fyi - Sponsorship I-Spouses - This could reduce your processing time by 2 mnths

[mcarmount]

The following is a excerpt from 3900E, page 26 Sponsorship I - Spouses, common-law partners, conjugal partners and dependent children.

*Complete the Right of Permanent Residence Fee portion if you have decided to pay this fee with your application. The Right of Permanent Residence Fee must be paid before permanent residence will be granted. If this fee is paid with the application we will not have to contact you later. This could reduce your processing time by two months.

If anyone missed this in the doc review, I thought it might be helpful ...

[TracyS]

very helpful...i saw it too, a bit more on the credit card but worth it in the long run 

[Black-Berry]

thanks really helpful!...

[mcarmount]

I have been chatting with some of the other December applicants.

I know that not all of them pre-paid the Right of Permanent Residence Fee.


It will be interesting to see if this really does makes a difference in our processing times ?


I will post the results when I know.


Thanks, and good luck on your applications ...

[Bangkokcanuck]

Oddly enough my wife and I looked at this as a sly test to see how sure we were that we would receive the RP. Just meaning that anyone paying up front for the fee is thinking in their heads oh we are a lock for this so lets get it out of the way now. Someone not paying up front might be thinking they are not too sure on how it will all play out and as such don't want to spend the money until they must.

Of course I am quite sure that nobody in power sees it that way but that is kinda of how we approached, just thinking lets be done with it assuming (I hope rightly so) that we would breeze though the process.

[TracyS]

Interesting train of thought.  It's funny how our minds work during this process and how we try to put ourselves in the immigration officer's positions on how they view our application.  I put a document in that made me second guess myself and I wondered how they would perceive it.  I don't think I've been so unsettled about a process for a long time.  I guess because I'm so keen to make a good impression with my application and a lot hangs on the decision of one person.

[nylalisa]

I have been chatting with some of the other December applicants.

I know that not all of them pre-paid the Right of Permanent Residence Fee.
It will be interesting to see if this really does makes a difference in our processing times ?
I will post the results when I know.
Thanks, and good luck on your applications ...

It makes a difference in the sense that, first they have to contact you to send you a letter to tell you to pay, so there's a delay there in sending out the letter and also for the person to receive it. The letter goes to the person being sponsored but the fees have to be paid by the sponsor themselves. You then pay your fees online or at a bank and have to send the proof to CPC-M, so there is a delay for them to receive it and process it. Then CPC-M sends notice to the VO office that it was paid and then they take whatever time they need to actually get back to you to tell you that the fees are paid, they received them and your PR visa is ready to go. So it does slow down the process quite a bit.