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April 2011 Applicants share their views here

trungngan

Full Member
Apr 7, 2011
48
0
Category........
Visa Office......
Singapore
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
06-04-2011
AOR Received.
27-05-2011
File Transfer...
09-05-2011
Med's Done....
28-02-2011
Passport Req..
03-11-2011
VISA ISSUED...
12-12-2011
LANDED..........
02-02-2012
uccemebug said:
Sorry to hear about the set-back, Dragoon. By waiting for two years for the interview do you mean that they've set an interview date for 2013!
Dragoon: sorry to hear that bro. Hope you guys can have a date within 12 months. You may call them to have an interview in Singapore. I hear it faster. Goodluck

uccemebug: the problem with interview is you don't know the day. They will contact you (to setup a date) within 24 months. I know some one got interview date in 12 months, others in 18 months. That is really ridiculous. I am not sure we, as a Canadian can do something about it.
 

uccemebug

Hero Member
Mar 17, 2011
291
4
124
Toronto
Category........
Visa Office......
Tokyo
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
06-04-2011
AOR Received.
17-05-2011
File Transfer...
10-05-2011
Med's Done....
03-28-2011
Passport Req..
09-12-2011
VISA ISSUED...
10-05-2011
LANDED..........
10-05-20
trungngan said:
Dragoon: sorry to hear that bro. Hope you guys can have a date within 12 months. You may call them to have an interview in Singapore. I hear it faster. Goodluck

uccemebug: the problem with interview is you don't know the day. They will contact you (to setup a date) within 24 months. I know some one got interview date in 12 months, others in 18 months. That is really ridiculous. I am not sure we, as a Canadian can do something about it.
8^O

I though that those shenanigans were reserved for the inland process. Very sorry to hear that we're this bad at this. As to fixing it, I'm not sure that there's any appetite for immigration issues with goverment. The Conservatives ran an anti-immigration platform this summer (and the Liberals did something similar the time before), I don't think we can expect anything different from their federal brethren - who currently set the tone for immigration policy.

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/09/12/hugh-macintyre-xenophobia-on-ontarios-campaign-trail/
 

witchkid

Full Member
Nov 10, 2011
46
1
esr said:
Thank you guys for answering my querries.... I applied last 2009 but unfortunately its not granted. so planning to submit by nextweek
my new sets of application. But some people says that ielts is now required..
hi esr..just want to know what happened on your application last april.. we're planning to apply family class sponsorship early next year..what's the reason they'd deny your application last 2009? thanks..
 

atethepaint

Star Member
Jan 13, 2011
61
1
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Category........
Visa Office......
Moscow
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
April 27 2011
AOR Received.
July 20 2011
File Transfer...
July 7 2011
Med's Done....
Oct 22 2011
Passport Req..
Nov 20 2011
VISA ISSUED...
Nov 28 2011
LANDED..........
Jan 22 2012
My wife received the following email from the Canadian embassy in Moscow: "It appears your file is complete and we are now ready to issue your permanent resident visa"!

Needless to say that we're both ecstatic :)

She had to fill out a form asking for all the basic information about her and me and send it, along with the letter and her passport, to the embassy. She couldn't simply take it down because the embassy doesn't appear to accept walk-ins anymore. Instead she had to go to a courier (2 metro stops away from the embassy), and pay them to deliver it.
 

jamaicanincanada

Star Member
Oct 6, 2010
95
3
Category........
Visa Office......
Buffalo
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
21-04-2011
AOR Received.
03-08-2011
File Transfer...
24-05-2011
Med's Done....
01-03-2011
Passport Req..
28-10-2011
VISA ISSUED...
10-11-2011
LANDED..........
10-11-2011
atethepaint said:
My wife received the following email from the Canadian embassy in Moscow: "It appears your file is complete and we are now ready to issue your permanent resident visa"!

Needless to say that we're both ecstatic :)

She had to fill out a form asking for all the basic information about her and me and send it, along with the letter and her passport, to the embassy. She couldn't simply take it down because the embassy doesn't appear to accept walk-ins anymore. Instead she had to go to a courier (2 metro stops away from the embassy), and pay them to deliver it.
Congrats!!!! :)
 

uccemebug

Hero Member
Mar 17, 2011
291
4
124
Toronto
Category........
Visa Office......
Tokyo
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
06-04-2011
AOR Received.
17-05-2011
File Transfer...
10-05-2011
Med's Done....
03-28-2011
Passport Req..
09-12-2011
VISA ISSUED...
10-05-2011
LANDED..........
10-05-20
atethepaint said:
My wife received the following email from the Canadian embassy in Moscow: "It appears your file is complete and we are now ready to issue your permanent resident visa"!

