Timeline For Spousal Sponsorship via London
Feb 18th 2015, 3:10 am
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re: Timeline For Spousal Sponsorship via London & Inland
Ehh what is happening here?
We received CBROWN89 application for permanent residence on October 14, 2014.
We started processing <snip>'s application on February 12, 2015.
Medical results have been received.
A decision has been made on CBROWN89's application. The office will contact CBROWN89 concerning this decision.
It says Decision Made for both Sponsorship Application Status and Permanent Residence Application Status... This makes me nervous... And when I say nervous I mean that was too quick and I don't want to of been rejected...
We received CBROWN89 application for permanent residence on October 14, 2014.
We started processing <snip>'s application on February 12, 2015.
Medical results have been received.
A decision has been made on CBROWN89's application. The office will contact CBROWN89 concerning this decision.
It says Decision Made for both Sponsorship Application Status and Permanent Residence Application Status... This makes me nervous... And when I say nervous I mean that was too quick and I don't want to of been rejected...
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Feb 18th 2015, 3:26 am
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Feb 18th 2015, 3:32 am
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re: Timeline For Spousal Sponsorship via London & Inland
Feb 18th 2015, 8:15 am
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re: Timeline For Spousal Sponsorship via London & Inland
Update for the spreadsheet: husband was approved as a sponsor on 17th Feb 2015. Our case is being transferred to London for processing. We were hoping they'd keep it in Canada, but at least they aren't sending it to Vienna, which was the other possibility and would have taken a lot longer.... 
Feb 18th 2015, 11:41 am
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re: Timeline For Spousal Sponsorship via London & Inland
Just applied last week, I think I'll go crazy if I have to wait 3 years for this...
Feb 18th 2015, 11:46 am
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re: Timeline For Spousal Sponsorship via London & Inland
As far as I've looked it appears those are the statistics for the past year, so considering the average times on the spreAdsheet from the past year I don't think there's anything to panic about?
Feb 18th 2015, 11:58 am
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re: Timeline For Spousal Sponsorship via London & Inland
Recently applied too and I'm guessing that the 29 mos wait is not gonna really apply to the straight forward British cases (but what do I know!!). It's probably as the Pakistani cases take so long that the average is bound to increase. I seriously doubt the Canadians will make it tougher for a Brit with a Canadian partner to join their club than many other countries.. After my initial shock, I'm not worried.
Feb 18th 2015, 12:10 pm
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re: Timeline For Spousal Sponsorship via London & Inland
Recently applied too and I'm guessing that the 29 mos wait is not gonna really apply to the straight forward British cases (but what do I know!!). It's probably as the Pakistani cases take so long that the average is bound to increase. I seriously doubt the Canadians will make it tougher for a Brit with a Canadian partner to join their club than many other countries.. After my initial shock, I'm not worried.
Feb 18th 2015, 12:14 pm
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re: Timeline For Spousal Sponsorship via London & Inland
Posted this a few days ago re: 29 months, worth repeating I guess! 
The London posted time will not take into account applications held in Mississauga and Ottawa.
I agree, the timeline makes it useless... however, I have a feeling that they were getting inundated by Islamabad applicants with the posted processing time at 11 months. The website clearly says not to contact them until you've passed the processing time... but Islamabad applications will certainly be longer than that. Applications started to be transferred around a year ago, so I'll bet you that those applicants were simply ramming CIC with requests for updates...
So my advice is to just stay calm. I'm honestly quite surprised that they didn't update the processing time earlier. We'll use the spreadsheet as an estimate on how long "normal" applications take, and we'll go from there.
Everyone just calm the f* down.
I agree, the timeline makes it useless... however, I have a feeling that they were getting inundated by Islamabad applicants with the posted processing time at 11 months. The website clearly says not to contact them until you've passed the processing time... but Islamabad applications will certainly be longer than that. Applications started to be transferred around a year ago, so I'll bet you that those applicants were simply ramming CIC with requests for updates...
So my advice is to just stay calm. I'm honestly quite surprised that they didn't update the processing time earlier. We'll use the spreadsheet as an estimate on how long "normal" applications take, and we'll go from there.
Everyone just calm the f* down.
Feb 18th 2015, 1:24 pm
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re: Timeline For Spousal Sponsorship via London & Inland
Ehh what is happening here?
We received CBROWN89 application for permanent residence on October 14, 2014.
We started processing <snip>'s application on February 12, 2015.
Medical results have been received.
A decision has been made on CBROWN89's application. The office will contact CBROWN89 concerning this decision.
It says Decision Made for both Sponsorship Application Status and Permanent Residence Application Status... This makes me nervous... And when I say nervous I mean that was too quick and I don't want to of been rejected...
We received CBROWN89 application for permanent residence on October 14, 2014.
We started processing <snip>'s application on February 12, 2015.
Medical results have been received.
A decision has been made on CBROWN89's application. The office will contact CBROWN89 concerning this decision.
It says Decision Made for both Sponsorship Application Status and Permanent Residence Application Status... This makes me nervous... And when I say nervous I mean that was too quick and I don't want to of been rejected...
Feb 18th 2015, 1:33 pm
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re: Timeline For Spousal Sponsorship via London & Inland
Ehh what is happening here?
We received CBROWN89 application for permanent residence on October 14, 2014.
We started processing <snip>'s application on February 12, 2015.
Medical results have been received.
A decision has been made on CBROWN89's application. The office will contact CBROWN89 concerning this decision.
It says Decision Made for both Sponsorship Application Status and Permanent Residence Application Status... This makes me nervous... And when I say nervous I mean that was too quick and I don't want to of been rejected...
We received CBROWN89 application for permanent residence on October 14, 2014.
We started processing <snip>'s application on February 12, 2015.
Medical results have been received.
A decision has been made on CBROWN89's application. The office will contact CBROWN89 concerning this decision.
It says Decision Made for both Sponsorship Application Status and Permanent Residence Application Status... This makes me nervous... And when I say nervous I mean that was too quick and I don't want to of been rejected...
Feb 18th 2015, 2:01 pm
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re: Timeline For Spousal Sponsorship via London & Inland
So if I phoned they can't tell me what the decision was.