H&C FV – Nov 2025 Timeline

[Notinformed]

Hi everyone,

I’m sharing my H&C – Family Violence (FV) timeline and would love to hear from others who applied around the same time or are also under the FV stream.

My timeline:
• Nov 5, 2025 – Application submitted
• Nov 28, 2025 – Biometrics fee payment letter
• Nov 30, 2025 – Fee paid and proof emailed
• Dec 1, 2025 – AOR received
• Dec 8, 2025 – BIL issued
• Dec 9, 2025 – Biometrics completed

Current status (IRCC automated line – 8 Jan 2026):
- We are reviewing if you meet eligibility requirements
- You do not need a medical exam, we will send you a message if this changes
- You do not need interview.
- We do not need your fingerprints, we will send you a message if this changes
- We are processing your background check

Is it under the fast processing for victims of family violence?
If anyone applied around Nov/Dec or is in the FV stream, I’d really appreciate hearing your timeline or any updates.

 

[canuck78]

Also curious to see how these cases are treated these days even those in the past 6 months and 12 months. There have been clear changes to H&C already. Traditionally few types of cases were expedited extremely quickly but that was before these huge backlogs existed. Assume there is a chance there may be backlogs for expedited cases as well just not decades long. Like all H&C cases please also research other options to secure your status in Canada because there are likely to be significant reforms to general H&C after bill c-12. Also start to work in a field in demand if possible. What once was a fast and almost guaranteed pathway to PR could now be changing.

Based on your other recent posts did you claim asylum? Were you denied? That would also complicate your application.

 

[Notinformed]

Also curious to see how these cases are treated these days even those in the past 6 months and 12 months. There have been clear changes to H&C already. Traditionally few types of cases were expedited extremely quickly but that was before these huge backlogs existed. Assume there is a chance there may be backlogs for expedited cases as well just not decades long. Like all H&C cases please also research other options to secure your status in Canada because there are likely to be significant reforms to general H&C after bill c-12. Also start to work in a field in demand if possible. What once was a fast and almost guaranteed pathway to PR could now be changing.

Based on your other recent posts did you claim asylum? Were you denied? That would also complicate your application.

My refugee application was found ineligible 1 year after the eligibility interview due to the Safe Third Country Agreement, I got a redetermination letter, before I have my hearing date,

So I've applied H&C in august, 2 months after (Oct 24) I got a letter from IRCC informing that my case would not be be open due to the 12 months bar as my refugee application was denied or withdrawn.
I had 2 options: check if it was an error and fix the form or request my money back, once my application was not reviewed.

So I've researched a lot about the 12 months bar, as my process was not denied by IRB, and it was not withdrawn, the 12 months bar should not be applied, once IRCC determined it was not eligible due to STCA.

And I reapplied on Nov 5th and attached an explanation letter, informing these things about the 12 months bar, and 23 days after the reapplication my process started and I got the AOR.