Thread for outland Buffalo applicants!

[AmericaninQuebec]

;GOT PPR THIS MORNING!!! Just under 9 months from date of mailing application. Now if I could only reach my husband to tell him!!! (He actually got the PPR - I'm still a Canadian ciitizen) Now the work begins to relist the house and figure out the 2nd half of this process Just had to share with someone!!!

Congrats to you and your husband!

 

[AmericaninQuebec]

Actually kitchloo, there is a phone number listed for the immigration section but I don't know of anyone on this thread who has called, so I can't say whether the phone actually gets picked up and how helpful the response would be.

Quote from: kitchloo on January 31, 2012, 01:23:52 pm
Back in October my husband got a letter requesting the Right of Permanent Residence Fee, which we paid online right away, as well as faxing the receipt to Mississauga and Buffalo. The letter also said that an interview would not be required.

Why haven't we heard anything since then? This is so nerve wracking! Should we call them or keep waiting endlessly?

Really? I've never seen a phone number listed anywhere (and I searched high and low for one in the past). Where is it listed? Or do you mean the general one to Immigration Canada?

 

[ddobro2]

Yes, finally!! Congratulations janyte

;GOT PPR THIS MORNING!!! Just under 9 months from date of mailing application. Now if I could only reach my husband to tell him!!! (He actually got the PPR - I'm still a Canadian ciitizen) Now the work begins to relist the house and figure out the 2nd half of this process Just had to share with someone!!!

 

[ddobro2]

Not the general one to the call centre nor the consulate general but if you go in the contact page on the consulate website, it has a phone number for the immigration division.

Really? I've never seen a phone number listed anywhere (and I searched high and low for one in the past). Where is it listed? Or do you mean the general one to Immigration Canada?

 

[ddobro2]

Word!

Yay, another May applicant is done! Congratulations!

 

[Ichiro]

;GOT PPR THIS MORNING!!! Just under 9 months from date of mailing application. Now if I could only reach my husband to tell him!!! (He actually got the PPR - I'm still a Canadian ciitizen) Now the work begins to relist the house and figure out the 2nd half of this process Just had to share with someone!!!

Congrats!!

 

[awor]

Congrats janyte!!

 

[mumbles]

;GOT PPR THIS MORNING!!! Just under 9 months from date of mailing application. Now if I could only reach my husband to tell him!!! (He actually got the PPR - I'm still a Canadian ciitizen) Now the work begins to relist the house and figure out the 2nd half of this process Just had to share with someone!!!

OMG!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!! this is FAB!! so happy for you Janyte! I'm so excited!!!!!! and its not even my application! LOL! Mu hubby and I were talking about it last night...how we will feel when we get the email or snail mail.....I don't think I can even grasp right now how that will feel.

 

[GOGOGO]

Think it's this one:

Immigration Tel.: (716) 858-9501

From http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/offices/missions/buffalo.asp

Not the general one to the call centre nor the consulate general but if you go in the contact page on the consulate website, it has a phone number for the immigration division.

 

[nhl1011]

;GOT PPR THIS MORNING!!! Just under 9 months from date of mailing application. Now if I could only reach my husband to tell him!!! (He actually got the PPR - I'm still a Canadian ciitizen) Now the work begins to relist the house and figure out the 2nd half of this process Just had to share with someone!!!

Congrats~~~~~hope you dont mind sharing some luck with me

 

[kitchloo]

Actually kitchloo, there is a phone number listed for the immigration section but I don't know of anyone on this thread who has called, so I can't say whether the phone actually gets picked up and how helpful the response would be.

Thanks ddobro2! We had to call once but it must have been Mississauga.

 

[Quince777]

Thanks ddobro2! We had to call once but it must have been Mississauga.

Can you share your timeline with us? Thanks!

 

[kitchloo]

Can you share your timeline with us? Thanks!

Sure! We were married December 2010. My husband sent his application on May 5, 2011. On June 30 we were having problems seeing the application status online and called them (it must have been Mississauga, can't remember). They said there were problems with the photos and that they had sent us a letter on June 7. Because of the postal strike, we didn't get that letter (along with our entire application) until several weeks later in July! Then we sent everything back within a couple of days. On July 11 I was approved as his sponsor. They started processing the application on October 11. On October 17 we got a letter requesting the Right of Permanent Residence Fee (something we had somehow overlooked - not sure how we did that since we had read that application SO MANY times!). We paid online that very day, and faxed the receipt to Buffalo and Mississauga the next day. Haven't heard anything since then.

 

[Kiri]

Sure! We were married December 2010. My husband sent his application on May 5, 2011. On June 30 we were having problems seeing the application status online and called them (it must have been Mississauga, can't remember). They said there were problems with the photos and that they had sent us a letter on June 7. Because of the postal strike, we didn't get that letter (along with our entire application) until several weeks later in July! Then we sent everything back within a couple of days. On July 11 I was approved as his sponsor. They started processing the application on October 11. On October 17 we got a letter requesting the Right of Permanent Residence Fee (something we had somehow overlooked - not sure how we did that since we had read that application SO MANY times!). We paid online that very day, and faxed the receipt to Buffalo and Mississauga the next day. Haven't heard anything since then.

I'm happy you've reached that. I'm curious.. when the PPR happens, what exactly does that mean? That he's a PR now? I'm new to every bit of this and will be sending off my application in May of this year.

 

[Calgary-Bound]

;GOT PPR THIS MORNING!!! Just under 9 months from date of mailing application. Now if I could only reach my husband to tell him!!! (He actually got the PPR - I'm still a Canadian ciitizen) Now the work begins to relist the house and figure out the 2nd half of this process Just had to share with someone!!!

Congrats!