Urgent peace of advice

[Singhdeep]

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Hi, my timeline

App received May 7
AOR1 June 12
SA June 12
Med req 19 June
Med done 21 June
Sep 18 file transfer to NDVO

 

[scylla]

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I'm not sure what you mean by 'it will come to me eventually'. Your application is going to be processed through New Delhi. This is normal. IRCC determines where your application will be processed based on your country of nationality and also country of residency. If you don't have permanent status in your current country of residency, they will typically process the application through your country of nationality.
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I don't understand how would this work? If I'm not in India which is my country of nationality but I am currently residing in another country. So again, I go back to initial question; when they need to interview me in case or when they want me to submit passport after the DM, where do I go? Do I need to fly to India to do that or where?

Yes I don't have the permanent residence status in the country I'm residing but I do have a visa.


Thank you

If there is an interview required, you will have to travel to India to attend since this is the VO processing your application. However interview typically aren't required provided it's clear the relationship is genuine.

Once it's time for the PR visa to be issued, you can request that the local office (where you are living) process the visa.

 

[kcward7]

I’m almost certain there’s no way you’d be made to fly to another country to submit your passport/attend an interview. Either of those things would be carried out in the country you’re residing in. The moving of your file around visa offices shouldn’t have any bearing on that.

Someone else may be able to provide further advice, but I’ve never heard of anyone being made to travel for IRCC interviews, except for the example I mentioned in my other reply. If there was any risk of applicants having to travel elsewhere for interviews, etc, the guides and application forms would surely tell you.

Yes, you have to travel for the interview if requested.

 

[Singhdeep]

If there is an interview required, you will have to travel to India to attend since this is the VO processing your application. However interview typically aren't required provided it's clear the relationship is genuine.

Once it's time for the PR visa to be issued, you can request that the local office (where you are living) process the visa.

Yes, you have to travel for the interview if requested.

Thank you guys.
I hope I won't have to travel and they may not need to interview me. But if I would I have to travel to attend an interview, it is really inconvenient and expensive.

So, when you say at the time for the visa to be issued, I can request that the local visa to process the visa. So how exactly would that work? How can I request it? Can I not also request the interview at the local office?

I'm sorry for asking lots of question.

 

[Singhdeep]

Thanks again for all the advices

 

[keesio]

So, when you say at the time for the visa to be issued, I can request that the local visa to process the visa. So how exactly would that work? How can I request it? Can I not also request the interview at the local office?

You typically cannot make requests on which office you would like for your application to be processed or where you would like the interview to be. IRCC makes that decision on their own.

 

[1887CAN]

Yes, you have to travel for the interview if requested.

Thanks for the clarification on this. I genuinely never thought you’d be made to fly to other countries for interviews. I know those living in Canada that choose outland processing are warned of this, but that’s the process and that’s a risk they have to take.

In this instance, however, it seems a little unfair seeing as how the applicant is not in India. But if those are the rules, then they must be abided by. When you’re asking a government to give you something that they don’t have to, I guess you can’t really complain at what they ask you to do to facilitate your request.

 

[keesio]

Thanks for the clarification on this. I genuinely never thought you’d be made to fly to other countries for interviews. I know those living in Canada that choose outland processing are warned of this, but that’s the process and that’s a risk they have to take.

In this instance, however, it seems a little unfair seeing as how the applicant is not in India. But if those are the rules, then they must be abided by. When you’re asking a government to give you something that they don’t have to, I guess you can’t really complain at what they ask you to do to facilitate your request.

There is a legitimate reason for this. The case officer must take into consideration cultural norms of the applicant's home country when analyzing the case. And it makes sense that case officers located in an office in the applicant's home county would know best the cultural norms. For example, an applicant who got married via arranged marriage would be viewed with suspicion by a case officer who is used to American cultural norms. But a case officer in India would just see it as a normal way to meet your spouse and get married.

 

[1887CAN]

There is a legitimate reason for this. The case officer must take into consideration cultural norms of the applicant's home country when analyzing the case. And it makes sense that case officers located in an office in the applicant's home county would know best the cultural norms. For example, an applicant who got married via arranged marriage would be viewed with suspicion by a case officer who is used to American cultural norms. But a case officer in India would just see it as a normal way to meet your spouse and get married.

That makes perfect sense now. I hadn’t considered how the foreign-based visa offices will have different decision making criteria, relating to cultural norms.

 

[Singhdeep]

Hey guys, I thank you all for sharing you advices and expertises on this matter. So, I believe that I will have to fly to India to attend an interview and to submit my passport at the time of visa issuing.