Hey folks.
Got some good news yesterday. Our application had been sent to Mississauga for processing.
On September 17th, our application changed to in progress. We received an E-mail on October 27th, stating that our application has reached the final stage of processing. ECAS changed to decision made on October 27th.
A few interesting things to note:
Although ECAS showed us that we had decision made on SA, we never received an official letter or e-mail to tell us that Sponsorship Approval was approved. The CIC call centre confirmed that it had been approved and sent to Missisauga.
For final processing we were requested to submit the following documents.
1. Two recent passport photos as per Appendix A.
2. The Updated Information Chart: This just asked for passport details, height and eye colour of all accompanying family members as well as some contact info.
3. A photocopy of the personal information and photo page of the applicants passport.
The e-mail gave us the option of sending the documents to London, or sending them to Ottawa. Sending them to Ottawa was under the condition that the applicant and ALL of the accompanying family members were already in Canada, and would likely be there for the next 3 months. As we are currently living in Canada, we chose to send them to Ottawa.
We sent the documents and 2 prepaid envelopes to Ottawa via express post with tracking and next day delivery, along with the 2 requested prepaid envelopes. 3 pre-paid envelopes within Ontario came to the cost of $45! If you chose the option to send it to London, you do not need to attach stamps or buy a prepaid envelope.
I know some people have been debating whether to send 1 or 2 envelopes, we personally didn't want to take the risk at this stage of the application.
Hoping our COPR will come quickly now but at least we will be able to track it!
