best way to pay RPRF later in the application

[cranberries]

Hi guys!

My husband and I submitted our app without paying the RPRF. We want to pay it now and not wait for the embassy to tell us to do so. In the CIC website there are different ways to pay it. some members here say that paying through manager's check wont work, I am confused.

According to your experience, what is the best way to pay the RPRF after the app was submitted?

 

[frege]

We paid online by credit card and sent the receipt by mail to the address in Mississauga for RPRF payments. However, our file wasn't yet in the computer system, and they seem to have lost the receipt. They're not good about receiving documents for people who don't yet have a computer file. We were told to wait six weeks before sending the receipt again. After the six weeks were up, we faxed a copy of the receipt to Mississauga (this was after the sponsorship portion had been approved). For good measure, we e-mailed a scan of the receipt to our visa office, in case Mississauga lost it again. Three weeks later we knew the payment had been processed when the receipt number started working as identification in eCas.

So my advice is to wait until the sponsorship portion has been processed (so you can locate your file on eCas), and only then send the receipt to Mississauga. We did it by fax, though I can't say for sure that it wouldn't also work by mail.

If you prefer mail to fax, the address for RPRF payments can be found here:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/offices/canada/mississauga.asp

Our impression, based on our GCMS notes, is that if you don't pay the RPRF when you first apply, they flag it in your file and may give you a slower time line for that reason, even if you send it to them well before the visa office would be able to start working on your file. Our GCMS notes said:

"No CSCD: No visa office on IMM 1017 - fees to be processed pending CPC-Miss"

Our understanding from other posts is that "CSCD" means "client service commitment date". (We have no idea why there wouldn't have been a visa office on the IMM 1017 - perhaps it was the doctor who made that mistake.) In any case, our file ended up being processed more slowly at the visa office than for other people we read about on the forum who were at the same office.

 

[cranberries]

your timeline looks good to me though... thanks for the reply...we'll pay it asap and see how it goes and maybe do the same thing you did. I just hope and pray that it wont delay our app.

 

[frege]

your timeline looks good to me though... thanks for the reply...we'll pay it asap and see how it goes and maybe do the same thing you did. I just hope and pray that it wont delay our app.

Our timeline was slow for Paris at that time.

Good luck!