Mexico

[mrandmrsromero]

We got our PPR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am going to faint!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice!  Congrats

[TSauretBaxter]

So now that Step 1 in done (the straight forward part), I have questions about Step 2. I sooo wish I had of found this forum while I was filling out the application. It would have been less stressful. I was confused by the medicals. We sent in the form given to us from the DMP in Merida. The Dr said he would mail the actual tests to Ottawa? That didn't make sense as we were sending our app to Miss. and they wouldn't have even had our app when he would have mailed them. Was this is the same process for you guys?
Also the security checks were a joke. In one place, it said you had to include the federal and state security checks, in another it said just the state. So I just sent one state secuirty check, from the state he was living in at the time. Does he need to get a state security check from every state he's lived in? The federal security check is only good for so long right? So it's not something we can get now to have prepared to save time?
Thanks in advance!

[mc1234]

So now that Step 1 in done (the straight forward part), I have questions about Step 2. I sooo wish I had of found this forum while I was filling out the application. It would have been less stressful. I was confused by the medicals. We sent in the form given to us from the DMP in Merida. The Dr said he would mail the actual tests to Ottawa? That didn't make sense as we were sending our app to Miss. and they wouldn't have even had our app when he would have mailed them. Was this is the same process for you guys?

Yes that is the process. They mail them to Ottawa even before you send in the application, since you need a proof that the medical was already done in the initial exam! From Ottawa I believe they send them to the designated VO office. Not to worry

[TSauretBaxter]

Yes that is the process. They mail them to Ottawa even before you send in the application, since you need a proof that the medical was already done in the initial exam! From Ottawa I believe they send them to the designated VO office. Not to worry

Then they eventually get matched up to your application?

[KJG]

Then they eventually get matched up to your application?

yes...hence the pictures on the medical and in your app.......

[TSauretBaxter]

yes...hence the pictures on the medical and in your app.......

Doesn't seem like the most organized way to do things.. but I guess as long as it works out in the end

[KJG]

Doesn't seem like the most organized way to do things.. but I guess as long as it works out in the end

I agree there....it looks like a receipe for disaster....but having said that it says on ecas...the medicals for my husband have been received so that is a sigh of relief.....I thought the medicals just went to the local VO to await the application......I did not realize that they were sent to Ottawa and then back to the VO....what a ridiculous waste of time and money.....oh wait it's the government...forgive me....

[TSauretBaxter]

I agree there....it looks like a receipe for disaster....but having said that it says on ecas...the medicals for my husband have been received so that is a sigh of relief.....I thought the medicals just went to the local VO to await the application......I did not realize that they were sent to Ottawa and then back to the VO....what a ridiculous waste of time and money.....oh wait it's the government...forgive me....

haha, how long did it take to show up on ecas that medicals are received? That will make me very relieved when that pops up!

[KJG]

haha, how long did it take to show up on ecas that medicals are received? That will make me very relieved when that pops up!

when I was able to log in finally....and I did so under the application # and my husbands info....it said his application was received feb 28th and medicals received as well......

[Nessa]

So now that Step 1 in done (the straight forward part), I have questions about Step 2. I sooo wish I had of found this forum while I was filling out the application. It would have been less stressful. I was confused by the medicals. We sent in the form given to us from the DMP in Merida. The Dr said he would mail the actual tests to Ottawa? That didn't make sense as we were sending our app to Miss. and they wouldn't have even had our app when he would have mailed them. Was this is the same process for you guys?
Also the security checks were a joke. In one place, it said you had to include the federal and state security checks, in another it said just the state. So I just sent one state secuirty check, from the state he was living in at the time. Does he need to get a state security check from every state he's lived in? The federal security check is only good for so long right? So it's not something we can get now to have prepared to save time?
Thanks in advance!

For the police checks you used to need one from every state he lived in for more than 6 months after turning 18. BUT now they have chengaed things and they do not require the state ones anymore...instead they want the one from SSP, which you can only get in Mexico City. 

The federal checks you need to (the PGR) but you have to wait till they ask for them, because you need the letter from the embassy to be able to get it!

[TSauretBaxter]

For the police checks you used to need one from every state he lived in for more than 6 months after turning 18. BUT now they have chengaed things and they do not require the state ones anymore...instead they want the one from SSP, which you can only get in Mexico City. 

The federal checks you need to (the PGR) but you have to wait till they ask for them, because you need the letter from the embassy to be able to get it!

Do you suggest doing the SSP and PGR at the same time? So it's just one trip to Mexico City?

[Nessa]

Do you suggest doing the SSP and PGR at the same time? So it's just one trip to Mexico City?

That would probably easiest!  Or if you live in one of these states:
Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Estado de México, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nuevo León, Puebla, Querétaro, Veracruz, Yucatán, Zacatecas

Then you can get it from the state office there, and don´t need to go to Mexico city for the PGR certificate.

But I think you do need to go to Mexico city for the SSP, unless someone has found another way to get it...

[TSauretBaxter]

That would probably easiest!  Or if you live in one of these states:
Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Estado de México, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nuevo León, Puebla, Querétaro, Veracruz, Yucatán, Zacatecas

Then you can get it from the state office there, and don´t need to go to Mexico city for the PGR certificate.

But I think you do need to go to Mexico city for the SSP, unless someone has found another way to get it...

Thank you! I'll look into the SSP. Did you send it with your initial application? When did medicals received show up on your ecas?

[Nessa]

Thank you! I'll look into the SSP. Did you send it with your initial application? When did medicals received show up on your ecas?

I didn´t send it in at first, because they were still asking for the state police checks when we sent ours in.  But once I found out about the new SSP requirement, we went to get it and handed it in before they even asked us for it.  I think that helped speed things up a lot, because 3 weeks after handing in the SSP and PGR (we handed these both in on the same week) we got the PPR .

my eCas said medical received about a month before we got AOR from Mexico, but I think it´s different for everybody!  eCas updates are pretty random!

[TSauretBaxter]

I can log in to ECAS, but when I try to log in under my husband's info, it doesn't work. Is it a different Client ID for him?