Thread for outland Buffalo applicants!

[parceromiguel]

Our situation is a bit strange.

Met on February 2006
Started dating on June 22 2006
I left Canada on August 30 2006
We have been dating since then
Proposed on December 2009
Married on January 2 2011 (1 Month and 7 days ago)

We were only together for about 2 1/2 months as a couple. But we have been dating apart for most of the time.

Hope this helps.

We are currently working on our application. We feel like we still have a few more things to add so we can be finished up. We are waiting on letters from family members and friends as well.

We have about 120 pictures from all the trips my wife has made to visit me here in Florida.
We have phone bills back from 2007 until now.
We have mail logs back from 2006 (Ive used the same email address)
We have letters from family members and friends (waiting on a few more)

What do you guys think?
Should i add anything else, or do something else?

By the way my wife and i met when i was 15 and she was 14, and married when i was 20 and she was 19.

Let me know what you think of our relationship.

 

[Pharoh]

Mexicana: Have you received you PPR yet? Can you keep us posted, if not. I will do the same. I am just curious to see how long it will take, after Decision Made, to get the PPR and how it will come... Snail Mail (or) e-mail.
I am using a Representative, but Buffalo has my e-mail address. I am wondering if they will e-mail me or snail mail to my attorney.

j2m,

They will email and send snail mail. The email can come anytime to before 'Decision Made', to several days after. In fact, some people never receive 'Decision Made', but get the PPR email and or letter in the mail. You can expect a physical letter within a couple of weeks, which they send out in the event you never receive the email (e.g. the address is misspelled, or it gets stuck in your spam filter). If you do get an email, the subject will be 'Passport Request' and should come from 'buffalo-im-enquiry@international.gc.ca', which you may want to add to your spam filter so it allows it through.

 

[j2m]

Great, Thank you Pharoh!

 

[scylla]

FYI - We never received a PPR letter. Just email. So Buffalo doesn't always send a physical letter.

 

[patiently_waiting]

FYI - We never received a PPR letter. Just email. So Buffalo doesn't always send a physical letter.

So true.. seems like the email is what to look for.. lots of UK people never get a letter either!

 

[Pharoh]

FYI - We never received a PPR letter. Just email. So Buffalo doesn't always send a physical letter.

Hmmm, well that's bad news.

If you get PPR, but never get the email, letter, or eCas update, you're pretty much screwed until you order CAIPS notes, and find out you got PPR several months before (but now your visa is expired)

....why does this sound so perfectly plausible? Sigh... one of the many ways CIC can (and will) drop the ball for some people.

 

[j2m]

Hmmm, well that's bad news.

If you get PPR, but never get the email, letter, or eCas update, you're pretty much screwed until you order CAIPS notes, and find out you got PPR several months before (but now your visa is expired)

....why does this sound so perfectly plausible? Sigh... one of the many ways CIC can (and will) drop the ball for some people.

Pretty much... hard to believe that this happens after all of the wait time and the hoops we have to jump through to make sure very T is crossed and I is dotted. Now I start to wonder if they have the right e-mail address posted to my file... Although I updated it a few months back, and received confirmation that they will apply changes if they find necessary. I guess it's time to wait and see... very frustrating

 

[Pharoh]

A bunch of us Buffalo people from November got their AOR via email, followed by AOR snail mail.

I never got the email, only the snail mail, about two weeks later.

So... yeah. I have no idea if they have my email address correct or not. It's amazing how a 'j' can look like an 'i', or an 'a' can look like an 'o'. You screw up one letter, the email won't work. I'm scared that they may not have it correct, and I'll never get the PPR email, and won't find out about it till weeks later, assuming they update eCas or send a PPR letter through regular mail.

 

[piker751]

We (my wife the applicant) only recieved emails, once for the AOR, and one for the PPR. Not a single thing by snail mail.

 

[piker751]

Our situation is a bit strange.

