Tips for 2016 (Future) PGP Applicants

[koonisr]

My credit card just got charged too. How can I be so happy for loosing money.

UPS delivery time 6.31 AM, from BC. I really hope all of you have the good news. Thank you ORssei for your time. I will contribute to your fund when I go home.

Thank you all of you for contributing to this thread and keep all of us informed. Love you all and love the world.

Congratulation! At last CIC puts its hand on 6:31 batch. 10 more days of charging remaining. Hope all will be charged by this time.

 

[planningtogo]

My credit card just got charged too. How can I be so happy for loosing money.

UPS delivery time 6.31 AM, from BC. I really hope all of you have the good news. Thank you ORssei for your time. I will contribute to your fund when I go home.

Thank you all of you for contributing to this thread and keep all of us informed. Love you all and love the world.

Good news!! Congrats

Please don't forget to update SS under 'New Entry'

 

[Kani]

Are you sure the cheque you sent to CIC is a personal cheque written from your cheque book which was then certified by TD branch, but not bank draft?

Yes, you are right it was bank draft. Screwd by Td bank, i asked for certified check but was given a draft. I didnt know the difference between them or how it looks like.
i went to branch today, while asking why i was a given a draft when i asked for a draft, their manager said "both works in same way, if they are going to accept certified check, they should accept bank draft as well.

So, i am not sure if cpc going to accept my file or not. it was sent through UPS on 4th jan on 7.36 am though.

 

[_MK_]

No i do not think it will be linear.
I only said that there is no way CIC has the capacity to accept 10k applications in under 2 hrs. If they wanted to do that, they would have implemented a fully online submission system.

Dont worry, Purolator batch will be within 10k for sure.

Firstly, I hope what you said be right.
Secondly, it would be very unrealistic to say that the apps received in 3 days followed a linear trend,
such as 8000+4000+2000
In my opinion, and also from the time of delivery data, it is a heavy quadratic trend line if not completely exponential
and it is 13000+1200+remainder

If you think it is a linear trend, you are basically doubting the diligence of 4000+2000 applicants. Do you think they were careless enough not to be sensitive about the 4th Jan date despite the knowledge they would get from this forum. I was one of such applicants last year. However, I sent my application from Thunder Bay via Canada Post.

CIC needs to be politically tardy (because they don't want the applicants to be panicked, plus it reflects on their failed FCFS policy) about revealing as to when the cap was reached. They will report this to their web management team, who would update their website after enough testing, delays, minister's responses, etc
I am speaking this out of sheer experience and reasonable intuition.
I again hope you are right.

 

[dchoudh]

How can you tell that they sent it at 2:30 PM with 9:43 AM time tag. I called Pulorator earlier and they told me 9:43 AM would be the right time the package got there. Will be very dissapointed if they lie about their time tag..... :'(

Because no one from 9:43 Purolator batch is charged yet...and i chatted with one lady the same day around noon...she mentioned that the person was still in line with 700 appl approx...so their statements are varying...

 

[mamaburger]

Yes, you are right it was bank draft. Screwd by Td bank, i asked for certified check but was given a draft. I didnt know the difference between them or how it looks like.
i went to branch today, while asking why i was a given a draft when i asked for a draft, their manager said "both works in same way, if they are going to accept certified check, they should accept bank draft as well.

So, i am not sure if cpc going to accept my file or not. it was sent through UPS on 4th jan on 7.36 am though.

I had the same situation, thankfully my lawyer issued his certified cheque on my behalf at the very last minute because we were ready to mail the application on the 31st. When I went back to CIBC to refund the bank draft, the teller lady continued to argue with me and said bank drafts/money order are similar to certified cheques. Even though I said, I specifically asked for "Certified cheque" because CIC clearly stated no bank drafts and even showed her the printout from CIC website. She cut me off and told me to "listen! they are the same!..." this went on until I had to raise my voice and asked for a manager.
However, I do see someone post on here that CIC accepts the bank drafts anyway, but I don't know how picky they are going to be due to the multitudes of applications received in such short time.

 

[Quoi]

No i do not think it will be linear.
I only said that there is no way CIC has the capacity to accept 10k applications in under 2 hrs. If they wanted to do that, they would have implemented a fully online submission system.

Dont worry, Purolator batch will be within 10k for sure.

I agree! Thank you for this.
If you guys check the timeline on the spreadsheet, there are still way too many Fedex 9.19 applications just between us (add to them aaaaall the other people who are not on there in proportion) for the Purolator 9.43 to start getting charged.

Because no one from 9:43 Purolator batch is charged yet...and i chatted with one lady the same day around noon...she mentioned that the person was still in line with 700 appl approx...so their statements are varying...

It has been mentioned several times that Purolator used a local company to deliver at 9am and afford the time to wait in line. That's what the person I dealt with explained to me too.
So delivery guy waited in line, delivered, got it all signed by Tammy... then reported back, then it was updated.
Way too risky for them to lie on so many applications.

 

[dchoudh]

I agree! Thank you for this.
If you guys check the timeline on the spreadsheet, there are still way too many Fedex 9.19 applications just between us (add to them aaaaall the other people who are not on there in proportion) for the Purolator 9.43 to start getting charged.

