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    Startup Visa Program Timeline

    It is not mandatory but for sure it lets you move sooner and your spouse gain Canadian work experience, which strengthens future prospects. I would highly recommend specially since the wait times are more than 4 years now for SUV PR
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    Startup Visa Program Timeline

    Lots of refusals to come, without refusals left, right and centre the processing times cannot be brought down, this is my gut feel, this is the price paid to bring down processing times, I wish we do not pay this price
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    Startup Visa Program Timeline

    IRCC will see many things like, Business Incorporation - Have you registered your business, Funds committed from the founders as well as Angels or VC’s, any Incubation steps taken even outside of Canada, developing a Minimum Viable Product, Customer Traction and Customer Intent, regular recorded...
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    Startup Visa Program Timeline

    True, I have seen rejections even after this on grounds of Misrepresentation
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    What if all the stages, eligibility, medical, criminality, all stages passed, LOS is valid, have recieved PAL1 and PAL2 issued, yet what reason refusal may come, any idea?
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    I read some where that If your OWP is tied to another application that does require language proof (e.g., PR under Express Entry or SUV), you’ll need valid results for that application — but not for the OWP itself. Since we are talking about WP tied to SUV, in most probability it is required...
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    Startup Visa Program Timeline

    Yes, you must retake IELTS if it’s expired by the time you apply for an Open Work Permit (OWP)—IRCC will not accept expired language test
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    Thanks for sharing this — it’s very useful in understanding the current slowdown. By the way, can you see what the approval rate is for CIAI (your Angel)? Also, just to confirm — when IRCC reports “number of applications,” it refers to Principal Applicants only, not the total including...
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    This is a gold mine of information which we could not have got anywhere, thank you
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    Got your point. With ~6 years of inventory, the drop will depend on both approvals and rejections. My sense is higher rejections, the 10-applications-per-DO limit, and Priority DO processing could all accelerate the decline. Let’s see how the numbers play out once decisions start flowing...
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    Startup Visa Program Timeline

    My gut feel and wild guess is in coming 2-3 months it may increase by another month or two and then it will fall below 40 months, the assumption is that they will clear the 2020 and 2021 backlog in coming 3 months, the decisions may go both ways, approved and not approved to bring down the numbers
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    Startup Visa Program Timeline

    Hi Hali Can I connect with you with a direct message, my email ID is Aleem123@gmail.com
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    Wish you good luck Hali, Wish you get your decision and a positive one before your GCMS
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    Startup Visa Program Timeline

    Ah yes, the classic donkey and carrot — except in this case, the carrot is moldy, the stick is broken, and the donkey has already walked halfway across the desert. At some point, it’s not motivation — it’s mockery.
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    Did the last cofounder too got PAL
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    Startup Visa Program Timeline

    Hi Hali What’s the status of your GCMS, it’s taking quite long time to get, why don’t you open a web form or take help of the local MP to know the status Yes you are right, if there are more than one essential members or principal applicants, all principal applicants will receive individual...
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    Startup Visa Program Timeline

    One more thing, the decisions for the year do not happen all at once, they happen regularly over the full year, but it has been observed that only few decisions came in the first quarter of 2025, and the bulk of decisions will happen starting September,
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    No no, I meant to say that he missed the 2024 decision by a whisker, as he has cleared everything in June, had these be cleared little early, he could have got decision in 2024 itself I read somewhere that there are 538 applications as of October 2024 which are waiting for final decision, of...
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    I think you missed the 2024 bus, you will be in the front now and should hear good news by September, that’s my gut feel - Good Luck
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    Startup Visa Program Timeline

    Hi, is your Designated organisation on Priority list