SPOUSE / FAMILY CLASS timeline MANILA Visa Office PHILIPPINES

[Godisgood29]

I am worried. This is my 17th day of waiting since my ECAS changed to DM.
# May 2014 applicant
# Everyone is receiving his/her visa.

 

[shadow_0716]

Salamat!!

Here is ours...
Application received July 17 2014
Medicals upfront July 7 2014
SA Sept 4 2014
AOR2 and document request Sept 23 2014
Documents received Oct 2014
PPR with validity of July 10 2015 received on April 8 2015
CEM contacts sponsor by phone April 13 2015 (informed visa package ready for issue requests to contact applicant.)
CEM contacts Applicant by phone April 13 2015 (personal appointment given )
Visa issuance April 16 2015

Chris.

Hi Chris congrats to you and your wife!
By the way, is she going to pick up her passport at the Embassy?
Cheers

 

[maclady]

Hi everyone, just wanted to share my timeline and story.. Hoping this will help some people

april 2014 applicant
Application filed: April 9th
Application received: April 13th
File transfer to MNL: June 2014
Application processing: August 4th
Status change to In Process: August 4th
PPR + additional docs request: August 4th

August 7th - got a call from CEM asking to send my passport right away coz my medical will expire September 2014
- wasnt able to because I was in Canada on vacation.
(If I sent everything right away I wouldnt be in the Philippines right now... Still waiting)

Passport sent: August 25th
Passport received: August 27th

Re-medical request: October 4th
Police clearance( from the country I worked in for 3.6 years) request: October 2014

After They requested for my police clearance i didn't hear from them for 4 months.

Email about COA: February 2015

During those 4 months, I sent them 2 emails asking about my passport because I had travel plans but they never answered back.
My husband got fed up so he emailed them (march2015) asking for my passport back because it's been 7 months. He wanted me back to Canada and wait beside him.
Then finally CEm answered and returned my passport.
A day later, they emailed again asking for a different police certificate.
My husband and I tried for more than a week to obtain the certificate but the embassy (of the country where I worked for) was not cooperating. Bottomline, we tried everything to get the specific certificate they wanted but it was impossible.

Fearing that it might affect the result of our application, we decided to email them about our dilemma and asked for their help.
TO OUR SURPRISE CEM Waived the police certificate and asked for my passport back (2 weeks after they returned it)

PPR 2nd time: April 2015

3 days later, I got an email telling me my visa is ready to be issued!


VISA ISSUED: April 13th 2015!

First of all, if my husband didn't ask for my passport back.. The canadian embassy would take even longer to inform us about the wrong police certificate.
I believe, my husband's email put our application back in motion.

I waited for more than a year to get my visa issued.
I waited 8 months for my passport... and is still waiting for it to be returned.

So my advice: stay positive, stay busy and be patient.
Don't read forums too much.
Cherish the time you have left to be with your family and friends.

Lastly, thank you to those people who shared their story on this forum. You guys were a big help. Especially this one person who shared about asking for his passport back etc. You gave me the courage to do it and because of it, I was able to bring the Officer's attention back to my application.

Best of luck everyone!

 

[epie]

Hello everyone,
Asked ko lang if it is really needed to attend the free seminar? Is it okay if hindi nalang?

 

[dt-tdot]

Hello everyone,
Asked ko lang if it is really needed to attend the free seminar? Is it okay if hindi nalang?

It's not required daw, pero baka useful. So, kung may oras ka pwede. Kung tight sa time di kailangan.

But yung sa CFO, required, di ko lang sure kung alin sa dalawa ang kailangan puntahan. I asked na rin sa forum mates, wala pang reply.

 

[ccastillo]

It's not required daw, pero baka useful. So, kung may oras ka pwede. Kung tight sa time di kailangan.

But yung sa CFO, required, di ko lang sure kung alin sa dalawa ang kailangan puntahan. I asked na rin sa forum mates, wala pang reply.

PDOS is required. They can hold your departure if you haven't done your PDOS.

 

[mrs.Cam]

Hello everyone,
Asked ko lang if it is really needed to attend the free seminar? Is it okay if hindi nalang?

Hello! I attended the COA free seminar today,very useful sya and magaling ang facilitator kaya hindi ka aantukin or maiinip,free lunch and snacks din. Madami din freebies.

I suggest if you still have free time, attend k.

 

[Christoph100]

yes, from what I know everyone who are bound to Canada should attend PDOS because they will going to put a sticker on your passport that is required in the immigration once you land in airport in Canada.

This is incorrect the CFO passport sticker is a Filipino requirement in order to leave the Philippines.
We might be bypassing that one as my wife is heading back to Thailand very soon. She will likely be departing for Canada right from there.

Chris.

 

[Christoph100]

Hi Chris congrats to you and your wife!
By the way, is she going to pick up her passport at the Embassy?
Cheers

Thank you! its been a lot of what ifs, and what is happening, and what can we do, before CEM called us after I emailed and made them aware of the coming situation.

Yes she is, We managed to get an in person appointment as it is impossible for her to send in her passport. She is leaving the Philippines before the end of this month to go back to Thailand to close her Thai permits and she needs her passport to be able to do that.

Chris.

 

[Christoph100]

- wasnt able to because I was in Canada on vacation.
(If I sent everything right away I wouldnt be in the Philippines right now... Still waiting)

Passport sent: August 25th
Passport received: August 27th

Congratulations!!. I know its late now to know....You received your PPR while you were here in Canada for a visit correct? Arrangements could have been made to send it to Ottawa as that is an option on the PPR.

Chris.

 

[cute2bblue2]

Saw Someone posted from Facebook forum, they got PPR with visa Validity of MARCH 2016, he did his remedical march of this 2015. I thought That for those PPR with visa validity are for those who have their medicals near expiry.


my dilemma is we have the same timeline. Mine according to the email I received from my MP is that its being back on hold, because of my Follow up emails. and it will be opened again this may 3, 2015.

This is just really getting so weird/

 

[yukonjames]

So they finalized your application and approved you but them told you that you would be on hold until May 3 ? That's crazy , why finalize the application then ?

 

[yukonjames]

Our visa is good until October 2015, we were told we would receive visa package shortly but that was march 20.

 

[cute2bblue2]

Our visa is good until October 2015, we were told we would receive visa package shortly but that was march 20.

its really heart breaking, but im willing to wait, just amazez me seing different status and different cases getting their visas.

 

[eila]

your hubby can have his upfront medical at St. Luke's BGC. I did mine there last year with no appointment needed.

Oh,i see.. thank you!