Dear All,
I went against advice of a lot of seniors and have applied for a visiting visa for Canada for July to Dec(my husband is on a student visa there doing his PhD, he gets stipend and TA from the university, so he is employed in a way). Today I received a call from the Canadian Embassy(+911141782000) for the same.
VO: You have applied for FSW and that your application is in process so you may be receiving your medicals soon. You’re going to Canada may delay the PR process.
ME: If I receive medicals I can do it in Canada. Secondly my PR application was taking my more time than we initially thought, and I want to visit my husband in the meantime.
VO: Doing medicals in Canada may delay your PR and as you have added your husband in application it will delay the PR process. We need to run background checks on him. If you or your husband have visited any other country except India/Canada it will again delay as we need to run more background checks.
ME: Even if I don’t go to Canada and do my medicals my husband will have to do the same in Canada, so it will obviously delay the same. I have never been out of country and my husband in has only been to Canada.
VO: You have applied for 6 months, are you planning to leave/resign from your job
ME: No, I have commitments here and I wrote 6 months because the visa is generally for 6 months, my stay there would be shorter.
VO: But you have applied for FSW you may have to resign ultimately.
ME: PR and visiting visa are different things.
VO: Okay
Overall, she seemed convinced and the tone of the interview/call was pleasant (no air of superiority or trying to prove me wrong).
Writing this because the VO/caller said that I am already on queue for medicals and that once our status is in process the Visa office has to complete the process in some time period(how much? that she did not say)
By the end of this week I may or may not get my visiting visa, but writing this to boost the confidence of all the Pre Juners.
Please wish me luck for my visiting visa.
I am positive that most of us will get our medicals this year at least.