Sept 26th family class update

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Subject: Sept 26th family class update
  On ECAS

"We received your application to sponsor *************** on September 26, 2005.

We started processing your application on October 24, 2005."

My ecas is up and running, give yours a check. (now i´m going to go to sleep, see you all in a month or so)

(I logged in with the sponsors name and information)

[27-10-2005,23:59]
[**.10.170.18]
Shawn
(in reply to: Sept 26th family class update)
Congradulations Shawn, but now prepare to see that exact same ecas message for the next year or two, depending on your location.
[28-10-2005,12:13]
[***.186.167.254]
Anonymous
(in reply to: Sept 26th family class update)
Your ecas message should change within the month or maybe 6 weeks ....congratulations on the first step starting...

[28-10-2005,13:51]
[***.210.24.46]
Immigration Guy
(in reply to: Sept 26th family class update)
Immigration Guy,

Are sure it will change in a month or 6 weeks? What do you suggest that it will change to?

For example, my spousal application in Singapore took 15 months to change to anything different which was "Decision made, we have sent you a letter" but we had already received this letter 2 weeks before ecas changed.

Shawn, are you a In Canada applicant or outside Canada applicant? And what Visa office is processing it? If you are outside Canada don´t rely on ecas to much. Its kind of useless for info.

[28-10-2005,16:51]
[***.186.167.254]
Anonymous
(in reply to: Sept 26th family class update)
My wife´s ecas/process was right on target....I had IN PROCESS..then after I got approval it changed to DECISION MADE....then her ecas said IN PROCESS and then switched to MEDICALS RECEIVED ..."we have sent you a letter"..... then it switched to DECISION MADE...and she had her letter to go and get her visa...e-client was perfect in our case..... everyone else seems to have trouble but it was right on for us.
[28-10-2005,18:58]
[***.210.24.46]
Immigration Guy
(in reply to: Sept 26th family class update)
and WE were OUTSIDE Canada, so it is not useless all the time.
[28-10-2005,18:59]
[***.210.24.46]
Immigration Guy
(in reply to: Sept 26th family class update)
Immigration Guy,

Right on, nice to see some people actually having this done according to the CIC time-lines.

Where was your Visa office? Ours was Singapore and they were painfully slow, considering our case was straight forward, i.e. first marriage, no military/political involvement, clean bill of health, no age gaps, no trouble with the law, tons of proof to prove genuine marriage etc.

[28-10-2005,19:26]
[***.186.167.254]
Anonymous
(in reply to: Sept 26th family class update)
Thanks for the advice guys.

I know about the wait, and unfortunately I am in singapore, however the sponsored person is supposed to get a letter from CICM upon approval of the sponsorship, so I have no Idea why Anonymous didn?t get any feedback. If it took 15 months didn´t you have to redo your expired medicals?

My wife is from Thailand so I´m applying through singapore, but to get a thai police certificate requires a letter from the consulate requesting it, so it is impossible for me to go the whole show without any feedback. Either way it doesn?t matter to much to me, I live in Thailand and have a job, so if it takes longer I work more and save more. Singapore?s time line last year:
5 months: 30% 8 months: 50% 13 months: 70% 15 Months: 80%

I just hope I?m in the 30% range. My case is very strait forward, I?m married 2 years, together 4 years, I live with my wife, no dependents, joint bank accounts, she knows my whole family and has been to canada. And by the time the application reaches singapore we?ll have the wills and insurance policies ready to send them as additional proof, with the exception of a joint loan or property we have all of the items listed in the processing manual for proof of genuine relationship. But as we?ve all heard many times every case is different and so is every processing officer, I just hope I get a good officer and they like the way I prepared my case.

This post was mostly for a group of us that all applied family class outside of canada, and all of our applications arrived on the 26th of september.

[28-10-2005,23:47]
[**.10.170.66]
Shawn
(in reply to: Sept 26th family class update)
Shawn,

We did have to redo the medical, but we also had to go through an interview. Sounds like you have lots of proof so hopefully you aren´t required to do an interview and can be one of the 30% but even without an interview I wouldn´t count on anything less than being one of the 50% people(8 months).

I know thats not what you want to hear but unfortunatly thats just how Singapore is. The other thing we noticed is that nothing was the same for other people that went, or are still going, through Singapore. i.e. some never got acknowledgment letters, different wait times for interview scheduling, medical redo, PPR, etc.

And yes, the sponsored person is supposed to receive a letter but this doesn´t always happen. Who knows, maybe things get lost in the mail.

I did find that if you do have more proof after applying you should for sure send it in. It seemed to help in are case.

The other is that, what date we think are case is complete is different from CIC thinks as being complete. I have figured it that CIC considers a case to be complete when they have made a final decision, that doesn´t mean your wife is now in Canada, it doesn´t mean they have stamp your passport with visa, in fact, it doesn´t even mean they have even sent you a letter asking for the passport. It just means they have made a decision. So even though CIC says 30% in 5 months, in reality it could be 7-8, months for your wife, by the time they send a letter, she receives it, then sends her passport, they receive it, then issue the visa, then mail it back. Unless you go to Singapore directly for visa. I know people that did this and it saved a lot of time.

Anyways, good luck and don´t think about the process while your waiting and it will pass by faster.

[29-10-2005,13:04]
[***.186.167.254]
Anonymous
(in reply to: Sept 26th family class update)
Anonymous, thanks for the heads up, I´m living in Thailand and working so if it takes longer It won´t affect me much, actually it´ll help us save more money...... My only hope is that I can get my wife into canada for the summer, we´ll be in Prince George BC, and I don´t really want her first season to be winter.

But in the end we´ll get it when we get it, I just hope we don´t need an interview.

[29-10-2005,22:19]
[**.10.168.166]
Shawn
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