Yeah, I don't understand how they process. We waited for 2 months before coming back. If they agree to print it, they can do it same day. Did you leave your passport with them? Good luck, I know it is tough.
We had a rough wait. Looks like not leaving our passport during the interview was a bad idea. Our application appeared to have stagnated.
We decided to fly back to Canada and hand deliver our passport. I arrived at the consulate around 830am on Tues. I explained to the officer that we were not able to send our passport from the US and after few explanation of the whole Sept visas being used up, he decided to call the office and asked whether he can allow me to deliver the passport. They said yes and I delivered the passport and the officer took my phone number and said they call me once they print the visa. Next day 8am they call me to go pick up the stamped passport.
They didn't explain why the officer misinformed us that we could send and receive back our passport from the US.
I came back the same day and passed the border for activation which took less than 10 mins.
Good luck you all
Unfortunately, we can't send our passport from the US because it doesn't accept non Canadian addresses. The officer told us once they request the passport, we can send from the US and they will send it back to the US. Similarly to a couple who was in front of us and they were coming back to New York city. We also update our US address but it seems they have not updated because it still show our old address! So frustrating 😫
At AIS, nothing was update. But when we check the status of the case, it shows 'Refused'. So it went from in NVC to in Montreal to now Refused - with instructions saying follow the instructions that the officer gave you and your case will be updated once the officer adjudicate it again.
Its says send us passport when we contact you. I think I won't hurt if we send our passport ahead of time. It would be similar to if we had left them at the consulate. Our status is still saying 'Refused' meaning they have not reopened our case to 'Ready' for visa issuance. Thanks for the suggestion, we will send our passports.
We had ours in Sept 20th but due to visa limits they told us to either leave the passport with them or if we didn't leave the passport with them, on oct 1st they were to request them and instructions will be posted on our AIS. I know some people from Sept got their visas already but we are still waiting!
Oh, but the instructions states, 'send the passport whe we request it'. Our last update on AIS was on Sept 26th. I have emailed them and hopefully they reply tomorrow. Do you think we should just send our passports even before they request them?
Yes, we got 221g because of visa limit and we need to send passport upon request. Did you receive the request to send the passport or you just mailed to them?
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We had our interview on Sept 20th. Verbally approved but Refused due to visa limit. We were told the visa will be available by Oct 1st. We are still waiting to get an email requesting our passport. We would like to hear from those of you whether you have received the email requesting your passport.
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DQ -MAY 03 2023
INTERVIEW -SEP 20 2024
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