Hello folks
I'm in a bit of weird situation:
We had submitted my mom's supervisa application from India in early Aug' 2020. At that time, processing time being shown on CIC website was around 130 days.
Few days later, we noticed that the processing time had increased to 300+ days. In addition, the biometric centers were still closed in India. This meant that the application could have taken over a year to be processed depending on when the biometric centers would have opened in India.
Hence, I decided to call my mom to Canada a month later (she already has a valid visitors visa) with the hope that the biometric centers would open early over here as compared to India. In Dec, she submitted her biometrics in Canada, and we thought that her application would move faster now.
To our surprise, we recently got to know that despite having submitted her biometric here, her application is still untouched because the VACs in India are yet not processing applications under visitors or supervisa category.
So, the problem is that her 6 months of permitted period of stay would soon be nearing its end. In an ideal situation, I would consider applying for stay extension to get her a visitor record. However, given that her supervisa application is already in progress, do I still have the option to apply for visitor record? Can this stay extension request impact her supervisa application or vice versa in any way?
Thanks in advance.
I'm in a bit of weird situation:
We had submitted my mom's supervisa application from India in early Aug' 2020. At that time, processing time being shown on CIC website was around 130 days.
Few days later, we noticed that the processing time had increased to 300+ days. In addition, the biometric centers were still closed in India. This meant that the application could have taken over a year to be processed depending on when the biometric centers would have opened in India.
Hence, I decided to call my mom to Canada a month later (she already has a valid visitors visa) with the hope that the biometric centers would open early over here as compared to India. In Dec, she submitted her biometrics in Canada, and we thought that her application would move faster now.
To our surprise, we recently got to know that despite having submitted her biometric here, her application is still untouched because the VACs in India are yet not processing applications under visitors or supervisa category.
So, the problem is that her 6 months of permitted period of stay would soon be nearing its end. In an ideal situation, I would consider applying for stay extension to get her a visitor record. However, given that her supervisa application is already in progress, do I still have the option to apply for visitor record? Can this stay extension request impact her supervisa application or vice versa in any way?
Thanks in advance.