Hi, just wondering if anyone knows whether CIC publish this infromation. If not, what is your experience from sending passports to London or Buffalo, to receiving them back with a visa so you can go flagpole ?

thanks

It was three weeks to the day for us, just a couple of weeks ago.

oooo - that would be so good - three weeks would be next week for us

...and remember you don't have to flagpole either - we wnt to our local CIC office with all the paperwork. We were in and out in 20 mins - 10 of that was sitting in a waiting room, 10 was signing our four forms and chatting with the CIC official. Better than a 3 hour drive to Buffalo!

I assume when the passport is sent back, there will be a letter telling what to do next.

If not, what paperwork do I need to change my status in the local office?

We had a letter from the immigration lawyers handling the matter but just took the CIC paperwork plus passports/visas to CIC. Just had to sign the forms, they kept a bit (to get the PR cards etc) and gave us a copy that we have to keep securely)