Thread for Outland LONDON, UK Applications!

[OShea]

Hi all, been following this forum for ages and has been a great help!

congrats to all who have gone into process and DMs recently

with all the movement with applications lately i checked Ecas today and had a decision made!!
hoping it is good news

 

[Coral_Bliss]

Congrats! I've updated the spreadsheet. Hopefully you will get your passport back soon!
Sweden

Thanks Sweden

 

[Coral_Bliss]

Thanks coral

Yes, my husband submitted it yesterday and our ecas now shows in process as of Aug 16. Did yours show the same?

Our ecas changed to Decision made & it also says we went in process on August 14th.

by the way when is your husband planning to move to canada? do you have have any ideas where can i find reasonable one-way ticket to canada? it looks like round trip tickets are cheaper then one way like expedia or flight center

 

[so-impatient]

Hi all, been following this forum for ages and has been a great help!

congrats to all who have gone into process and DMs recently

with all the movement with applications lately i checked Ecas today and had a decision made!!
hoping it is good news

Yayyy Congrats!! Loving all this movement at London VO!!

Whats your time line?

 

[OShea]

Yayyy Congrats!! Loving all this movement at London VO!!

Whats your time line?

Thankyou

course timeline is:

App filed: 14/2/13
AOR: 26/2/13
File Transfer: 12/3/13
in progress: 19/8/13
DM: 22/8/13


ecas went straight to DM there was no in process..still said app received yesterday and checked today and there was DM!

 

[godisFin]

Our ecas changed to Decision made & it also says we went in process on August 14th.

by the way when is your husband planning to move to canada? do you have have any ideas where can i find reasonable one-way ticket to canada? it looks like round trip tickets are cheaper then one way like expedia or flight center

one way tickets are usually always more expensive than round trip tickets. why, i really don't know! but just book a round trip and don't use the return flight. that's what i did.

 

[so-impatient]

I have always found the cheapest flights to be with Canadian Affair

 

[godisFin]

British Airways has really good deals at times. I got my last flight (round trip) for about $500. If you are not picky about the traveling date you can get really good deals. AND, if you are not using the return flight, it pays off to search for different options. If you can find a return with multiple stop-overs the price would for sure be cheaper!

 

[Sweden]

Hey London applicants!

I will still be around and do some of the updates, but I'm less present in the forum than a few months ago. I would suggest that some of you carry the link to the spreadsheet in their signature so it makes it easy for new comers to find it... I've also added ghunter for the edits, so there are more of us able to maintain it properly. If some of you would like to have access to the spreadsheet, I'm happy to add anybody - just send me a private message about it.
The spreadsheet used to be open, and then it got messed up a couple of times, but I don't believe that any of the regular posters here would do anything like this!
Good luck all, fingers crossed London keeps on sending out DM and COPR like this week - it's been a fairly good one!
Sweden

 

[canuck_in_uk]

I have always found the cheapest flights to be with Canadian Affair

Me too, really good deals.

 

[so-impatient]

Out of curiosity for applications through the London VO, does decision made tend to mean approval, have there been many cases of rejection?

 

[zardoz]

I have always found the cheapest flights to be with Canadian Affair

Yes, but make sure that it's an Air Transat flight and not a code-shared Thomas Cook aircraft.
We used to use Air Transat all the time but we were put onto a Thomas Cook flight once instead.
We now fly Air Canada instead. We will NEVER fly Thomas Cook again.

 

[Sniprat]

It is a very stressful process, even for those of us who have very simple, clear cut, applications.
Even then, CIC has managed to throw us two separate "curve balls" to mess things up, and we are still not out of the woods completely.

Of course, the really hard part starts now. How to move over 50 years of UK life over to Canada? Just packing up everything, redecorating to sell the house and then shipping everything will be an even bigger challenge.

Tell me about it. I am starting to contact builders for the things I can't do myself. We are also, this weekend, going to start going through our stuff to see what we can get rid of. Massive job in itself and I wonder if, on reflection, we should have started doing this when the application went in. But, it will be fun as it is another step towards Canadia.

 

[so-impatient]

I keep having anxiety attacks about my application.

Me and my husband had a relationship of only months before we got married, although we have known each other our whole lives - played with eachother as kids then lost touch in our teens but when we met again we got together and just knew we were right for each other and got married.

I keep worrying that they will think we are not genuine.

I hope being a british citizen and a doctor ( as in - in a stable job with promise) works in our favour.

eeep

Also, I didn't know air transat and thomas cook were linked!

 

[JDCA]

Hey!

My wife is Canadian and my son was just born there on 27/07/13, my timeline is as follows:

App filed: 20/2/13
AOR: 26/2/13
File Transfer: 12/3/13
in progress: 12/8/13
DM: 15/8/13

At the moment, it just states that the office will contact me I believe via writing... does anyone know how long that contact takes to make? (I checked my email multiple times/including spam and nothing ) It's just I think the postman is getting concerned that I am glaring at him each day until it arrives! hehe