Try again linking and make sure that while attempting to do so, you enter THE EXACT birth place as printed on their passports. E.g. CITY NAME, STATE (put a space after the comma, if it is written that way in passports). I think that should work. All the best!
Track your PR card timeline and processing times here
- Thread starter ntwkengg
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Landed 14 September and still no update on my application.
- Application status: "We're processing.."
- Eligibility: "We're reviewing.."
- Additional docs: "We're reviewing your additional docs.." even though I didn't submit any nor got a request to.
- Final decision: "Application in progress.."
Same for my my application and spouse's.
- Application status: "We're processing.."
- Eligibility: "We're reviewing.."
- Additional docs: "We're reviewing your additional docs.." even though I didn't submit any nor got a request to.
- Final decision: "Application in progress.."
Same for my my application and spouse's.
Please do make sure that you have the proper paperwork for the shipping ... When I shipped mine, I prepared the shipping docs and got the same forwarded to me.
He took a fresh pic
Just a little update, might be useful for some:
Landed: September 23, 2017
Review of additional documents changed to "The additional documents you provided are being reviewed": November 8, 2017
New photo request: No (not yet)
PR card approved: waiting
PR card delivered: waiting
Landed: September 23, 2017
Review of additional documents changed to "The additional documents you provided are being reviewed": November 8, 2017
New photo request: No (not yet)
PR card approved: waiting
PR card delivered: waiting
As far as I know, basically like this:
1. Landed (and then you can link your PR card application to MyCIC to see the status)
2. Status change in MyCIC
(2.5 - new photo request in some cases)
3. Approved in MyCIC
4. Delivered
Am I right?
Hi,
Did you send the fresh photos to the below address?
Case processing centre - permanent resident card
49 Dorchester Street
Sydney, Nova Scotia
B1P 5Z2
Thanks For updating. My wife's photos were sent on 4th Oct, received by CIC on 6th Oct. Seeing the timeline it should be approved by Tuesday
In my case I was getting them shipped from Canada to USA. I had prepared the shipping label in Fedex. I also prepared the Commercial Invoice (which can be done while preparing the shipment on Fedex website). Once I had all of these, I emailed electronic copies of the same to my contact in Canada and they were able to just take a printout of these and ship.
For people in the US, this process is familiar because after PPR, we are (typically) required to send passports to Canada Ottawa CPC, and not Local Visa Office. And sending them involves including an envelop with return labels.
In case of PR cards, all I had to do was generate the return labels.
Regarding the commercial invoice, people in the US are experiencing issues in the return process if they do not have a commercial invoice. It seems, sometimes the package gets held up by US Customs since they are not sure what is in the package. Having a commercial invoice helps avoid that. I'm not sure if this is 100% certain info but many people know about this and some recommend the same.
The commercial invoice itself was not a big deal, since I just declared that the package contains immigration documents with commercial value of $1 (commercial value has to be greater than 0 for Fedex website to generate commercial invoice).
Both the times (when getting passports back with CoPR, and when getting PR Cards), I had no issues with US customs.
Hope this helps
-S.
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