Strike and everyone's PR process

[awor]

You can still send your applications. Use a courier to this address:

Case Processing Centre
2 Robert Speck Parkway,
Suite 1200
Mississauga, ON
L4Z 1H8

Thank you rjessome. I knew that address was floating around here somewhere but I couldn't find it!

 

[Maple3]

You can still send your applications. Use a courier to this address:

Case Processing Centre
2 Robert Speck Parkway,
Suite 1200
Mississauga, ON
L4Z 1H8

Thank you all .. sounds like the right thing to do ! 8)

 

[Maple3]

If the strike it still going on when I'm ready to send my application to my husband in hopefully 2 weeks (from Oregon to Alberta), then it's getting FedEx'ed. If it's still going on when he's ready to send it to Mississauga, he will do the same. Not worth risking it getting stuck in limbo for who knows how long.

Sounds right to me Awor..thanks

 

[Maple3]

The strike is a rotating strike. It starts in Winnepeg at midnight. So all of Canada won't be affected at the same time So you might be okay.
Great Thanks!

 

[mittens]

breaking news, canada post have agreed to some of the points in dispute and are now willing to negotiate on some others
so....hopefully this will soon be resolved
watch this space!!

 

[dair2dv8103100]

How does immigration send the applications on to the visa office in the relevant country?

For example my app to sponsor is Mississauga but my husband is in Morocco. How do they send the PR app to Rabat if there is a mail strike? Or do they use another service?

 

[jiyamano]

Hi,

Are they still on strike? I am waiting on my documents to come through Xpresspost and still haven't received it yet. May be because of the strike :-\.

Cheers,

 

[jayde]

The strike hasn't started yet... it is looming.

 

[rjessome]

How does immigration send the applications on to the visa office in the relevant country?

For example my app to sponsor is Mississauga but my husband is in Morocco. How do they send the PR app to Rabat if there is a mail strike? Or do they use another service?

Diplomatic courier bag. The strike will have no affect on this.

 

[ddobro2]

I'm in Montreal and got mail today (it was a diploma so had to sign for it at the door). They already started but it depends on where you are. They already started in Winnipeg, ON for "symbolic reasons" (first place to have a new mail processing machine, which is a source of their grievance, installed), then Hamilton. They are doing it in a "rotating" fashion. Don't know which provinces/cities will be affected next....

"The Canadian Union of Postal Workers today made it official: Canada Post workers will go on strike at 11:59 p.m. ET, starting in Winnipeg. The strike will then continue 24 hours later in other locations that have yet to be announced."

 

[sthomas]

Diplomatic courier bag. The strike will have no affect on this.

@rjessome

Are you sure? Because if that is so true, it will make me one happy woman

 

[rjessome]

@ rjessome

Are you sure? Because if that is so true, it will make me one happy woman

Absolutely positive. Applications received by CPC Mississauga and forwarded on for processing to overseas visa posts are sent by diplomatic courier.

 

[awor]

Absolutely positive. Applications received by CPC Mississauga and forwarded on for processing to overseas visa posts are sent by diplomatic courier.

That's awesome. I'm curious (just for curiosity's sake) how it works, if you know. Is it a separate company/section of the government? Do they send individuals out with the paperwork via plane, or do they just package them up and send them by airplane like typical mail? Diplomatic courier sounds all exotic, like something from a spy movie LOL I have no idea what it really is!

 

[rjessome]

That's awesome. I'm curious (just for curiosity's sake) how it works, if you know. Is it a separate company/section of the government? Do they send individuals out with the paperwork via plane, or do they just package them up and send them by airplane like typical mail? Diplomatic courier sounds all exotic, like something from a spy movie LOL I have no idea what it really is!

Nothing quite so sexy I'm afraid. I believe they contract private courier companies for the most part. There was a debacle awhile back where a courier company contracted by CIC wrongly delivered a bunch of applications to a private residence, I think somewhere in Quebec. I bet they lost that contract! They may have special procedures for certain countries where security is questionable but I'm not sure what they are. PMM would probably know more.

 

[PMM]

Hi

That's awesome. I'm curious (just for curiosity's sake) how it works, if you know. Is it a separate company/section of the government? Do they send individuals out with the paperwork via plane, or do they just package them up and send them by airplane like typical mail? Diplomatic courier sounds all exotic, like something from a spy movie LOL I have no idea what it really is!

The Gov't has diplomatic couriers who accompany shipments around the world. It is not a very high paying job, but lots of travel. They carry a "diplomatic bag" with highly sensitive documents, while other documents/files ride as cargo. The courier meets and accompanies the cargo off the flight and accompanies it to it's destination or turns it over at the destination to the local courier.