Thread for December 2010 Applicants

[sparkle]

Hi Alie W,

The client ID that is on the sponsorship letter is for the sponsor, which you would already know anyway. There will be a new client ID assigned to the principal applicant later, probably when you get your AOR or PPR.

As far as what happens next, it does really depend on the VO. One thing common is that every VO someway or the other notifies you about the receival of the file. As qualingaspen said, Buffalo has still not notified us about anything related to our files, but there are some people in our group who've received an e-mail / letter in mail regarding their AOR. I believe a basic format is the sponsor approval follwed by AOR and then PPR. From what I've learnt from other threads, it can be via e-cas or email or mail !! There isn't one consistent format followed by all VO.

I hope this kind of answers your third question as well. I am also going via Buffalo office, and I see the people in November thread have started to see some update o their E-cas regarding file being in process.

Hope this helps !!

 

[pinklady]

I'm going through the London visa office. I was able to log into e-cas using the receipt number and my husbands name (the sponsor) before we received the sponsorship approval letter. I saw that a decision had been made then shortly after we received the letter from mississauga.
With sponsorship approval letter we got a client ID number and i was able to log into e-cas with that, again with husbands name (still cant get access with my name) One day i checked and e-cas said London has received my application. I think that counts as my AOR as london dont actually send AOR letters or emails. Thats were I am at now. They have had my application for 3 weeks and nothing has changed/happened!
Sponsorship letter dated Jan 18, received in London Jan 27. I dont remember the exact date I was able to log in or saw the updates on e-cas.
Good luck with your applications!

 

[AlieW]

Hello Again,

Firstly thank you for the plethora of responses! That was fast - you guys are really on the ball.

So far I've gathered that it is very much VO dependent and there isn't any 'one' formula - so basically it's wait and see.

It does sounds as though the sponsors e-cas is updated when the VO receives the application which is interesting - so I guess it goes from 'decision made' to 'in process'.

I will continue keep me eyes on my e-cas (sponsor), my email and my partners email and the post office to see if something arrives.

 

[quakingaspen]

I've only been able to log in to eCAS with my sponsors information. In the FAQ for eCAS, they have this information:

Q6: I am sponsoring a member of my family and cannot see the status of my application on CAS. Why?

A6: When trying to retrieve information about a sponsorship application, it is important to make sure that all the fields in CAS contain information about the sponsor. For example, to see the status of a sponsorship application sent to the case processing centre in Mississauga, you must use the sponsor's identification number (example: client #, receipt no, etc), along with the sponsor's name, date of birth and place of birth.

To see the status of the sponsored individual's application for permanent residence being processed, you must use the sponsored individual's identification number (example: client no, receipt no, etc), as well as his/her name, date of birth and place of birth.

Soooooo.... I don't know. eCAS confuses me.

 

[AlieW]

It seems as though my previous post resonated throught the immigration universe as I just got an e-cas update:

We received [Applicant's Name] application for permanent residence.

I'm guessing this is my AOR - of note we still haven't seen any email/letter that goes with this, and his e-cas still isn't activated,
but it's a start.

Thanks again for the advice!

 

[sparkle]

I've only been able to log in to eCAS with my sponsors information. In the FAQ for eCAS, they have this information:

Q6: I am sponsoring a member of my family and cannot see the status of my application on CAS. Why?

A6: When trying to retrieve information about a sponsorship application, it is important to make sure that all the fields in CAS contain information about the sponsor. For example, to see the status of a sponsorship application sent to the case processing centre in Mississauga, you must use the sponsor's identification number (example: client #, receipt no, etc), along with the sponsor's name, date of birth and place of birth.

To see the status of the sponsored individual's application for permanent residence being processed, you must use the sponsored individual's identification number (example: client no, receipt no, etc), as well as his/her name, date of birth and place of birth.

Soooooo.... I don't know. eCAS confuses me.