Met on February 2006
Started dating on June 22 2006
I left Canada on August 30 2006
We have been dating since then
Proposed on December 2009
Married on January 2 2011 (1 Month and 7 days ago)

We were only together for about 2 1/2 months as a couple. But we have been dating apart for most of the time.

Hope this helps.

We are currently working on our application. We feel like we still have a few more things to add so we can be finished up. We are waiting on letters from family members and friends as well.

We have about 120 pictures from all the trips my wife has made to visit me here in Florida.
We have phone bills back from 2007 until now.
We have mail logs back from 2006 (Ive used the same email address)
We have letters from family members and friends (waiting on a few more)

What do you guys think?
Should i add anything else, or do something else?

By the way my wife and i met when i was 15 and she was 14, and married when i was 20 and she was 19.

Let me know what you think of our relationship.

I think you will be fine. My wife and I have never spent that much time together either, and we got approved fast. Sounds like you have more than enough eveidence. What about plane tickets? etc?

 

[parceromiguel]

I think you will be fine. My wife and I have never spent that much time together either, and we got approved fast. Sounds like you have more than enough eveidence. What about plane tickets? etc?

Piker751

We do have a few e-mails from Expedia.com when i purchased her plane tickects. But i do not have all of them.

I also have 2 receipts from 2 different hotels where we stayed at. Should i include that?

the letters from family members and friends, what is the actual name for those letters? a letter of appreciation?

By the way, if you dont mind me asking.

1)when exactly did you file your application
2)when was it approved
3When did you receive your passport after you sent it to them.

 

[piker751]

yes, absoulutly send the hotel and airline reciepts. We sent in all that we had, monthly trips generated a lot of reciepts.

I sent our application on Oct 17, 2010.

Not sure when I was approved as sponsor, but got a snail mail on dated Nov 11 with approval.

WE got the email for the PPR on Jan 18.

After a bit of a scramble getting some new immigration pics, and having her passport couried to me, I picked up the Visa the Following Thursday. I regulary travel to upstate New york for work, so this was convienient for us to pick up in person. I highly recommend this to everyone if it is feasible.

We didn't expect to be approved so soon, and it caught us somewhat unprepared. My wife has to tie up loose ends, at work and home. But if things go well she will land on Mar 1 or so.

 

[rafaelgabbie]

hi buffalo post. i havent loggen on for a while here but now that i have forwarded my application to buffalo yesterday may i asked based on your experiences, how long does it take for buffalo to send 1st aor and how long from start to finish would they average process an application? thank you.

 

[Pharoh]

hi buffalo post. i havent loggen on for a while here but now that i have forwarded my application to buffalo yesterday may i asked based on your experiences, how long does it take for buffalo to send 1st aor and how long from start to finish would they average process an application? thank you.

It takes 30-45 days to get AOR after the file is supposedly sent to Buffalo. My file was supposedly sent December 17, and I got my AOR from them January 28.

At that point, when you get your AOR, it's then a waiting game that cannot be measured. You might get PPR in a month, it might be three months. They might waive the interview, they might not. They might have lost some stuff, they might not have. They may want additional documents or background checks, or they may not. It's sort of like waiting in limbo, a sort of purgatory between receipt and PPR.

 

[Ozzie]

Applied for my wife, here's the time line God knows what is taking so long.

Application Received Mississauga: July 27th, 2010
Sponsorship Approved: August 24th, 2010
File Transfered to Buffalo: August 25th
Buffalo Started Processing: September 15th, 2010
October 12th: Received a letter from Buffalo, stating Interview waived, medical has been received and that they plan to finalize the file.
Nov 2nd: Received a letter from CIC Mississauga stating in order to conclude you application you have to paid the landing fee.
Nov 10th: Paid the landing fee
Dec 2nd: Letter of acknowledgment from Mississauga "receipt of payment"
Dec 2nd: Ecas shows In-process
Dec 22nd : Ecas shows DECISION MADE

Today is Feb 9th still haven't received PPR request, what is taking them so long its beyond my understanding.