Just thought this might be of interest. We applied in August 2006 under the simplified process for PR and yesterday we had a lovely brown envelope waiting for us at home saying we were finally being processed and to send updated information. When we first applied the letter back from CIC told us it would be 42 months before we heard anything. Its been 25. Now we have the mammoth task of getting together all our documents. Can I ask a stupid question though? The letter asks for payslips for the last 10 years. Is that right or am I reading it wrong?!!!

Hi Neekie

Congratulations.

Re your pay slips, I think I sent my P60 End of Year Tax certificates to prove my earnings and that I had had the income tax deducted which is what they want to know.

Cheers
Ray

Thanks Ray. Thats a relief!! Who keeps 10 years worth of pay slips? I could probably scrape together 2 years worth but that would take me forever!!!

OMG Neekie - Now I'm amazed! As you will see we are Aug 07 and also had a 42-48 mth wait.
Hope this unexpectedly early request suits you....
10 years of payslips? I thought you just had to justify 4 years of work experience in your chosen category.
How long have they given you to collect all the documents? Is it 3 months?
Have you got a house to sell too?
I bet you are in a right state of excitement and mild panic now!
I am.....just hearing your news has brought home to me that this time next year and we could be receiving the same brown envelope.....and I had figured that next August would be our half-way point of waiting!
Good luck!

Thanks for your best wishes. We too were thinking we would have at least another year. I get the Canada paper every month and for the past 2 months it said that CIC were still processing Dec/Jan 2006. We thought we had a while yet. We have been given til Jan 1st 09 to submit all our documents. We have a house to sell which I'm not looking forward to, that could take a while. The excitement and mild panic comment was spot on. Its all really scary now but also very exciting. Cant believe its come so quickly. Its been a long 2 year wait.