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June 2011

shamsia

Champion Member
Jan 27, 2011
1,591
35
Visa Office......
New Delhi
App. Filed.......
30-06-2011
File Transfer...
31-08-2011
Med's Done....
16-06-2011
Interview........
Waived
Passport Req..
14-11-2011
VISA ISSUED...
10-01-2012
LANDED..........
April 6th, 2012
sahibzada_2010 said:
Yes Shamsia this is what I meant. Thank you so basically this is my AOR! I emailed my embassy on the October 4th to get the file number so i can send more proof later on but they never reply me back I guess they all are sleeping all day in the high commission. This F is my File number starting with F.
You have your file number with you so go ahead and send those additional documents. Maybe you can try sending them next year in January-February when you are closer to your initial review? Just a suggestion, since they do not touch the files for the first 10-12 months. So inshallah when they open your file you wouldnt be getting any objection letters. Is yours a nikah only case?
 

ddobro2

Champion Member
May 4, 2011
2,589
38
123
Montreal, QC Canada
Category........
Visa Office......
Buffalo, NY
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
How can they be synonymous when Client ID is xxxx-xxxx and Kit ID is a xxxxxxxxxxxx (8 digits vs. 12 digits)? Granted, I don't know anything about Islamabad (other than it takes a loooooong ass time to go through there), Case Processing Centre-Mississauga deals with everybody at the first stage so they should be sending out fairly consistent sponsorship approvals.

Right, the Client ID on the sponsorship approval belongs to the sponsor, and since logging into e-cas with the sponsor's info gives both stages of the processing versus just the PR part if you log in with the applicant's Client ID, this is sufficient for people.

I assumed the reason CPCM started including the file numbers in sponsorship approvals was to put less strain on the embassies receiving emails for the file numbers, so people could start ordering GCMS notes, etc. I know that London does not send out AORs on its own, but that makes sense because it has such a fairly short processing time that they don't think it's worth it. For Islamabad, they should absolutely be sending out AORs to confirm they received the PR portions fo the applications from CPCM.

I found an old post by Rinnerz, and she described Kit ID like this: "Kit ID number: Since inland and outland Canadian visa offices use different ways to identify applicants' files (client ID versus file number, for example), the Kit ID number is what the inland offices use to refer to applications in any correspondence between them and the outland offices. It's a universal way of identifying an application package. It's not often even mentioned though, since obviously we as applicants/sponsors always just use client IDs when contacting inland CIC, and file numbers (once we get them) when dealing with outland Canadian visa offices."

I don't know how true this is, but given that Kit ID is not even found anywhere (that I could see) on CIC's external site, I think it's not too important for us.


shamsia said:
I think (I could be wrong) that the Kit ID and the client ID (from June onwards) are interchangeable terms. The client/kit ID are to check with the sponsor details and the File No. is to check with the Principal Applicant's details. So, methinks, that CIC wants to do away with the AOR system and just assign File numbers right away at the sponsorship approval stage to streamline the process.

@ ddobro: His VO is Islamabad which has stopped sending out AORs since last year. The done thing for Pakistani applicants is to email the VO, a few months after getting the sponsorship approval, requesting for the File number. This move should save them some headache because the VOs are very inconsistent with replying to the emails. :)
 

Sunshine12345

Member
Sep 23, 2011
14
0
Category........
Visa Office......
Vienna
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
06-2011
AOR Received.
25-10-2011
File Transfer...
14-09-2011
Med's Done....
25-04-2011
Interview........
. . .
Passport Req..
Hopefully soooooooon! : )
VISA ISSUED...
Hopefully soooooooon! : )
LANDED..........
. . .
Hi guys, did anyone get some good news maybe? :)
I'm June app. too, but I'm still waiting... The sponsorship app. arrived on Sept 2, 2011, and AOR on October 25, 2011... I hope it won't take long for the VO for the PPR :) wish me luck! Our VO is Vienna :)

I wish you guys good luck too ! ;)
 

isolabella

Full Member
Jun 5, 2011
29
0
123
vancouver/brooklyn
Category........
Visa Office......
Buffalo
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
14-06-2011
AOR Received.
14-09-2011
File Transfer...
20-08-2011
Med's Done....
25-05-2011
Passport Req..
18-11-2011
VISA ISSUED...
23-12-2011
LANDED..........
24-1-2012
up late doing some work and just decided to check my ecas after weeks of no change, and sure enough there was finally a change... to IN PROCESS!!!! hopefully all us junies for buffalo processing get some approvals soon!

We received your application for permanent residence on June 14, 2011.

We started processing your application on October 26, 2011.

Medical results have been received.
 

AW2011

Hero Member
Oct 26, 2011
230
1
isolabella said:
up late doing some work and just decided to check my ecas after weeks of no change, and sure enough there was finally a change... to IN PROCESS!!!! hopefully all us junies for buffalo processing get some approvals soon!

We received your application for permanent residence on June 14, 2011.

We started processing your application on October 26, 2011.

