confused and stressed. please help.

[leahkbarker]

I am a canadian citizen and my fiance is a british citizen we applied for the spousal sponsorship and I got approved to sponsor him. Then it went to London to be approved for permeant residency. Our current status looks like this.

We received application for permanent residence on December 13, 2013.

We started processing application on February 25, 2014.

Medical results have been received.

A decision has been made on application. The office will contact concerning this decision.

We are currently in England visiting but according to my roommate there is a letter for him at the post office. Should I be worried? or does the response usually come to the post office? Also we haven't received anything asking for his passport? Will he need a confirmation of perm residency before he can come across the border or does that happen at border control when he comes back? Also does it matter that his working visa currently ended at the start of May and he is back in England for the meantime until we find out if his residency has been granted?

I am sorry if these questions are confusing but I myself am confused and very stressed.

 

[MilesAway]

They do not usually request passports for those who are visa-exempt.

If he wants to do his landing, then yes, he needs the confirmation of permanent residence (COPR). He can only come as a visitor without it.

As you applied outland, it doesn't matter where he is. If you had applied inland, it would be a different story.

 

[taffy7]

Congratulations its means he has been approved . Come back to Canada as a visitor then go to the nearest land boarder crossing and flagpole . It will show up on the CBSA site when he lands in Canada and goes through customs .you wont have any problem coming home ..

 

[Alurra71]

I am a canadian citizen and my fiance is a british citizen we applied for the spousal sponsorship and I got approved to sponsor him. Then it went to London to be approved for permeant residency. Our current status looks like this.

We are currently in England visiting but according to my roommate there is a letter for him at the post office. Should I be worried? or does the response usually come to the post office? Also we haven't received anything asking for his passport? Will he need a confirmation of perm residency before he can come across the border or does that happen at border control when he comes back? Also does it matter that his working visa currently ended at the start of May and he is back in England for the meantime until we find out if his residency has been granted?

I am sorry if these questions are confusing but I myself am confused and very stressed.

If you filed outland, then the response waiting at the post office is either his COPR or a denial letter, but in either case it will need to be picket up. Was the address given to London his english address or a canadian one? You'll need to get that from the post office asap as they do have an expiration date usually correlating to the medical expiry.

Good luck.

 

[Rob_TO]

We are currently in England visiting but according to my roommate there is a letter for him at the post office. Should I be worried? or does the response usually come to the post office? Also we haven't received anything asking for his passport? Will he need a confirmation of perm residency before he can come across the border or does that happen at border control when he comes back? Also does it matter that his working visa currently ended at the start of May and he is back in England for the meantime until we find out if his residency has been granted?

It looks like your process is done. If he didn't do an interview and CIC did not contact you regarding any concerns with your application, then its a practically guaranteed approval and the letter at home is COPR documents.

One option you have now is to get your roommate to mail his COPR (making sure to use a good delivery method with tracking) to your current address in England. Then he could just do the official PR landing on your scheduled flight back to Canada, and not have to worry about going to a US land border later on. If you just submitted app in Dec 2013, then the COPR should be valid until near end of this year assuming you did medicals also around that time.

 

[little_apple]

How long has the letter been at the post office? Someone has to pick it up asap. CanadaPost only keeps mail for between 7 and 15 days before it will be sent back to the VO!

 

[taffy7]

Her room mate won't be able to pick up the letter , if it has gone to the post office they will require I.D and a signature .

little-apple i was thinking the same thing .

 

[little_apple]

Maybe he can write his roommate a letter to allow him to pick it up. Sign it, scan it, send it

 

[Rob_TO]

Maybe he can write his roommate a letter to allow him to pick it up. Sign it, scan it, send it

Yes they can. See here: https://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/personal/support/helpcentre/missed_deliveries/dnc_pickup.jsf
If you are picking up... an item on behalf of someone else or a “home based” business and live at the same address
Then you must provide… one piece of acceptable government issued photo ID indicating residence at the same address as the address on the item.

If they live at same address, they don't even need a letter or authorization, just proof they share the same address.