They will advise against travelling while waiting for the PR card. I would suggest rescheduling your appoinment until you get back.
Spousal Sponsorship in-land Applications 2017 timeline and updates
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Dec.22 applicant waiting for landing appointment, heard nothing till now. I have accompanying dependent child and he was in my home country Philippines. Was it the reason why it taking longer?cause i've been seeing early January applicant already landed.
Sept.22 waiting for AIP. They won't process based on the App received date strictly. Some people get everything done quickly and others experience delays here and there. As long as you get AIP and DM, there's no need to worry too much.
Congrats! Which office? How did you receive your landing letter? I'm still waiting for mine.Received the landing letter via email for Dec 4th
it's an email that tells you when and where to go for the landing interview
Hope so! I got DM on November 2nd. Good luck on your interview.Vancouver office, they sent me an email. Yours will arrive soon! I got DM on Oct 26th
Thank you iamvenus. David is very resourceful and helpful. I’ll be waiting for his input
Hi @Leogirl22
What I have learned here, is, when the application is transfer to our local office before getting AIP is most likely for a relationship interview. This applies to me.
I truly recommend you to try to contact IRCC and to get your notes or ask your MP, they could have a quicker answer than all the other methods.
I just received mine two days ago, the first time it was transferred from Mississauga to Vancouver, IRCC notified me and according to notes it was only for Workload distribution but when they transferred it to my local office (Edmonton) they didn't and it is because we are expecting a relationship interview.
Every application is case specific, your best bet is to have an answer from them.
Sadly our wait time could be up to a year from April 2018 to 2019. You should also ask for timeline to process yours, hopefully it's different than mine.
Good luck and if you get a hold of them, let us know what the outcome is
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Hey guys! I just did my landing interview today at the Kitchener office. We arrived around 8:45am and our interview was scheduled at 9am. We were called in around 9:05 and everything was finished in less than 5 mins. The officer just asked me to review the information on the confirmation document and make sure everything is correct and sign. That's it. He said PR card should arrive in 2 months so start to wait again! I will update here again once I receive my card.
I want to say thank you to many of the members here in this thread. You guys provide both important information and emotional support! Knowing that there are a group of people in the same situation makes me calm down. To those who're still waiting, I wish you good luck. Special thanks to @sylvain1 who helped me a lot! Wish I could help others as well.
For your reference, my timeline is:
Application received: Nov. 14, 2017
AOR received: Jan. 4, 2018
Sch. A + PCC uploaded: Jan. 5, 2018
OWP approved: Mar. 5, 2018
Medical exam request received: May 17, 2018
Medical exam passed: Jun. 14, 2018
Fingerprints request received: Sept. 6, 2018
Submitted fingerprints to CIC system: Sept. 18, 2018
SA: Sept. 25, 2018
AIP: Sept. 25, 2018
DM on ECAS: Sept. 26, 2018
First landing interview letter received: Sept. 28, 2018 for Oct. 12, 2018
Rescheduled interview notification received through email: Nov. 9, 2018 for Nov. 23, 2018
Landed: Nov. 23, 2018.
I want to say thank you to many of the members here in this thread. You guys provide both important information and emotional support! Knowing that there are a group of people in the same situation makes me calm down. To those who're still waiting, I wish you good luck. Special thanks to @sylvain1 who helped me a lot! Wish I could help others as well.
For your reference, my timeline is:
Application received: Nov. 14, 2017
AOR received: Jan. 4, 2018
Sch. A + PCC uploaded: Jan. 5, 2018
OWP approved: Mar. 5, 2018
Medical exam request received: May 17, 2018
Medical exam passed: Jun. 14, 2018
Fingerprints request received: Sept. 6, 2018
Submitted fingerprints to CIC system: Sept. 18, 2018
SA: Sept. 25, 2018
AIP: Sept. 25, 2018
DM on ECAS: Sept. 26, 2018
First landing interview letter received: Sept. 28, 2018 for Oct. 12, 2018
Rescheduled interview notification received through email: Nov. 9, 2018 for Nov. 23, 2018
Landed: Nov. 23, 2018.
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Good morning David.Hi @Leogirl22
What I have learned here, is, when the application is transfer to our local office before getting AIP is most likely for a relationship interview. This applies to me.
I truly recommend you to try to contact IRCC and to get your notes or ask your MP, they could have a quicker answer than all the other methods.
I just received mine two days ago, the first time it was transferred from Mississauga to Vancouver, IRCC notified me and according to notes it was only for Workload distribution but when they transferred it to my local office (Edmonton) they didn't and it is because we are expecting a relationship interview.
Every application is case specific, your best bet is to have an answer from them.
Sadly our wait time could be up to a year from April 2018 to 2019. You should also ask for timeline to process yours, hopefully it's different than mine.
Good luck and if you get a hold of them, let us know what the outcome is
Thank you for the reply. I just ordered the notes (with your help on the other forum). What’s frustrating is that we called CIC yesterday and we waited 62 min to get to an agent who said that it is normal procedure to have the application transferred to the local office. I asked that agent a couple of questions that she answered by repeating what’s written on our cic site. I find it weird that they have any doubt about our marriage. We provided them with so many pictures of us around the world, and we sent them the birth certificate of our baby.. I think there might be a different reason but you made me sad to know that this may take another year.. I hope not and I hope you’ll hear from them soon
Don't be sad, remember this is my case, and every case is different, I was just sharing my situation, yours could be completely different, timelines also could have changed by now.
Now you can involve your MP and provide them a good set of questions and see what they could get. Our MP took about a week to get back to us
We also sent pictures of outing/wedding etc. And they did notice that but just wrote down "File needs to be transferred for a possible interview with the couple" and in other note "interview recommended". They didn't explain red flags or anything at all, they just want us to meet and have a coffee perhaps haha.
Please you have to tell me then how it went, what they ask and everything else
I have the appointment on Dec 11th.