What will happen for additional review occurred in a new PR card application?

[jiangzhou]

Hi guys

Does anyone of you know what will happen for an additional review on a new PR card application? Our family landed in Montreal on May 12th, 2014. Our son received his PR card after 8 weeks， I received my PR card for 9 weeks. Surprisingly, my wife as the principal applicant did not receive her PR card yet even now. Around the 7th week I called the CIC centre, the agent put a not in my file. And my wife faxed twice to the processing center and reported she did not receive her PR card and asked for speedup. The processing center did not give any feedback reply for 3 weeks, today I called CIC and informed that my wife's file labelled as need additional review. Does anyone know what does this mean? And how long she will get her PR card. She now is in China and the severely delayed PR card make her schedule postponed for 3 weeks. The CIC service is really so bad. Does anybody know it is possible to ask a layer to submit a lawsuit against the terrible service of CIC in my wife's PR card processing and ask for a compensation? My wife really lost almost 1000$ for twice modification of her flight schedule.
Anybody who knows about it please give me some suggestions. Thanks.

 

[canadavisa13]

Hi,

did your wife landed in 2012 or 2014?

 

[jiangzhou]

Hi,

did your wife landed in 2012 or 2014?

sorry we landed this year.

 

[canadavisa13]

there is no compensation at all and you can't file a lawsuit against cic.
its not even 3 months since your wife landed and yet you complain lol....i know cic website shows that it takes less to get pr card processed but unfortunately few files has to go through a verification process for different reasons,hence they take longer and cic has the right and only its employees knows why such applicants files go for verification.
be grateful that cic granted your wife pr to canada,enjoy life and wait patiently,your card will be mailed once ready.
if your wife is still outside canada she can apply for a travel document at the canadian embassy and she will be able to enter canada using it,no need to cancel flight and travel document is prcessed really quick.

 

[ImmigrantNew]

there is no compensation at all and you can't file a lawsuit against cic.
its not even 3 months since your wife landed and yet you complain lol....i know cic website shows that it takes less to get pr card processed but unfortunately few files has to go through a verification process for different reasons,hence they take longer and cic has the right and only its employees knows why such applicants files go for verification.
be grateful that cic granted your wife pr to canada,enjoy life and wait patiently,your card will be mailed once ready.
if your wife is still outside canada she can apply for a travel document at the canadian embassy and she will be able to enter canada using it,no need to cancel flight and travel document is prcessed really quick.

Not always true. I have applied for PRTDs through the embassy and it is already over 2 weeks. Contacted the embassy twice by email and got the same answer, "Dear Applicant your application is in process". The timeline on the embassy website says two weeks. We landed this year in April so there is no issue of not meeting residency requirements

 

[jiangzhou]

Not always true. I have applied for PRTDs through the embassy and it is already over 2 weeks. Contacted the embassy twice by email and got the same answer, "Dear Applicant your application is in process". The timeline on the embassy website says two weeks. We landed this year in April so there is no issue of not meeting residency requirements

yes I am sure we are not the few new immigrants who suffered the terrible service of CIC. according to the cic service in processing of PR card or Travel document, obviously the CIC deprives the international travel right of new immigrant!

 

[Rob_TO]

She should have arranged for a travel document as soon as she arrived in China.

 

[polara69]

yes I am sure we are not the few new immigrants who suffered the terrible service of CIC. according to the cic service in processing of PR card or Travel document, obviously the CIC deprives the international travel right of new immigrant!

What terrible service?? Great attitude you display, be grateful to live in this awesome country. If you do not like the way we handle stuff here, you know where to go!

 

[ImmigrantNew]

yes I am sure we are not the few new immigrants who suffered the terrible service of CIC. according to the cic service in processing of PR card or Travel document, obviously the CIC deprives the international travel right of new immigrant!

I would not take it this way. My experience has been that people here are extremely decent and understanding in general. This verification process may be a new phenomenon and CIC may not even have realized some of the hardships the delays could cause to people trying to settle down. I feel that this and others like this are good forums to bring these issues up professionally and hopefully someone with authority would read up and make ameds that may not help us but some others later.

As regards your issue, my strong advice is to ask your wife not to book any seat and keep the ticket open until she gets the PR Card or PRTD as the timeline for both is uncertain and the response to queries on timeline are probably not given as those answering also do not know. Best thing to do is to work on both fronts (PR Card and PRTD) while keeping travel options open