Inland Landing Interview from Vancouver Office: waiting time
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Khadakarle
Full Member
- Mar 22, 2019
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- App. Filed.......
- 08-06-2018
- AOR Received.
- 25-07-2018
- Med's Request
- 05-02-2019
- Med's Done....
- 08-02-2019
Landed on May 15 2019 and got my PR card yesterday in the mail!
Hey guys I got my PR card approved today.
Tried to update that Google Spreadsheet but I was told I don't have access to it anymore.
Nevertheless I'll update it here:
Landed: May 24th at Vancouver
Ghost Update: June 5th
Approved & Mailed: June 7th.
Now just waiting for the card to arrive...
Tried to update that Google Spreadsheet but I was told I don't have access to it anymore.
Nevertheless I'll update it here:
Landed: May 24th at Vancouver
Ghost Update: June 5th
Approved & Mailed: June 7th.
Now just waiting for the card to arrive...
dstpcansgirlfriend
Star Member
Hi all,
We are October 2018 applicants, and received our DM on ECAS on April 11. Yesterday (June 6) we received our landing invitation. The appointment is scheduled for June 24.
We are October 2018 applicants, and received our DM on ECAS on April 11. Yesterday (June 6) we received our landing invitation. The appointment is scheduled for June 24.
dstpcansgirlfriend
Star Member
Thanks! I'm a little surprised at how soon the landing appointment is relative to when they sent the letter. I feel for anybody who has to land at the Vancouver office, because it seems woefully understaffed (from what I've heard) when compared to the number of applicants it handles.
My husband landed at the Vancouver office yesterday and like everyone says the office is very understaffed (there was only 1-2 officers processing people). Our appointment was scheduled for 9:30 but we didn't get seen till closer to 10:40. All the chairs were full and it was only standing room for most folks that walked in. The interview itself was very quick and straight forward with the usual questions about dependents, criminality, confirming entry dates, mailing address, possible travel plans within the next month, eye color, height and marital status. The officer we had was very pleasant and he checked our payment receipts to see if we had overpaid as well as our ID documents, 2 passport photos and any permits. After the formalities he printed the COPR had my husband sign it and told him he was now a permanent resident and that he should receive his PR card within 30 days and to call if it hadn't arrived by then. He commented that the landing letter was lacking the contact number for the help line but advised us to use the phone number on the back of his open work permit if there is any issues with the PR card. All in all a long but easy process.
We then walked to Service Canada to get my husband his permanent SIN number. The line for that office was extremely long with a large number of working holiday visa holders but once we had checked in we were not required to wait very long (5 minutes?) compared to the folks that were there for a fresh SIN.
Got home last night and successfully linked the PR card app to GCKEY and now we wait for the card
We then walked to Service Canada to get my husband his permanent SIN number. The line for that office was extremely long with a large number of working holiday visa holders but once we had checked in we were not required to wait very long (5 minutes?) compared to the folks that were there for a fresh SIN.
Got home last night and successfully linked the PR card app to GCKEY and now we wait for the card
Hi All,
I have applied for PR under the FSW on November 04, 2018, cleared medical in December 12. When it was over 6 months processing and we didn't receive any news, I called last week of May and found that our application was approved on April 18. Waiting on further notification/email to complete the inland landing process. The officer mentioned 3 months waiting in Vancouver Visa Office. Is anyone in the same timeline. Please respond.
I have applied for PR under the FSW on November 04, 2018, cleared medical in December 12. When it was over 6 months processing and we didn't receive any news, I called last week of May and found that our application was approved on April 18. Waiting on further notification/email to complete the inland landing process. The officer mentioned 3 months waiting in Vancouver Visa Office. Is anyone in the same timeline. Please respond.
Hi I’m new here. I just received my appointment letter today.
Application received on June ,2018
Ghost update of DM: April 18,2019
Appointment date: June 18,2019
However, my spouse couldn’t accompany me to the landing interview on that date. I have to reschedule it.
What is the average time to wait between my original appointment and rescheduled appointment? I’m so worried as I’m very busy on July and August.
Application received on June ,2018
Ghost update of DM: April 18,2019
Appointment date: June 18,2019
However, my spouse couldn’t accompany me to the landing interview on that date. I have to reschedule it.
What is the average time to wait between my original appointment and rescheduled appointment? I’m so worried as I’m very busy on July and August.
Ok. Here is an update to my rescheduling endeavors: I just got an email from Vancouver office today with new interview date scheduled for Monday June 17th 10am. This was only 6 days afterwards, but the way they handled it really killed me of stress.
Hope everyone else waiting hears from them soon.
Hope everyone else waiting hears from them soon.
barsarah
Hero Member
- Oct 3, 2018
- 660
- Category........
