Thread for outland Buffalo applicants!

[kalew2010]

Does anyone know how long between the PPR and visa issue if you submit your passport right away?

Also, is there a "normal" timeline from the AOR to passport request and/or contact (if additional paperwork is needed)?

Thanks for all the advice and guidance here folks!  We are so grateful

[minna]

I don't think there's a 'normal' timeline from AOR to PPR  - i mean, that's the meat of the process - the background checks etc, and everyone is going to be different.

From what I understand, if mailing the PPR, you can expect a week or two in each direction. I would guess that could be cut down if you overnight your passport and include a fed-ex envelope to have it couriered back to you, but maybe not?

[SaugaBoss]

I've offically landed. Everything went very smoothly meeting with the IO. I went through the Edmonton airport en route to Ft St John, BC. The IO asked why I was there and I showed her the papers I got from Buffalo, then she sent me to a room where another IO pulled up a file on the computer and asked me to sign the paper in 3 places, stamped a page in my passport and told me the PR card will be in the mail in a month and good luck on my new life in Canada. My timeline only took 4 months.

I picked up my visa in Buffalo. Some advice to those that are going: get in line at the consulate before 7:30. The paper I was sent said they start at 8 but when i got there at 7:30am there was already quite a few people there and the people said they started processing at 7:30. I would suggest going in at 7. I got through at around 8:30 then waited an hour to get the visa.

congrats

[SaugaBoss]

Permanent Residence
We started processing your application on July 30, 2010.
 

I finally got an update!!!!  They started on it.

Which is funny because Buffalo told me last week they working on applications mailed on june 4 but seems like they started mine according to Ecas!

[kalew2010]

OoooooooOOOOOOOOOO  thats great news SaugaBoss! thanks for the update and congrats! this just made my day!

[SaugaBoss]

OoooooooOOOOOOOOOO  thats great news SaugaBoss! thanks for the update and congrats! this just made my day!

thanks

[michaelab]

Hey everyone,

My husband's sponsorship has been approved on July 27 and it has been sent to Buffalo office (according to the guy on the phone)...but I have one question...when I should send my FBI certificate that wasn't included in my PR application?  We have a sponsor's client ID  but not mine (applicant). 

Should I wait til I get my own Client ID# or is it okay for me to send it in with the sponsor's Client ID#? 

One more question..how long will it take from CIC-M to Buffalo?  I don't mean the approval of PR but to get registered on E-cas (as in process) at least. 

Thanks~~

[jmni1]

Hey everyone,

My husband's sponsorship has been approved on July 27 and it has been sent to Buffalo office (according to the guy on the phone)...but I have one question...when I should send my FBI certificate that wasn't included in my PR application?  We have a sponsor's client ID  but not mine (applicant).  

Should I wait til I get my own Client ID# or is it okay for me to send it in with the sponsor's Client ID#?  

One more question..how long will it take from CIC-M to Buffalo?  I don't mean the approval of PR but to get registered on E-cas (as in process) at least.  

Thanks~~

I would waite until Buffalo requests the FBI you want to make sure it does not get lost. I ended of faxing mine to cpc-M when they called me and requested it. (I had previously called them and told them I had finally recieved my FBI and they sd they would call me when they were working on my file). Also for what I have read on the forum recently it has been taking aroun 2 months for Buffalo to send the AOR. Hopefully it will get faster, they have already had mine for over 5 weeks with no response from them yet. good luck

[OnTheMove]

Hey everyone,

My husband's sponsorship has been approved on July 27 and it has been sent to Buffalo office (according to the guy on the phone)...but I have one question...when I should send my FBI certificate that wasn't included in my PR application?  We have a sponsor's client ID  but not mine (applicant). 

Should I wait til I get my own Client ID# or is it okay for me to send it in with the sponsor's Client ID#? 

One more question..how long will it take from CIC-M to Buffalo?  I don't mean the approval of PR but to get registered on E-cas (as in process) at least. 

Thanks~~

I didn't include the police certificate with my application either.  I emailed Buffalo once the sponsorship was approved and they advised me to wait until I get a File # to mail in the PC.  When I received the AOR, along came half a page of stickers with the File # and the bar code of each of them.  I put one of those stickers on the envelope in which I mailed the PC.  I also put a sticky note on the certificate and on top of the sticky I put the File # sticker....  I wanted to make sure it doesn't get lost!

[sbwv09]

Permanent Residence
We started processing your application on July 30, 2010.
 

I finally got an update!!!!  They started on it.

Which is funny because Buffalo told me last week they working on applications mailed on june 4 but seems like they started mine according to Ecas!

OOH! I got no update today.. but it can't be far off then! I got my update on Thursday last time so maybe I will hear something later this week

[SaugaBoss]

lol so harassing the Buffalo office maybe helped me! What i find interesting is that i registered with this one website and the following weeks i got an update right away. i got this exact email this morning:

We started processing your application on July 30, 2010.

This means that either:
1. Your e-CAS just got activated for the first time, or
2. You just joined the monitoring system (welcome!), or
3. A new part of your application is showing up, e.g. the PR application
as opposed to the sponsorship part.

[SaugaBoss]

lol so harassing the Buffalo office maybe helped me! What i find interesting is that i registered with this one website and the following weeks i got an update right away. i got this exact email this morning:

We started processing your application on July 30, 2010.

This means that either:
1. Your e-CAS just got activated for the first time, or
2. You just joined the monitoring system (welcome!), or
3. A new part of your application is showing up, e.g. the PR application
as opposed to the sponsorship part.

this was from This is the e-CAS Tracker system at https://ecas.carroll.org.uk

[mrsprogram]

I've offically landed. Everything went very smoothly meeting with the IO. I went through the Edmonton airport en route to Ft St John, BC. The IO asked why I was there and I showed her the papers I got from Buffalo, then she sent me to a room where another IO pulled up a file on the computer and asked me to sign the paper in 3 places, stamped a page in my passport and told me the PR card will be in the mail in a month and good luck on my new life in Canada. My timeline only took 4 months.

I picked up my visa in Buffalo. Some advice to those that are going: get in line at the consulate before 7:30. The paper I was sent said they start at 8 but when i got there at 7:30am there was already quite a few people there and the people said they started processing at 7:30. I would suggest going in at 7. I got through at around 8:30 then waited an hour to get the visa.

Congrats Nej!!

[sbwv09]

The ecas tracker is great.. I never even log into ecas myself, I just wait for the email

[SaugaBoss]

The ecas tracker is great.. I never even log into ecas myself, I just wait for the email

so that had nothing to do with it right... Im still surprised i got an update when it was mailed out later than other peoples'