Both of us came to Canada, in September 2002. We applied for immigration in April 2003 ie. about a month back (of course not knowing, until I hit your website, that we could have applied inside Canada after one year, but the damage is already done) at the Buffalo centre.

Although, both of us are getting Scholarships to cover our living and tuition costs, I plan to drop my PhD. program and go for an
undergraduate degree in Computing Sciences for which the fee is
pretty high (On top of that International students have to pay twice that amount-- differential fee). I won't be getting any scholarship too, if I go for an undergrad degree.

I don't know if it is possible, but looking at my qualifications
can you make an intelligent guess (based on your past experience)
as to how much time will the whole immigration process take. If
it"ll take less than an year I can wait and then enroll later for
the UG degree when I"ll pay half the fee, being a permanent resident.
At the same time I understand that my police verification will have to be done in India which"ll take the max'm amount of time since
Buffalo guys conduct investigations of their own for prospective immigrants from India.

Having said that, any intelligent guess from your vast experience by
looking at the present efficiency of Buffalo guys and comparing my
case to similiar cases in the past and be able to give me a minm and
a maxm time frame will be quite helpful (if it were possible).

Thanks a lot and sorry for the unusually long mail.

Thanks again,
Amit