A Rare Spousal Case

[MIZ]

Hi Everybody,

I got married to a Canadian in 1995 in Pakistan. My wife and I had no plans for moving to Canada until last year, when my widowed mother died in May 2011. However, we got Candian passport made for our kids while in Pakistan. I entered Canada late last year on a TRV along with my wife and kids with the sole objective of settleing our family in Canada.

My wife filed the Application for PR from within Canada – Spouse or Common-law Partner in Canada class (IMM 5289) on December 16, 2011. As per CIC website, Step 1 — Assessment of sponsor and person being sponsored, for cases like mine takes 11 months. While Step 2 — Medical, security, background checks and other verifications for person being sponsored takes 8 months. (19-20 months in total)

My question is, should we expect a quicker processing, since most of the assessments and verifications with respect to my case have already been carried out at the time of issuance of (1) Canadian Passports to my children and (2) Temporary Resident Visa to me. It's been three three months from receipt of the application at Vegreville and we have not received any acknowledgement yet.

 

[Isometry]

From what I've seen, Step 1 is pretty consistent. Step 2 varies a lot more. So Step 1 should take about 11 months, step 2 should take ????. It seems like for step 1, the processing takes hardly any time at all, you're just waiting for your application to get to the front of the pile so that someone looks at it.

Keep in mind that the posted times are how long it takes to process 80% of cases, so there's a good chance yours will be faster.

Good luck!

 

[computergeek]

Step 1 is a FIFO (first in, first out) queue. As such, it's basically a big backlog of applications that are opened in (more or less) the order in which they arrived.

The good news is that it looks like they are starting to make progress on the backlog - in the past six weeks the Stage 1 processing time seems to be creeping down. That's not a guarantee it will continue, but it is in keeping with the public comments of CIC (they blame the long processing times on a new computer system that should eventually speed things up, but was slowing things down during the conversion.)

So, sadly, the basic answer is that until they OPEN your application, it is unlikely to gain faster processing.

Good luck!

 

[canadiangirl78]

Step 1 is a FIFO (first in, first out) queue. As such, it's basically a big backlog of applications that are opened in (more or less) the order in which they arrived.

The good news is that it looks like they are starting to make progress on the backlog - in the past six weeks the Stage 1 processing time seems to be creeping down. That's not a guarantee it will continue, but it is in keeping with the public comments of CIC (they blame the long processing times on a new computer system that should eventually speed things up, but was slowing things down during the conversion.)

So, sadly, the basic answer is that until they OPEN your application, it is unlikely to gain faster processing.

Good luck!

Interesting about the new computer program. Where did you get that info?

I hope things speed up soon cause the wait is killing me.

 

[computergeek]

“We inherited an immigration system that technologically was stuck in the 1970s — a paper-based, slow-moving, bureaucratic system. We’ve invested a huge amount of resources in modernizing it, to speed up our processing,” said Kenney.

“Our belief is that within two or three years we will be moving to what I call a ‘just in time’ immigration system, so that all of these applications will move more quickly.”

From http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/02/27/lynne-aitchison-mom-without-medicare_n_1303565.html

I found it ironic that I can see the hotel described in this article from my living room window - and it's a place where I wouldn't want to stay.

 

[canadiangirl78]

From http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/02/27/lynne-aitchison-mom-without-medicare_n_1303565.html

I found it ironic that I can see the hotel described in this article from my living room window - and it's a place where I wouldn't want to stay.

That's quite a story!!