Windsor Citizenship applicants

[harirajmohan]

Got communication from the Sydney office yesterday morning that the local Windsor office case officer is going to reach out to me for my interview.

The thing that concerned and astonished me was that when the local Windsor officer reached out to me yesterday, she mentioned that she is making arrangements to get my file from the Windsor office which clearly points that those of us who submitted paper applications are the ones that are going to suffer longer wait periods as our applications are sitting in local office gathering dust while IRCC people are at home doing GOD KNOWS WHAT !!!

@rajkamalmohanram This at least clears one point that when the file is in the registry, it definitely is not assigned to any agent and is sitting in the local office pool of files.

Care to comment guys ?

It is totally fine to have it in pool because some officer whoever is free can come and pick it up instead of getting delayed by just one officer who may be on leave etc. But now even with this method, when no one attends the file then what can we say, no one can have it more efficient than this when whole team itself not working on paper citizenship files.

Seriously they are working on some other category files(either online citizenship files or PR files or not sure what other category files they get).

I am becoming more tired with these guys. I just want to some pass few more months to get rid of them is the only option i guess. Asking them simply to look in to the file status is not working. If they cant even respond to evidence full urgent requests then they wont respond to ordinary queries others send.

 

[rajkamalmohanram]

Got communication from the Sydney office yesterday morning that the local Windsor office case officer is going to reach out to me for my interview.

The thing that concerned and astonished me was that when the local Windsor officer reached out to me yesterday, she mentioned that she is making arrangements to get my file from the Windsor office which clearly points that those of us who submitted paper applications are the ones that are going to suffer longer wait periods as our applications are sitting in local office gathering dust while IRCC people are at home doing GOD KNOWS WHAT !!!

@rajkamalmohanram This at least clears one point that when the file is in the registry, it definitely is not assigned to any agent and is sitting in the local office pool of files.

Care to comment guys ?

This was because I did not provide enough evidence with my UP request except just my offer letter. So when the Sydney officer reached out to me, I shared complete details along with emails for all steps from my prospective employer from day 1 (when I applied for the role) till the time I got the offer letter.

She cross-questioned me about my qualifications (experience & education) through back n forth emails (almost 10) to the point when she got satisfied.

I also called the IRCC agent to confirm if my UP request was approved in GCMS notes and he confirmed that it indeed was approved.

Well, I guess we already knew that about the registry.

I'm glad your UP was approved. After your interview, things should move pretty quickly. Did you ask them when, tentatively, you can expect an interview?

 

[prudhvi]

seems like conservatives won the nova scotia premier elections

 

[harirajmohan]

seems like conservatives won the nova scotia premier elections

Nothing can change CIC, even if aliens win the elections.
CIC operates by a separate force

@rafzy Any movement at least for you today?

 

[rafzy]

Well, I guess we already knew that about the registry.

I'm glad your UP was approved. After your interview, things should move pretty quickly. Did you ask them when, tentatively, you can expect an interview?

The officer was saying that she is going to arrange for my interview as she needs to make sure that my file is retrieved from the Windsor office. So, I can assume that probably by next week I'll be having my interview.

I called today IRCC to confirm if there are any other details mentioned in my notes. The agent said that the only thing mentioned in my file is UP request approved and Interview is going to be scheduled.

Btw... the officer sent an email with the consent form for Microsoft teams and asked me to sign and send her back along with a copy of my complete passport pages on Monday which I submitted on Monday after a couple of hours.

After that dead silence ... I've applied for GCMS notes today and luckily I reached out to my local MP last week to get an update on my file. So, after my UP was approved, my local MP office reached out to IRCC to get an update on my application.

 

[rafzy]

Nothing can change CIC, even if aliens win the elections.
CIC operates by a separate force

@rafzy Any movement at least for you today?

Dead silence till today even after UP was approved on Monday.

Don't know how can someone be soo slow!!!

 

[harirajmohan]

The officer was saying that she is going to arrange for my interview as she needs to make sure that my file is retrieved from the Windsor office. So, I can assume that probably by next week I'll be having my interview.

I called today IRCC to confirm if there are any other details mentioned in my notes. The agent said that the only thing mentioned in my file is UP request approved and Interview is going to be scheduled.

Btw... the officer sent an email with the consent form for Microsoft teams and asked me to sign and send her back along with a copy of my complete passport pages on Monday which I submitted on Monday after a couple of hours.

