Hi, I am a Canadian born Moroccan that is sponsoring my Moroccan wife and her 5 year old daughter (my step-daughter to join me here in Canada) I received an email stating that I needed to pay for right of permanent Residence Fee for my sponsored wife in Morocco, I don't remember having to pay this or being told to pay this at the time I completed the application and spoke to the immigration representative on on the phone, does this mean that a decision has been made on her application and are now just waiting for this payment before notifying us of the good news, or does this mean our application was incomplete and it will take months longer to review and make a decision?
We find that the payment of charges for the right of permanent Residence Fee (RPRF) has not yet been made by your sponsor.
Your sponsor in Canada must pay the Right of Permanent Residence Fee (RPRF) to Citizenship and Immigration Canada's Case Processing Centre (CPC) in Mississauga, Ontario.
The CPC will advise our office directly once the fee has been paid.
Do not submit the RPRF payment, or proof of payment, to this office.
Payment can be made as follows:
1) Make online payment of the RPRF to the CPC in Mississauga at
2) Submit proof of payment to CPC-M online at
or by mail to the following address :
CPC-Mississauga
C.P. 6100, poste A
Mississauga (Ontario)
L5A 4H4
Please include the Sponsor's name, date of birth, and UCI Number or Application Number in all correspondence. You will not receive a reply to questions or enquiries about other topics.
The RPRF is refundable if you choose not to use your visa. The fee is refunded without interest.
Yours truly,
Immigration Section
What does this all mean??
On the CIC website is states that my application to sponsor my wife was received on July 31, 2012, I was approved to sponsor my wife in November 2012, and the application was then sent to Rabat, Morocco. My wife and step-daughter are from Morocco. My wife was contacted in mid-November and told that she required her medical, her and he daughter went to an approved medical doctor and completed their medical and the reports were couriered to the immigration section of the Canadian embassy in Rabat, Morocco.
On Dec. 27 I received and email that my wife's application in Rabat is now being processed, I have been checking CIC website weekly and it only shows that the application has been in process since Dec. 27, 2012. It is now April 27, 4 months of processing, does this mean that a decision has been made and the only missing piece is the Right of Permanent Residence Fee, or did they just truly begin reviewing her application and noticed that the Right of Permanent Residence Fee has not been payed and must be paid before they can truly begin processing the application in Rabat, Morocco???
Peace