Recent content by ferd2000hn

In my case it took 2 months (Sep & Oct). The MD sent medicals to wherever and I sent my passports to the embassy all on the same week. It took 2 months for my passports to come back. BTW I applied under the FSW. From the statistics is clear that they're processing their FSW backlog rather...

Excellent point!! I wonder if the interview issue was a consideration... best case scenario, there will be no more interviews... At least in FSW I haven't heard about any interviews for a long while... a sign of things to come? ? ? ?

Mateo: You are right, you never stated that CA cases where going to be discriminated. However you did say that Mexicans will get first priority (see below, my emphasis). If they do, based solely on their nationality, that is discrimination. If your rationale was that cases sent from Guatemala...

Regarding the move of Immigration services to Mexico: To Mateo: Your assertion is ridiculous. It's like saying that Hondurans, Salvadorians, Nicaraguans, etc. are discriminated against Guatemalans, because the Embassy is located in Guatemala. Nonsense. The service is provided by Canadians who...

From the Canadian Embassy in Guatemala website: Effective September 1, 2012, the visa office in Mexico City is responsible for processing permanent resident applications from nationals previously served by the visa office in Guatemala City. Applications currently at the office in Guatemala...

To Mez007: Usually the Foreign Affairs offices of the Government (or its equivalent) have translators, and since you are translating Government issued documents, it would be more appropriate (but not required!) to have a Government official translation as well. Good Luck!

To dgoodman: Go to page 38 of this thread, last post on the page for info on where to find the stats. Unless something similar to FSW has happened in Family Class, I don't see why it is reported to take so long. In the case of FSW there were three classes of applications, MI-1...

The Travel Without Visa (TWV) program in the US was cancelled a few years back. The only direct flight via Taca from El Salvador to Toronto.

To Darcycook: I have been tracking the Guatemala Office statistics and for Family Class (Spouses, Children, Partners) there has been a backlog of about 550-600 for the past 2 years, with a throughput (approvals + rejections + withdrawals) of about 50 per month, meaning that an application...

First Quarter 2012 Guatemala Embassy Immigration Statistics Breakdown 1. Backlogs This table shows the backlogs as reported 6/Jan/2012 (listed as Dec/2011), number of received cases per category in 2012Q1, number of processed cases per category in 2012Q1 and backlogs as reported on 8/Apr/2012...

If you all noticed, the news release in CIC included the following: "The pause will allow CIC to make important changes to its economic immigration programs before accepting more applications. This is an important step in moving towards a faster, more flexible immigration system... moving...

NEWS!!! Excerpts from 28/June/2012 CIC News Bulletin: Effective July 1st, 2012, Citizenship and Immigration Canada will place a temporary pause on new applications to the Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP) and federal Immigrant Investor Program (IIP). The pause will allow CIC to make...

It's hard to know what will happen in the future, right now we now that there won't be any new Parent & Grandparent PR applications and that FSW caps are still in place. From Q4 2011 data we know that number of Family Class applications dropped sharply in Nov & Dec (just 3 applications!). We...

I feel like I would be taking some fun out of it, but these are the datasets: - Permanent Resident Visa Applications Received Abroad - English - Overseas Permanent Resident Inventory - English - Permanent Resident Applications Processed Abroad and Processing Times - English - Permanent Resident...

In page 38 of the thread I describe how I found the data... it's from a website with all sort of statistics of the Canadian Gov. Feel free to browse, but you will need to download several excel files to gather all the data from which my information is derived. You can do it yourself... or trust...