PR Card Delayed

It's already 3 months and up to now, our PR Cards have not yet arrived.  We encountered problems regarding our files and I hope to share some of them to you.

1. Make sure that your address is updated.  Upon landing in Vancouver, the immigration officer did not get our address in Toronto.  She told us to provide it via fax, phone or online.  Upon arriving, I immediately updated our file online hoping that our file will be updated faster.  And boy I was wrong.  After 6 weeks, our files were still not updated.  What we did was fax the form and in a couple of day, our address was updated.   Lesson:  Make sure to update your file via fax, online and mail.

2.  We received a mail today informing us that our height was incorrect.  We did not think that this would be a problem because I thought that it was an irrelevant information.  We provided them our height in inches while what they need was our height in centimeters.  We called CIC about the information that they need and they have updated our file already.  The latest our PR Cards will be delivered is on the last week of December.  Lesson:  Use centimeters as the unit of measurement for your height.

Hope you can learn a lesson from my experience.  =)

Top 25 Immigrants for 2012

 I was doing my daily online research when I stumble upon this  page.  Apparently, there is an award given to the "Top 25 Immigrants" every year.  I got curious and browse the profile of all the 25 winners and found out that 2 of the winners are Filipinos.  Congratulations to Ms. Narima Dela Cruz and to Dr. Rey Pagtakhan!  Now I have another goal to achieve in my Canadian journey.

For the complete list of winner, click on the link below.

http://canadianimmigrant.ca/canadas-top-25-immigrants/canadas-top-25-immigrants-2012

Time Flies

Time flies so fast.

2008 - We first heard of the FSW fast track program for Canadian Immigration.

2009 - Went back and forth on whether to apply or not. December was the month that we finally decided to apply.

2010 - We submitted our application, we received our 1st and 2nd AOR from the embassy.

2011 - Received our medical request after a year of waiting.

2012 - Got our Visa.

In a months time, I will be on a plane to formally land as an immigrant.  A culmination of almost 5 years of contemplating, second guessing, patient testing process.  In the end, I know we made the right decision.

Excited? definitely.  Nervous? Yup. But with prayers and our faith in God, we know nothing is impossible.

Decision Made

Out of curiosity, I checked my ECAS status tonight.  To my surprise, our application status is already "Decision Made".

Wow!!!

Another step closer to that elusive VISA.  I hope that we will receive it soon.

Thank you Lord for the blessings!

28 Days Later

After 28 days of waiting, VISA is still not issued. As I have learned during the immigration process, patience is definitely a virtue.  If you have one, great.  If you don't, learn.

Still 28 days is still within the limit set by the embassy.  I just hope that our VISA's will be issued soon so that we can plan our flights.

CIIP experience.

We have just finished our Canadian Immigration Integration Program (CIIP) today.