Hi Gurus in this forum,
Help needed urgently..
Please share your precious inputs if you have knowledge about any situation of this type in past.
I am interested to know timeline for a CEC case which is agreed by CIC to be reconsidered by a different visa officer after keeping aside their earlier refusal decision. Below are details of my case:
Category: CEC
Application filed: Jan 2013
First AOR: Feb 2013
RPRF and Med's Request: Nov-2013
RPRF and Med's completed: Mid Nov-2013
Ecas Status changed to Decision made: Nov-25-2013
Case refused email by end of Nov-2013
It was hard to digest for me that my very genuine case was refused as VO was not satisfied with the duties mentioned in my reference letters to be sufficient for the NOC claimed. I live in US now and so no other option for me to re-apply in same category. As No opportunity for clarifications was provided to me by VO, I chose to challenge this decision in court with help of Canadian immigration lawyer in early Dec 2013. GCMS notes requested from CIC, got them in Jan-2013 and my lawyer was confident that the points mentioned by VO to refuse my application were errors related to proceedural fairness. JR filed Feb-2014. End of Mar-2014 - CIC lawyer asked my lawyer that if we discontinue our case, then CIC will reconsider my case and give it to another visa officer by keeping aside the earlier refusal decision.
We have now discontinued our case as the final outcome by court's decision would possibly have been the same(but after wait of .. you never know .. many more months from now).
Now, I am interested to know that what would be timeline for my case as it gets re-considered.
Ecas status is still decision made (but hoping it will change to in progress after above settlement).
Only reason why I want to know this is becuase my Indian passport is expiring in July end 2014. Due to various other travel reasons since past few months, I was not able to apply for renewal of my passport till now. And renewing it now from the applicable consulate in USA shows an estimated time of around 6 to 8 weeks. So, I have this big question in front of me - whether should I apply for my passport renewal right away, or wait for CIC to respond if they respond quickly in such cases.
Clearly, if CIC is going to take few months before they re-open my file, then it is makes sense to apply for renewal of my passport right away now, but as I am not sure of CIC timelines in these type of cases, I want to check with Gurus in this forum first before I proceed further on any step.
Help needed urgently..
Please share your precious inputs if you have knowledge about any situation of this type in past.
I am interested to know timeline for a CEC case which is agreed by CIC to be reconsidered by a different visa officer after keeping aside their earlier refusal decision. Below are details of my case:
Category: CEC
Application filed: Jan 2013
First AOR: Feb 2013
RPRF and Med's Request: Nov-2013
RPRF and Med's completed: Mid Nov-2013
Ecas Status changed to Decision made: Nov-25-2013
Case refused email by end of Nov-2013
It was hard to digest for me that my very genuine case was refused as VO was not satisfied with the duties mentioned in my reference letters to be sufficient for the NOC claimed. I live in US now and so no other option for me to re-apply in same category. As No opportunity for clarifications was provided to me by VO, I chose to challenge this decision in court with help of Canadian immigration lawyer in early Dec 2013. GCMS notes requested from CIC, got them in Jan-2013 and my lawyer was confident that the points mentioned by VO to refuse my application were errors related to proceedural fairness. JR filed Feb-2014. End of Mar-2014 - CIC lawyer asked my lawyer that if we discontinue our case, then CIC will reconsider my case and give it to another visa officer by keeping aside the earlier refusal decision.
We have now discontinued our case as the final outcome by court's decision would possibly have been the same(but after wait of .. you never know .. many more months from now).
Now, I am interested to know that what would be timeline for my case as it gets re-considered.
Ecas status is still decision made (but hoping it will change to in progress after above settlement).
Only reason why I want to know this is becuase my Indian passport is expiring in July end 2014. Due to various other travel reasons since past few months, I was not able to apply for renewal of my passport till now. And renewing it now from the applicable consulate in USA shows an estimated time of around 6 to 8 weeks. So, I have this big question in front of me - whether should I apply for my passport renewal right away, or wait for CIC to respond if they respond quickly in such cases.
Clearly, if CIC is going to take few months before they re-open my file, then it is makes sense to apply for renewal of my passport right away now, but as I am not sure of CIC timelines in these type of cases, I want to check with Gurus in this forum first before I proceed further on any step.
