How Much Time It Takes From Passport to Visa Stamped via VFS

[legalfalcon]

Thanks so much for the reply!

Yes, I'm outland. Right, yes will be informing IRCC that I'm married by attaching my marriage certificate, a letter of explanation, my spouse's passport in the package that I submit to the VAC. After that, expecting the gckey portal to display my husband's name, and add upload buttons for the required docs.

If I may ask, do you know if they'd issue a CoPR doc + send back our passports with my status as single (assuming I pass all checks, of course), and then add the upload options for my spouse's docs in the portal. Then, they'd process his docs and ask us to send our passports again.

Or would they process the spousal docs while holding our passports, and (assuming everything goes well), issue CoPR with my husband's name included too?

As per what you said, your application has been processed and closed. If you send your passport, there can be two scenarios:

First: Your passport is issued a visa (unless you are from a visa-exempt country), and a COPR is issued. In this case, even if the documents is issued, as soon as IRCC gets to know that you are married and your family composition is changed, they will cancel the visa and COPR. Even if you travel, at the port of entry you will be asked if your family composition has changed, and when you answer yes, this will happen at the port of entry.

Second, your passport will be returned.

In either case, your application will be reopened, and only after your spouse's documents are processed, including medical records, criminal history, and security clearance. Once this is done, you will be resent the request to submit your passport, and you will get this for your spouse and yourself.

 

[Testing28]

As per what you said, your application has been processed and closed. If you send your passport, there can be two scenarios:

First: Your passport is issued a visa (unless you are from a visa-exempt country), and a COPR is issued. In this case, even if the documents is issued, as soon as IRCC gets to know that you are married and your family composition is changed, they will cancel the visa and COPR. Even if you travel, at the port of entry you will be asked if your family composition has changed, and when you answer yes, this will happen at the port of entry.

Second, your passport will be returned.

In either case, your application will be reopened, and only after your spouse's documents are processed, including medical records, criminal history, and security clearance. Once this is done, you will be resent the request to submit your passport, and you will get this for your spouse and yourself.

Hmm, so in the first case, they might issue CoPR with single status, and they may not return my passport until I land in Canada? That's brutal.

The second case sounds better because I don't have to take an overseas trip to inform of my change in marital status.

Either way it sounds like I don't need to send my husband's passport in the VAC submission.

Looks like the better option may have been to let the 30 days pass with no response. And when they eventually see that I added a family member, they'd have sent a new PPR letter for us (assuming all went well). But I've already booked an appointment for the coming Monday.

Would you suggest that I cancel the appointment? It doesn't make sense to send my passport overseas only for it to get returned/force a wasteful overseas trip.

 

[Testing28]

Update: I did not show up for the VAC appointment. And good thing, because Delhi VO called saying they got my webform, and would need to update the portal so I can upload docs for my spouse. They said they'd issue a new passport request letter after.

Thank you for your help, @ legalfalcon