Withdrawn application....what should I do please

I was landed on December 2, 2010 through the H&C.   CIC excluded my Son's name who is overseas on my confirmation of permanent residence document.  They only put his file number and stated him as non-accompanying dependant then had me sign the document.   I had listed him as an accompanying dependant on all the application forms.  I did not realize this mistake at the time of landing. This document has now been used to withdraw his application.  

I agree - not sure what the circumstances were surrounding you having to sign him off as non-accompanying.  That doesn't make sense to me.  If you designated him as accompanying on your application, he should have been assessed and his visa issued with yours.  There has to be more to this story - like maybe he was not going to be able to travel to Canada to "land" before the expiry of the visa??  Again, if he was designated as "accompanying", he should have been able to "land" on his own, as long as your landing was already secured . . . unless you waited until the last minute to land yourself and there was no time left for him. 

Whatever the reason - it appears your only option now is to start all over again with a new application to sponsor him.  As long as he underwent examination (medical and criminal [if he was over 18 years of age]) during the original processing, and he's still under the age of 22 and not married or common-law (or, if older than 22, has been continuously enrolled in school since before turning 22) he'd still be eligible to be sponsored.  Important that you get his application locked in while he's still eligible.

If you tell us what country your son is from, it will be easier to give you an estimate of how long it will take for you to sponsor him for permanent status.  Unfortunately, CIC recently changed the format of their online processing timelines and they no longer show a separate list for dependent child sponsorships.  The timelines are long for processing adopted children, orphans and other family members (which I don't think is where they include biological "dependents" of landed PRs).  They note processing timelines for spouse, common-law and dependent children all lumped together, as they did before, but that always applied previously to dependents of spousal or common-law applicants processed on the same application.  So I'm not sure now how long it will take, but it would be a huge shift from previous dependent child timelines for most of the offices if it actually takes in excess of 2 years, as is indicated by the adoption timelines.  In addition, the application package that coincides with the "adoption timelines" is a different package from the one used to sponsor dependent children.  I would go with the spousal/common-law/dependent child timelines - I think they're closer to reality.  


Edited by RobsLuv - 13 Dec 2010 at 3:16pm