Needless to say that we're both ecstatic :)

She had to fill out a form asking for all the basic information about her and me and send it, along with the letter and her passport, to the embassy. She couldn't simply take it down because the embassy doesn't appear to accept walk-ins anymore. Instead she had to go to a courier (2 metro stops away from the embassy), and pay them to deliver it.
Bureaucratic insanity aside, congratulations!!
 

atethepaint

Star Member
Jan 13, 2011
61
1
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Category........
Visa Office......
Moscow
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
April 27 2011
AOR Received.
July 20 2011
File Transfer...
July 7 2011
Med's Done....
Oct 22 2011
Passport Req..
Nov 20 2011
VISA ISSUED...
Nov 28 2011
LANDED..........
Jan 22 2012
Thanks guys. A new update: she got her PR visa!!! We're booking flights from Moscow to British Columbia for the end of January. Wow!
 

uccemebug

Hero Member
Mar 17, 2011
291
4
124
Toronto
Category........
Visa Office......
Tokyo
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
06-04-2011
AOR Received.
17-05-2011
File Transfer...
10-05-2011
Med's Done....
03-28-2011
Passport Req..
09-12-2011
VISA ISSUED...
10-05-2011
LANDED..........
10-05-20
atethepaint said:
Thanks guys. A new update: she got her PR visa!!! We're booking flights from Moscow to British Columbia for the end of January. Wow!
I'm sure she'll appreciate the change in weather. I took my wife from Tokyo to Toronto in January .. not quite the same effect.

All the best with your new lives together, atethepaint!
 

Futurista

Full Member
Nov 29, 2011
41
1
Category........
Visa Office......
Rabat, Morocco
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
14-11-2011
Doc's Request.
05-03-2012
Med's Done....
24-04-2012
Interview........
08-05-2012
Congratulations! Great news for the both of you!
 

alo

Star Member
Mar 3, 2010
66
1
Category........
Visa Office......
Port Of Spain
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
14/04/2011
AOR Received.
16/006/2001
File Transfer...
17-05-2011
Med's Done....
Feb 2011
Interview........
bipassed
Passport Req..
08/12/2011
VISA ISSUED...
12/12/2011
LANDED..........
Jan 2012
Hey my april fourm friends i just thought i would let everyone know that my husband got a call today from immigration telling him to bring in his passport monday and they were going to give him is visa

i am super super excited. thought i would let all my april people know

hope everyone is getting great news for the holidays as well
 

jamaicanincanada

Star Member
Oct 6, 2010
95
3
Category........
Visa Office......
Buffalo
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
21-04-2011
AOR Received.
03-08-2011
File Transfer...
24-05-2011
Med's Done....
01-03-2011
Passport Req..
28-10-2011
VISA ISSUED...
10-11-2011
LANDED..........
10-11-2011
alo said:
Hey my april fourm friends i just thought i would let everyone know that my husband got a call today from immigration telling him to bring in his passport monday and they were going to give him is visa

i am super super excited. thought i would let all my april people know

hope everyone is getting great news for the holidays as well
CONGRATS!!!!
 

Arezou

Champion Member
Nov 26, 2011
1,217
24
Category........
Visa Office......
ANKARA
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
23.02.2011
File Transfer...
12.04.2011
Med's Done....
1:29.11.2010 2:30.10.2011
Passport Req..
02.05.2012
VISA ISSUED...
09.05.2012
LANDED..........
03.06.2012
It seems that other visa offices work very fast than mine. My visa office is Damascus and till April i am waiting for a reply. But no respond.
:'(
 

uccemebug

Hero Member
Mar 17, 2011
291
4
124
Toronto
Category........
Visa Office......
Tokyo
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
06-04-2011
AOR Received.
17-05-2011
File Transfer...
10-05-2011
Med's Done....
03-28-2011
Passport Req..
09-12-2011
VISA ISSUED...
10-05-2011
LANDED..........
10-05-20
alo said:
Hey my april fourm friends i just thought i would let everyone know that my husband got a call today from immigration telling him to bring in his passport monday and they were going to give him is visa

i am super super excited. thought i would let all my april people know

hope everyone is getting great news for the holidays as well
alo, I updated the spreadsheet when you made your post, but it looks like my response to you was swallowed by the website, somehow. Congratulations!

Arezou said:
It seems that other visa offices work very fast than mine. My visa office is Damascus and till April i am waiting for a reply. But no respond.
:'(
Possibly one or two things on their plate, right now. 8^/ It'll be worth the way, Arezou.
 

trungngan

Full Member
Apr 7, 2011
48
0
Category........
Visa Office......
Singapore
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
06-04-2011
AOR Received.
27-05-2011
File Transfer...
09-05-2011
Med's Done....
28-02-2011
Passport Req..
03-11-2011
VISA ISSUED...
12-12-2011
LANDED..........
02-02-2012
Santa come early this year!

My wife just pickup her visa and fight confirmed for Feb 2, 2012. I am going there on Jan 2012 and will be back with her...
 

uccemebug

Hero Member
Mar 17, 2011
291
4
124
Toronto
Category........
Visa Office......
Tokyo
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
06-04-2011
AOR Received.
17-05-2011
File Transfer...
10-05-2011
Med's Done....
03-28-2011
Passport Req..
09-12-2011
VISA ISSUED...
10-05-2011
LANDED..........
10-05-20
trungngan said:
Santa come early this year!

My wife just pickup her visa and fight confirmed for Feb 2, 2012. I am going there on Jan 2012 and will be back with her...
Merry Christmas!! 8^)