March 2025- Outland Spousal Sponsorship

[Tollyyyy]

I uploaded the letter via the web form some time after April 8, 2025 and received AOR on April 11. So, fortunately it wasn't too bad after all.
Here's my updated timeline:

Submitted: March 19, 2025
Sponsor: Canadian Citizen
PA: Germany
Application Type: Outland
Returned: March 28, 2025
Re-submitted: March 28, 2025
AOR: April 11, 2025
Biometrics request: April 16, 2025
Medical Request: April 22, 2025
Biometrics completed: April 23, 2025
Sponsor Eligibility Passed: April 25, 2025

Sorry, one last question. Did the sponsor upload it via webform or the PA

 

[han1285]

Sorry, one last question. Did the sponsor upload it via webform or the PA

Letter was uploaded by PA.

 

[harhar09]

Any update?

Hi, no update since then. BGC is still in progress.

 

[spousal-visa]

• Submitted: March 24, 2025
• Sponsor: PR
• Principal Applicant: India
• Application Type: Outland
• AOR: April 5 , 2025
• Biometric Request: April 9, 2025
• Medical Request: April 9, 2025
• Biometrics Completed: April 15, 2025
• Sponsorship Letter: April 17, 2025
• Pre Arrival Letter: April 17, 2025
• Sponsor Eligibility Passed: April 17, 2025
• Medical: In Progress
• Background: In Progress

Congratulations ! very fast processing ! Good Luck !

 

[Anonymous_PR]

Hi we have received our Pre Arrival Letter, just wondering what would be the next steps as my medical and biometric is already submitted.
What does the timeline looks like currently?

 

[Jd1520]

Why background check is taking too long?

 

[krishnateja886]

• Submitted: March 20, 2025
• Sponsor: PR
• Principal Applicant: India
• Application Type: Outland
• AOR: April 02, 2025
• Sponsor Eligibility Completed: April 8 th, 2025
• Biometric Request: April 09th , 2025
• Biometrics Completed: April 10th, 2025
• Medical Request: April 9th, 2025
• Medicals completed: April 17th, 2025
• PA Eligibility Completed: April 18th, 2025
• Pre Arrival Letter: April 18th, 2025

 

[Testdrive]

Why background check is taking too long?

Same here. Not sure, but read online that the BGC involves communicating with PA’s home country and when a response is received is out of IRCCs hands. Not sure this is the reason or other factors are at play for the long BGC processing time.

Most seem to have received biometrics and medical invitation around same time, but so far only biometrics invitation was received about a month ago. Medical invitation not received yet. I wonder if this plays into the long BGC time as the medical would be invalid sooner if needing to wait for the BGC. Just a theory!

 

[Jd1520]

Same here. Not sure, but read online that the BGC involves communicating with PA’s home country and when a response is received is out of IRCCs hands. Not sure this is the reason or other factors are at play for the long BGC processing time.

Most seem to have received biometrics and medical invitation around same time, but so far only biometrics invitation was received about a month ago. Medical invitation not received yet. I wonder if this plays into the long BGC time as the medical would be invalid sooner if needing to wait for the BGC. Just a theory!

Yeah !! You are right

 

[Canadiangoose84]

Hi everyone! Anyone receive AOR yet?

 

[Canadiangoose84]

• Submitted: March 19, 2025
• Sponsor: Canadian Citizen
• PA: Germany
• Application Type: Outland
• AOR:

Any AOR yet?

 

[Canadiangoose84]

Submitted: 16 Feb 2025
Application returned: 25 Feb 2025 (unclear instructions from ircc even though form was filled correctly)
Submitted again : 25 Feb 2025
Application returned : 20 March 2025 (with instructions this time saying that the form version was the old one)
Submitted again: 21 March 2025
Waiting for AOR

Any progress?

 

[amandabanci]

Hi! I'm just starting the process and I was wondering... do I NEED an immigration consultant for that process? Did you hire one? Are you doing it yourselves?
It's very expensive and I'm questioning if I actually need one.
Thank you!

 

[Testdrive]

Hi! I'm just starting the process and I was wondering... do I NEED an immigration consultant for that process? Did you hire one? Are you doing it yourselves?
It's very expensive and I'm questioning if I actually need one.
Thank you!

If you are organized and detailed, you should be fine doing it yourself (I did it myself). If you hire a consultant, you still need to do the heavy lifting yourself of providing all the documents etc… if you are concerned you could hire a consultant to just review your application before submitting it to get their feedback.

 

[Anonymous_PR]

Anyone received their PPR or COPR?