PNP Timeline - please add your experiences
#76
Re: PNP Timeline - please add your experiences
CONGRATULATIONS!!! All the medical places in the Vancouver area can get you in really quick. Good luck, it won't be long before you get your passport request too
#77
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Re: PNP Timeline - please add your experiences
When I got into work this morning there was our Medical Request letter from Buffalo sat in my in-tray!!! 4 weeks and 2 days after we sent PR application off.
A few phone calls later, and My L2S and I have appointments for our medicals at 7.40am on Monday morning!!! That's exactly 5 weeks after PR applications sent off.
So that's our new WP, and med requests in 10 days, plus a holiday to the sun in 3 weeks - life is feeling good at the moment!!!
(I'll resist anymore exclaimation marks)
Time to update my timeline.......
A few phone calls later, and My L2S and I have appointments for our medicals at 7.40am on Monday morning!!! That's exactly 5 weeks after PR applications sent off.
So that's our new WP, and med requests in 10 days, plus a holiday to the sun in 3 weeks - life is feeling good at the moment!!!
(I'll resist anymore exclaimation marks)
Time to update my timeline.......
#78
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We're practically the same timeline. come on Buffalo!!!
#79
Re: PNP Timeline - please add your experiences
Just to let you know that we are now permanent residents of Canada!!
Our visas arrive back on Friday and we landed yesterday
Some friends of ours came to celebrate, we're still buzzing today
Can't believe its finally over, 6 months from start to finish is excellent, thumbs up to the London CIC office
Good luck to all those waiting, it's a great feeling
Mel
Our visas arrive back on Friday and we landed yesterday
Some friends of ours came to celebrate, we're still buzzing today
Can't believe its finally over, 6 months from start to finish is excellent, thumbs up to the London CIC office
Good luck to all those waiting, it's a great feeling
Mel
#80
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Big congrats mel!!!
How was the landing experience? Which POE did you got to?
We got our UK police checks back on Friday, and had our medicals done this AM so are whizzing along now!!!
How was the landing experience? Which POE did you got to?
We got our UK police checks back on Friday, and had our medicals done this AM so are whizzing along now!!!
#81
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Hi
The landing experience was fine, exciting! Some friends came with us so it was good to celebrate. It only took about 20 minutes to process the paperwork. We landed at the Huntington border crossing at Sumas. You can't land at the Aldergrove border as there is no immigration office there.
Keep us posted on your progress, sending you some PPR dust your way
The landing experience was fine, exciting! Some friends came with us so it was good to celebrate. It only took about 20 minutes to process the paperwork. We landed at the Huntington border crossing at Sumas. You can't land at the Aldergrove border as there is no immigration office there.
Keep us posted on your progress, sending you some PPR dust your way
#82
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Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 43
Re: PNP Timeline - please add your experiences
Just to let you know that we are now permanent residents of Canada!!
Our visas arrive back on Friday and we landed yesterday
Some friends of ours came to celebrate, we're still buzzing today
Can't believe its finally over, 6 months from start to finish is excellent, thumbs up to the London CIC office
Good luck to all those waiting, it's a great feeling
Mel
Our visas arrive back on Friday and we landed yesterday
Some friends of ours came to celebrate, we're still buzzing today
Can't believe its finally over, 6 months from start to finish is excellent, thumbs up to the London CIC office
Good luck to all those waiting, it's a great feeling
Mel
#83
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Keep us posted on your progress, sending you some PPR dust your way
Good luck with the next step whatever that may be.
Syeven - maybe we can car share / pool down to the boarder if we both land around the same time!!!
#84
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Joined: Apr 2007
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Has anyone applied for Alberta PNP?
How long does the employer take to get approved ? My employer sent our application seven weeks ago. Still no reply yet.
How long does the employer take to get approved ? My employer sent our application seven weeks ago. Still no reply yet.
#85
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Joined: Sep 2007
Location: Bridgetown,NS
Posts: 410
Re: PNP Timeline - please add your experiences
Hi everyone, I am so jealous!!
We are doing NSPNP and had our medicals in Leeds at the end of September before we went to NS for a holiday (and to start doing up our house)!
Heard nothing since, I know it's not long, but friends of ours that had their medicals done a week earlier than us in Halifax,NS have had their visa requests through over a week ago, aaagh, god I'm rubbish at waiting!!
Fingers crossed it's just our rubbish post system and we will hear soon...
