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congrats! you are pretty much done. check VFS global website for their requirements or https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/contact-ircc/offices/find-visa-application-centre.html sometimes they might charge you a visa processing fee to get visa stamped unless...

my advice reach your MP to see if they can help. Mine definitely helped me in this situation.

my wife done biometrics at that VAC in 2019 when she applied for visitor visitor, so she didnt have to redo them. not sure if they will count that to waive the fee? i will email them i guess and find out. thanks for your reply!

Thank you. I see it now, the tab was hidden at top. It’s crazy how we have to pay another 200 dollars just to submit a passport.

Did anyone have to pay any fee when submitting the passport to VAC? It says in letter: “For Passport Transmission instructions and fee details”. Can someone explain it please?

I got lucky! I was expecting them to request it sooner and due covid we did it early to have it ready. Normally it expires after 6 months so it was only 5 months. Anyways, got passport request today finally! My MP got the ball rolling, otherwise the file would be still sitting in Sydney now.

Thanks for replying, I was going to do new one but they accepted that one thankfully!

For police clearance, my wife did a new one in January 2021 (was not submitted yet to VO) and yesterday the VO requested a new one. Does anyone think they will accept one from January 2021 since it hasn’t been 6 months yet?

If you got sponsors approval, does that mean they think your relationship is genuine and everything is fine? Or they examine the relationship part for the PR application? The wait is making me overthink everything!

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2021/03/immigration-refugees-and-citizenship-canada-expanding-sydney-office-to-reunite-families-and-improve-processing.html Good news but not sure when the new staff at sydney will be added.

I called CIC and my wife’s file still in sydney. (Applied feb 27). The agent said the physical file doesn’t go to VO. And said they are doing other checks still?the letter in October said the file will move to VO. Biometrics and medical are done.

so we are getting close to the one year mark and not many files are done. I am not sure if my file made it to the VO yet but fingerprints and Medical done. does anyone recommend doing a webform or GCMS notes request to see where the file is?

I was about to send webform too since my PA did biometrics for VISA app before and they requested biometrics sep 23. But I checked biometric on GCKEY and it was updated automatically. So they will update them automatically eventually without a webform.

At least I am not the only one. West Bank or gaza? My wife is from West Bank so I expected tel aviv. It makes sense for Gaza people to be transferred to Cairo. What stage are you in the process?

just curious if anyone whose PA isn't Egyptian and got the sponsorship application to Cairo VO? my wife is from Palestine and was shocked for her file to be sent to Cairo rather than Tel Aviv. Cairo's office seems very slow right now!

I don't think you should worry, my timeline is similar to yours. I just got today SA, biometrics request was end of Sep. No medical request yet. You should get something soon as they were probably off due to Thanksgiving. Stay Positive!

Finally SA today. The file is being moved to VFS in Cairo. It is odd since I expected it to go to Tel Aviv since my wife is from Palestine. The tel aviv office is closed anyway because Israel shut everything down due to COVID. Anyone had any experience with the Cairo VFS?

Mine says decision made too for SA, was Updated today but didn’t receive anything either. I guess it’s lagging a day or two. Congrats on approval though!

Thanks for posting this I was about to call CIC too! We just got biometric request yesterday so perfect timing since VAC is closed.

Unless they uploaded your entire file online, it would be hard to work at home since all the information is confidential and they have to keep it secure.