timeline of IR1/CR1

[boardercrosser 8]

Greetings Forum members,

I am just trying to get a timeline for the process from each step. I know the process from start to finish is 10 months to a year. My wife who is filipina is a Canadian permanent resident and applying for her canadian citizenship simultaneously to our application. So we might try to delay the processing if her citizenship is not getting finalized as anticipated. My questions are:

1. Once the visa center sends my wife in Canada the packet of forms to fill out like her police clearances and so forth, How long does she have to turn those papers in? Or does she take everything with her to the interview?

2. Does the visa center schedule the interview or does she schedule with a certain time frame allotted once everything is approved?

3. I beleive she has 6 months to enter after the visa is issued. Is this correct?

Thanks in advance for any feedback

boarder

[oohpartiv 484]

1. She has one year to turn in the NVC documents.

2. The NVC schedules the interviews, and those for Canada are usually pretty quick.

3. Yep, six months - buuuut, I do believe it's six months after the medical is done, not after the visa is received (but maybe somebody else can clarify here).

If you were going to delay something, I would recommend you do it during the NVC step, since that part of the process is pretty much up to you insofar as how fast you get the docs and send them in. Just make sure you don't lose track of time!

[NikLR 13,227]

Greetings Forum members,

I am just trying to get a timeline for the process from each step. I know the process from start to finish is 10 months to a year. My wife who is filipina is a Canadian permanent resident and applying for her canadian citizenship simultaneously to our application. So we might try to delay the processing if her citizenship is not getting finalized as anticipated. My questions are:

1. Once the visa center sends my wife in Canada the packet of forms to fill out like her police clearances and so forth, How long does she have to turn those papers in? Or does she take everything with her to the interview?

2. Does the visa center schedule the interview or does she schedule with a certain time frame allotted once everything is approved?

3. I beleive she has 6 months to enter after the visa is issued. Is this correct?

Thanks in advance for any feedback

boarder

1 - the visa center doesn't send her packages. She will need to obtain the police clearances herself. A Canadian police clearance is valid at the consulate in Montreal for 1 year. Other police clearances may have different time frames so plan accordingly when to obtain them. Canada does online forms so she also doesn't need a DS-230. She can OPTIN for electronic processing and email a PDF of all the documents to the NVC, then take the originals to the interview. Or she can send the originals to the NVC via snail mail or courier, but she still needs to do the DS-261 (Replaces the DS-3032 choice of agent) and the DS-260 (replaces the DS-230) online. She will need exact addresses for every place she's lived since she was 16. oohpartiv is correct - you guys have one year between each submission to contact the NVC.

2 - NVC schedules interviews - Normally a month or two out.

3 - In Canada she has 6 months from the MEDICAL date to enter the USA. She cannot have the medical done until she has an interview scheduled.

My visa journey has been just under 8 months from initial filing to interview date and will probably be exactly 8 months from initial filing to living at home with my hubs in Colorado.