It has been mentioned several times that Purolator used a local company to deliver at 9am and afford the time to wait in line. That's what the person I dealt with explained to me too.
So delivery guy waited in line, delivered, got it all signed by Tammy... then reported back, then it was updated.
Way too risky for them to lie on so many applications.

I would love to agree to your statement...and I have read the same in the past too...in this thread...but then why no one from 9:43 Purolotor is getting charged yet (if they used local courior)...where as 10 am's are getting charged...I could not find an answer to this explanation...

 

[Quoi]

I would love to agree to your statement...and I have read the same in the past too...in this thread...but then why no one from 9:43 Purolotor is getting charged yet (if they used local courior)...where as 10 am's are getting charged...I could not find an answer to this explanation...

I can't be sure, and since i'm in the 9.43 batch too, maybe it's wishful thinking but there are a lot of reasons possible:
1. Tammy is the one signing for all the 9.19 and 9.43, so she (or her team) isn't done processing the 9.19
2. The way applications are spread, someone works faster through them and it's taking time
3. The people posting/sharing on this forum aren't an exact representation of how much of how many applications were sent with each courier

As long as there is no updates that the quotas have been reached, I think there is no point arguing about this.
Maybe (but I hope not) I'm wrong and too optimistic, but when I see that there are only 274 applications on the spreadsheet and that they received 14000 in 2 days, I think it's easy to be mislead... mind you, i'm worried too but it could go either way.

 

[Kani]

I had the same situation, thankfully my lawyer issued his certified cheque on my behalf at the very last minute because we were ready to mail the application on the 31st. When I went back to CIBC to refund the bank draft, the teller lady continued to argue with me and said bank drafts/money order are similar to certified cheques. Even though I said, I specifically asked for "Certified cheque" because CIC clearly stated no bank drafts and even showed her the printout from CIC website. She cut me off and told me to "listen! they are the same!..." this went on until I had to raise my voice and asked for a manager.
However, I do see someone post on here that CIC accepts the bank drafts anyway, but I don't know how picky they are going to be due to the multitudes of applications received in such short time.

I came to know about it today, ma bad. Same thing was told to me by TD representative. I hope they will not going to reject it because of that, as it is still made for Receiver general for canada.

 

[dchoudh]

I can't be sure, and since i'm in the 9.43 batch too, maybe it's wishful thinking but there are a lot of reasons possible:
1. Tammy is the one signing for all the 9.19 and 9.43, so she (or her team) isn't done processing the 9.19
2. The way applications are spread, someone works faster through them and it's taking time
3. The people posting/sharing on this forum aren't an exact representation of how much of how many applications were sent with each courier

As long as there is no updates that the quotas have been reached, I think there is no point arguing about this.
Maybe (but I hope not) I'm wrong and too optimistic, but when I see that there are only 274 applications on the spreadsheet and that they received 14000 in 2 days, I think it's easy to be mislead... mind you, i'm worried too but it could go either way.

Completely agree with you..."it could go either way"...even I am from the same Purolator batch...and would love to stay optimistic and wishful as you are...not trying to argue for sure...we all are here for the same reason...and would love to see everyone's appls getting selected.

 

[Kani]

hello everyone,

Has anyone paid fee with bank draft instead of certified check this year ?

Thanks

 

[varicksophia]

My cc got charged this morning, I am with FedEx batch. I want to share this good news and wish everybody good luck!

 

[badalpharm]

My credit card just got charged too. How can I be so happy for loosing money.

UPS delivery time 6.31 AM, from BC. I really hope all of you have the good news. Thank you ORssei for your time. I will contribute to your fund when I go home.

Thank you all of you for contributing to this thread and keep all of us informed. Love you all and love the world.

got cc charged for one application yesterday. I have sent two (for mother and mother in law) via UPS from Thunder Bay, ON. got charge of $55o yesterday. not sure for which application, because I used same CC for both application, Stupid me
It was UPS 6:31 AM batch

 

[thecoolguysam]

I can't be sure, and since i'm in the 9.43 batch too, maybe it's wishful thinking but there are a lot of reasons possible:
1. Tammy is the one signing for all the 9.19 and 9.43, so she (or her team) isn't done processing the 9.19
2. The way applications are spread, someone works faster through them and it's taking time
3. The people posting/sharing on this forum aren't an exact representation of how much of how many applications were sent with each courier

As long as there is no updates that the quotas have been reached, I think there is no point arguing about this.
Maybe (but I hope not) I'm wrong and too optimistic, but when I see that there are only 274 applications on the spreadsheet and that they received 14000 in 2 days, I think it's easy to be mislead... mind you, i'm worried too but it could go either way.

When I chatted with purolator, it was between 1 and 2 pm EST and the agent said that the delivery guy is still in lineup for delivery of 700 applications, however the delivery stamp is 9:43 on my delivery notice. I am not sure if purolator is lying or it is indeed some of their local helpers who delivered the application on purolator's behalf between 9 and 10 am because many people reported that purolator was no where seen till 10 am at CIC office