August 2020 - Citizenship application

[rajkamalmohanram]

Everyone, Who got Test Invitation, Does your Is your online ECAS updated as well or it only shows in your new online tracker ?

In my case, ECAS was also updated. Some people reported that their ECAS wasn't updated so I think it varies from person to person.

 

[Mugen1990]

Did anyone from Calgary receive test invite?

 

[abhishekp90]

Yes, that's normal. Give it a couple of days to about 10 days to see the test status updated to "Completed".

thanks
I actually passed on the weekend and today (few minutes back) it changed completed. Remaining is in progress, just need to play the waiting game i guess. maybe couple more months

 

[Vigilant]

Everyone, Who got Test Invitation, Does your Is your online ECAS updated as well or it only shows in your new online tracker ?

No Change in ECASE.
Still the same that we sent you correspondence Bla bla on that date which was actually FP request.
Nothing for test invite and completion of the test..

 

[etcoflife]

@rajkamalmohanram Do you know when the physical presence days check is completed? Like at what stage or roughly when?

 

[etcoflife]

Applied for a GCMS note, got a reply after a month that they need 30 more days. Can anyone say why is that? Anyone in the same situation?

 

[engray]

Applied for a GCMS note, got a reply after a month that they need 30 more days. Can anyone say why is that? Anyone in the same situation?

The reason is mentioned in the extension notice.

 

[rajkamalmohanram]

@rajkamalmohanram Do you know when the physical presence days check is completed? Like at what stage or roughly when?

Sometime around the test (or after the test is complete), I presume because that's when the "Physical Presence" status in the dashboard and the "Residency" field in the GCMS notes goes from Not started -> In Progress -> Complete.

I'm yet to receive my second set of notes, I can confirm this after I've received it.

 

[rafzy]

Applied for a GCMS note, got a reply after a month that they need 30 more days. Can anyone say why is that? Anyone in the same situation?

I didn't even get any reply. I applied on May 15 and till today nothing.

 

[rafzy]

Everyone,

I read my Test invite letter today that I got yesterday from Windsor office.

It clearly states that if you are outside Canada, you have to let us know within 24-48 hours and you can then take your test outside Canada.

 

[hawat]

Well, this one is a slippery slope. We'd have to know when @rafzy 's GCMS notes were extracted. The application might have been in 'Registry' on the day the the GCMS notes were extracted and could have moved to "Test Ready" status after that. We'll can only confirm this if @rafzy decides to order another set of notes later in the process. Looking at the 'Paper File History', we'll understand if the application ever went to "Test Ready" status before he received a test invitation.

Could you please kindly tell about the differences of these two? Registery and Test-ready ... Does Registry means file is on local office waiting for an officer to work on it?

 

[harirajmohan]

Could you please kindly tell about the differences of these two? Registery and Test-ready ... Does Registry means file is on local office waiting for an officer to work on it?

Registry: Yes its waiting for an officer to be assigned to. Mine(and my wife's) file were at registry till sometime May but suddenly we got test notification 2 weeks ago.
Test ready: But for @rajkamalmohanram, he/she waited months/weeks before getting test email even though the location was test-ready long ago.
So essentially you cant guess on how cic officers do their job. No use of analyzing.

We just need to keep waiting and hoping to move to next step. Statuses become irrelevant in a matter of 24 hours because suddenly they just pickup the file one day and move it to next stage. Till that time it accumulates dust.

 

[hawat]

Registry: Yes its waiting for an officer to be assigned to. Mine(and my wife's) file were at registry till sometime May but suddenly we got test notification 2 weeks ago.
Test ready: But for @rajkamalmohanram, he/she waited months/weeks before getting test email even though the location was test-ready long ago.
So essentially you cant guess on how cic officers do their job. No use of analyzing.

We just need to keep waiting and hoping to move to next step. Statuses become irrelevant in a matter of 24 hours because suddenly they just pickup the file one day and move it to next stage. Till that time it accumulates dust.

Thanks.

 

[rajkamalmohanram]

Registry: Yes its waiting for an officer to be assigned to. Mine(and my wife's) file were at registry till sometime May but suddenly we got test notification 2 weeks ago.
Test ready: But for @rajkamalmohanram, he/she waited months/weeks before getting test email even though the location was test-ready long ago.
So essentially you cant guess on how cic officers do their job. No use of analyzing.

We just need to keep waiting and hoping to move to next step. Statuses become irrelevant in a matter of 24 hours because suddenly they just pickup the file one day and move it to next stage. Till that time it accumulates dust.

I waited 87 days from since the application went to "Test Ready" status for the dashboard to be updated with notification about the test.

 

[Caroline1234]

Hey @rajkamalmohanram or any senior member just a quick question so after finger print does mean that ircc have basically done majority of there checks and just waiting for the result to move the application on to test ready