bramallblade

Great job! I shall try this approach. However, this will sound really dumb; I find the cic website really difficult to navigate and I cannot find how I even got to that arduous trawl yesterday now. Could you give me a direct link because I am having a major blonde moment.

Cheers

Hurlabrick

Do you mean here?

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bramallblade

Thanks!!!

bramallblade

Nothing works for me. Should I start to worry? Do I have to get into this system because I literally cannot do it. It is the most inept system I think I have ever come accross.

toeknee

Perservere young skywalker (or Sheff U fan at least)

I and many others felt the same until hitting the right permutations that worked for us.

And in the end it doesn't make a difference to your application - You can use ECAS as everyone did before the linking became available.

No need to worry - you are one of the lucky ones that have been directed to Ottawa.

Linking your application or not! v Ottawa or London!

I'm sure everyone would pick Ottawa over being able to link their application

bramallblade

I am very grateful to be an Ottawa application! Thanks for the info though it remains uber frustrating.

Wisco

Got a few details to add:
My hubby is Canadian, I'm American and Irish.
Application received may 13, 2016- we were living in Kilkenny when the application went out.
Sponsor approval early July , can't remember exact date
started processing July 29 2016 in Ottawa
Got request for 2 more photos and passport copies Aug 29, showing as decision made online and email request said visa was ready.

I actually moved over on an IEC on my Irish passport in late June, had no idea I'd be approved this fast but absolutely delighted.

This forum has been invaluable, especially the bit about filling in the application. Thank you all so much and best of luck to those waiting.

MrGateux

This worked for me too! Thanks for your help.

Hurlabrick

Added to spreadsheet. Please let us know when you receive your COPR in the mail. Thank you and congratulations!

Hurlabrick

What toeknee said. It makes not a jot of difference to your application whether you can do this or not. You just get to see in more detail why they still haven't approved the application


I will happily trade you MyCIC access for your Ottawa processing

SchnookoLoly

Just catching up here after the long weekend!

If you guys haven't worked it out already, Hurlabrick is now helping me out with the spreadsheet. Andrew-Brit is quite busy with work so while he's still helping, I needed to recruit some fresh blood. Hurlabrick kindly agreed to step up and help out.

Congrats to everyone who's had updates! It's great to see.

With regard to MyCIC, I am going to add MyCIC fields ot the spreadsheet when we open the 2017 version, just in case anyone was wondering. It'll make the spreadsheet too messy to add it into the 2016 tab, especially considering a lot of the back end stuff of the spreadsheet will have to be reworked. (All the stats are automatically generated, but they'll need adjustment if we change the spreadsheet layout.)

In addition, I want to add a FAQ section about MyCIC to the general FAQ as there are tons of questions about it. If anyone wants to PM me some suggested questions and answers, I'll collate and combine them and add a new section to the FAQ.

Last request, I still don't have a CSQ section in the FAQ simply because I don't know enough about it. I'd asked someone on here awhile ago to write me a CSQ section but I think she's been way too busy... so if any of you guys want to contribute to a CSQ FAQ section, please send me some questions and answers and again I'll collate/combine and update the FAQ.

Thanks!

Edit: In case it wasn't obvious, PM me all this stuff so that it doesn't clutter this thread.

faisal18

Application received on 4 January 2016

Sponsor approval 3 march 2016

Medical upfront 29 october 2015

Marriage
processing office london

Location derbyshire

Pa pakistan

lord1298

Finally I received the CSQ. It took about 8 weeks (from July 5 until Aug 25). It took longer than expected ( usually 5 weeks) because of the large number of applications Quebec has received. Here are two links explaining the delay:

https://www.immigration-quebec.gouv....ply/index.html

Notice – Government addresses spousal backlog and wait times


Now we back to the federal. We will see how long it will take.


cheers!

Hurlabrick

Added to the spreadsheet. Please keep us updated although probably not much is going to happen for a few weeks yet.

Hurlabrick

Updated. Thanbk you for the update and congratulations!