- FAM
- Visa Office......
- Mississauga, ON
- App. Filed.......
- 12-09-2018
- AOR Received.
- 11-10-2018
- Med's Request
- 06-12-2018
- Med's Done....
- 06-12-2018
- Interview........
- 06-06-2019
- LANDED..........
- 06-06-2019
My Application for a Permanent Residence of Canada was sent through Xpresspost by Canada Post under the Spousal and Common-law Partner Class within Canada from Vancouver, BC to Mississauga, ON on Sep 10th, 2018, just 1 day before the official infamous Canada Post strike. Along with the application, I submitted an Open Work Permit application, Schedule A and Police Certificates from Mongolia (my home country) and Canada upfront as I've been an international student here since 2014. Luckily, it was delivered just on time on Sep 12th, and I was able to link my application online on the MyCIC/GCKey account on Oct 11th, a few hours before receiving my AOR.
My OWP, however, couldn't be linked until Oct 14th and the strike did affect me in a way (assuming interdepartmental transfers) that my AOR took about 4 to 5 days longer than the applicants whose applications were received just a day earlier than mine.
In due course of almost 3 months, I received my Medical Request on Dec 6th (85 days to be precise). I managed to do the exams on the same day and noticed the "Passed" mark on Dec 13th, exactly a week after my initial exam.
My Background (security and criminality) check was commenced on Dec 12, 2018 (91 days after receipt), and according to my GCMS notes, it was completed on the same day as well.
On Jan 2nd, my OWP was reviewed but was randomly selected (booooo!) and transferred to a secondary office to be re-examined in 22 weeks on June 5th, 2019 (not nice!)
Nevertheless, on Mar 14th (183 days after receipt), I had a "Ghost" update on MyCIC/GCKey account, and noticed a change on eCAS from "In Process" to "Decision Made" on both sides on Mar 20th. There was also an update on MyCIC/GCKey a few hours later stating that my review of eligibility has been started and eCAS status had an extra line added stating that they've started processing my application on Mar 19th, 2019.
Subsequently, my husband received his SA letter on Mar 23rd and I received my AIP and DM letters on Mar 29th, 6 months and 17 days after receipt.
Unfortunately, my local immigrations office, Vancouver, happened to be the busiest in the country and had some backlogs. So I had to wait 65 days since DM on eCAS and 56 days since my DM letter (email) to receive my Landing Invitation while other applicants from different areas were getting theirs on the same day of DM or a few days after (not to mention that some of the applicants who reside in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were even asked to present themselves without any appointment to their local immigrations offices).
As my OWP application re-examination was due on June 5, I was expecting to get an update but had nothing so I assumed it was just one of their administrative errors (not complaining).
On June 6th (13 days after the Landing Invitation and 267 days = 8 months and 25 days after the initial application receipt), I became a Permanent Resident of Canada. YAAAY!!!! My appointment was set at 10AM but my husband and I showed up at 9:50AM, 10 minutes before the scheduled time.
There were 22 people waiting in the sitting area already, including @rabidjess (I think) who had an appointment at 9:30AM. 5 of them were sitting together as a family who I assumed to be refugee claimants, 5 couples, 4 singles and a family of 3. @rabidjess went in at 10:40AM. There were 4 booths but only 2 of them were operating (number 2 and 4). While @rabidjess was doing their interview, we spoke to one of the commissioners who was very friendly and nice. He said the office was working overtime on every other Saturday to keep up with the demand of over 3000 applicants' backlog with the majority being refugee claimants and the number was increasing nevertheless. He also said that there were 2 officers and 1 "pick up" officer working at the time but the 2nd officer (an East Indian or Persian descendant female) didn't interview anyone during our time and locked her casket at 10:20PM.
We were hoping to get the same Asian officer in booth number 2 who interviewed @rabidjess as he sounded very friendly; however, at 10:45AM, we were called in at booth number 4 by a different officer. His accent sounded Eastern European. He was very slow and thorough with the previous applicants so we assumed the same; however, he was surprisingly friendly and fast with us. He verbally declared my Permanent Residency within the 1st minute after reconfirming my address, eye color and height, which we found very interesting. He then asked the 4 mandatory questions:
We, then, went to Service Canada at Sinclair Centre to have my SIN number updated. The line up was long about 15 minutes but the actual process was fast and took less than 5 minutes. We had a coffee and a doughnut at Tim Hortons to celebrate (we never liked Tim Hortons that much but did it just to make it official LOL).
Also just so you guys know that my MyCIC/GCKey account was updated right away to "Final Decision has been made and the application was approved". And I was able to link my PR Card on MyCIC/GCKey an hour later using my UCI number and Family Name. And yesterday at 11AM, I received a "Ghost" update and an email but nothing was updated. Now it is a PARTY TIME!!!
