March 2011 applicants

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Dear All

I will be gratefull to all the members if they can shed any lit into my case, following the note from Intake office NS.. i submitted my ful docs to london office... but unfortunatley i did not receive any 2nd AOR...(officially till today). At the same time they sent me a official letter for my baby's bank draft that they can not accept the bank draft from the said bank so i need to re submit my bank draft.. there on the letter my file number was different and it was starting with E....). i wrote to london visa office for offical 2nd AOR but now two years i did not recevie any letter from them... at the same time i can access my online status with the new file number startig from E... which i by chance got with a letter from london visa office... my questions are :

Should i consider this (E.....) file number as a Second AOR...
Am I in the track of Processing..
Should i re- write to Visa office...

I am very much puzzled..please any one from the group can if possible help me out ..thank you ..

Altit...

Of course, your file is in the process otherwise they never asked you to provide the correct bank draft to include your child. Moreover, the number you got starting with 'E' is also reprents that your file is in the right track. What you can ask the VO about the 2nd AOR mentioning the entire fact with the new file number.

Hope this will address your concern.

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[fazal_81]

Of course, your file is in the process otherwise they never asked you to provide the correct bank draft to include your child. Moreover, the number you got starting with 'E' is also reprents that your file is in the right track. What you can ask the VO about the 2nd AOR mentioning the entire fact with the new file number.

Hope this will address your concern.

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Dear Frnd Altit,

As far as I know London VO dnt issue 2nd AOR. My VO is same but no 2nd AOR.

Regards.

Fazal

[nokiadesire]

Yas!!! You made it through SIS, an other Marchian is on board with Visa Stamped, I wish all Marchians will go through soon, What's the plan then?? you have to treat us, cheers!!!!!

YA, JACKY 

It is still hard to believe 
we still keep reminding each other that we are finally CANADIAN PR's 

The plan right now is to celebrate    and also work on the landing process as there is too many things to settle before we finally leave in early May 
We will treat together with our families in CANADA 

When and where are you planning to land ??

Regards
Nokiadesire

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Dear Frnd Altit,

As far as I know London VO dnt issue 2nd AOR. My VO is same but no 2nd AOR.

Regards.

Fazal

One of my friends received 2nd AOR from London VO who recently received his MR. FYI only.

[fazal_81]

One of my friends received 2nd AOR from London VO who recently received his MR. FYI only.

Thats strange now. I am RBVO since past 9 months but no news even no 2nd AOR from London VO.

[canadastar]

Thats strange now. I am RBVO since past 9 months but no news even no 2nd AOR from London VO.

you are correct, some VO's doent issue 2nd aor, but still they have 2nd file number, usually called paper file number, if u apply for GCMS noted, u can get that number.

i think this will help u

[fazal_81]

you are correct, some VO's doent issue 2nd aor, but still they have 2nd file number, usually called paper file number, if u apply for GCMS noted, u can get that number.

i think this will help u

Whats GCMS noted? I sent a query to VO once just to ask the progress and twice before to inform them about my bros PR and to change address. I've left all on them to take their time so that my process wont get delayed.

Rgds.

[spyder2011]

Dear Ar Sid, Spyder, Jacky74 and all other marchians who got their visas lately,

Congrats to all of you on your achievement. If you could let me know how long it took for your ecase from the date you sent the medicals to the visa office to show 'medicals received'. I sent my meds on 26th Jan and still the ecase says 'in process'. I know ND is a lot more quick than London but your response would help me get an idea. Well done again all of you

For me it took around 20 days after my DMP sent the medicals.  Hope your medical line will be added soon.

Regards,
spyder

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Thats strange now. I am RBVO since past 9 months but no news even no 2nd AOR from London VO.

Don't worry...since he is pre-June 2010 applicant, the practice of the VO might be different!

[Gussj]

Anybody from Warsaw office who sent MR in January 2012?
Thanks
Guss

[canadastar]

Whats GCMS noted? I sent a query to VO once just to ask the progress and twice before to inform them about my bros PR and to change address. I've left all on them to take their time so that my process wont get delayed.

Rgds.

GCMS notes, it's typo, if you apply for GCMS notes you will be able to know the present status of ur application at visa office, order once, it takes only 20 days, if u have any friends in canada, it is ony 5 dollors, other wise check some organization who can apply.

thanks buddy.
 

