Good day everyone. I've been following this form for a little while and thought it was time to add my two cents worth.
I'm a Canadian citizen sponsoring my wife from South Africa. She has been here in Canada for over 3 years on various visas, never once being out of legal status. Originally, we filed for permanent residency in August 2014 under the in-land route, but had to withdraw that application when my wife returned to South Africa in November 2014 for the funeral of her father. She returned to Canada in January 2015 under a new visitor visa. Since then, she has applied for, and received, a study permit and a 10-year visitor visa to the USA (which is much easier to obtain than a Canadian visitor visa - my wife was never given a multiple visit visa for Canada, yet the USA gives her 10 years...hmm...and we obtained multiple visit visas for her mother and brother....what a system).
We filed a new pr app on Feb 17, 2016 with an OWP app. I received, via email, acknowledgement of my sponsorship app on Apr 8th. My wife received acknowledgement of her pr app on Jun 13th. On Jun 18th, my wife received a letter requesting a police clearance certificate from South Africa, and we sent in the same PCC that we had originally sent with the Aug 2014 app. She received acknowledgement of the PCC submission on Jul 14th. On Jul 19th, she received her OWP (I'm not sure if the two had anything to do with each other).
Since then, we have had deafening silence. When they asked for the PCC in June, we thought we might be in the fast track program. However, we may have made a mistake with the PCC. We explained when we sent the PCC that my wife had only left Canada for 1.5 months to return to SA for her father's funeral, that it would take well beyond 60 days to get a new PCC, and if they would accept the 2014 PCC. But we have heard nothing. This has been gnawing at me since then, so last month we applied anyway for a new PCC from SA, and it has been issued and should arrive via courier this week. I received a pdf version of the PCC and it is clean.
I think by not getting a new PCC at the time requested that we might be back in the wait list. We will submit the new PCC and see what happens. Does anyone know if new information submitted gets one back in the fast track program, or are we now permanently relegated to the 26-month program?
I'm a Canadian citizen sponsoring my wife from South Africa. She has been here in Canada for over 3 years on various visas, never once being out of legal status. Originally, we filed for permanent residency in August 2014 under the in-land route, but had to withdraw that application when my wife returned to South Africa in November 2014 for the funeral of her father. She returned to Canada in January 2015 under a new visitor visa. Since then, she has applied for, and received, a study permit and a 10-year visitor visa to the USA (which is much easier to obtain than a Canadian visitor visa - my wife was never given a multiple visit visa for Canada, yet the USA gives her 10 years...hmm...and we obtained multiple visit visas for her mother and brother....what a system).
We filed a new pr app on Feb 17, 2016 with an OWP app. I received, via email, acknowledgement of my sponsorship app on Apr 8th. My wife received acknowledgement of her pr app on Jun 13th. On Jun 18th, my wife received a letter requesting a police clearance certificate from South Africa, and we sent in the same PCC that we had originally sent with the Aug 2014 app. She received acknowledgement of the PCC submission on Jul 14th. On Jul 19th, she received her OWP (I'm not sure if the two had anything to do with each other).
Since then, we have had deafening silence. When they asked for the PCC in June, we thought we might be in the fast track program. However, we may have made a mistake with the PCC. We explained when we sent the PCC that my wife had only left Canada for 1.5 months to return to SA for her father's funeral, that it would take well beyond 60 days to get a new PCC, and if they would accept the 2014 PCC. But we have heard nothing. This has been gnawing at me since then, so last month we applied anyway for a new PCC from SA, and it has been issued and should arrive via courier this week. I received a pdf version of the PCC and it is clean.
I think by not getting a new PCC at the time requested that we might be back in the wait list. We will submit the new PCC and see what happens. Does anyone know if new information submitted gets one back in the fast track program, or are we now permanently relegated to the 26-month program?
