user828 said:
Raj,
If you handed the PP at VFS India, would have been a week turn around time, this seattle has taken a while but I guess its the bargain of not leaving Canada. has it been 2 months already?
True.
Also my objective was to save some 1200 dollars on me. If my parents had to go to India for visa stamping, $600 was the cost to prepone the tickets. Also, when my parents would have landed, they would not have had medical coverage for 1st three months in ON and to buy private insurance for 3 months would be additional $600. So, a total of $1200.
When my parents came as visitors in Sept, 2012 they already had returned tickets for March 2013. Also, my parents have visitors medical insurance until March. If Passports comes now with visa from Seattle hopefully in 1-2 weeks, we'll go to Buffalo and land. Within a week of landing, we'll go for Health Card application and other ID's. Ontario Health Card will come within 3 months of landing and coverage will start exactly after 90 days of landing. My parents will return to India in March as scheduled and will come back on one-way ticket in April end or early May when health cards would have arrived and coverage started. The down side is we may not receive our parents PR cards before they leave for India. I'll have to spend $100 for courier to send PR cards to India.... So, net savings of $1100.....