stuck in BG check

[mokachino]

Reposting this hoping someone can share their knowledge/experience of a similar case:
I have now gone past 10 months since I applied and the CIC agent recently tole me it's the BG check that's still in progress and they don't know how much longer it may take. I have lived in Canada for 8 years and have gotten study permits, work permits, and visas many time and never got stuck in BG check.
Is there anyone with a similar experience or can anyone offer a solution?

 

[Canadaistheway]

Reposting this hoping someone can share their knowledge/experience of a similar case:
I have now gone past 10 months since I applied and the CIC agent recently tole me it's the BG check that's still in progress and they don't know how much longer it may take. I have lived in Canada for 8 years and have gotten study permits, work permits, and visas many time and never got stuck in BG check.
Is there anyone with a similar experience or can anyone offer a solution?

Did you order GCMS notes? What do they say?

Check this out. Might help:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/tools/perm/econ/fsw/decision.asp

And here is admissibility evaluation:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/manuals/enf/enf02-eng.pdf

If you have GCMS notes and read these you can find out at which point you got stuck, and guess how much longer it will go on.

 

[Stuckup]

Reposting this hoping someone can share their knowledge/experience of a similar case:
I have now gone past 10 months since I applied and the CIC agent recently tole me it's the BG check that's still in progress and they don't know how much longer it may take. I have lived in Canada for 8 years and have gotten study permits, work permits, and visas many time and never got stuck in BG check.
Is there anyone with a similar experience or can anyone offer a solution?

If you have answered all question Truthfully, than dont worry. It will be processed soon.

 

[andy108]

I know a few guys who got stuck. It happens.

 

[mokachino]

I haven't ordered GCMS note since I read in the forum here that it won't really affect the processing time —and it may even slow things down. Do you think it will have any further information as to what stage the application is stuck?

Did you order GCMS notes? What do they say?

Check this out. Might help:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/tools/perm/econ/fsw/decision.asp

And here is admissibility evaluation:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/manuals/enf/enf02-eng.pdf

If you have GCMS notes and read these you can find out at which point you got stuck, and guess how much longer it will go on.

 

[mokachino]

Do you know how long it took to go through the BG processing stage? I am surprised that there hasn't been an interview or any request for any extra form (I haven't even been asked to submit additional information form) and it's been just quietly in progress with no communication or questions for months now.

I know a few guys who got stuck. It happens.

 

[Canadaistheway]

I haven't ordered GCMS note since I read in the forum here that it won't really affect the processing time —and it may even slow things down. Do you think it will have any further information as to what stage the application is stuck?

It would give some info on where it is actually stuck. I don't think it would effect processing in either way. Reading notes in the end would be interesting. If everything clear in GCMS notes then it was probably a request to a foreign (probably your home country's) government that got stuck. Especially if you're inland I would go ahead and apply. It's just 5 bucks and takes around 30 days to arrive.

 

[bellaluna]

I was curious about your case, so I tried to do some digging and found this link that explains the background checks in detail:

http://www.roadtocanada.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3143

Basically, simple BG checks take 90-120 days (but note this was originally posted in 2007, so maybe it's improved by now)
while in-depth BG checks take 6-21 months.

I also found this:
http://www.cpj.ca/files/docs/csis.pdf

According to CSIS, 51 percent of the of the 53,029 requests from Citizenship and Immigration Canada for CSIS security checks were processed in 24 days, with “less than one percent” taking longer than 12 months to process.