Haha...tell me about it !! :O

I guess once the sponsor's e-cas sees file in progress, we may be able to login via the applicant's details into his/her e-cas !!
To be honest, for us Buffalo people, i think we cna take a back seat, coz it's not happening anytime soon

 

[quakingaspen]

Name	Office	Ap.Sent	Ap.Rcv	Approval	InProcess	AOR	PPR	LANDED
nirajcife	Buffalo	21/10	01/11
SouthenNewEnglander	Buffalo	01/11		30/11	17/01	17/01
pinay_juliet	Buffalo	02/11	04/11	30/11	20/01	20/01
Getson	Buffalo	03/11	08/11	03/12	19/01	19/01
MizzCanAm	Buffalo	05/11	08/11	03/12	27/01	27/01
DKA	Buffalo	11/11	15/11	09/12		27/01
Pharoh	Buffalo	12/11	16/11	13/12	28/01	28/01
TreeLover	Buffalo	16/11	17/11	14/12	28/01	28/01
Atog	Buffalo	16/11	22/11	17/12	28/01
KazInAz	Buffalo	01.12.10	01.12.10	06.01.11
quakingaspen	Buffalo	01.12.10	07.12.10	11.01.11
Cindy1	Buffalo	04.12.10	07.12.10	07.01.11
Jeff	Buffalo	05.12.10	06.12.10	13.01.11
karla718	Buffalo	05.12.10	08.12.10	14.01.11
FloridaNative	Buffalo	10.12.10		13.01.11
Romain	Buffalo	10.12.10	13.12.10	13.01.11
palamr	Buffalo	16.12.10	17.12.10	18.01.11
Sparkle	Buffalo	23.12.10	29.12.10	25.01.11

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hehe Okay. So, I put this together to look at and figured that some of the rest of the Buffalo group might be interested. These are the dates of our friends from the Buffalo group in November. They aren't completely up to date. The last update I saw in their thread was from February 6, 2011.

I'm the second Buffalo person in our group, and I'm a hair shy of 3 weeks after their last Buffalo person. Which means... I should be expecting my AOR tomorrow - ish. And, Kaz should already have one? Maybe? So, add a week to that just to give CIC the slow time they need, and... our Buffalo group should start hearing from them soon!

 

[sparkle]

Awesome job job here quakingaspen !! That's exactly wat I was thinking of doing, and actually did start on the outland buffalo thread.... I was discussing about it there and told them I will make a spreadsheet with the help of you, who has been doing an awesome job for our thread !!

Lets hope to hear something soooooon !!!

For now, here is the format of spreadsheet the outland buffalo people follow ...so far we are just 2 people added on there for the latest ones! I volunteered there to manage this spreadsheet. Will add you on here as well just in case

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0As0XGjaAPN0IdFB0Q0ZCOHhBbGZBTWJHdEszNzRDT3c&hl=en&authkey=CJykiN0J#gid=0

 

[quakingaspen]

hehe Good work! Thank you very much for adding me. It's going to look awesome when it's all filled in.

I just posted the chart of all the applicants from August-February in the Buffalo thread. It'll be better in the spreedsheet, but there's a preliminary look!

 

[sparkle]

Hey, you should post this at the respective monthly threads as well, so that they can follow up accordingly and update on the buffalo thread !
I've updated the spreadsheet...
It can be made available to edit by anyone, but I wasn't sure if that would be a good idea :S

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0As0XGjaAPN0IdFB0Q0ZCOHhBbGZBTWJHdEszNzRDT3c&hl=en&authkey=CJykiN0J#gid=0

 

[quakingaspen]

Wow! That was fast. It looks really good! I'll write a post and drop it in the monthly threads.

 

[sparkle]

Haha...I'm addicted to this forum...so you can imagine

Thanks

 

[quakingaspen]

Me too. I just dropped a note in all the monthly forums from August-February. We'll see if that brings in any updates. If Buffalo won't communicate with us, we'll gather the information ourselves.

(And our regularly scheduled December update is on track for tomorrow.)

 

[pinklady]

Haha...I'm addicted to this forum...so you can imagine

Thanks

I'm also addicted... haha
spend much of my afternoons refreshing the page LOL

 

[sparkle]

Hey pinklady, sorry i had to change the privacy settings....I don't want everyone on the forum to know my real details (email etc)....
so just checking a way to share the spreadsheet without my details being disclosed :S

will update the forum in a bit with the new link for spreadsheet.