CR-1 (My EI timeline)

[carslo 0]

Arrived USA June 28, 2009

Applied for EI over the computer June 29, 2009

Request for a copy of visa stamp and marriage certificate July 10, 2009

First Set of cards July 10, 2009

Cards and requested information returned via regular mail service July 13, 2009

Second Set of cards received and mailed back on July 31, 2009

Phone call from Kingston, Ontario August 5th, 2009 requesting verification of ability to work and query regarding job search.

Scanned copy of Permanent Resident card front and back emailed August 6th 2009

Confirmation email received that it has been processed for payment.

Woo hoo

Janet

I will let you all know when I see some money in my account

[JillA 2]

That's awesome! Glad to hear you were approved

[carslo 0]

An update on the EI situation.

Last week I had still received nothing, so I called the Out of Canada office (thanks JillA for the number in a previous post). The woman there was very helpful, she told me that they had mailed a cheque on August 6th, but I have yet to receive that. She was able to process the next 4 weeks of cards over the telephone over the course of 2 days, and this morning I had a payment placed in my account in Canada. She mentioned that even if we do ask for direct deposit in our original claim it is not always processed as direct deposit, a comoputer glitch. However, since she had manually processed the cards now that everything should be good to go.

So I applied on June 29th and received a payment in the credit union the morning of August 24th.

I hope this will help others in their EI claims.

Janet