angipangy said:
Hi everyone,
I am a Canadian Citizen sponsoring my common-law spouse who is a permanent resident of the US. Our time line is as follows:
Application sent: May 24, 2015
AOR1: June 29, 2015
SA: July 26, 2015
IP: August 4, 2015
Meds: upfront in January 2015.
I have not received any requests for further documents and I am a little worried that we have been put into the IP stack too quickly and perhaps things may have been overlooked. I am seeing that most applicants are requested to provide further documentation. Should I be worried that we haven't? We also have not received that third line in our eCas that says Medicals Received.
Hi angipangy,
You're not alone. Many people who submitted applications in late May, as well as June and July were moved to IP in early August, however there's been no movement on their applications.
There's been a rather long dialogue among the forums if IP really means IP anymore. So many people received it who submitted their applications
much later than those who currently are seeing their applications go from received to IP, and then seeing DM a few weeks after.
General consensus: IP for those in late May and beyond who saw IP prematurely are not the traditional marker for the CIC actually sitting down to look at your application. It likely means that your case is open and sitting in their offices somewhere.
(If you were to look at the 2015 spreadsheet, there's an obvious anomaly where a huge section is just IP whereas it's no where to be seen in earlier months.)
I'd suspect your application has a 1-4 months before someone has it in front of them and before you get the email for additional document requests. There are always exceptions to the rule and those who get processed faster, but the likelyhood that the CIC jumped over February-April applicants and started looking at May applications is rather rare.
Silver lining: you should be a-okay with your forms.
If you want to see if your medicals were received, you can order GCMS case notes (that take approximately a month), and they will state whether or not the medical was received with your application as well as whether or not they've started processing thinks like your background check, eligibility, etc. ECAS seems to be inaccurate more times than it's accurate nowadays . . .
Hope this helps!