PS Does anyone know how often people who had gone as far as the medicals would be refused a visa? My hubby is worried - he always expects the worst - but I reckon we must be 95% of the way there?
Thanks!
Rachel
We are doing NSPNP and had our medicals in Leeds at the end of September before we went to NS for a holiday (and to start doing up our house)!
Heard nothing since, I know it's not long, but friends of ours that had their medicals done a week earlier than us in Halifax,NS have had their visa requests through over a week ago, aaagh, god I'm rubbish at waiting!!
Fingers crossed it's just our rubbish post system and we will hear soon...
PS Does anyone know how often people who had gone as far as the medicals would be refused a visa? My hubby is worried - he always expects the worst - but I reckon we must be 95% of the way there?
Thanks!
Rachel
#86
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Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 758
Re: PNP Timeline - please add your experiences
i'd say your ppr is a matter of maximum a few weeks.
btw canada post isn't much better - without striking... i'm waiting for my pr card. and since it's 6 weeks from the date i landed and the canadian partner of my shipping company asked for it yesterday, i gave cic a call this morning. cpc sidney posted my lettre on october 15th... which makes it more than two weeks mailing time :curse:
#87
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Location: Stokesley, North Yorkshire
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Re: PNP Timeline - please add your experiences
Can I ask you guys how receptive you found your employers were when you approached them about PNP? After loads of research we're thinking a BUNAC application - job - then hopefully a PNP is the route we're going to try, but I'd be interested to know whether employers take a lot of convincing?
I'm in public relations and OH is in broadcast management. Our jobs are on NOC, and we would score enough points for a skilled worker application, but it seems ridiculous to wait 5 years for that when at the moment we have no ties here, no house to sell and can be really flexible!
I'm in public relations and OH is in broadcast management. Our jobs are on NOC, and we would score enough points for a skilled worker application, but it seems ridiculous to wait 5 years for that when at the moment we have no ties here, no house to sell and can be really flexible!
#88
Re: PNP Timeline - please add your experiences
Can I ask you guys how receptive you found your employers were when you approached them about PNP? After loads of research we're thinking a BUNAC application - job - then hopefully a PNP is the route we're going to try, but I'd be interested to know whether employers take a lot of convincing?
I'm in public relations and OH is in broadcast management. Our jobs are on NOC, and we would score enough points for a skilled worker application, but it seems ridiculous to wait 5 years for that when at the moment we have no ties here, no house to sell and can be really flexible!
I'm in public relations and OH is in broadcast management. Our jobs are on NOC, and we would score enough points for a skilled worker application, but it seems ridiculous to wait 5 years for that when at the moment we have no ties here, no house to sell and can be really flexible!
#89
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Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 43
Re: PNP Timeline - please add your experiences
Can I ask you guys how receptive you found your employers were when you approached them about PNP? After loads of research we're thinking a BUNAC application - job - then hopefully a PNP is the route we're going to try, but I'd be interested to know whether employers take a lot of convincing?
I'm in public relations and OH is in broadcast management. Our jobs are on NOC, and we would score enough points for a skilled worker application, but it seems ridiculous to wait 5 years for that when at the moment we have no ties here, no house to sell and can be really flexible!
I'm in public relations and OH is in broadcast management. Our jobs are on NOC, and we would score enough points for a skilled worker application, but it seems ridiculous to wait 5 years for that when at the moment we have no ties here, no house to sell and can be really flexible!
#90
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Joined: Apr 2007
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there are costs involved in bcpnp strategic occupations - it's just a matter of who covers them. the company, the applicant or the province...
Provincial Nominee Program: Strategic Occupations
Processing Fee
There is a $550 non-refundable processing fee that must accompany each application to the Strategic Occupations component of the BC PNP. If the fee is not submitted with your application package, your application will not be accepted for processing.
The processing fee is waived for Registered Nurses and Registered Psychiatric Nurses recruited through Health Match BC.
http://www.ecdev.gov.bc.ca/ProgramsA...cessingfee.htm
Processing Fee
There is a $550 non-refundable processing fee that must accompany each application to the Strategic Occupations component of the BC PNP. If the fee is not submitted with your application package, your application will not be accepted for processing.
The processing fee is waived for Registered Nurses and Registered Psychiatric Nurses recruited through Health Match BC.
http://www.ecdev.gov.bc.ca/ProgramsA...cessingfee.htm