Thread for outland Buffalo applicants!

[jerodkillick]

Does anyone know the specifics for contacting our MP? Im ready to send an email to see what happens. I just want to be home for Christmas with my spouse.

 

[kerianne]

OMGGGGGGGGGGG
My status changed this morning!!!!!!!!!
It says: DECISION MADE. and they will contact me. I really hope this is a good news. OMG help me please!

WAHOOOO

Congratulations Cherlyn and WMaitner/heatherusa!! Hopefully I'm soooon! My mail doesn't come until around 2pm...and still no change on my ECAS.

???

soon enough I guess.

So happy for you though, good luck and happy landings!

Cheers

 

[SaugaBoss]

Does anyone know the specifics for contacting our MP? Im ready to send an email to see what happens. I just want to be home for Christmas with my spouse.

I just went on this site and put the postal code

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/parlinfo/compilations/houseofcommons/memberbypostalcode.aspx?menu=hoc

the MP said he wont contact until mid-November though i guess some MP's are nicer than others lol not every MP contacts.

 

[jerodkillick]

My spouse contacted MP via email. Sounds like a very nice guy. I will post whatever response I get.

 

[Dralon]

wow already over 100 pages...

congratulation to all those that got updates...

 

[wmaitner]

Lol! Gotta keep you on your toes.. Your time is definitely coming soon.. 8)

i just realized wmaitner and heatherusa have the same application lol

 

[nyssa]

Congrats you guys!!! I checked ecas but nothing for me today

 

[ljane79]

OMGGGGGGGGGGG
My status changed this morning!!!!!!!!!
It says: DECISION MADE. and they will contact me. I really hope this is a good news. OMG help me please!

Yahooooooo! My status changed to "decision made" this afternoon at around noon! Congrats Cherlyn and wmaitner. Did you two get an email yet? I hope that will happen tomorrow. Oh no, Buffalo office is closed on Wednesdays. I can hardly wait. Hopefully it will be early on Thursday so I can send my passport in on Thursday. I'm sooooo excited.

 

[heatherusa]

Yahooooooo! My status changed to "decision made" this afternoon at around noon! Congrats Cherlyn and wmaitner. Did you two get an email yet? I hope that will happen tomorrow. Oh no, Buffalo office is closed on Wednesdays. I can hardly wait. Hopefully it will be early on Thursday so I can send my passport in on Thursday. I'm sooooo excited.

Congrats to you too... no email yet =( but even though they have our email they have never emailed us... only paper letters so we figure it will come on Saturday like the other two.

 

[scylla]

Hi All,

Congrats to everyone who is seeing progress on their application this week!

My husband went to the consulate in Buffalo this morning to pick up his visa in person and then landed via Fort Erie around noon. Smooth sailing!

The details that others have posted here regarding the consulate visit are bang on - with the exception of one small bit. Some previous posters indicated that they were told to wait 2-3 hours after the visa was issued before crossing the border to allow the computer information to synch. This is no longer necessary. Apparently the visa information is now uploaded to the border PCs in 5 minutes and you can cross as soon as you have the visa in hand.

 

[scylla]

Oh - and for the record - even though we received PPR and my husband has landed, ECAS still shows "in progress".

 

[ljane79]

For those that recently sent in your passport. Am I missing anything? I'm so nervous about mailing my passport.

1. (3) Passport size photos
2. Height and hair colour on a piece of paper
3. My passport
4. My file number sticker on the outside of the envelope

Send to (I am in Canada):
Canadian Consulate General
Immigration Regional Program Centre
P.O. Box 660
Fort Erie, ON L2A 6R6

Passport Submission
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/buffalo/imm/submit_soumettre.aspx
Passport requirement:
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/buffalo/imm/passports_passeports.aspx
Photos, height, eye colour http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/buffalo/imm/Photographs_Photographies.aspx
For family members:
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/buffalo/imm/notice_avis.aspx

 

[SaugaBoss]

Yahooooooo! My status changed to "decision made" this afternoon at around noon! Congrats Cherlyn and wmaitner. Did you two get an email yet? I hope that will happen tomorrow. Oh no, Buffalo office is closed on Wednesdays. I can hardly wait. Hopefully it will be early on Thursday so I can send my passport in on Thursday. I'm sooooo excited.

yaay i knew u would get it soon! especially if they asked for the RPRF so it took like 1 moth a couple weeks to process <3 congrats ;D ;D ;D ;D ;Di hope its my turn sooooooooooooon at least before november 8)

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhRdh026XqeudHhfTWotUHctdEcxN1lHOVVwaTBZVmc&hl=en&authkey=CP3Lwe4B&pli=1#gid=0

so exciting seeing a majority of people in red i think a lot of ppl on the spreadsheet no longer use the forum lol

 

[ljane79]

yaay i knew u would get it soon! especially if they asked for the RPRF so it took like 1 moth a couple weeks to process <3 congrats ;D ;D ;D ;D ;Di hope its my turn sooooooooooooon at least before november 8)

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhRdh026XqeudHhfTWotUHctdEcxN1lHOVVwaTBZVmc&hl=en&authkey=CP3Lwe4B&pli=1#gid=0

so exciting seeing a majority of people in red i think a lot of ppl on the spreadsheet no longer use the forum lol

Thanks for being excited with me SaugaBoss. Your turn will come soon

 

[heatherusa]

Is it weird that I log in to ecas just to look at the words "Decision Made" even though I don't know what the decision actually is. Anyone else do that?