GCMS Received

1. I applied for Citizenship on 2011/05/16. It is still in processing as at today.

2. CIC created my file on 2010/03/31 at 17:34:33 (created by officer 1-6SUP1B). Do you see the difference in the date I submitted my application and when the file creation was done?

3. My FOSS Clearance expires on 2012/12/24

4. My RCMP Clearance expires on 2012/12/28

Here is where I see waste in the system. How can CIC allows Security clearances to expire and redo it at the cost of tax payers or increase work load on the security agencies for no apparent       reason.  

5. Between the time I submitted my application and October 22 at 13:58:58 when the GCMS was completed, 28 CIC staff have gone into my file and did almost nothing (no activity code). I   personally believe there is too much and unnecessary bureaucracy and time wasting at CIC. No     matter the level of verification required more than 5 people working on the same file (sometimes     the same day is waste, especially at CIC)

6. Thunder Bay Ontario used to be my local office until recently. My file was sent to Thunder Bay on January 17th 2012 (actual RECEIVED STAMP not printed time stamp). Nothing happened to my file at the local office until July 18th 2012 when it was returned to Sydney. What was this local office doing for all that long time? Another waste in the CIC system. 

On the  19th of July, my file was assigned to Mississauga) and that is where it is now.

Certificate Creation has not started. Case has not been assigned to a judge, Test is not scheduled except that Mississauga has already viewed my file 12 times.

I called the Call Centre and was told since my case is at Regular Priority and my Clearances are expiring, I should send a letter with some supporting documents to a case processing officer (gave me the address) to move it from Regular to Expedite. I sent it today but not sure it will work.

By the way all the documents I submitted with my application are scanned to my file including the front and rear sections of the Xpresspost envelope.

I think the problem killing CIC is bureaucracy and not immigration fraud. 

By checking the different and unique "Updated by" I was able to know the number of people who went into the file. For example, the unique "Updated Bys" such as SADMIN, CONV_ADMIN, PP04356, PP14526, B9112, AC84562 amounted to 28. 

How do I know they sometimes did nothing? I reached that conclusion because sometimes it took less than a minute for say SADMIN_2 to update something before PQ10539 updated the same thing with the same Activity ID. Moreover, if they were doing something, I would have passed the in process stage long ago. Lastly, there was not a single update by my former local office other than the dated RECEIVED Stamp in mid January.

  

How do you know when...? Each Updated By has a corresponding Updated Date which also include the hour, minute and second something was done to the file. I am not looking at the time generated at the footnote section of the document (like userID IK0035). I looked at the document content itself. 

It could also be you requested something different from what I did (not sure of that). I requested for Physical Files of my application under the Access to Information Act. From this forum, I also learnt that CIC can redact some information from the GCMS before making it available to the client

 

We really do not understand why CIC can not cut off "the waste time" so as to make every applicant happy?  Hope the government understand and change it soon...