Hey guys...finally got through 150 pages of posts in the forum during the time I was away.
Wow - lot has happened - CONGRATS to all of you that have received the visa
A special mention goes to
fprince -
I'm soooooooooo glad for you dude
And welcome to all the new members that have joined the forum.
I returned to Canada on Jun 4 along with my wife 8) It is so good to be with her now after such a long wait. Thanks for all of your support in the long drawn process.
Oh and I also found out from the CAIPS/FOSS notes that super long delay in our PPR was not due to CHC ND, but due to IPS. Apparently, CHC ND had sent out our PPR within a week after they received our file in ND, but that PPR was never received by my wife. Go figure. It was only the subsequent PPR they sent after my CSEs that she received.
Also, the COPR she received was the 3 pages carbon copy type with the top one having her photo. When we landed, she had to sign it along with the immigration officer and they stapled the last copy of it to her passport.
When she had received her passport back from CHC ND, along with her COPR they sent her a welcome letter and returned back about two thrids of photographs we had sent to them. They kept everything else we had sent to them as part of the application.