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Originally posted by sonajatt

Need your help for the wait time details:

Current status on CIC webpage:
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Wait time for parents to be sponsored out side Canada is:
41 months
(working on applications received on August 29, 2007)
Source: CIC website
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When I click on Country and then India it says:
Processing Times IN MONTHS: 30
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What does this mean?
-Total process time from the day you apply in Canada to when case is completed in India is 41 months?
OR
41 months in Canada then 30 in India: Total 71 months?

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Quote:

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Originally posted by sonajatt

Need your help for the wait time details:

Current status on CIC webpage:
-------------------
Wait time for parents to be sponsored out side Canada is:
41 months
(working on applications received on August 29, 2007)
Source: CIC website
--------------------

When I click on Country and then India it says:
Processing Times IN MONTHS: 30
-----------------

What does this mean?
-Total process time from the day you apply in Canada to when case is completed in India is 41 months?
OR
41 months in Canada then 30 in India: Total 71 months?

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Originally posted by freakoutguy

Quote:

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Originally posted by sonajatt

Need your help for the wait time details:

Current status on CIC webpage:
-------------------
Wait time for parents to be sponsored out side Canada is:
41 months
(working on applications received on August 29, 2007)
Source: CIC website
--------------------

When I click on Country and then India it says:
Processing Times IN MONTHS: 30
-----------------

What does this mean?
-Total process time from the day you apply in Canada to when case is completed in India is 41 months?
OR
41 months in Canada then 30 in India: Total 71 months?

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41 months in Canada then 30 in India: Total 71 months is what it means.

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Quote:

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Originally posted by sonajatt

Quote:

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Originally posted by freakoutguy

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Originally posted by sonajatt

Need your help for the wait time details:

Current status on CIC webpage:
-------------------
Wait time for parents to be sponsored out side Canada is:
41 months
(working on applications received on August 29, 2007)
Source: CIC website
--------------------

When I click on Country and then India it says:
Processing Times IN MONTHS: 30
-----------------

What does this mean?
-Total process time from the day you apply in Canada to when case is completed in India is 41 months?
OR
41 months in Canada then 30 in India: Total 71 months?

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41 months in Canada then 30 in India: Total 71 months is what it means.

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-is it also true: regardless when you applied for the case and the time is 71 months for everyone or just for the people moving forward who applied few mnths ago when time changed to 71 mnths? when we applied back in 2007 the time was lot less then 71 mnths.

unbelievable, what BS is this. i can understand the time delay in india, but here its not acceptable and there is nothing much they need to do anything here in Canada. people need to raise their voice.

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The best bet - while you're waiting for the sponsorship of your parents, apply for their visitor visa for 6 months. Then, get it extended for another 6 months. At least you will have them with you for 1 year. I know it's not a cost effective solution, but hey parents are worth that effort. No?

Visitor visa is purely on luck as well, but if you can show the STRONG bond to India and the confirmation that they will go back before their visa is expired, then you have a very good chance. This way, your wait time for the sponsorship is at least reduced (psychologically, and not literally) and they are here in no time.

Most of the people do that, trust me.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !

Your parents and grandparents have a better choice of getting a COFFIN than a VISA to Canada.

Time to Vote the Liberals in this Spring election.


http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/Immigration+cuts+mean+some+more+likely+before+reaching+Canada+lawyer/4259853/story.html

Immigration cuts mean some more likely to die before reaching Canada: lawyer
By Suzanne Fournier, Postmedia News February 10, 2011

Vancouver's Asian community is furious over allegations Immigration Canada is planning to dramatically reduce the number of visas issued this year for family reunification.


The reduction in visas in 2011 cuts to the heart of Asian and South Asian families, who especially cherish the contribution of elders to family life.


Seniors are being sentenced to a 13-year wait that many of them won't survive, say immigration experts.


Thomas Tam, chief executive officer of SUCCESS immigrant services, called the reduced visa numbers "a big surprise and so disappointing — everyone is angry."


"Traditionally for Asian immigrants, the reunion with grandparents is very important. Parents rely on them for childcare and our community looks after grandparents. They are not a financial burden."


Immigration Canada is planning for "fewer immigrant visas overall, a reduction from 230,450 in 2010 to 217,800 visas in 2011, a drop of over five per cent," noted Vancouver immigration lawyer Richard Kurland, who obtained the data under an Access to Information request.


"You're more likely now to get a coffin than a visa to Canada," Kurland said Wednesday.


"If you're hoping to bring a grandparent over for a christening, they'll be lucky to get here before the child graduates from high school."


Although Kurland notes there will be slight increases in visas issued in 2011 to business immigrants, such as entrepreneurs or wealthy investors, "the only group chosen for the back of the bus are parents and grandparents."


Particularly hard-hit will be elders from cities such as New Delhi, "which will see the number of its visas drop from 4,500 in 2010 to 2,500 in 2011," said Kurland.


Charan Gill of Progressive Intercultural Community Services was incensed at the apparent drastic reduction in the numbers of parents being allowed to emigrate from India.


"Already we have so many families waiting five, six years to bring parents over. Now people will die before they see their family in Canada," said Gill.


And while Asia/Pacific visa quotas are reduced overall, the City of Beijing appears to have been given an increase.


"That means there will be only 11,200 parents/grandparents come to Canada from China in all of 2011, but one in four of them will be from Beijing," noted Kurland. "Everyone else has to wait."


Johanne Nadeau, spokeswoman for Citizenship and Immigration Canada, cautioned that "the visa targets only serve as a planning tool to help allocate scarce resources, manage applications and minimize processing delays across a global network." Nadeau said the "visa targets change from year to year" and are "adjusted as necessary."


It would be "wrong to infer from planning numbers how many people Canada will actually welcome in 2011," she said.


Nadeau noted that, in 2010, Canada "welcomed the highest level of permanent residents in 50 years."

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Sunny Leone a true Canadian DESI now back in India !.

Can we do anything about it. The anger has no bounds, I even tried humanitarian which got refused. I am the only child, if it's gonna take that long, I might as well surrender Canadian Citizenship and leave. Can I or we do anything?