Open letter to the Minister regarding passport request

[babutv2000]

Minister@cic.gc.ca

Honourable Minister Jason Kennedy,

Various initiatives taken by you in the recent past to expedite visa processing times is highly commendable.
Many aspirants from particularly federal skilled category will be grateful for your efforts.

Would like to bring to your kind attention the issue of passport request by certain visa offices.
It has been an issue raised in several forums. Some visa offices requesting for passport along with medicals
and then there is no response for several weeks and in some cases months. Some offices request for passport
after medicals but ask to be delivered by only postal system and then not returned for some months.
This procedure of retaining passports for several weeks and months is greatly inconveniencing the applicants.
Many will be required to travel very often on business, personal reasons. There could be emergencies requiring
the applicant or dependants to travel at short notices. Hence we request you to consider allowing applicants
to visit the visa processing office and submit the passport in person. This procedure indeed followed by
some visa offices like Buffalo , new york etc., This can be extended to all visa offices. Further passport
request should be made only when all other evaluation and processing is complete. Thus there should be
no reason to hold passports more than say two weeks.

Hope that you will consider our request favourably and suitable action be taken in this regard.

Thanking you, Yours sincerely - Canadian Immigration aspirants

 

[Hopeful Canadian]

I second it. Undoubtedly the facts given are clear and must be attended to.

Minister@cic.gc.ca

Honourable Minister Jason Kennedy,

Various initiatives taken by you in the recent past to expedite visa processing times is highly commendable.
Many aspirants from particularly federal skilled category will be grateful for your efforts.

Would like to bring to your kind attention the issue of passport request by certain visa offices.
It has been an issue raised in several forums. Some visa offices requesting for passport along with medicals
and then there is no response for several weeks and in some cases months. Some offices request for passport
after medicals but ask to be delivered by only postal system and then not returned for some months.
This procedure of retaining passports for several weeks and months is greatly inconveniencing the applicants.
Many will be required to travel very often on business, personal reasons. There could be emergencies requiring
the applicant or dependants to travel at short notices. Hence we request you to consider allowing applicants
to visit the visa processing office and submit the passport in person. This procedure indeed followed by
some visa offices like Buffalo , new york etc., This can be extended to all visa offices. Further passport
request should be made only when all other evaluation and processing is complete. Thus there should be
no reason to hold passports more than say two weeks.

Hope that you will consider our request favourably and suitable action be taken in this regard.

Thanking you, Yours sincerely - Canadian Immigration aspirants

 

[Chinaconnection]

Wow!,

I wish the Minister gets to read this letter. I have also been wondering why the visas offices would keep one's passport for more than 2 weeks not to talk of a month or two.This is so disturbing especially for rofeigners in foreign Countries where they need to do bank tranfers, or traveling, issueing and closing credit cards, traveling to other cities, staying in hotels using passports.

My passport has been at the embassy for 1month 2 weeks. My case had been finalised since 2 weeks ago. I can't understand what is holding them from sending our passports to us. Can visa stamping take more than 2 weeks? I don't get it.