poland - warsaw..

[quietloud]

Yep, three months.

We're not planning on sending more stuff unless they ask for it.

 

[BG_2012]

Hi Everyone. We made an outland application for me (born in Canada) to sponsor my wife (Belarusian) through the Warsaw office. Sent in the application Sept 6, 2012. I got the letter saying I was approved as a sponsor Oct 17, 2012. If I check the online status of the application, it says only that the application was received and they have the medical forms from my wife. What will happen next? How long did you have to wait to get some kind of letter or acknowledgement from Warsaw? Has anyone got any idea if the process is more or less than the 8 months posted on the CIC website? Thank you all for your help, and I hope everyone's applications are proceeding smoothly.

 

[Ryathe]

Hi Everyone. We made an outland application for me (born in Canada) to sponsor my wife (Belarusian) through the Warsaw office. Sent in the application Sept 6, 2012. I got the letter saying I was approved as a sponsor Oct 17, 2012. If I check the online status of the application, it says only that the application was received and they have the medical forms from my wife. What will happen next? How long did you have to wait to get some kind of letter or acknowledgement from Warsaw? Has anyone got any idea if the process is more or less than the 8 months posted on the CIC website? Thank you all for your help, and I hope everyone's applications are proceeding smoothly.

Hi BG_2012! I've moved you up the spreadsheet to the proper place. Congratulations on the fast process. Unfortunately I can't help you. My app was in CIC Sept 13th and they still haven't sent me anything. Good luck!

 

[lioha]

Hi Everyone. We made an outland application for me (born in Canada) to sponsor my wife (Belarusian) through the Warsaw office. Sent in the application Sept 6, 2012. I got the letter saying I was approved as a sponsor Oct 17, 2012. If I check the online status of the application, it says only that the application was received and they have the medical forms from my wife. What will happen next? How long did you have to wait to get some kind of letter or acknowledgement from Warsaw? Has anyone got any idea if the process is more or less than the 8 months posted on the CIC website? Thank you all for your help, and I hope everyone's applications are proceeding smoothly.

Hi BG. Unfortunately, there are really not a lot of people going through the Warsaw Visa Office. We are not able to determine if the waiting time is less then the 8 months written on CIC's website. Aa we go, we will only see on our own cases what is the exact time. FOr the status on Ecas, it also states application received for my wife. She does not have medicals received for some reason. Maybe it is becasue we did not do an X-ray due to my wife's pregnancy and they do not consider it a full medical. Who knows. By the way, your wife will recieve an email from Warsaw stating that they received her file. Looking at your dates, it should come very shortly.

 

[BG_2012]

We got the 2nd AOR letter today from the Warsaw office . They are saying that the average processing time is currently 6 months, not the 8 months posted on the CIC website. That is great news! They also gave a date 3 months from now, saying that if they haven't contacted us by then we should contact them. I'm very happy to see progress being made, and even better that it is faster than we anticipated. Hopefully they can keep everything moving quickly for everyone.

 

[lioha]

My wife got a request for additional information today from the visa office in Warsaw. They ask for her x-ray (we did not do it due to pregnancy), for our daughter's birth certificate when she is born and copies of all pages of my wife's passport. I have a feeling it is a good thing. Photocopies of passport pages are usually requested at the end from what I understand. I just hope they will wait about a month as my wife is due towards the end of December. After the birth, the x-ray and our daughter's birth certificate will take a day to make, translate (the birth certificate) and send it to the Visa Office. I think we will inquire if waiting for a month is ok with the Visa Office. What do you think? Will they VO wait for a month or slightly more. They did not give us a deadline in the letter.

Warsaw is working rather fast I find compared to other VOs.

 

[nicelina]

wow! warsaw is working very fast!
did they contact you trough the e mail or regular mail!?

i think they will wait

 

[lioha]

wow! warsaw is working very fast!
did they contact you trough the e mail or regular mail!?

i think they will wait

Hi Nicelina

The request was by email. I will ask my wife to send an email just to see if they will wait. The usual time they give is 60 days so we should be able to make it.

 

[lioha]

Seems like Poland are fast processing but not too fast answering emails. Sent a request last friday if they are fine to recieve everything they asked within 60 days. No answer from Friday . But the adress change at least is done. Only after 29 days of waiting

 

[nicelina]

same here. sent a request last thursday and nothing!

 

[grzybek]

Hello Warsaw gang,

I just joined the November 2012 applicants thread and thought I would check in here also. We just sent our application from Warsaw to Mississauga yesterday by UPS.

I was told over the phone from a representative of the visa office in Warsaw who said that for family class applications, she expected the processing time would most likely be significantly less than the 7-8 month estimate I have seen elsewhere. She said that the Warsaw office process family class applications on a priority basis.

I also have a couple of tips about getting translations done in Warsaw, if anyone is trying to figure it all out. Will check in here again to post how things go.

 

[lioha]

Hello Warsaw gang,

I just joined the November 2012 applicants thread and thought I would check in here also. We just sent our application from Warsaw to Mississauga yesterday by UPS.

I was told over the phone from a representative of the visa office in Warsaw who said that for family class applications, she expected the processing time would most likely be significantly less than the 7-8 month estimate I have seen elsewhere. She said that the Warsaw office process family class applications on a priority basis.

I also have a couple of tips about getting translations done in Warsaw, if anyone is trying to figure it all out. Will check in here again to post how things go.

Congratulations on applying. Hopefully the sponsorship will be approved by Missisauga before the year end. Warsaw VIsa Office looks indeed faster then others. They are slow answering emails though. We have sent them a question email a week ago, and still nothing. We'll see on this thread how things progress for each of us. There is not a lot of us in this forum going through Warsaw.

 

[grzybek]

I found them slow to respond to email too. I would recommend putting your phone number in your email - they eventually replied to me asking for my phone number to make things a little easier. They were very helpful on the phone.

We had some questions for them about translations, but in the end their advice was too late and we had already done them another way.

 

[nicelina]

Good morning everyone. Smiley soooo good news. Smiley we just got a passport request.


This refers to your application for permanent residence in Canada.

Please be advised that in order to continue the processing of your application, you are requested to provide a copy of your passport (all pages) by mail, e-mail or fax (48 22 584-3194).

Please provide the above within 30 days from the date of this correspondence.


It's means no interview and this is the last step? Yayyyyyyy???

 

[grzybek]

Good morning everyone. Smiley soooo good news. Smiley we just got a passport request.

[snip]

Hey nicelina, congratulations. It's encouraging to hear since we just mailed our application this week. Nice to know there are people coming out the other end of the process intact as well! I'm interested in the timeline of how this will all go for us. I didn't know that the medical is only valid for a year so we might have got ours a little early. But from the estimates I read it sounds like things are pretty fast.

Hope everything else goes smoothly for you.