Oh BTW, I ended up submitting a cancellation request and a refund on my OWP but haven't heard back from them yet.
And here is an updated link for our Google Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aCsw9m9cYm_JGuPoclQLBwlKUsh8g3ogoWG6tLuBEdQ/edit?usp=sharing so others can add and edit their timelines.
My OWP, however, couldn't be linked until Oct 14th and the strike did affect me in a way (assuming interdepartmental transfers) that my AOR took about 4 to 5 days longer than the applicants whose applications were received just a day earlier than mine.
In due course of almost 3 months, I received my Medical Request on Dec 6th (85 days to be precise). I managed to do the exams on the same day and noticed the "Passed" mark on Dec 13th, exactly a week after my initial exam.
My Background (security and criminality) check was commenced on Dec 12, 2018 (91 days after receipt), and according to my GCMS notes, it was completed on the same day as well.
On Jan 2nd, my OWP was reviewed but was randomly selected (booooo!) and transferred to a secondary office to be re-examined in 22 weeks on June 5th, 2019 (not nice!)
Nevertheless, on Mar 14th (183 days after receipt), I had a "Ghost" update on MyCIC/GCKey account, and noticed a change on eCAS from "In Process" to "Decision Made" on both sides on Mar 20th. There was also an update on MyCIC/GCKey a few hours later stating that my review of eligibility has been started and eCAS status had an extra line added stating that they've started processing my application on Mar 19th, 2019.
Subsequently, my husband received his SA letter on Mar 23rd and I received my AIP and DM letters on Mar 29th, 6 months and 17 days after receipt.
Unfortunately, my local immigrations office, Vancouver, happened to be the busiest in the country and had some backlogs. So I had to wait 65 days since DM on eCAS and 56 days since my DM letter (email) to receive my Landing Invitation while other applicants from different areas were getting theirs on the same day of DM or a few days after (not to mention that some of the applicants who reside in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were even asked to present themselves without any appointment to their local immigrations offices).
As my OWP application re-examination was due on June 5, I was expecting to get an update but had nothing so I assumed it was just one of their administrative errors (not complaining
).On June 6th (13 days after the Landing Invitation and 267 days = 8 months and 25 days after the initial application receipt), I became a Permanent Resident of Canada. YAAAY!!!! My appointment was set at 10AM but my husband and I showed up at 9:50AM, 10 minutes before the scheduled time.
There were 22 people waiting in the sitting area already, including @rabidjess (I think
) who had an appointment at 9:30AM. 5 of them were sitting together as a family who I assumed to be refugee claimants, 5 couples, 4 singles and a family of 3. @rabidjess went in at 10:40AM. There were 4 booths but only 2 of them were operating (number 2 and 4). While @rabidjess was doing their interview, we spoke to one of the commissioners who was very friendly and nice. He said the office was working overtime on every other Saturday to keep up with the demand of over 3000 applicants' backlog with the majority being refugee claimants and the number was increasing nevertheless. He also said that there were 2 officers and 1 "pick up" officer working at the time but the 2nd officer (an East Indian or Persian descendant female) didn't interview anyone during our time and locked her casket at 10:20PM.We were hoping to get the same Asian officer in booth number 2 who interviewed @rabidjess as he sounded very friendly; however, at 10:45AM, we were called in at booth number 4 by a different officer. His accent sounded Eastern European. He was very slow and thorough with the previous applicants so we assumed the same; however, he was surprisingly friendly and fast with us. He verbally declared my Permanent Residency within the 1st minute after reconfirming my address, eye color and height, which we found very interesting. He then asked the 4 mandatory questions:
- If I have any criminal history in the world.
- If I've ever been denied entry or refused a visa to Canada.
- If I have an undeclared dependent.
- If I am travelling outside the country in the next few weeks (8 I think).
We, then, went to Service Canada at Sinclair Centre to have my SIN number updated. The line up was long about 15 minutes but the actual process was fast and took less than 5 minutes. We had a coffee and a doughnut at Tim Hortons to celebrate (we never liked Tim Hortons that much but did it just to make it official LOL).
Also just so you guys know that my MyCIC/GCKey account was updated right away to "Final Decision has been made and the application was approved". And I was able to link my PR Card on MyCIC/GCKey an hour later using my UCI number and Family Name. And yesterday at 11AM, I received a "Ghost" update and an email but nothing was updated. Now it is a PARTY TIME!!!
Oh BTW, I ended up submitting a cancellation request and a refund on my OWP but haven't heard back from them yet.
And here is an updated link for our Google Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aCsw9m9cYm_JGuPoclQLBwlKUsh8g3ogoWG6tLuBEdQ/edit?usp=sharing so others can add and edit their timelines.