April 2025 Outland Spousal Sponsorship

[Nolan24]

Anybody here not from India waiting for the background verification?

I checked immitracker and figured that India and UK are the fastest to get BG clearance and hence PPR, for the rest it takes apx 6-8 months to pass the verification.

Not from India and Still waiting for mine, last update was June 30, 2025

Now we are nearing the end of August. There's got to be some glitch in the system lol, cause its been reported over 45 percent of the approvals so far are from india. so not too sure what's going on.

 

[whiterabbit]

There's got to be some glitch in the system lol,

I think it's more about the number of applicants and hence more "standard" docs for IRCC. Everything is pretty known, all the formats and authorities to provide the documents, all common tricks and sources of misrepresentation etc.

And here we are - applicants with less "default" documents, translations etc, so it takes more time to check the documents are legit and there's no BS in the application, comparing to countries like India (huge number of applicants), UK and US (quick info sharing). At least this is my theory

 

[whiterabbit]

Just a fun exercise to do on immitracker:
- choose the status "bg check in progress"
- sort by application submission date
- scroll all the way down to look for the oldest active apps with BG verification still in progress
- enjoy the list of countries very different from what is normally seen when browsing the tracker

 

[Jaysonwafu]

Just want to share my timeline here.
Application Type: Outland Spousal Sponsorship
Sponsor: PR
PA: Philippines


Application Submitted - April 26
AOR - May 15
Additional Info Requested - May 20
Medical and BIL - May 22
Medical and Biometrics done - May 25
Additional Info Submitted - May 28
Pre-Arrival Letter - May 28
Medical Passed - May 31
Ghost Update - June 2
2nd Ghost Update - June 29
Background Check Completed - August 11
Passport Request - August 12
Passport Submitted - August 13
COPR - August 18
Passport Return with Visa - August 19


Me as the sponsor basically did like 95% of the work since my wife doesnt have access to computer/laptop: I acted as her representative too so we saved alot of $$ lol. That 2 and half months of waiting from when she passed her medical to finally receiving an update for PPR has been really stressful not gonna lie. Now she's all set to fly here next month.

Just be patient, your time will come too.