Tommy Kinsman

My wife in Canada is sponsoring me( i'm in the UK) and we're about a month
away now from submitting our application ( just waiting on my medical). I
read a post about, you are requested to send in you passport and they stick
the PR sticker on it. My worry is when in the process does this take place?
and for how long will they have my passport? It's just i have trips planned
for September and December to Canada and don't want to book my flights yet
incase i won't have a passport.

Thanks Tommy

The Wizzard

The passport request is the very last stage of the application. So once
you have all your medical results etc and all teh forms your wife will
submit them to CPC Mississauga in Ontario. They will approve her as a
sponsor and then once that is done they will send the parts relevatn to
you to CHC London. They will then assign you a file number and send you
an Acknowledgment Of REceipt (AOR) telling you this information. Some
time later (as you have done yoru medicals upfront - normally they
request you do medicals but you have done this so it will be faster)
they will request your passport so they can affix the visa and they will
then return it along with the other paperwork for landing etc.

Once they request your passport you have 60 days to submit it. Once yous
ubmit it they aim to return it to you within 10 working days, which is
about 2 weeks including weekends. When I sent mine in it took 9 days
including one weekend. I have not heard of anyone really from the UK
applying via CHC London having their passport take longer than 2 weeks
to be sent back. So say you send in your application in a month or so
that would be say 1st august. The end to end time could be anywhere from
4 months to 6 months+, hopefully more towards the quick end if you have
done medicals upfront and have no complications. So the earliest yoru
passport request would come in would be say end of December/January and
maybe more like Feb or March next year. So i don't think a trip in
September would be any issue and probably not december either, also bear
in mind you have a month or two to submit the passport so unless it's a
superlong trip you could just wait till you get back if the request
arrived just before your trip.

drew

Tommy Kinsman wrote:
    > My wife in Canada is sponsoring me( i'm in the UK) and we're about a month
    > away now from submitting our application ( just waiting on my medical). I
    > read a post about, you are requested to send in you passport and they stick
    > the PR sticker on it. My worry is when in the process does this take place?
    > and for how long will they have my passport? It's just i have trips planned
    > for September and December to Canada and don't want to book my flights yet
    > incase i won't have a passport.
    >
    > Thanks Tommy
    >
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