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Inland Landing Interview from Vancouver Office: waiting time

Evican

Full Member
Apr 19, 2018
21
36
Category........
FAM
App. Filed.......
24-09-2019
AOR Received.
17-10-2018
Med's Request
28-11-2018
Med's Done....
18-12-2018
Interview........
29-05-2019
LANDED..........
29-05-2019
Overall I am impressed by the speed in which we were processed. And to think if we were in any other province we probably could've landed like 2 months ago lol
Agreed! I almost think it was because we were Vancouver applicants and that we had one of the longest, if not the longest wait times for landing interviews.

Mine was super quick.. 6 months and 5 days.


EDIT: I also got my PR card in the mail today!
 

nagendrab0

Star Member
Jul 29, 2014
122
66
Vancouver
Category........
PNP
NOC Code......
2175
Job Offer........
Yes
Congrats for everyone who got their interview emails and PR cards!

I have a question with regards to DM,

my application was approved on May 2, 2019 (got a call and the VO approved it while I was on the call, within minutes there was a ghost update - which was again confirmed by an agent later that week)

Here I'm seeing that many are receiving an actual letter (DM). Would this be different from an approval without letter? Will this impact when I will be receiving my interview email?

As now that I see that people with April 30 DM's have received there interview emails. Should mine be coming sometime next week?
 

park1996

Star Member
Sep 28, 2018
64
69
Congrats for everyone who got their interview emails and PR cards!

I have a question with regards to DM,

my application was approved on May 2, 2019 (got a call and the VO approved it while I was on the call, within minutes there was a ghost update - which was again confirmed by an agent later that week)

Here I'm seeing that many are receiving an actual letter (DM). Would this be different from an approval without letter? Will this impact when I will be receiving my interview email?

As now that I see that people with April 30 DM's have received there interview emails. Should mine be coming sometime next week?
Don't think the letter makes much difference. I didn't get any letter but still got my landing interview pretty fast. The category and ME status has more to do with it.
 

nagendrab0

Star Member
Jul 29, 2014
122
66
Vancouver
Category........
PNP
NOC Code......
2175
Job Offer........
Yes
Don't think the letter makes much difference. I didn't get any letter but still got my landing interview pretty fast. The category and ME status has more to do with it.
Thanks for replying!

I'm under EE BC PNP (Jan 06, 2019)
Approved on May 2, 2019.

ME status?
 
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pomeranian

Newbie
May 5, 2019
9
4
I received the DM on March 1st and I still haven't got the interview appointment yet. I called CIC early June and the agent told me that they will notify the Vancouver office about it, and if I don't hear from them in a month, call them again. I already waited for three months and they still made me wait for another month. Is there anything I can do besides waiting?
Also, I'll be under implied status soon. Should I notify the office about it? I currently have an open work permit under post-graduation that is expiring and I applied for a new open work permit under spousal sponsorship.
 

barsarah

Hero Member
Oct 3, 2018
390
660
Vancouver, BC
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
Hey guys!

Just a friendly reminder for those who already got their new permanent SINumbers after their Permanent Residency, make sure you register a new online account with the CRA. I just tried logging in using my existing GCKey on https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/e-services/e-services-individuals/account-individuals.html but it gave me an error "ERR.041" and asked me to call 1-800-959-8281. I was able to speak to an agent after 20 minutes in the queue. The agent told me that I have to re-register on my CRA online account as they received a new SIN, and then she emailed me a new security code. It took me 5 minutes to set up and I was able to see all my previous years' tax returns linked to my new SIN already.

Cheers!
 

Wendy1112

Star Member
Jun 1, 2018
136
38
Category........
CEC
Visa Office......
Montreal
AOR Received.
12-31-2018
Med's Done....
02-10-2019
Passport Req..
interview request: May 23rd
LANDED..........
06-05-2019
Hey guys!

Just a friendly reminder for those who already got their new permanent SINumbers after their Permanent Residency, make sure you register a new online account with the CRA. I just tried logging in using my existing GCKey on https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/e-services/e-services-individuals/account-individuals.html but it gave me an error "ERR.041" and asked me to call 1-800-959-8281. I was able to speak to an agent after 20 minutes in the queue. The agent told me that I have to re-register on my CRA online account as they received a new SIN, and then she emailed me a new security code. It took me 5 minutes to set up and I was able to see all my previous years' tax returns linked to my new SIN already.

Cheers!
Thank you so much for the info! I was trying to log in but kept failing... I'll call them first thing next Monday morning.
 
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Wendy1112

Star Member
Jun 1, 2018
136
38
Category........
CEC
Visa Office......
Montreal
AOR Received.
12-31-2018
Med's Done....
02-10-2019
Passport Req..
interview request: May 23rd
LANDED..........
06-05-2019
Hi guys, I received my PR card today. It was mailed on June 10th.
 

andybc

Star Member
Jul 20, 2018
151
67
Hey guys!

Just a friendly reminder for those who already got their new permanent SINumbers after their Permanent Residency, make sure you register a new online account with the CRA. I just tried logging in using my existing GCKey on https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/e-services/e-services-individuals/account-individuals.html but it gave me an error "ERR.041" and asked me to call 1-800-959-8281. I was able to speak to an agent after 20 minutes in the queue. The agent told me that I have to re-register on my CRA online account as they received a new SIN, and then she emailed me a new security code. It took me 5 minutes to set up and I was able to see all my previous years' tax returns linked to my new SIN already.

Cheers!
Wow thanks for that info! I was fully unaware of that.

I only log in to see if my tax return has been received/processed, so around March/April. Sure enough it won't let me log in anymore. Sort of annoying that you have to re-register but so be it.
 
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