Mississauga & Vegreville

There's something I don't understand about the in-Canada applications. The initial decision about the sponsor's eligibility is made at Mississauga, if I understand correctly (and this takes a month or two). But the whole application is sent to Vegreville... so do they send the application to Mississauga and then Mississauga sends it back so Vegreville can process the rest of the application? How does it work?

Or have I completely misunderstood and it's all processed at Vegreville, and you don't hear anything at all for 8-9 months, about sponsor eligibility or otherwise?


Edited by abstractioness - 29 Sep 2010 at 5:05pm

The entire inland application is processed via Vegreville. (well of course assuming it does not get transferred to a local office without AIP). It's not sent to Mississuaga at all. The sponsorship eligibility for inland apps is done in Vegreville. You are getting it confused with outland apps. The entire application is sent to Mississuaga... then the sponsor eligibility is done there and after that... the other part of the application is processed via the visa office (outland).

Edited by jamaisomal - 29 Sep 2010 at 5:16pm

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/canada/process-in.asp#perm_res

You won't be able to log onto e-cas for at least 3 mths after you sent the app. Do you already have your client ID #? They usually open the app about 2 and a half mths after receipt (I'm just going by my timeline and a few other inland applicants).

abstractioness wrote: See, the page linked above is why I find it confusing -- Vegreville only lists AIP timeline, not for anything else like the sponsorship portion, whereas Mississauga shows you when they start processing applications received. I do have a Client ID#, from my work permit. So you just keep checking every month to see if you can log on? Any idea how long it takes Vegreville to approve sponsorship for in-Canada applications? Mississauga takes 38 days but I suppose the in-Canada takes a lot longer...

Vegreville does not separate the sponsorship application time line from the AIP timeline. That's because, for an inland app, they're processed at the same time.