeline also same, but my ecas did not change to "in process". Did you recived any letter from CIC , request you submit exact document for them ?

 

[Fencesitter]

No. We are currently waiting to see what happens next. My wife is a member of a QQ group and all the folks like us (western man married to Chinese woman) who have already made it through successfully, said that e-cas changed to 'in process' without any requests for further documents. All of them waited about a month and then they received the PPR.

From what my wife has told me, if the visa officer wasn't convinced of a) our relationship and b) my proof of intention to return to Canada, he/she would not have changed the e-cas to 'in process'. I am assuming that the visa officer is satisfied with everything and just going through the final stages. We guess that we will have the PPR in a month from now, followed by the actual visa. Total time until we get the visa should be about 2 months or end of October.

I'll never know for sure, but if I was a betting man, I'd say that the main reason why our case is moving quickly is because I prepared a very professional package with tons of evidence. The job offer I have in Canada is probably another reason why the visa officer has no doubt that I will return to Canada, but not only that, we made it very clear that this is all for our son and for our family's future.

FS

 

[Fencesitter]

Oh, and the funny thing is I sent a case specific enquiry about two days before e-cas changed to 'in process' going on about how we need to have some idea of the timing because we have an infant son and we need to plan accordingly.

They sent a reply one day later warning me not to send any further questions as it might delay the processing of my wife's application. So, now I'm guessing that they were already working on it and whoever sent the reply was basically saying that everything is fine, just wait a bit and you'll get sorted out.

FS