SPOUSAL Sponsorship PAKISTAN @ London Visa Office

[mishalk]

Today my background check status on my GCKey Account changed to "We are processing your background check. We will send you a message if we need more information." My timeline is as follows:

Application Received = May 24th, 2018
Acknowledgement of Receipt email: 28th June, 2018
Linked to GCKey Online: June 29th, 2018
Medical request: 6th July, 2018
Spouse Eligibility Approval Letter email: 6th July, 2018
Medical Submitted: 11th July, 2018
Medical Passed on GCKey: 12th July, 2018
Letter - File Transferred to Local Visa Office in London: Dated 20th July, 2018, but received it in mail 26th July, 2018
Applicant's ECAS update: started processing application - 1st August, 2018
Background Check status changed to "Processing" on GCKey - 25th April, 2018.

What do you guys think? Am I anywhere close to receiving Pre-arrival or a Passport request? Has anyone received PPR without receiving pre-arrival letter?

They’re processing your background check which means PPR is on the way! Some people don’t receive pre-arrival letter before it, so don’t worry about it.

 

[paki786]

what are the documents requirement I need to submit for the spousal immigration.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/application-forms-guides/guide-5289-sponsor-your-spouse-common-law-partner-conjugal-partner-dependent-child-complete-guide.html

 

[Shaibi]

Anyone who has recently received the PPR? Did he/she provide his/her finger prints? What is the mode of payment? Cash or through IRCC website? Any help will be highly appreciated.

My husband recently submit his passports at the office in lahore and he didn’t have to provide his fingerprints. He paid cash.

 

[Ali.genius]

How much estimated time IRCC take to reply on PFL letter response

 

[kashifaziz]

Today my background check status on my GCKey Account changed to "We are processing your background check. We will send you a message if we need more information." My timeline is as follows:

Application Received = May 24th, 2018
Acknowledgement of Receipt email: 28th June, 2018
Linked to GCKey Online: June 29th, 2018
Medical request: 6th July, 2018
Spouse Eligibility Approval Letter email: 6th July, 2018
Medical Submitted: 11th July, 2018
Medical Passed on GCKey: 12th July, 2018
Letter - File Transferred to Local Visa Office in London: Dated 20th July, 2018, but received it in mail 26th July, 2018
Applicant's ECAS update: started processing application - 1st August, 2018
Background Check status changed to "Processing" on GCKey - 25th April, 2018.

What do you guys think? Am I anywhere close to receiving Pre-arrival or a Passport request? Has anyone received PPR without receiving pre-arrival letter?

Ok So I received prearrival letter today morning and my ecas status changed to Decision made. When should I expect the Golden Email?

 

[Mirolomi]

Hello everyone!
Can anyone answer a few questions for me. I will be highly obliged.
I am a March 2018 applicant. I have received the pre-arrival services letter on 26th February 2019. My 12 months time has completed and they said in response to my enquiry that my application is in process of Background check and they don't know exactly when it will be completed.
My question is should i be worried? And what do u guys think that my application is approved or not? And one more question is that whether they can call for an interview after pre-arrival letter?
Anyone here with same scenario plz share ur experience.
My application is processing at London visa office.
Thanks

I am July 2017 applicant
Received pre arrival on Feb 2019 still waiting for ppr

 

[Mirolomi]

Today my background check status on my GCKey Account changed to "We are processing your background check. We will send you a message if we need more information." My timeline is as follows:

Application Received = May 24th, 2018
Acknowledgement of Receipt email: 28th June, 2018
Linked to GCKey Online: June 29th, 2018
Medical request: 6th July, 2018
Spouse Eligibility Approval Letter email: 6th July, 2018
Medical Submitted: 11th July, 2018
Medical Passed on GCKey: 12th July, 2018
Letter - File Transferred to Local Visa Office in London: Dated 20th July, 2018, but received it in mail 26th July, 2018
Applicant's ECAS update: started processing application - 1st August, 2018
Background Check status changed to "Processing" on GCKey - 25th April, 2018.

What do you guys think? Am I anywhere close to receiving Pre-arrival or a Passport request? Has anyone received PPR without receiving pre-arrival letter?

We are in the same stage
Next steps is ppr InShaAllah

 

[kashifaziz]

We are in the same stage
Next steps is ppr InShaAllah

Whats your status on ECAS? decision made?

