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How to file official complaints against CIC services, performance, ...?

Dr Eng X

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Jan 10, 2012
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CIC has held many files in CPP-Ottawa and they did NOT do anything or help the Visa Office instead and after months they transferred the files without order
Now the Visa Office claims to have started processing the files based on the date they were received from Ottawa. However, that is NOT the order in which the files were recieved. There is huge unjustice
How to complain? How to find justice?

This is an example of CIC and their performance

http://www.cicsnews.com/?p=947
http://www.cicsnews.com/?p=1781
http://www.cicsnews.com/?p=851
 

zardoz

VIP Member
Feb 2, 2013
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Visa Office......
London
App. Filed.......
16-02-2013
VISA ISSUED...
31-07-2013
LANDED..........
09-11-2013
You have made nearly 1500 posts and you don't know how the system works yet?

That web site shows that CIC is working hard and doing a reasonable job.

There will always be individual cases that have problems but when you consider just how many cases are processed each year, the percentage is low.
 

Dr Eng X

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zardoz said:
You have made nearly 1500 posts and you don't know how the system works yet?

That web site shows that CIC is working hard and doing a reasonable job.

There will always be individual cases that have problems but when you consider just how many cases are processed each year, the percentage is low.
w/o much arguments Any system has to have some sort of evaluation, feedback, accessment my question is specific
How to file an official complaint?
 

CanadaLeb

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Jan 26, 2013
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Toronro
Category........
Visa Office......
Cpp-Ottawa/beirut
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
1/Nov/2012
Doc's Request.
No...
AOR Received.
15/Jan/2013
File Transfer...
15/Jan/2013
Med's Request
no
Med's Done....
15/oct/2012
Interview........
Waived....
Passport Req..
18-04-2013
VISA ISSUED...
25-05-2013
LANDED..........
09-05-2013
My file supposed to to to Beirut Vo... but its at Ottawa since jan 15 2013...my status still app received medical received
also my friend got his file tansfered there in late oct but its showing in process so i guess they do some work at ottawa
 

Hnhkrk

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May 4, 2012
368
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Illinois, USA
Category........
Visa Office......
LA --> Ottawa
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
04-09-2012
AOR Received.
17-10-2012
Med's Done....
09-08-2012
Interview........
Waived
Passport Req..
08-03-2013
VISA ISSUED...
16-04-2013
LANDED..........
25-04-2013
CanadaLeb said:
My file supposed to to to Beirut Vo... but its at Ottawa since jan 15 2013...my status still app received medical received
also my friend got his file tansfered there in late oct but its showing in process so i guess they do some work at ottawa
You can't rely on ecas. My ecas still says 'File received', and my file has since been transferred and I've received my PPR. So obviously, my application has been in process for awhile.
 

Dr Eng X

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CanadaLeb said:
My file supposed to to to Beirut Vo... but its at Ottawa since jan 15 2013...my status still app received medical received
also my friend got his file tansfered there in late oct but its showing in process so i guess they do some work at ottawa
I do NOT have any doubts, CPP-Ottawa did NOT do anything at least for my case and others. I am 100% sure of what I am saying. I did speak to a CIC agent who confirmed they transfered the files...Not only this but I can see everything on my GCMS records now back to the question:

How to file official complaints against CIC services, performance, ...?
 

frankinto

Star Member
Mar 15, 2009
101
10
Toronto
Category........
Visa Office......
CPP-Ottawa
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
09-07-2012
Interview........
Waived
Passport Req..
06-02-2013
VISA ISSUED...
13-04-2013
Dr Eng X said:
w/o much arguments Any system has to have some sort of evaluation, feedback, accessment my question is specific
How to file an official complaint?
If you are still within stated processing times, I am not sure what that would accomplish. CIC works in mysterious ways.
 

