Kieron CA

Hi,

I the CIC emailed me to say they had received my PR application on the 15th Feb 2012. I have heard absolutely nothing since, and the website where you can check the progress just says "Application Received". I have had no requests for medicals, I don't recall my credit card ever being billed (unless that happened very early on and I have just forgotten).

I'm a British Citizen, and I applied for PR under the BC PNP route from within Canada. My application went to Sydney, NS (and then presumably London?).

In two weeks it will be one year since they received my application. Is that a cause for concern? I appreciate that all cases are different, but I don't know of any reasons that mine would be considered complicated. From the forum signatures of various people here I feel like mine is taking a lot longer.

Thanks,

Kieron

Kieron CA

Sorry, this should have been in the Immigration section.

AmyDavid

Who was the e-mail from? CIO Sydney? Did it have a file number on it, confirming your application was okay?

AmyDavid

I would be contacting London and asking what is going on - that is a really long time to not hear anything on a PNP app. You should have received med requests around 6 months after London received your Application. Med requests may have got lost in the post. Contact them at the [email protected] e-mail address - provide your full name, date of birth and any file number you may have and ask them for an update on your file.

chiefmissile

If you applied from within Canada, your application would have gone to Ottawa I think?

Most PNP applications that are processed by the London VO, are receiving MR around 6-8 weeks after application has been received at London?

AmyDavid

It quite possibly went to Buffalo - which may be the reason for the delay. The email from CIO should specify which office it was being sent to. I generally request all our PNP apps go to London though.

gibsonslanding

ours went through buffalo, no probs....and yep, that's a real long time! is the company chasing for answer's too? ask your HR dept for help with this. you should have had med requests by now.....

PMM

Hi


Have you looked at the processing time for PNP London? CIC is showing 23 months for 80% of the applications.

chiefmissile

Hi, I have had two emails from London VO stating that processing times for PNP is 6 months, it also states this on the High Commission website. I am not sure why CIC is stating 23 months? I don't know of any PNP applicant that has taken 23 months to be processed from London?

Regards

Andrew

christmasoompa

You can look at the Open Data from CIC to see the exact figures from the past 12 months - if I'm reading it right then according to that, only 20% of cases were processed in 7 months or less. 80% were processed in 16 months or less.

PMM

Hi


Here are figures from Oct/2011 to Sept/2012 from Open Data.

20 % 30 % 50 % 70 % 80%

Provincial Nominees 9 10 13 18 23

vettemaster

Hi PMM,

Based on these figures, would that mean most people would have had to take their medicals twice if exceeding 12-23 months processing time from the date London receive the application?

I thought myself like many others on this forum, that the fiqures quoted were from start to finish ie: from provincial nomination to final processing by London VO. Ie: Final receipt of PR Card

I have seen Chief Missiles email from London VO and its does state 6 months from receipt of a complete application from the date London receive it.

I suppose 6 months is just a guideline, but vary's due to individual cases.

PMM

Hi


1. The processing time quoted is from when the application is received in London. The medical is request is not given up front, it will be near the back end of the application when processing is nearly complete.
2. Note the information on Open Data is a direct dump from GCMS processing. PNP applications from Pakistan could skew data, but I doubt if there are many of them.

mikey_c_9

Hello from a fellow Somerset-onian(?) now living in Vancouver!

I don't know the exact answer (sorry), but I have asked this question in the past - and from my understanding, if your medicals are shown on ECAS as received - and you haven't been contacted about any issues - then I'm pretty sure you won't have to re-take them.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the medicals would have to be re-done if (for example) their was an issue with your paperwork, which you would have to re-submit thus taking your application process over the 12 month threshold. I think they review the medicals AFTER all of your paperwork is in order.

vettemaster

Hello Mikey,

Nice to know there is someone else from the area We are in process like you and our medicals were completed in July 2012. We just sent extra medical info in today via our DMP. Our E-Cas has never been updated since 23/4/2012. We were requested extra information from London in May 2012 then it was medical requests and RPRF and photos.

It is strange with the E-cas thing , as some people have never had e-cas updated until the end ie: at passport requests