Snowisland said:
Sent complete application by courier and tracking shows received yesterday. now how do we know what is happening from now on? Do they mail or email a ecas number ? Spouse wants to know if he has to check postal mail daily or just email. He did provide email info.
Application was complete including upfront med and fbi.
You'll receive an email notification known as AOR (acknowledgement of receipt) roughly 1 month or so from the date the CIC received your application. Included in that email is a UCI number and your application number. Either of those items of information can be used to log in to ECAS to check the status of your application through out the process.
You can use your receipt number (IMM5401) to login to ECAS as well to check the status of the application, even prior to AOR (as I understand it). I'm not sure how soon after an application arrives in Mississauga that the information can be accessed via ECAS. Someone else might know the answer. I personally didn't know that was a possibility until someone pointed it out to me much later.
I would tell your husband to look for an AOR email no sooner than 3 weeks from now. The average times for AOR, like I said, are roughly a month give or take a few days beyond that. After that, you'll get Sponsorship Approval (SA) approximately in another month after that, and then your application will be sent to Ottawa to await processing for PR.
From there, it'll likely be several months before an application is looked at to begin assessments for PR. The time period between SA and PR is the killer! Thankfully, this forum helps with the commiseration. You can check out the spreadsheet in my signature below to see timelines and add your own. Definitely find and post in the October Outland Applicants, too, to find those with similar timelines. Again, the cameraderie is really nice to have throughout.
Congrats on submitting your app! I hope this helps!
