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Member
Jan 17, 2012
18
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Salam all

I am an Egyptian living in Canada now and I did my medicals on October 25, 2011, and sent an inquiry to London VO to confirm that they get my medical and they replied is under routine background check.. On January 14 I sent an email to London office where my application is filed to get a status update and they replied that it is under routine background check. I sent a fax to CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) where I saw in many forums that they are responsible for routine background check. Surprisingly they replied that they did not get a request from CIC for my application. My questions is:
Is is possible to conduct routine background check via other agencies rather than CSIS? I know it varies according to nationalities, so is there different agencies responsible for conducting this check for Egyptians? FBI? or else should I send London VO about this?
I lived in Egypt till 2008, then 2 years in KSA then in Canada since 2010.
Kindly reply and thank you so much in advance.
 

bebomallah

Star Member
Oct 13, 2010
170
4
Category........
Visa Office......
Cairo
NOC Code......
0111
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
18-06-2010
Doc's Request.
14-10-2010
AOR Received.
14-10-2010
IELTS Request
Sent with documents
Med's Request
05-07-2012
Med's Done....
08-07-2012
Interview........
Waived
Passport Req..
15-08-2012
VISA ISSUED...
23-09-2012
LANDED..........
17-12-2012
Any one his e-case status changed for me nothing changed
 

enthral

Member
Apr 28, 2010
12
0
Guys,

Does anybody know how much time is required to get the visa stamp after we send the passports to the embassy,
My passport has been residing in the Canadian embassy for almost 2 weeks now , and no reply and i have to travel soon back to work

Regards
 

hiema581

Full Member
Jun 1, 2010
27
0
124
Alexandria, Egypt
Category........
Visa Office......
Cairo
NOC Code......
0711
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
20-01-2010
Doc's Request.
04-03-2010
AOR Received.
16-05-2010
File Transfer...
09-03-2010
Med's Request
18-03-2012
Med's Done....
26-04-2012
Passport Req..
28-05-2012
VISA ISSUED...
28-06-2012
LANDED..........
02-09-2012
enthral said:
Guys,

Does anybody know how much time is required to get the visa stamp after we send the passports to the embassy,
My passport has been residing in the Canadian embassy for almost 2 weeks now , and no reply and i have to travel soon back to work

Regards
It's not easy to predict ... it used to be somewhere around 3 weeks to 1 month. However, I know someone who had sent his passport since early December 2011, and still didn't get it back till the moment
 

saw

Full Member
Feb 27, 2011
45
1
Hi Enthral

How long it takes from Medical to get the request to send the passport to the embassy ?
As far as i know it takes 2-3 weeks to get the VISA, but who knows, i knew some people took more than a month !!!!
I know that is a bit wired, i may suffer same ur problem as i travel a lot but by god willing you will get the VISA soon, but appreciate if you reply back for how long it takes between medical and request for passport ?
Thanks
BR/SAW
 

moonlight1278

Star Member
Jun 28, 2011
75
3
saw said:
Hi Enthral

How long it takes from Medical to get the request to send the passport to the embassy ?
As far as i know it takes 2-3 weeks to get the VISA, but who knows, i knew some people took more than a month !!!!
I know that is a bit wired, i may suffer same ur problem as i travel a lot but by god willing you will get the VISA soon, but appreciate if you reply back for how long it takes between medical and request for passport ?
Thanks
BR/SAW
Seems you got your MR right?
 

KMT

Star Member
May 14, 2011
54
1
Category........
Visa Office......
Cairo
NOC Code......
0213
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
Feb 2010
Doc's Request.
March 2010
AOR Received.
April 2010
Med's Request
?????
moonlight1278 said:
Seems you got your MR right?
As long as SAW is asking about the next step after medical then sure he got it. Moonlight, did you get the medical or not yet??????
 

enthral

Member
Apr 28, 2010
12
0
I am really worried guys , cause I delayed my travel already by 2 weeks , till now I got nothing and we passed the 2 weeks , I have to travel on the 29th, the embassy people as usual don't reply to my requests, I might find my self in a very bad situation losing my job.
Really worried. to make it worth now the embassy email send a delivery failure reply whenever I try to send an email. If they are going to take more time , I will have to go to the embassy and request the passports even if I lose my PR, better than losing my job to something I don't know about yet.

best regards
 

KMT

Star Member
May 14, 2011
54
1
Category........
Visa Office......
Cairo
NOC Code......
0213
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
Feb 2010
Doc's Request.
March 2010
AOR Received.
April 2010
Med's Request
?????
moonlight1278 said:
no i did not :-[ did you ?
Like you, I didn't receive yet!!!!
 

hiema581

Full Member
Jun 1, 2010
27
0
124
Alexandria, Egypt
Category........
Visa Office......
Cairo
NOC Code......
0711
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
20-01-2010
Doc's Request.
04-03-2010
AOR Received.
16-05-2010
File Transfer...
09-03-2010
Med's Request
18-03-2012
Med's Done....
26-04-2012
Passport Req..
28-05-2012
VISA ISSUED...
28-06-2012
LANDED..........
02-09-2012
enthral said:
I am really worried guys , cause I delayed my travel already by 2 weeks , till now I got nothing and we passed the 2 weeks , I have to travel on the 29th, the embassy people as usual don't reply to my requests, I might find my self in a very bad situation losing my job.
Really worried. to make it worth now the embassy email send a delivery failure reply whenever I try to send an email.
Hi Enthral,

I guess that your best bet is to send an immediate fax to the embassy explaining the situation and requesting them to expedite the visa issuance, or to send you back the passports so you can use them and then revert them back to the embassy after you arrive at the other country

Don't rely on e-mails, I believe that fax will be much more effective ......

Good luck & regards
 

moonlight1278

Star Member
Jun 28, 2011
75
3
Hi Guys :

I would like to ask if anybody who got his refusal letter because of one missed point can sit for IELTS again and got better score and send it to the embassy to open his file again
does it work ?
i mean can the embassy open his file again