pre-arrival services letter after Procedural Fairness Letter
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Which office you responded to? And you responded through hard copy submission right?
I'm in a similar situation. I received a Procedural Fairness Letter from Ottawa visa office on 30-Mar-21, and replied via webform the same day. I received an email on Monday (19-Apr-21) confirming receipt of the reply and documentation and today I received a pre-arrival services letter and ECAS status updated to decision made.
I'm not sure how long it would time from Etobicoke, I wasn't expecting such a quick update on mine
My PFL was a bit of an odd one. The letter said our stated commencement of cohabitation was 04-May-2020, and thus we had applied too early.
This date was actually the date we filled in on our application for the date we entered into the common law relationship, which the complete guide (IMM 5289) states as after the 12 months of continuous cohabitation (which commenced 04-May-2019). We basically just quoted the complete guide in our reply and referenced the documents submitted in our original application
Well, just saying, you should’ve taken your time to prepare a strong response, did you do it properly? In my case, officer wrote he is not satisfied by the genuineness of my marriage
I replied with the best evidence I could and I took my time .. let’s see what he does
Hopefully he won’t reject. But you never know
we submitted a well worded letter. in our case, there wasn't much additional evidence we could submit. the officer wasn't questioning the evidence submitted, but rather it seems misinterpreting the dates on the form. we re-checked all our forms and the only places we referenced that date in the letter were the fields for when we became common law partners, which the guide clearly states is after 12 months of cohabitation. we submitted joint rental agreements, bank statements, utility bills, council tax bills etc for proof of cohabitation in our original application. the officer even stated in the letter that the relationship appears valid but that we'd applied too early
IF the officer had concerns over the evidence and was questioning whether we were genuinely living together for that period, the letter would have mentioned that and not just that our 'stated commencement of cohabitation was May 4, 2020' and that we applied too early
we asked on this forum and a few facebook groups and general consensus was it must have been a misunderstanding
good luck with yours, hope you hear back soon
IF the officer had concerns over the evidence and was questioning whether we were genuinely living together for that period, the letter would have mentioned that and not just that our 'stated commencement of cohabitation was May 4, 2020' and that we applied too early
we asked on this forum and a few facebook groups and general consensus was it must have been a misunderstanding
good luck with yours, hope you hear back soon
today, my application shows Decision Made, but I dont know if it was "approval" or "refusal" 
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Don’t worry it’s gonna be approval. Be positive and pray.today, my application shows Decision Made, but I dont know if it was "approval" or "refusal"