Jerseygirl

Where on earth did you get 11 years from? Perhaps you could provide a link.

Our daughter is our sponsor for PR. Our application was hand delivered on 2 Jan 2014. Our sponsor was approved 2 months ago and our application is being processed.

We have been in Canada for 2 years on the Super Visa. Last week we went to the border to have it extended for another 2 years. We were told by the immigration officer that the Super Visa was not for Brits and Americans...it was for people from countries like China and India. We were also told that people using the SV are not temporary residents...they are visitors. I said that was not how I understood the SV. The IO asked us to sit down as he would have to read up about it.

We must have entered Canada several dozens times and have only come across one IO that knows what the SV is.

In the end we came away with a 1 year extension...we were told our PR application was well under way and we probably wouldn't need longer than 12 months. We will see.

christmasoompa

Yes, I have experience of CIC processing, both personally and professionally. But you've misunderstood my statement - I simply meant that different visas are processed at different rates, depending on which CIC prioritise. Not that older applicants are put at the bottom of the pile! Just that parent sponsorship takes much longer than other visa options.

So applications are processed in turn, but depending on the visa type, that could mean a processing time of as little as 4 months, or as long as 8 years.

HTH.

williamceri

Many thanks for the explanation

thefishnets

Re the 11 years mentioned in my last post

Using links from the CIC website when I looked at it just before our application went in this year (2016) the processing times for a PGP application via the London Visa office were given as 48 months for approval of sponsor and a further 62 months for PR decision but that went up to 84 months the same day our Immigration Lawyer told us the quota had been increased from 5,000 to 10,000 each year. 48 months plus 84 months is 11 years!

Within a week the website seemed to change and it now looks to me as if the only way to get a 'forecast' of processing time is by using the application number issued by CIC. 13 weeks since our application went in (before 0930 on the opening date for them) but we have still not had any acknowledgement that it was, or was not, accepted within the quota for 2016.

We were told initially that we'd be informed in 4-6 weeks of success in getting it in, and our Immigration Lawyer is confident it did get into the quota, but until we get that CIC number we are now apparently in limbo. He did suggest the system might get back to normal near the end of March or early April after the effects of the change of Gov't had settled.

Jerseygirl

It seems many of the Jan 2014 applicants received acknowledgement after approx 6 months. Took over 2 years before our file said the application is in progress. As I said above our sponsor has been approved...although the CIC haven't informed us yet. How up to date their notices are is anyone's guess.

thefishnets

Our PGP application got our sponsors approval 2 weeks ago, but they were both Canadian Civil Servants so it must have been easy to process them. Now we are ostensibly on the final step in the journey
Our application has been referred to the London office. Are processing times there any better than they used to be?
I noticed a thread, closed in 2014, about the address details needed saying they needed details of not just the last 10 years, as per the form requirements, but everything since age 18. Our Immigration Adviser (known to be wrong on some things!) said only 10 years were needed when we started to apply in Dec 15. Does this still apply? Be a hell of a problem for my OH as she moved 28 times in both Aus and UK and can't remember some of them.

Yorkiechef

Congratulations on a step forward! Unable to help with your question, I am sure someone will know and reply soon.

Dorftrottel

Its summer - everyone has gone cottaging!

BristolUK

beckiwoo

Gozit

I agree, they've gone to sleep... Waiting on citizenship certificates for cousins born in the ME since last July. Thankfully they do have another citizenship.