Dr Eng X

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frankinto said:
If you are still within stated processing times, I am not sure what that would accomplish. CIC works in mysterious ways.
These mysterious ways has to stop
 
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gsize

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May 2, 2009
958
48
Category........
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
2009....denied Feb 2010.....appeal allowed (August 2012)..waiting for processing
Doc's Request.
04/04/2013
File Transfer...
30/01/2013
Med's Done....
04/2013 (second time)
Passport Req..
21/02, 2014
VISA ISSUED...
18/03/2014
LANDED..........
05/04/2014
since we are on the topic.

successful appeals are supposed to be 'fast tracked' through Ottawa. (won appeal august 2012)

So, why was my file sent to Mexico collecting dust for 6 months (its now in Ottawa)

4 years next month !

I have been to my MPP several times. Unfortunately, most people will do nothing !

Until their is 'political will' nothing will change. ???

sorry, I needed to vent......now I feel better.....wheres the Corona ?
 

Rob_TO

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Nov 7, 2012
11,427
1,551
Toronto
Category........
FAM
Visa Office......
Seoul, Korea
App. Filed.......
13-07-2012
AOR Received.
18-08-2012
File Transfer...
21-08-2012
Med's Done....
Sent with App
Passport Req..
N/R - Exempt
VISA ISSUED...
30-10-2012
LANDED..........
16-11-2012
Dr Eng X said:
How to file official complaints against CIC services, performance, ...?
The only way i could suggest, is to contact the current Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, MP Jason Kenney.

Contact info here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/about_us/minister/contact.asp

And probably CC your local MP as well.
 

gsize

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May 2, 2009
958
48
Category........
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
2009....denied Feb 2010.....appeal allowed (August 2012)..waiting for processing
Doc's Request.
04/04/2013
File Transfer...
30/01/2013
Med's Done....
04/2013 (second time)
Passport Req..
21/02, 2014
VISA ISSUED...
18/03/2014
LANDED..........
05/04/2014
i was thinkng......contacting the media
 

Rob_TO

VIP Member
Nov 7, 2012
11,427
1,551
Toronto
Category........
FAM
Visa Office......
Seoul, Korea
App. Filed.......
13-07-2012
AOR Received.
18-08-2012
File Transfer...
21-08-2012
Med's Done....
Sent with App
Passport Req..
N/R - Exempt
VISA ISSUED...
30-10-2012
LANDED..........
16-11-2012
gsize said:
I have been to my MPP several times. Unfortunately, most people will do nothing !
I hope this is a typo and you mean MP and not MPP? Since the MPP (Provincial Parliament) is useless here since they don't have jurisdiction in Fed level politics, so only your local MP can possibly do anything!
 

gsize

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May 2, 2009
958
48
Category........
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
2009....denied Feb 2010.....appeal allowed (August 2012)..waiting for processing
Doc's Request.
04/04/2013
File Transfer...
30/01/2013
Med's Done....
04/2013 (second time)
Passport Req..
21/02, 2014
VISA ISSUED...
18/03/2014
LANDED..........
05/04/2014
yes, you are correct MP

8)

just booked Costa Rica. Hey whats another $2,000.00 on top of the $30.000.00 spent already.

Thank G-d I am good at my job !
 

Steph C

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Nov 11, 2009
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Visa Office......
Manila
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
April 30 2012
Doc's Request.
N/A
File Transfer...
Sep 27 2012
Med's Request
April 15 2013 (re-med)
Interview........
Waived
Passport Req..
March 18 2013
VISA ISSUED...
May 22 2013
LANDED..........
June 6 2013
gsize said:
i was thinkng......contacting the media
Yes, the media loves these things. I see them all the time on the news. Our local media has recently featured:

An Indo-Canadian man unsuccessfully trying to sponsor his old Aunt as a PR in the family class. He got the aunt over on a visitor's visa and is trying to sponsor her as a parent, in spite of the fact he has already sponsored his parents. She was facing deportation but now gets a second appeal.

A Filipina who was just sponsored as a dependent and didn't declare her child upon entry and is now upset she can't ever sponsor her child. They filmed the mother and child bawling on a Skype conversation. Apparently the child was born before the application was submitted and never mentioned. The family denies it.

These stories are heart wrenching and the public are appalled - even though both (to me) clearly break the basic rules. Why shouldn't they also be sympathetic to OUR stories? I think we need to get to the media and change people's perception of immigration.