Has anybody from India applied for a canadian visitor visa online?
Jul 24, 2013, 11:23 pm
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I'll be damned. Got this just today -
This is in reference to your application for temporary residence. A decision has been made on your application. We require your passport to finalize processing your application.
This is in reference to your application for temporary residence. A decision has been made on your application. We require your passport to finalize processing your application.
Jul 25, 2013, 8:16 am
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Jul 25, 2013, 9:24 am
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like 4 days. I have submitted my passport along with a copy of that letter to vfs and they'll send it over for stamping - which apparently takes another week to ten days.
Jul 26, 2013, 12:06 pm
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Wow. Let me know how that goes. I need to apply for one myself soon and if the online processing works well, I will use that.
Jul 26, 2013, 4:45 pm
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Not a visitor visa, and not from India (and a very long time ago) but it took about a month to get an investor (PR) visa (for my father. After that, getting my own was fairly quick as I was his dependent.)
(not that I can comment any further as I am a Canadian citizen now and won't apply for any more Canadian visas, unless my other nationality decides it won't permit dual citizenship.)
(not that I can comment any further as I am a Canadian citizen now and won't apply for any more Canadian visas, unless my other nationality decides it won't permit dual citizenship.)
Jul 26, 2013, 8:29 pm
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@B747-437B - sure will. the thing about online applications is that it is apparently not just processed in their call center (missisauga), it is transferred to whichever mission in the world has spare capacity available for processing visas, far easier than fedexing mailbags full of passports and paper visa applications between canadian missions in different countries. It was sure a major pain to scan 5 passports worth of visas, and then paste the images into word, save as a "minimum size" PDF so that it'd meet their 4 MB per file limit.
@AA_EXP09 - Yeah, I guess some sorts of visa take far longer than others to process. Still a month is blazing fast for that kind of visa.
@AA_EXP09 - Yeah, I guess some sorts of visa take far longer than others to process. Still a month is blazing fast for that kind of visa.
Jul 27, 2013, 8:43 am
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@B747-437B - sure will. the thing about online applications is that it is apparently not just processed in their call center (missisauga), it is transferred to whichever mission in the world has spare capacity available for processing visas, far easier than fedexing mailbags full of passports and paper visa applications between canadian missions in different countries. It was sure a major pain to scan 5 passports worth of visas, and then paste the images into word, save as a "minimum size" PDF so that it'd meet their 4 MB per file limit.
@AA_EXP09 - Yeah, I guess some sorts of visa take far longer than others to process. Still a month is blazing fast for that kind of visa.
@AA_EXP09 - Yeah, I guess some sorts of visa take far longer than others to process. Still a month is blazing fast for that kind of visa.
Jul 28, 2013, 7:13 am
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That could be a challenge. I have all my old passports fully scanned, but they come up to well over 100 MB for the 400+ pages involved.
Jul 29, 2013, 3:58 am
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They only want travel history for the past 10 years (uploaded under "travel history", and your current passport with all valid visas (uploaded under "passport"). I have only been traveling for like 11 years, so just scanned all 5.
5 passports came to just over 2 MB actually if you use word and then save it as a minimum size pdf
5 passports came to just over 2 MB actually if you use word and then save it as a minimum size pdf
Jul 29, 2013, 9:15 am
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They only want travel history for the past 10 years (uploaded under "travel history", and your current passport with all valid visas (uploaded under "passport"). I have only been traveling for like 11 years, so just scanned all 5. 5 passports came to just over 2 MB actually if you use word and then save it as a minimum size pdf
Jul 29, 2013, 4:45 pm
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If I take into account crossings which don't have a stamp (Japan with automated gates, HK with HKID, Canada, and USA with NEXUS) then I have probably lost count unless I want to take a look at my (very long) spreadsheet which I only use to verify mileage for personal purposes, and days outside Canada for tax purposes.