Everything is not back to 100%. There are still many working from home and many in person a services are not available. There were issues with PCR tests so there is now a requirement to do testing earlier and only with one lab if you want to take a direct flight. There are other countries that have been faced similar issues. All flights from Morocco were banned in September and remain banned. Canada receives a large number of people from India so you can’t compare the requirements to all other countries.
Visitor Visa Application (using the new IRCC Portal) INDIA updates
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Should one reapply for hold off on reapplying for now till there is wave of applicants getting processed in india?
If you re-apply, you don't get a refund for the previous application (at least they said there's no guarantee). Also, I've seen threads where people applied in Sept (also submitted biometrics) and no new updates after; so I'm in a fix too - unsure if I should re-apply or just wait.
It is back to 100%. Everything is normal now. People are vaccinated and can take tests with quick results. The key is “working”. They’re working. They make all kinds of excuses. Frickin literally negligible covid cases and they freak out and obsess about it. UK is the biggest spreader. India deserves to be better treated.
Yeah and its not about flights or covid situation. The very fact they allowed submission of applications on their site last year was incorrect - they should have stopped like how the VACs had a system in place to accept only certain types of applications or filter by country if they weren't processing. Since that wasn't done and people did submit then at least now that they are accepting new applications and are recommending people to re-apply they should have guaranteed a refund for the older application when cancelled. There is no reason for holding back the money when they haven't processed it. It would make sense to deduct the biometric fee and refund the processing fees since the application is not processed. This is where they're wrong.
Thanks, I seen this too and I emailed that address with the mentioned details but this is the response I got
"Please note that IRCC will only issue written authorization to an applicant who holds a valid Canadian travel document (i.e. electronic travel authorization [eTA] or visitor visa). Based on our review of your enquiry and the information in our system, we can confirm that your application for a visitor visa is in our processing queue. However, since you do not yet have a valid Canadian travel document, we are unable to process your request for an exemption to the Canadian travel restrictions. As such, your request will not be processed."
But at least they confirmed its in the queue so hopefully its not forgotten about. Doesn't seem like they can provide a timeline though. I tried calling and emailing several email addresses that I found. If there's anyway to at least know the estimated time please let me know.
I'm PR in Canada with wedding scheduled for 28th Nov 2021:
I applied visitor visa for my sister who is an IT professional in India.
Her timeline:
Application Submitted - Oct 14 2021
Biometrics - Oct 27 2021
Biometrics completed - October 27 2021 (shows in CIC Portal updated)
Background Check - We are process your background check.
Final Decision - Your application is in progress.
Country of Application: India
I applied for my parents too just before her and after their biometrics were done the got PPR within 3-5 days.
In my sister's I'm not sure why its taking so long.
Any feedback would be much appreciated guys.
I applied visitor visa for my sister who is an IT professional in India.
Her timeline:
Application Submitted - Oct 14 2021
Biometrics - Oct 27 2021
Biometrics completed - October 27 2021 (shows in CIC Portal updated)
Background Check - We are process your background check.
Final Decision - Your application is in progress.
Country of Application: India
I applied for my parents too just before her and after their biometrics were done the got PPR within 3-5 days.
In my sister's I'm not sure why its taking so long.
Any feedback would be much appreciated guys.
I showed ties in both cases terms of house in India, job, pay, wedding documents for the scheduled date. fingers crossed.
Any insight you wanna provide?
One of my friend who is a PR applied for TRV in the new portal and got a refund for the older application. Also, he got visa within a month and this was in September - October 2021. I hear that since NOV 2021 the processing timeline is not so fast
I applied for my visitor visa on 16 oct., biometric done in 2019. No update until now