newlifecanada said:
Hello guys, I just found this forum and hope I can find my answer here as well. Hope CIC work fast for us in 2015.
I applied as Quebec Investor and my federal part was submitted to CIO in Sydney NS in July 2014. Almost 6 months passed. Till now, I still have not received an file number.
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Is there any one in similar situation as me? Does anyone know how long CIO will issue the file number in these days?
Hi Bro,
Please note that earlier when I applied, if all documents were in order then it was taking around
30 to 45 days approx but one of my friend who has applied also closer to your dates hasn't received
file no. and it seems that his lawyer has advised that currently it is taking around 6 months to get
the file no. but not sure how far it is true!!
Also if you have applied or if your lawyer has applied on your behalf then ask them to chase CIO
for finding out what is the status because again for this same friend of mine since he was not getting
file no. then he pushed his lawyer to ask CIO.
CIO then replied back saying birth certificates are missing hence file is held up. So please ask
your lawyer or you can chase up CIO directly to find out what is happening with the file. Don't
just sit but keep pushing them diplomatically.
You can write to this email id CIO-Sydney-Search-Enquiry@cic.gc.ca for your enquiry as I
wrote to them on this email and they replied to me in one week's time.
Hope this helps and all the best to you!!!
God bless
Viz