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Various immigration questions

gmzinny

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Sep 9, 2015
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Hello everyone and thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

I have several questions and instead of opening a post for each of them, I'll consolidate everything into one post to make it easier to track.

1) I have a applied to extent my visitors visa in Canada but the processing time keeps increasing. It has gone from 137 days to 160 now, my question is: does that time starts to run since the moment you submit your application? Let's say, 160 days since October 5 2015? The site says they are working on applications from July 2015. So my 160 days will start when they reach October? That's an awful lot of time without been able to leave the country.

2) I need to travel to attend some family matters and I'm thinking on applying for a visitors visa from Panama. My mother just came to visit and her processing time was less than 2 weeks (the site says 6 days). Now, with an on going in Canada application and having paid the money already, would it affect it if a apply for a new visa outside of Canada?

3) I recently got married and my wife will sponsor me. We have not submitted an application yet as I'm still gathering documents but, to make things go faster, I did te medical tests in November 2015. It seems like the doctor submitted them directly to CIC but I have no idea how did the turn out and I have no confirmation or results or whatsoever. I only have a sheet with an UMI number. Do I need to provide that sheet when I submit my application? How are they going to match it if I don't have any results sheet to attach? Does my question makes sense or do I need to clarify further?

4) As a Canadian citizen, is it possible to move to USA without a job offer? Does somebody has any information around this? I know being Canadian facilitates a lot of this in the States but is it possible to apply for green card or citizenship by just being Canadian?

Thanks a lot again. You have always been extremely helpful.
 

scylla

VIP Member
Jun 8, 2010
95,905
22,152
Toronto
Category........
Visa Office......
Buffalo
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
28-05-2010
AOR Received.
19-08-2010
File Transfer...
28-06-2010
Passport Req..
01-10-2010
VISA ISSUED...
05-10-2010
LANDED..........
05-10-2010
1) Starts from the time your application is recieved by CIC
2) The extension application is only good as long as you remain in Canada. It will be effectively canceled once you leave Canada. Yes - you can apply from outside of Canada.
3) Yes - you need to provide the sheet when you apply. You are not supposed to know the results.
4) No
 

Rob_TO

VIP Member
Nov 7, 2012
11,427
1,551
Toronto
Category........
FAM
Visa Office......
Seoul, Korea
App. Filed.......
13-07-2012
AOR Received.
18-08-2012
File Transfer...
21-08-2012
Med's Done....
Sent with App
Passport Req..
N/R - Exempt
VISA ISSUED...
30-10-2012
LANDED..........
16-11-2012
gmzinny said:
3) I recently got married and my wife will sponsor me. We have not submitted an application yet as I'm still gathering documents but, to make things go faster, I did te medical tests in November 2015. It seems like the doctor submitted them directly to CIC but I have no idea how did the turn out and I have no confirmation or results or whatsoever. I only have a sheet with an UMI number. Do I need to provide that sheet when I submit my application? How are they going to match it if I don't have any results sheet to attach? Does my question makes sense or do I need to clarify further?
Unfortunately this may have the opposite effect. You are supposed to do the medical exam as close as possible to actually submitting your application since it's only valid for 1 year. Since you already did the exam in Nov, it will be 3+ months old at the time you submit your PR app. If the app is still processing after Nov 2016, you may be requested to do a brand new medical exam, possibly delaying your processing time a bit.

CIC will match your medical with the UMI # you will submit with your PR app. In general the doctor that did your exam will only contact you if there was some potential serious condition that was found. So if you weren't contacted, that just means you're probably healthy so don't need to be concerned with anything.
 

gmzinny

Member
Sep 9, 2015
13
0
Thanks a lot Rob.

Actually it was by recommendation of a lawyer to do the medical exams in advance. Actually, the whole process of gathering the documents because I'm dealing with two different bureaucracies (Venezuela and Argentina). Hopefully everything will turn out ok.