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Stage 1 Processing time is increasing - A cruel Joke

No matter how long it takes. We are determined. Heads up folks. The outcome is worth the effort and pain.
 
It's worth it, yes, but honestly, I am very disappointed in my government. If anything, Canada needs more immigrants. Our country is massive, yet our population is tiny....it would help our economy...not only that, but for family sponsorship, all these "timelines" should be super short...and they ought to make the timelines the same worldwide. Why is Beijing 5 months but Hong Kong is 19 months? Even with fraud, and other factors, it shouldn't be different.

Still, the question remains...do all stage 1 applications take the same amount of time to be approved? Are some approved faster than others? Or is this 84 days mumbo jumbo applied to ALL applicants?

Trying to stay positive...my application package is in Mississauga...should be with CIC some time in the next few hours...so at least that's a bit of good news.

Friday the 13th...what a day!

FS
 
As far as I can tell, all applications take about the same amount of time for Stage 1. The 84 day wait is bullshit, but what it means is that there's enough of a backlog that it'll take them 83 days to open your application. Then sponsorship will probably be decided the same day.
 
Sponsorship evaluation for Outland takes a few days, if not a single day. And yes, it looks long, but I suggest you guys learn to roll with it. If you're freaking out now, what happens when your files get to the visa offices and the REAL wait begins?

At a time when it was taking 30 days for sponsors to be approved (Feb-Mar 2011), it took us 81 days. I had to wait patiently while CPC-M went back and forth with the province of ON to get some paperwork cleared for my husband. At the time, it was something of a record on this forum for sponsor approval, at least that I have seen since I started coming here. I think during that time only one other sponsor had a longer time than us, and for her it took somewhere on the order of 100 days or a bit more.

Government offices get backlogged all the time. Last year, there was the mail strike and it so happened to coincide with the introduction of GCMS at CPC-M and the times spiked, just like they are doing now, so there is likely something going on there which we don't know. All we can do is hope that whatever the reason is, maybe it works out for the good in the long run, in that they may have instituted some business process changes that may initially increase the timelines in CPC-M, but decrease the timelines at the visa offices. We don't know, but we can still hope, no?
 
I just clicked on the link and it says 75 days! Lol, whats going on.. I am just gunna go with wishful thinking at this point and tell myself its 75... ;D
 
I was in my local cic office yesterday and i told the guy there in idle chat that it has been such a long road and he asked when i first submitted my application, i told him i'd been waiting 13 months and he said "count yourself lucky i'm working on a case that has taken 7 years thus far"

it kinda put things into perspective for me.
 
A stage 1 approval at 7 years? Seems a bit far fetched...probably the guy at cic was putting you on...

FS
 
To those who are in Canada right now -


Cant you sue Canadian Government or CIC regarding this?
On lack of productivity and inefficiency ground.


Their backlog isnt our problem, they should hire more people. The world is full of unemployed people.

Is there no legal option to shove their policies up there (you know where)?
 
Hi FS,

Sponsorship approval, for me, took 2 months from date app was received. Some are processed sooner than posted times. I *think* most are approved before the posted timeline. However, I think it varies, case by case.


Fencesitter said:
Still, the question remains...do all stage 1 applications take the same amount of time to be approved? Are some approved faster than others? Or is this 84 days mumbo jumbo applied to ALL applicants?

Trying to stay positive...my application package is in Mississauga...should be with CIC some time in the next few hours...so at least that's a bit of good news.

Friday the 13th...what a day!

FS
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RajMalhotra said:
Their backlog isnt our problem, they should hire more people. The world is full of unemployed people.
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And who would pay them?
 
I am no lawyer and have no legal experience and, perhaps, my answer to this will make that more than evident. And this is not meant to upset anyone.However, I feel like this:
"Good luck at suing the government, then asking to come to their country, to boot!"

("Too boot!"- I'm slowly turning in to a Canadian, eh? ;)

RajMalhotra said:
To those who are in Canada right now -


Cant you sue Canadian Government or CIC regarding this?
On lack of productivity and inefficiency ground.


Their backlog isnt our problem, they should hire more people. The world is full of unemployed people.

Is there no legal option to shove their policies up there (you know where)?
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Think my concern is about the police certificates being valid for only 3 months from date of issue...we had all the forms and documents completed back in feb when we also got the police checks done but because of my passport expiring and having to wait for option c printouts to arrive in the post, i was only able to send out application in april, fingers crossed
 
kaede1977 said:
...my concern is about the police certificates being valid for only 3 months from date of issue...
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This is the second time I am coming across this statement. Do you have a link which says a pcc (police certificate) is valid only for 3 months? My understanding is that the date of issue of the pcc should not be earlier than 3 months before the date of application. A pcc is generally valid for one year. Correct me if I am wrong.
 
^ This was my understanding as well...but it could also be a case of when CIC opens the file...if it was submitted with 2 months still left before the magic number 3, what happens?

I hate how this process is so up in the air...you'd think a first world country would have all this sorted and make the process clear and efficient...this process is beginning to remind me of something...can't quite put my finger on it....oh...wait...that's it...the Chinese banking system!

Better get some good books to read!

FS
 
I know what you mean...pretty sure its only 3 months for police certs and a year for medical(according to the CIC website), but have no idea when they start the count of 3 months and if its 87 days or whatever by the time they get to our application were kinda screwed...
 
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