Medical results have been received.
Great news! I have very similar timeline like yours with Buffalo. Got my Medical Results Have Been Received around Oct. 10th but no In Progress showing yet. Wondering when your Medical Results Have Been Received started to show?
 

isolabella

Full Member
Jun 5, 2011
29
0
123
vancouver/brooklyn
Category........
Visa Office......
Buffalo
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
14-06-2011
AOR Received.
14-09-2011
File Transfer...
20-08-2011
Med's Done....
25-05-2011
Passport Req..
18-11-2011
VISA ISSUED...
23-12-2011
LANDED..........
24-1-2012
AW2011 said:
Great news! I have very similar timeline like yours with Buffalo. Got my Medical Results Have Been Received around Oct. 10th but no In Progress showing yet. Wondering when your Medical Results Have Been Received started to show?
Hi AW2011, I'm not sure what day the Medical Results notice showed up, I noticed it on 10/17, when others were saying it was showing up. I asked the folks in the Buffalo outland thread about the timeline from "In Process" to "PPR" and it seems from their experience that it could still be a while (like months!), but fingers crossed things go quickly... for all of us!
 

trizienne

Hero Member
Apr 28, 2010
552
5
Category........
Visa Office......
Manila
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
01-06-2011
AOR Received.
15-07-2011
File Transfer...
20-07-2011
Med's Done....
10-05-2011
Passport Req..
19-08-2011
VISA ISSUED...
27-10-2011
LANDED..........
11-11-2011
Hello everyone!

Almost all June applicants in Manila got their visas this last week of October.
I will be traveling on November 11 :)

Good luck to everyone who are still waiting!
 

dangerJones

Star Member
Jun 7, 2011
124
2
Category........
Visa Office......
Singapore
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
07-06-2011
AOR Received.
25-07-2011
File Transfer...
08-08-2011
Med's Done....
14-04-2011
Interview........
N/A
Passport Req..
20-03-2012
VISA ISSUED...
03-04-2012
LANDED..........
10-04-2012
Hi all,
Our application came in to Mississauga on June 7th of this year, and was passed along to Singapore on August 8th with my sponsor approval. My wife is from Vietnam. Hoping for a positive outcome-- and hopefully sooner rather than later. Looking forward to hearing about others' happy endings too!
Cheers
 

che.the.spy

Full Member
Jul 6, 2011
36
4
Beijing - China
Category........
Visa Office......
Beijing
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
30-6-2011
AOR Received.
19-09-2011
File Transfer...
28-08-2011
Med's Done....
26-6-2011/ rec. 14-10
Passport Req..
30-09-2011
VISA ISSUED...
02-11-2011
LANDED..........
16-11-2011
Hey everybody,

Just got back from Beijing where my husband got a VISA in his passport, Nov 2!!!!!!

Time to go buy some flights!
 
S

sahibzada_2010

Guest
shamsia said:
You have your file number with you so go ahead and send those additional documents. Maybe you can try sending them next year in January-February when you are closer to your initial review? Just a suggestion, since they do not touch the files for the first 10-12 months. So inshallah when they open your file you wouldnt be getting any objection letters. Is yours a nikah only case?
Thanks shamsia. I will send more proof InshAllah in February March.
 

alasken

Star Member
Feb 5, 2010
113
3
Category........
Visa Office......
London
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
27-06-2011
Passport Req..
19-10-2011
LANDED..........
15-11-2011
Just got an email from London saying they inserted my VISA and sent me my passport today :) Cant believe how smoothly this has all been! Im really really happy cause I was getting worried Canada Post had messed up and lost my passport package, but everything turned out ok with them! Final final stage of waiting now then, and once I get the passport back I'll pop across the border for a celebration dinner with my gf and then go back and land :D
 

fast

Star Member
Jul 23, 2011
129
3
Category........
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
VISA ISSUED...
02-11-2011
LANDED..........
16-11-2011
Hi guys, happy to let you know,Yesterday I got visa same day after interview.
Although I was a bit scared for interview,interviewer was so kind and sweet, just asked about my sponsor almost 30mins then she said that they believed our marriage is genuined and pick up PP between 3 and 4pm sameday. :D :D :D.
They gave me PP with visa and landing document by envelope with canadian stamp.
On my way back ,I smiled to everyone and felt walking on the air. ;D

Good luck you all Junies!
 

katie3234

Star Member
Mar 8, 2010
198
5
Interview........
No interview
Hi everyone.

In my husbands country for a visit and just received an email from ecas tracker saying my husbands Medical results were received. Can't log into ecas using my information or my husbands information, so hopefully the tracker is correct! Now if only we could be in process! Good luck everyone.
 

MDSB

Hero Member
Feb 16, 2011
333
8
Scotland
Category........
Visa Office......
London
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
03-06-2011
AOR Received.
28-07-2011
File Transfer...
13-07-2011
Med's Done....
16-05-2011
Passport Req..
07-10-2011
VISA ISSUED...
31-10-2011
Congrats on all the good news everyone... I'm trying to keep up with the spreadsheet but if I've missed anyone out, drop me a line and I'll update :)

GOOD LUCK to those still waiting ??? ;D

PS. Got my passport back with Visa inside (31st October). Very exciting. No more waiting! Fly out on 10th January 2012... so excited! 8)