There seems to be movement in Canada in the past few weeks. If your case is somewhere abroad where covid is very serious and the embassies/consulates are closed except for emergencies there is not much you can do. Most of the Canadian staff has gone back to Canada. Immigration isn't something that can easipy be done from home gor privacy reasons. I am sure there are currently meeting trying to decide how to process huge volumes of various types of applications from certain regions like India where covid is not controlled. Assume there will be an attempt to redustribute applications to other areas. There is a huge backlog of processing everwhere so before cases are redistributed centres need to catch up on their own processing.
Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship 2019
- Thread starter Garry2008
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Thanks for your helpful information. I am guessing that right now priority is being given to applicants already resident in Canada as no (or minimal?) background checks are required and at least something is then moving forward. We are applicants from June 6th and have passed medicals, supplied PCC and the sponsor (our son) has been approved; so we are at the background check stage which started back in mid-March and just awaiting approval for ourselves. I am aware that this could not be continued whilst agents were working from home (our visa office is CPC-Missisauga) owing to data protection but wonder if you know whether they have now returned to the office, or when they are likely to resume working from there. Many thanks again for your help.
congrats ! I’m in the same boat, I wonder if IRCC knows that my parents are currently in Canada ? Couldn’t recall if they asked that question anywhere in the application package.
This is one possibility is IRCC will anticipate where are the applicants is based on the mailing address. You should can see your current mailing address after CIC accouns sign in.
If there is something I have learned during this whole ordeal, it's that there is not such thing as "priority" on any of these cases
Wow I didn’t know they were doing that. Does your ECAS was showing that after decision made? My mom has decision made por PA and nothing after that. Maybe they are doing the same for us...
Think that many are also stuck in the process in Canada. Background and security checks are dependent on many organizations in Canada and abroad. Some may not be available at the moment. Those receiving PR through inland landing were likely close to the end of processing in March.