did you use a lawyer? I'm thinking to fil demand letter as it's been over 1.5 years for visitor visa
File stuck in Background check for military and police personnels
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Just 1.5 years for visitor? I have been waiting since more than 3 years still in backgrounds check.
Hello, anybody got reply or approval? Im on same situation since 2022 for my father visitor visa. Kindly post me or let me know anything i can do clear or get update about background check
You may want to consider mandamus if no movement in your file for multiple years. This is really a visitor issue not a family sponsorship issue.
PNP non-ee.
AOR : Mar 2024
AR : July 2024
C-check : Jan 2025
ADR : 2 times( Jan 2025, Mar 2026. they required the military record.
My husband has long military history in S.Korea (not N.Korea) including deployment to another country
I'm thinking about hiring lawyer for the mandamus. So Frustrated.
AOR : Mar 2024
AR : July 2024
C-check : Jan 2025
ADR : 2 times( Jan 2025, Mar 2026. they required the military record.
My husband has long military history in S.Korea (not N.Korea) including deployment to another country
I'm thinking about hiring lawyer for the mandamus. So Frustrated.
hey please anybody ,who is going through this , please help me , as my father applied for express entry in 2022, and ircc took landing fees, and no update since then ,only thing they update is background checking, I am worrying about my family and my career , as I am in my early 20s and wasting my time ,and so I have wasted 4 yes just in waiting that someday good news will come, and losing on opportunities too, as anxiety ,depression is all over me now, I was not expecting that but this is true, please help, as anyone have applied for mandamus or writ ?and how is the process , should I apply for that? please genuine reply
Hi everyone, I'm in the same situation.
My father worked for the government and retired last year. I applied for his visitor visa in 2020, just before COVID, but the application got stuck in background check until 2023. I assumed the delay was due to the COVID backlog, so I withdrew it.
We applied again in 2024, and the same thing happened, the application was stuck in background check until this past May, when the file was closed abruptly. My father applied through an agent, and since I was here in Canada, I wasn't able to look into the application or ask questions directly.
Just a month ago, I applied for my father's super visa, and I happened to come across this thread. After reading all the comments above, my hopes are fading again.
I'm a Canadian citizen and an only child, and my parents are getting older with no one there to take care of them. I'm genuinely worried about this whole situation.
Could someone please guide me on what a mandamus is and what the process involves?
My father worked for the government and retired last year. I applied for his visitor visa in 2020, just before COVID, but the application got stuck in background check until 2023. I assumed the delay was due to the COVID backlog, so I withdrew it.
We applied again in 2024, and the same thing happened, the application was stuck in background check until this past May, when the file was closed abruptly. My father applied through an agent, and since I was here in Canada, I wasn't able to look into the application or ask questions directly.
Just a month ago, I applied for my father's super visa, and I happened to come across this thread. After reading all the comments above, my hopes are fading again.
I'm a Canadian citizen and an only child, and my parents are getting older with no one there to take care of them. I'm genuinely worried about this whole situation.
Could someone please guide me on what a mandamus is and what the process involves?
Yes, we did. starting from demand letter to now, almost one year passed and still waiting for leave
Same boat, and documenting cases:
I'm in Oakville, Canada. As my parents-in-law's authorized representative, I applied for their visitor visas from Canada in March 2024. My father-in-law is a retired Colonel of the Indian Army. Eligibility was passed, then the file went into security screening — over two years now. Our MP's office has been told the delay is linked to his military background. We've done ATIP/GCMS, MP and MPP intervention, and a Federal Court mandamus (filed June 2026, discontinued August 2026 only because our travel dates moved to summer 2027 — the visa applications were never withdrawn).
In November 2025 I filed a second application for them. On 21 September 2026, CPC–Ottawa closed it by letter claiming we had requested a withdrawal. We never did — I'm the only person with access to the portal account, no passport was ever submitted for that file, and I've checked every email I ever sent IRCC, Delhi and my MP: there is no withdrawal request anywhere. On 23 October I filed a formal demand that IRCC produce the alleged withdrawal request and reinstate the file. No substantive answer yet.
I'm building a verified list of Indian defence/police/government families stuck 12+ months in security screening (or with a file closed in circumstances they don't recognise), so we can:
- compare what actually worked (GCMS/CBSA/CSIS notes, MP inquiries, mandamus, costs),
- coordinate in a WhatsApp or Telegram group, and
- approach media as a group — Globe and Mail, CBC, Toronto Star in Canada; Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Tribune in India — once we have 15–20 documented cases. One family is an anecdote; twenty families in two countries is a pattern.
If you're willing to be counted, please message me: application type + when filed, service + retirement year, where it's stuck, what you've tried, your city in Canada, and whether you'd speak to a journalist (on record / background / no). No names or ID numbers in the public thread, please.
If a WhatsApp/Telegram group for this already exists, I'm happy to join it instead — please point me to it.
I'm in Oakville, Canada. As my parents-in-law's authorized representative, I applied for their visitor visas from Canada in March 2024. My father-in-law is a retired Colonel of the Indian Army. Eligibility was passed, then the file went into security screening — over two years now. Our MP's office has been told the delay is linked to his military background. We've done ATIP/GCMS, MP and MPP intervention, and a Federal Court mandamus (filed June 2026, discontinued August 2026 only because our travel dates moved to summer 2027 — the visa applications were never withdrawn).
In November 2025 I filed a second application for them. On 21 September 2026, CPC–Ottawa closed it by letter claiming we had requested a withdrawal. We never did — I'm the only person with access to the portal account, no passport was ever submitted for that file, and I've checked every email I ever sent IRCC, Delhi and my MP: there is no withdrawal request anywhere. On 23 October I filed a formal demand that IRCC produce the alleged withdrawal request and reinstate the file. No substantive answer yet.
I'm building a verified list of Indian defence/police/government families stuck 12+ months in security screening (or with a file closed in circumstances they don't recognise), so we can:
- compare what actually worked (GCMS/CBSA/CSIS notes, MP inquiries, mandamus, costs),
- coordinate in a WhatsApp or Telegram group, and
- approach media as a group — Globe and Mail, CBC, Toronto Star in Canada; Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Tribune in India — once we have 15–20 documented cases. One family is an anecdote; twenty families in two countries is a pattern.
If you're willing to be counted, please message me: application type + when filed, service + retirement year, where it's stuck, what you've tried, your city in Canada, and whether you'd speak to a journalist (on record / background / no). No names or ID numbers in the public thread, please.
If a WhatsApp/Telegram group for this already exists, I'm happy to join it instead — please point me to it.
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