[Ar.Sid]

Dear Ar Sid, Spyder, Jacky74 and all other marchians who got their visas lately,

Congrats to all of you on your achievement. If you could let me know how long it took for your ecase from the date you sent the medicals to the visa office to show 'medicals received'. I sent my meds on 26th Jan and still the ecase says 'in process'. I know ND is a lot more quick than London but your response would help me get an idea. Well done again all of you

Hi Canada100,
The 'medicals received' line was added on our Ecas in about 10days after DMP sent the results.
Thanks a lot for your wishes I am sure your visa is on its way
Rgds,
Ar.Sid

[canada100]

Yas!!! You made it through SIS, an other Marchian is on board with Visa Stamped, I wish all Marchians will go through soon, What's the plan then?? you have to treat us, cheers!!!!!

Hi Jacky,

Congratulations for your visa. Can you share how long after you sent the medicals and other docs was your ecase updated with medicals received? I know from spyder and ar sid that it took them 10-20 days only but I am trying to see how it is with the london post. Thanks

[naveed1]

Hi Jacky,

Congratulations for your visa. Can you share how long after you sent the medicals and other docs was your ecase updated with medicals received? I know from spyder and ar sid that it took them 10-20 days only but I am trying to see how it is with the london post. Thanks

Hi canada 100 : I got tracking number from my dmp and when i tracked the shipment it showed that the packet was delivered today at 10.30 am. Now lets see how long it take ecas to show medical results received line. And bro can u tell me that what type of background check they do after medical as i have seen many people who have not got theri ppr from approximately four to five months after medical and when they send e.mail to chc london they simply reply that they are awaiting the results of their background check and that they will contact them when they get it . I don't understand can u explain it.

regards

Regards

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Labour shortage becoming ‘desperate'

An increasingly “desperate” labour shortage is the main obstacle keeping companies from becoming more competitive.

An aging work force and growing demand for specialized skills means that hundreds of thousands of jobs are going begging despite stubbornly high unemployment, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce concludes in a report being released Wednesday.

The expected shortfall over the next decade or so includes 163,000 construction jobs, 130,000 oil workers, 60,000 nurses, 37,000 truckers, 22,000 hotel workers and 10,000 skilled steel tradespeople.

“Canada is developing a desperate labour shortage and resolving it is key to the continued success of Canadian businesses and the economy,” according to the report, Top 10 Barriers to Competitiveness.

The chamber said businesses must work closely with the federal and provincial governments to tap “underutilized” potential workers, including older workers, youth, natives, the disabled and new immigrants.

“We have to have a real sense of urgency. We're trying to sound an alarm,” Perrin Beatty, chief executive of the chamber, said in an interview.

Most Canadians are “blissfully unaware” that their future prosperity is being put at risk by emerging economic challenges, from inside and outside the country, Mr. Beatty argued.

He pointed out that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's visit to China this week is a powerful reminder that faster-moving trade rivals are rapidly moving up the economic “value chain.” He said Canada must “up its game” to keep pace.

“A lot of things we take for granted are at risk,” Mr. Beatty said.

The labour shortage is the most severe of 10 barriers facing businesses, which include discriminatory employment-insurance benefits across the country, a complex tax system that is laden with exemptions and too dependent on income and corporate taxes, lingering barriers to trade within Canada, and vague and overly restrictive foreign-investment rules.

A key challenge is to help workers laid off from shrinking industries, such as manufacturing, find work in fast-growing sectors.

That's the reason the biotech industry is launching an online skills-transfer tool this week designed to help factory workers identify expertise that could be useful to new employers. Many traditional manufacturing skills are desperately needed in biotech, including those of equipment installers and operators and monitoring and control technicians, according to BioTalent Canada, an Ottawa-based non-profit group that developed the Web resource.

“Unemployed workers simply do not know this,” said Rob Henderson, executive director of BioTalent Canada.

Immigrants are another vast pool of potential workers. They make up a fifth of the labour force and all of its recent growth. But language barriers, mismatches of skills and problems converting foreign credentials is forcing too many of them into low-paying unskilled work or unemployment, concludes a report issued this week by Toronto-Dominion Bank.

Raising the employment rate for immigrants to the same level as native-born Canadians would mean 370,000 more people working, according to TD. And if immigrants were paid the same as non-immigrants, the boost to the economy would equal $30-billion, or 2 per cent of the gross domestic product.

“Canada would gain a major competitive advantage if this country were recognized around the world as one where all migrants are successful in being able to practise their own trade and raise their standard of living,” the TD said.

Solving the dilemma is “integral to the long-term prosperity of Canada's economy,” the bank said. Better targeting of immigrants with the skills Canada needs, along with improved language training and better recognition of foreign credentials would help to close the gap, according to TD.

Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/growth/labour-shortage-becoming-desperate/article2330196/