After that dead silence ... I've applied for GCMS notes today and luckily I reached out to my local MP last week to get an update on my file. So, after my UP was approved, my local MP office reached out to IRCC to get an update on my application.

I wonder if "fetching the file" means that it gets pulled from office to home or from warehouse to office. May be i am thinking too much but not understanding why it would take time if the file is just at one corner of office. No wonder why it takes time to review each file because files are dumped in black hole and every time review happens after going through painful retrieval from black hole.

Yes, consent form is for pre-interview step. So surely you are getting interview and good that they already asked for passport pages hence things are ready for the interview. Hopefully they send invite this week.

 

[rafzy]

I wonder if "fetching the file" means that it gets pulled from office to home or from warehouse to office. May be i am thinking too much but not understanding why it would take time if the file is just at one corner of office. No wonder why it takes time to review each file because files are dumped in black hole and every time review happens after going through painful retrieval from black hole.

Yes, consent form is for pre-interview step. So surely you are getting interview and good that they already asked for passport pages hence things are ready for the interview. Hopefully they send invite this week.

Based on my discussion and the officer's email, I am sure that my case officer was working from home and she had to go to the office and get my file physical copy.

This clearly means that no one is working on paper files once the citizenship test is passed.

I think that the test invite is also being sent from a central location and not from the local office.

@rajkamalmohanram What do you think ?

 

[harirajmohan]

Based on my discussion and the officer's email, I am sure that my case officer was working from home and she had to go to the office and get my file physical copy.

This clearly means that no one is working on paper files once the citizenship test is passed.

I think that the test invite is also being sent from a central location and not from the local office.

@rajkamalmohanram What do you think ?

No test invites for 2021 Windsor guys. So not sure what they are working on instead of completing 2019 and 2020 files. Well, they are not working at all i think.

 

[rajkamalmohanram]

The officer was saying that she is going to arrange for my interview as she needs to make sure that my file is retrieved from the Windsor office. So, I can assume that probably by next week I'll be having my interview.

I called today IRCC to confirm if there are any other details mentioned in my notes. The agent said that the only thing mentioned in my file is UP request approved and Interview is going to be scheduled.

Btw... the officer sent an email with the consent form for Microsoft teams and asked me to sign and send her back along with a copy of my complete passport pages on Monday which I submitted on Monday after a couple of hours.

After that dead silence ... I've applied for GCMS notes today and luckily I reached out to my local MP last week to get an update on my file. So, after my UP was approved, my local MP office reached out to IRCC to get an update on my application.

This might end up in a situation they're happy with your passport pages and skip the interview part completely. I'm not saying that will happen but I think there is a possibility for that as long as they are satisfied with everything there and they don't want a face to face interview. In that case, if it happens, you'll move to DM -> Oath rather quickly.

Watch out for updates on the dashboard around or after 6 AM everyday!

Good luck!

 

[rafzy]

This might end up in a situation they're happy with your passport pages and skip the interview part completely. I'm not saying that will happen but I think there is a possibility for that as long as they are satisfied with everything there and they don't want a face to face interview. In that case, if it happens, you'll move to DM -> Oath rather quickly.

Watch out for updates on the dashboard around or after 6 AM everyday!

Good luck!

Fingers crossed for now. I'm hoping my file moves from DM to Oath ASAP so I can move forward with my employment offer.

 

[rafzy]

No test invites for 2021 Windsor guys. So not sure what they are working on instead of completing 2019 and 2020 files. Well, they are not working at all i think.

Even 2020 applicants are suffering... 2021 applicants have quiet longer wait

 

[harirajmohan]

Even 2020 applicants are suffering... 2021 applicants have quiet longer wait

I am saying that they are not working on 2021(and we know that they are not working on 2020 as well). So they are working on something else in windsor.

 

[Mexontario]

I am saying that they are not working on 2021(and we know that they are not working on 2020 as well). So they are working on something else in windsor.

Got a reply back from MP. Only update is, Immigration checks are not initiated.
Bcoz of covid ircc windsor is trying to build an igloo in the middle of summer and thy r screwing everyone

 

[rafzy]

Got a reply back from MP. Only update is, Immigration checks are not initiated.
Bcoz of covid ircc windsor is trying to build an igloo in the middle of summer and thy r screwing everyone

What are immigration checks ?