NoA2! next steps to take? (Canada Beneficiary)

[Kammo 2]

Hello,

My husband got an email the other saying that our I130 has been approved! :-D There are a lot of topics inquiring "what to do next" (and I did some looking around) but I decided to just go ahead and start my own thread, Canada specific (if it makes any differences on the whole?)

Police certificates: Can I start those now or should I wait awhile? Other than a one year residence in another province 10 years ago I have always lived in the same city/province.

I assume the police check needs to be recent? 6 months, 1 year?

Does anyone know how long they take to process in Canada and how much they are? More important, how long are they valid?

Birth Certificates of myself and my children: My children will not be immigrating with me at this time but I understand I need to provide birth certificates for them. Do I need to provide just the basic ones (the new ones in BC are pretty specific and state parents and child's names) or do I need something else (ex. the actual registration copy? (we needed when our daughter was born - when we applied for her US citizenship)

Vaccination stuff: I have 2 old records from getting rubella and tetanus and the like, but i don't have any other records proving I have all the required vaccines. Should I be looking into this now or do I just wait until a later time? If now, what do you recommend?

What kind of fees will we be looking at for the next batch of paperwork (just so we are prepared)?

It would be really nice to receive all this stuff in a few weeks and know what we are looking at so we can send it off right away! Thats the goal anyways!

Is there any other advice or thought that maybe I have missed that would help and that you think is important? If there is a list of such answers somewhere and I have just missed it, could you link it?

Thank you so much for your time!

Edited May 18, 2011 by Kammo

[Kay-che 0]

http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/LingChe_NVC_ShortCut

check it out

[Kammo 2]

http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/LingChe_NVC_ShortCut

check it out

Thanks! =)

[patient2010 93]

congrats!!!!

[Dave and Kinnari 31]

http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/LingChe_NVC_ShortCut

check it out

That the best NVC guide you will find out there.

Congrats on NOA2.

[Ryan H 3,812]

Since you are in Canada, Electronic Processing through the NVC is available as an option.

[Inky 1,110]

There is a regional section where you can post and all people from Canada post in there.

You can get more specific answers from people who have gone through it in Canada.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/forum/93-canada/

[Saylin 1,605]

Hello,

My husband got an email the other saying that our I130 has been approved! :-D There are a lot of topics inquiring "what to do next" (and I did some looking around) but I decided to just go ahead and start my own thread, Canada specific (if it makes any differences on the whole?)

Police certificates: Can I start those now or should I wait awhile? Other than a one year residence in another province 10 years ago I have always lived in the same city/province.

I assume the police check needs to be recent? 6 months, 1 year?

Does anyone know how long they take to process in Canada and how much they are? More important, how long are they valid?

Birth Certificates of myself and my children: My children will not be immigrating with me at this time but I understand I need to provide birth certificates for them. Do I need to provide just the basic ones (the new ones in BC are pretty specific and state parents and child's names) or do I need something else (ex. the actual registration copy? (we needed when our daughter was born - when we applied for her US citizenship)

Vaccination stuff: I have 2 old records from getting rubella and tetanus and the like, but i don't have any other records proving I have all the required vaccines. Should I be looking into this now or do I just wait until a later time? If now, what do you recommend?

What kind of fees will we be looking at for the next batch of paperwork (just so we are prepared)?

It would be really nice to receive all this stuff in a few weeks and know what we are looking at so we can send it off right away! Thats the goal anyways!

Is there any other advice or thought that maybe I have missed that would help and that you think is important? If there is a list of such answers somewhere and I have just missed it, could you link it?

Thank you so much for your time!

Grats on the approval! Since you're in Canada, I would highly, highly, highly suggest you read a wiki I wrote that's linked in my signature; it's all about electronic processing and the mandatory online forms for NVC.

For the police certificate, I would highly suggest you get it asap. It doesn't matter if you've lived in another province or not, the police certificate in Canada does a nation-wide check. The PCC is valid for one year, so it should still be valid at the time of your interview, if you don't take your time in NVC. The prices vary by each province. In Quebec, I got mine for $40. You can get them done at many places: RCMP office, local police station, or an agency. Again, wait times will vary depending where you go. Mine took about a week or so.

For the birth certificates, I'm not sure. I would suggest calling up an operator at NVC and asking this. And don't rely on just one operator. Call at least three times and see what the average answer is. You'll soon find out not all operators are consistent with answers.

If you don't have any record of previous vaccines, you have two options: either get all the required vaccines again, or get a titer test done. A titer test will check your system for any antibodies.

For fees at NVC, there's only two: $88 for the AOS and $404 for the IV. After your case is completed, you're then looking at one final cost which is the medical. And this varies depending which panel physician you go to. Medisys in Montreal costs $215.