URGENT!!.. ''We started processing your application'' after the Interview?

[BlueSky1]

hello all,

I find it strange, we sent in our application on May 2013.. on ECAS it was saying ''Application Received'' only, and it didn't changed until they updated it to "Interview scheduled on November 7''.. so i did my interview on Nov 7 and after 5 days from the interview they added another line that it says : ''We started processing your application on Nov 7.'' (it says same date as my interview date) this is so strange right ? cos what we know is when the ECAS says : ''We started processing your application" they do say it by time when they received the application for the first time and not until after the interview, right ?

by the way, after the interview they gave me back the whole application that my wife sent and also the proof i took to my interview.. i want to understand, what it does mean when it says ''We started processing your application" after i passed the interview? they mean they working on the final decision or what exactly? ???

thank you!

 

[keesio]

eCAS is very inconsistent and it is hard to know exactly what things mean on it. Usually the date given for "'We started processing your application'' is supposed to mean the date they finally got around to looking your application. It is generally a positive message because it means that they are looking at it instead of it just sitting in some queue. Often the date they give makes no sense since many times you know they have gotten to it earlier (like in your case, you had an interview so you know they looked at it before).

Now since my wife did not have an interview, I don't know how that works... if giving back the application is standard procedure or what. Hopefully someone else can comment on that.

 

[canadianwoman]

It could be positive. If there is an appeal, all that information and all those application forms with their proof are part of the appeal process. Giving it back to you implies they do not think there will be an appeal.
Unless they photocopied everything. Even then, though, they usually keep the original things for the appeal.

 

[BlueSky1]

@keesio,

thank you for your feedback, yeah i find it strange for eCas cos it's the first time i will see something like that.

@canadianwoman,

thank you, yes they gave me back everything.. they only kept the forms that we filled up for the first time for sponsor and applicant that we downloaded from CIC website, and they kept the translated Marriage certificate and that's all that they kept.

so they gave me back the whole application (all proofs) and also gave me back the proofs that I took with me to the interview.. i don't think they did photocopy for the proofs cos i find most of the proofs are still organized, and also the proofs that I took to the interview they didn't checked it really.

 

[can/alb]

Did they take your passport?

I think it's a good sign. They probably just didn't update Ecas before. Usually "decision made" comes quickly after "in process".

We just had our interview but they kept all documents and passport. They didn't say anything as to a denial or approval, just that they'd send an email on they're decision.

Good luck I'm sure it's good news.

 

[BlueSky1]

@ can/alb

thank you, no they didn't keep my passport.. they told me that they will contact me after some weeks and the Visa Officer was talking about that they will have to see about my medicals first. cos in my eCAS it did never say that "Medical Results have been received".

best of luck for you too to hear some happy news soon

 

[BlueSky1]

I wanna to know who decide the final decision if to give the visa or not? it's the Visa Officer that interviewing people he's the only one that decide to give a visa? or it's not?

 

[canadianwoman]

I do not think it is only the one who gave the interview in all cases. Maybe in most cases though. There is a program manager who can make decisions, and even change decisions the visa officer makes. As well, on CAIPS notes, they often show more than one visa officer looked at the file.
At my interview, the visa officer took some document I showed her and went back into the office, presumably to show it to someone else. So I think there is some oversight of the visa officers, and it is not just their decision.