Permanent Residence Fee

[x5-452]

I'm about to send my sponsorship application in and only can afford to pay the sponsorship fee for the time being. I will be able to pay for the fee in a month. How do i send my receipt in and will they know to attach my receipt to my application afterwards?

 

[Misplaced Brit]

I believe there's 3 parts to the receipt. One part is kept by the bank or financial institution that you pay at, one is sent in with your application, and one is kept for your own records.

You can easily pay a day or so before you send your application in, and then put the receipt in with your application.

 

[x5-452]

Right but I want to send in my application in without paying the Permanent residency fee initially. I will pay the fee next month and send in my receipt to CIC.

 

[Misplaced Brit]

Ohhh gotcha!

I don't know if you can do that or not to be honest. Maybe someone else could give some advice.

Sorry I can't help.

 

[bonbon9]

Hi!

You should consider that paying the fees later can delay the process of your application. I believe you would need to wait until you're assigned a Client ID (when your file is already at he visa office, not Mississauga) and send/fax the receipt with a reference to your name and Client ID.

Hope this helps!

 

[rjessome]

I'm about to send my sponsorship application in and only can afford to pay the sponsorship fee for the time being. I will be able to pay for the fee in a month. How do i send my receipt in and will they know to attach my receipt to my application afterwards?

You could also wait until you've received sponsorship approval and the visa post receives your file and begins processing. They will issue you a file number starting with a B. You can pay the fee, get the receipt and fax it to them asking them to attach it to your file, quoting the appropriate file number in big bold letters. SAVE the receipt.

 

[Cdagal]

This is what I did...paid later in the process as we could not afford it initially. It took about six weeks to show that it had been processed by Mississauga. I would not wait until the end to do it, though.