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    Judicial review settlement offer

    If anybody want to go with the lawyer route, it might cost them about $4000-$5000 (CAD) on average; on the other hand, if they wish to do it themselves, it will require a huge investment of time and efforts as to learn the procedures and follow-up with the Court and IRCC's counsels. For the...
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    I only paid the $50.00 (CAD) fees for both applications; the vast majority of the expenses had occurred due to the costs of notarizing documents and affidavits. They did, however, take up a lengthy amount of time and efforts.
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    Thank you. Regarding the Inbox, if you meant the conversations in the envelope icon located at the top-right corner, it has been appearing empty for me.
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    Judicial review settlement offer

    Due to anonymity in this thread, I will be answering this question indirectly by saying that being a national of that country, and living outside of it, was quite literally one of the GCMS reasons—or, as I had argued in the Court, discriminations—on why my study permit was initially rejected...
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    For posterity, I, after two court cases and nearly an entire year of waiting, was finally able to get the Visa affixed to my passport: For some reason, my application took more than five months since the settlement's date in order to become finalized (and, thankfully, approved); I had to file...
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    Government of Canada's website literally mentioned, among many other things, processing applications as one of the "[s]ervices partially or fully disrupted"; I think it is safe to say that the Strike, especially one of this scale, had quite a lot to do with the Federal Government's workplace in...
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    There has been an update: the Strike has ended. Nevertheless, a nearly 3-week-long strike is surely going to leave its impact on IRCC's visa application backlog.
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    Me neither, but I think there is a notable difference between this strike and the past ones: IRCC was not facing a huge backlog back then—it is now. This time, each day in strike means that the already-large backlog just keeps growing. There's not much we can do at the moment. Expedited...
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    Unfortunately, a good majority of all Canadian federal workforce has been striking since the past week; let alone IRCC, even the Federal Court is having delays nowadays. I have also been waiting for my own re-determination decision after our settlement, although I don't think it's going to be...
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    Your Application Record should have been sent (served) to the IRCC (i.e., their counsel) before being uploaded to the Court's registry. In one of my two cases, Vancouver's Registry took more than a week to process my uploaded Application Record before putting it on the docket, though it was...
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    Hello, I've been frequenting this thread for a while; I settled my own Case recently. Nevertheless, I needed some insights on what to expect of its outcome: for background, my visa application got reopened within a week, and—only a day afterward—I received a 30-day generic request letter...