Ray of hope - FSW - 1

[Windsor37]

Quick question whom should you ask for your GCMS, IRCC or CSBA?

 

[ricobdavis]

Add 3-4months to that, and Canada will ease theirs too to the world. Early Fall.

Better started at late May instead of early fall.

 

[Timbuktu_14]

Quick question whom should you ask for your GCMS, IRCC or CSBA?

Both of them can give you what you want but lately, CBSA is delivering faster than IRCC.

 

[|l|R|l|]

My current crs is 475 but will drop to 470 in April due to age.. will that score ever stand a chance or do I need to bump Ielts to reach 473

 

[Deleted member 1006777]

My current crs is 475 but will drop to 470 in April due to age.. will that score ever stand a chance or do I need to bump Ielts to reach 473

Last time there was a gap, the FSW score jumped to 478. It even stalled at 471 for two consecutive draws. Once they resume all program draws, it will take a few months (it took 3.5 months last year) to drop below 470. Do what you can to increase you score.

 

[guelphite]

This is incredibly sad and scary. What a complete waste of time, effort, and resources. This is a wake up call to everyone to apply for GCMS notes after 4+ months, no matter how confident you are about your application (I think it even makes sense to apply for it multiple times).

Here is my question though. If he was rejected due to Security screening as some have speculated above, do you think it would have shown up on the GCMS notes? As far as I understand, the Security portions are usually redacted. Moreover, what can really be done from the applicant's side to fix Security issues? I wish he would give us more insight into why his application was rejected once he cools down, as this would be immensely helpful to the community.

This is also a prime exhibit of why it makes me furious when call centre agents don't give proper answers and ask us to just look at the online application status, which is close to freaking useless. IRCC should really be more transparent about the status updates for each stage of the application. Not only will this make the applicants less anxious (and more proactive about fixing issues/sending missing documents), it will also greatly reduce the number of people calling the call centre purely for status updates. As for me, I am going to increase my frequency of calls to once every fortnight and will keep badgering them until they give me specific updates. I don't care if the agents are frustrated by the same questions, it's our livelihood that's on the line. Maybe I'll order GCMS every month too. It's a small price to pay to avoid any surprises.

@legalfalcon @caipsnotes What are some steps an applicant can proactively take to avoid heartbreaks like this (assuming they have filled out the application sincerely and to the best of their knowledge) ?

This won't do any good. I think it's fine to call occasionally once your 6 months are up, but if he got rejected for Security nothing he could have done would have helped. Once your eligibility is passed its really out of your hands...

Also, calling can have some negative effects. IRCC has been explicit you should not call about application status. They are now taking UCI number - easy to imagine they are tracking how many times the applicant calls. I wouldn't want IRCC to know that I am not respecting their guidance and calling every two weeks. Who knows what they could do with that info.

 

[Uncle Yayo]

This won't do any good. I think it's fine to call occasionally once your 6 months are up, but if he got rejected for Security nothing he could have done would have helped. Once your eligibility is passed its really out of your hands...

Also, calling can have some negative effects. IRCC has been explicit you should not call about application status. They are now taking UCI number - easy to imagine they are tracking how many times the applicant calls. I wouldn't want IRCC to know that I am not respecting their guidance and calling every two weeks. Who knows what they could do with that info.

Whilst I don’t agree with bugging them so much... I don’t see how they can do anything with UCI. So what if they flag for calling too much, since when did that turn to a criteria for rejection. At most you meet a very petty and wicked officer that will decide to sit on your application cause you called too much... but I would like to believe that no IRCC official will be that wicked. Either way better than sorry though.

 

[guelphite]

Whilst I don’t agree with bugging them so much... I don’t see how they can do anything with UCI. So what if they flag for calling too much, since when did that turn to a criteria for rejection. At most you meet a very petty and wicked officer that will decide to sit on your application cause you called too much... but I would like to believe that no IRCC official will be that wicked. Either way better than sorry though.

Oh I don't imagine they would ever reject you for it, but banning you from the call centre or throwing your application to the back of the queue? Sure. Again just speculating, but I'd rather not have that attached to my case.

IRCC has been clear on GCMS notes being completely siloed, I'm planning on ordering those every 2-3 months starting after 6 months.

 

[seadrag0n]

Oh I don't imagine they would ever reject you for it, but banning you from the call centre or throwing your application to the back of the queue? Sure. Again just speculating, but I'd rather not have that attached to my case.

IRCC has been clear on GCMS notes being completely siloed, I'm planning on ordering those every 2-3 months starting after 6 months.

I don't think IRCC follows anything like a queue. Even though they say they are working on CEC applications with full capacity, there are CEC applications pending from 2019 and they are approving newer CEC applications within 2-3 months of AOR, where is the logic in that?

 

[guelphite]

I don't think IRCC follows anything like a queue. Even though they say they are working on CEC applications with full capacity, there are CEC applications pending from 2019 and they are approving newer CEC applications within 2-3 months of AOR, where is the logic in that?

True - there isn't one queue, there are many. Of course there are queues! But they are split by visa office, stream, and probably other factors I can't guess.

 

[seadrag0n]

True - there isn't one queue, there are many. Of course there are queues! But they are split by visa office, stream, and probably other factors I can't guess.

But how can they leave very old applications pending and approve new ones? Makes no sense and they keep giving out a ton of invitations. This new immigration minister seems supremely incompetent.

 

[apple121]

Whilst I don’t agree with bugging them so much... I don’t see how they can do anything with UCI. So what if they flag for calling too much, since when did that turn to a criteria for rejection. At most you meet a very petty and wicked officer that will decide to sit on your application cause you called too much... but I would like to believe that no IRCC official will be that wicked. Either way better than sorry though.

I think it's not good to call too much because it can make it difficult for everyone to get to them, especially for outlander, at the moment it's pretty difficult to get to one of the agents.

 

[apple121]

But how can they leave very old applications pending and approve new ones? Makes no sense and they keep giving out a ton of invitations. This new immigration minister seems supremely incompetent.

Because it doesn't depend only on them, the security check are done by other agencies and I guess they take a lot of time for some cases.

 

[guelphite]

Because it doesn't depend only on them, the security check are done by other agencies and I guess they take a lot of time for some cases.

Yeah agreed, it is unclear if applications with AORs in June/July 2020 and later are actually being processed faster than equivalent ones with earlier AOR. It might just be that we are seeing people whose security is taking a long time. Or it is possible that applications "in process" at the moment of the shutdown in March 2020 got thrown into a different queue that encountered issues/got understaffed.

 

[seadrag0n]

Because it doesn't depend only on them, the security check are done by other agencies and I guess they take a lot of time for some cases.

I am talking about CEC's only and they already went through the required security/background checks when they were issued their temporary permits.