 

[ImmigrationHelper]

My husband recently submit his passports at the office in lahore and he didn’t have to provide his fingerprints. He paid cash.

Thanks. May I know how much was the fee?

 

[kashifaziz]

Hello everyone!
Can anyone answer a few questions for me. I will be highly obliged.
I am a March 2018 applicant. I have received the pre-arrival services letter on 26th February 2019. My 12 months time has completed and they said in response to my enquiry that my application is in process of Background check and they don't know exactly when it will be completed.
My question is should i be worried? And what do u guys think that my application is approved or not? And one more question is that whether they can call for an interview after pre-arrival letter?
Anyone here with same scenario plz share ur experience.
My application is processing at London visa office.
Thanks

I received Prearrival today. Whats your status on ECAS? In process or decision made?

 

[ImmigrationHelper]

Here is a post by someone who recently went through it. It's from the facebook group.

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This is to help all the clueless Pakistani applicants like me out there. Here is my experience regarding submitting passports to VFS in Pakistan. This post contains procedure, timelines, restrictions and some personal experiences (Lahore office specific).

The submission process mentioned does not vary much from any other VFS office, so even if you are not from Pakistan, you will get an idea of what to do.

Please note that this is after you get a "Ready for Visa" letter (either as a message in your account or as an email. Sometimes you get both. Usually the account message is from your local visa office; Islamabad for me. The email is from the Ottawa office).

VFS Global (a third party organization) handles passport submissions in Pakistan (and in many other countries as well). In Pakistan, they operate out of Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi. You can submit to any of their outlets in the above mentioned cities. This is their website for Pakistan.

Office hours are Mon-Fri 9am - 1pm for all 3 branches.

Submission procedure
Choose a VFS outlet from the vfs website. No appointment is required, it's a walk-in for all the offices here in Pakistan.

Lahore specific info: The office is located opposite Ganga Ram Hospital. I suggest you park across the road inside the hospital paid parking, otherwise the traffic police have a lifter waiting to penalize any parking around the VFS office. The parking is congested but is right across from the office.

You need to take the following along with you:
PPR email print out (with details filled in the given table regarding primary applicant, spouse and dependents; also be sure to print the full email. If you have more dependents in your application than the space given in the table, print the page with the table as many times you need and fill that in).
Photographs according to the specifications mentioned in the PPR letter.
Passports of everyone mentioned in the application. Passports need to be valid for at least 6 months with at least 2 blank pages. (Passports have to be ordinary ones, the visa cannot be placed in Diplomatic, Official or Military passports)
PKR 1,332/- per passport (submission and transmission fee) + PKR 160 SMS tracking fee e.g. for 3 applicants this becomes (1332*3 + 160) = PKR 4156. Payment is in cash on the spot and take the collection receipt. (Disclaimer: These rates are applicable for the day I submitted my passports, check here for the latest rates). Any additional services (such as help filling in an application form, photocopies etc.) will be charged separately.
Original CNIC of the one submitting the passports.

Restrictions
Mobile phones, laptops, USBs and any other electronic, media or storage devices will need to be checked in at the entrance. Bags (without the aforementioned items) are allowed.

At the office
Once you enter the hall that deals with Canadian applications, an officer will vet your documents to ensure that you all the required documents for submission (this is to save you the queue waiting time only to find out that you missed something). You will be assigned a queue number after the vetting process. Queue wait times vary, but the whole process took about 2 hours for me (check-in to check-out). Keep the token with you till the time you check-out from the office.

Timeline
At the time this post is being written, they take approx. 2 weeks from the submission date. You can track your passports from their tracking portal by providing the tracking ID of each submitted passport mentioned in the collection receipt. Passport collection is from the same outlet as the one they were submitted to. Passports will only be handed over upon presenting the collection receipt.
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Thanks a lot.

 

[Mirolomi]

Whats your status on ECAS? decision made?

Not yet. How a bout yours ?

 

[kashifaziz]

Not yet. How a bout yours ?

yes Decision made.. the status changed a couple of hours after I received Pre-arrival.

 

[Mirolomi]

yes Decision made.. the status changed a couple of hours after I received Pre-arrival.

What year are you?

 

[kashifaziz]

What year are you?

24th May 2018 (Im the sponsor, my wife's the applicant)