delsol79

Many thanks for this Tempest - makes me feel a bit easier. I am terrible for this kind of stuff and this is a lesson learned.

I will cross my fingers and hope I can get P60 duplicates issues. Only worked for two companies since leaving uni so should not be too bad.

delsol79

Well if this keep going as fast as they currently are you will still be doing the same job when you send back the 90 day info so that should not be an issue.

After that you only need to stay in Canada 2 years in every 5 to maintain PR so I believe you could go and land then come back and do your nursing diploma and then move over.

TheBear

Think the whole 45 month thing has thrown everyone...I've been a bit lax in my savings and am going to have beg borrow and steal to make sure I have enough for the proof of funds if the 90 day leter arives 2 years after applications sent in!!

Tempest

I think my problem is now it's coming closer is not necessarily the proof of funds... it's the money to realistically make the dream happen that's worrying us more!

To think the you prob need £1.5-£2 k a month to make life nice and you may end up being unemployed/on realiable temp work for 3 - 6 months it's making us realise that we serioulsy ned to buck our ideas up! at least we know what will be on our xmas list this year... canadian $'s!! lol

Robin (The Gadget family)

This is really exciting news. I can see that we are going to have to get moving on collating all our info into a folder for when our turn comes.

I really didn't expect the ball to be rolling this quickly and we may even have to land and come back in order to work my time out in my job to ensure pension elligiblity.

.....And I am working my way towards an 'A' level in French in evening classes, currently working on the 'AS' level having just completed a GCSE, so when it comes to proving language ability I might not even scrape through with 2 points for basic french at this rate. Let's hope we won't need it!

Good luck to everyone....and thanks for posting basic info on what to include....I'd better consult the CIC pages for how my brother can prove that he is a Canadian citizen and resides in Canada........

debbiem

Do we think they are sending out 3 months worth of 90 days, and the delay is actually going to be the processing time after they receive our full applications? I can't see how they are going to process such a huge amount?! Or are they expecting an awful lot of people to drop out at this stage?
I feel a bit like eeyore this morning.... but at least there's a chance we'll have our 90 day before christmas, which I definitely wasn't expecting. (And OH finds out on 14 Nov if he has a job in Canada next year...) It's going to be really interesting to see when the first med request is sent!
I can't belief how many 90 days have been issued - those of you holding Sep/ Oct AORs and no 90 day must be about ready to mug the postman!

zoaxe

hi., all i am waiting for march 2007 which is not seem too far by this speed ...

can some body explain plz ...when we send update they give us points according to update or according to 1st application .......

e.g education which was in progress but not complete so cant say its complete in 1st application but it is now so ll they award points for that as well or not if we update them for it.

2ndly part time exprince during studies worth any thing or not.
thanx

delsol79

Yea well my proof of funds was house equity which has now become negative equity!

This is something I am quite worried about as obviously we had no insight of current financial times two years ago.

As someone else said.. about having to save for the months with no work or unreliable jobs. Well we have decided we cannot do that so aim to use the PR to get a job and not necessarily move out until we have one. At least companies will take you more seriously with a PR rather than one pending!

Jazzflute

A good idea I guess, but I'm personally hoping that the processing time will be dragged out for a couple of more years for myself as I really need to start the course next year! I reckon we are all getting a bit overexcited at the thought of receiving the 90 day letters, it couldn't possibly be the case that processing will move super quick - or could it?!!!!!

TheBear

If anything the processing will be longer I guess as the original app was shorter. I still reckon from the start of your 90 day period to getting a visa stamped in your passport will be no more than a year. You then have a year to land (so could wait till 364 days I guess), then I'm not sure about after that, I know you have to do be in Canada for 3 out of 5 years to keep your PR, but is that from the landing or granting of visa?

Jazzflute

Oh yes - I too am very very confused!! Your thoughts have reassured me somewhat though - the bit about it taking about a year to process and then having a year to land - which would fit in perfectly with my plans - but life is never that straightforward! I don't know why I'm getting nerves as yet as I haven't even received a 90 day letter!!! Good luck to you all who have under SAP. Julie

ireland2canada

Yea, you get a year in which to land from the date of your medicals.
To maintain PR you need to spend a total of two years out of any five years in Canada.

Well you certainly get points for being optimistic I would dearly love it if the process was speedier, but I doubt it will. There is still a preposterous backlog in London, the rules have been tightened up & the SAP is an unknown entity to all of us. Add to that the fact that the skilled worker quota was actually reduced to take account of the CEC class and increases in the PNP quotas.

Not that I am trying to be negative here, I'm in the queue and would love to be processed swiftly. In fact if you are right, I will cheerfully shake your hand! I just don't see that the SAP will be any quicker than the old system, the same processing will have to be done regardless.

JamesM

I agree. I think processing the SAP could potentially be longer than the old system. Because in the old system they would go through your file of information when they were ready and then ask you for updates and missing information. Now you get 90 days to file your whole application of information and then if you have anything missing they will have to come back to you, so in that respect there is another stage.

My understanding is one of the key reasons for bringing in the Simplified Aplication Process was that there was serious capacity issues at CIC for storing the backlog so it was easier to ask for the documents when needed rather than hang on to potentially out of date documents for years and years.

I am encouraged by the postings I have seen on here saying they have hired another 20 people to help get through the applications. Although I am not sure where this information originally came from.

I think a key question, which I cannot answer, is did applications for Canada rise when the SAP was bought in or did it stay the same or drop? If they rose then it is easy to send out lots of 90 day letters but they will then get inundated with paperwork to go through.

I am not overly worried about the Canadian Election affecting the processing in the short term (next 6 months) because, as we all know, implementation of changes by goverment organisations isn't reknowned for being particularly quick. Also you can see by the waiting times on CIC that the backlog at London isn't half as bad as some of the other processing centres who I think will be more affected by change.

I have always felt that the 45 months in the AOR letter was worst case scenario so that people would stop disturbing them and their backs would be covered. Going by track it and postings it seems to be around 3 years going through London.

Anyway I applied in January 2007 and I am positively telling myself by this time next year I will be much closer to Canada.

TheBear

Good point, I was thinking about citizenship...need three years out of 4 or 5, or something like that.

Does anyone know if the 5 years begins on landing or granting of the visa?

ireland2canada

I just realised I sound like a right doom & gloom merchant here Nothing could be further from the truth.......yay for immigration