Visitor Visa Passport Submission & Return time

[avlesk]

Hi,
I am applying for a visitor visa from US. We submitted our application end of Dec and got approval today to submit passport. However, My wife has to travel to India on emergency and we cannot submit PPs within 30 days. If we submit the passports later, will it be accepted? also, even if I submit mine alone now, how much time will it take to get the passport back?

 

[shoaibjaan003]

It will take 3-5 working days

 

[avlesk]

It will take 3-5 working days

Is that guaranteed or safe? Want to know if we can send the passport tomorrow and get it before Feb 2.

 

[BA101]

Hi,
I am applying for a visitor visa from US. We submitted our application end of Dec and got approval today to submit passport. However, My wife has to travel to India on emergency and we cannot submit PPs within 30 days. If we submit the passports later, will it be accepted? also, even if I submit mine alone now, how much time will it take to get the passport back?

Which portal did you apply ? GC Key or IRCC Portal?

 

[charliem]

Is that guaranteed or safe? Want to know if we can send the passport tomorrow and get it before Feb 2.

There are no guarantees. No one will give you that. You have a choice to make to take the risk or not.

 

[avlesk]

Which portal did you apply ? GC Key or IRCC Portal?

I have no idea what the differences are. But I went here
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/account.html
clicked on "
Sign in with your GCKey user ID and password.
Sign in with GCKey"

Is that what you mean by GC key?

 

[avlesk]

There are no guarantees. No one will give you that. You have a choice to make to take the risk or not.

hmm.. makes sense. If I cannot submit within 30 days, can I request in anyway to extend the duration to 60 days or later?

 

[BA101]

I have no idea what the differences are. But I went here
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/account.html
clicked on "
Sign in with your GCKey user ID and password.
Sign in with GCKey"

Is that what you mean by GC key?

Yes this is GC Key

Thank you

 

[BA101]

hmm.. makes sense. If I cannot submit within 30 days, can I request in anyway to extend the duration to 60 days or later?

Call the IRCC Customer support center and speak to someone to get the right clarity on this.

 

[avlesk]

Call the IRCC Customer support center and speak to someone to get the right clarity on this.

Hi, I am in US. Can I still call this helpdesk?

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/contact-ircc/client-support-centre.html

• telephone: 1-888-242-2100 (in Canada only)
  • Automated telephone service—available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
    • If you have a touch-tone telephone, you can listen to pre-recorded information about our programs, and check the status of your application.
  • Client Support Centre agents—Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., your local time, except for statutory holidays. Services are available in French and English.
    • Agents can help you with general and case specific enquiries. They cannot:
      • make decisions on applications
      • help process applications faster, unless you meet the criteria for urgent processing

 

[BA101]

Hi, I am in US. Can I still call this helpdesk?

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/contact-ircc/client-support-centre.html

• telephone: 1-888-242-2100 (in Canada only)
  • Automated telephone service—available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
    • If you have a touch-tone telephone, you can listen to pre-recorded information about our programs, and check the status of your application.
  • Client Support Centre agents—Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., your local time, except for statutory holidays. Services are available in French and English.
    • Agents can help you with general and case specific enquiries. They cannot:
      • make decisions on applications
      • help process applications faster, unless you meet the criteria for urgent processing

Yes this is the number to call

 

[charliem]

Call the IRCC Customer support center and speak to someone to get the right clarity on this.

The applicant can ask for more time, but I do not think it is useful. Decisions take long these days. Better to push whatever plans he had until the passport is stamped and returned.

 

[avlesk]

or what is the ph

The applicant can ask for more time, but I do not think it is useful. Decisions take long these days. Better to push whatever plans he had until the passport is stamped and returned.

Our application is approved. It is just that we are unable to submit our passports within the next 30 days as my family member is already traveling to India on a personal emergency, and will return only after 30 days. I have submitted it as a request via helpdesk. Our concern is not to have any visa refusal on our record for any country (We do not have one currently).

 

[mashfaq565]

Hi,
I am applying for a visitor visa from US. We submitted our application end of Dec and got approval today to submit passport. However, My wife has to travel to India on emergency and we cannot submit PPs within 30 days. If we submit the passports later, will it be accepted? also, even if I submit mine alone now, how much time will it take to get the passport back?

 

[mashfaq565]

Hello Brother,

just a quick question I got my approval too last week. They have sent me an email to submit yhe passport for visitors visa stamping. With the link in a email to find the location of VAC centers. But I’m not able to find the right information on VAC sites to send the passport. I live in Texas.

Can you please help me advising the instructions on how to send and return the passport being in Texas. Thanks