Snowy560

Becki, when we were thinking of shipping a bit more stuff from the UK (about 5 boxes so I think similar-ish to what you're planning) my husband went down to this office:

CBSA Metro Vancouver Office Relocation

to talk to the CBSA officers there.

As I have said in a previous post (not on this thread but one which I've think you've seen) based on that conversation, we did ship some extra boxes and got them stamped off by CBSA on a B4 when we came back in via YVR in March 2015 (in my husband's name, 5 years after he had landed). There was absolutely no issue probably as we had clearly shipped nothing of value (the goods arrived separately via the shipper a few weeks later).

S

PS: I expect that office is still current but do check if you decide to go down there (I just pulled the address off an old email).

beckiwoo

Ok thank you. I will look for the local office and give them a call to understand what I need to do.


Thank you. I remember you said that now.


I'll have to investigate further about this

miss_mp

Hey congrats beckiwoo on your COPR!! :thumbs:

beckiwoo

Thank you - I am very happy right now :thumbsu p:

beckiwoo

Just an update on this. I contacted Border information Services today. The customer service person I spoke to had never ever heard of someone doing an 'inland' landing at CIC and told me I needed to go to the border. Roll on 5 minutes later when I tell him that I can as I've booked it and I was put on hold.


He said to check when I go to my appointment at CIC office and if they wont do it (as we know they wont) then just go down to CBSA office on main Street in Vancouver and get it done there (no appointment a needed).

Gorbzilla

Hi all,

Anyone have any clue as to whats going on with the invite volumes recently? The volume has dropped to ~700 per fortnight, meaning the cutoff remains consistently around 480+.

Is there any news on whether this is because they are struggling with the target of 80% of applications completed within 6 months? Or could they be re-evaluating the processes now that its been 18 months?

Apologies if this has already been discusses, the thread is really long!

Thanks,

Gorb

mahdawg

It's very hard to tell. As far as I remember, last year the scores were very high at the start of the year (over 600) with an odd lower score (460-480). Then come the end of August the scores lowered to 460-480.

My guess is they've set the threshold at 480 now because they have a lot of applicants around that level. I had a score of 484 which was based off 2 years UK experience & 1 year Canadian. Given there's quite a large number of people who come here on study permits/workingholidays, it doesn't seem unfeasible that a chunk of them will all be getting near that score bracket.

beckiwoo

The lowest it has ever gone is around 453 I believe. i do know it has never gone lower then 450.

I got through on 468 (mainly I lost points for age) but I think if I was to apply right now with the same score, I would struggle and that is with 1 year of Canadian experience and 2 years foreign as well.

I think that here have been a few discussions about the points getting lower towards the end of the year.

Snowy560

I've heard later in the year/next year plus more invites per month.

S

mahdawg

I definitely think they will lower it, as they did last year, but for now I think the benchmark will be 480 for the next two months. Speculative, but do you think there will be another category specific round for CEC?

Snowy560

No I don't.

S

beckiwoo

Who knows?

I didn't even know they had a round of ITAs just for CEC

What has changed though is if an applicant is eligible for CEC and FSW then they should now be selected for CEC before FSW.

Snowy560

Yes Becki is right.

S

mahdawg

As reliable as google is, my search showed it happened just once at the end of February 2015. So probably never again given the current course.

But that is a positive note about the CEC choice being selected first.

johntheScot

Congratulations