I have got In-land Open Work permit from Etobicoke local office.
CIC send me letter that my Permanent Residence file can take up to 12-24months.
I dont know... Why so long ? again i have to wait 2yrs!!!!
Meanwhile, i can not go back home and meet my family.
Any suggestions. what should i do now ? again WAIT...& WAIT
Please reply
Where are you from?
It might just be in your best interest to withdraw the application & file outland instead.
Nobody can say why they transferred your file to a local office before making a decision
FOSS notes might help explain, but it won't speed things up
Are you saying it's taken 2 years to get AIP?
If so, do you know what the hold up there was?
pulin Wrote:I have got In-land Open Work permit from Etobicoke local office.
CIC send me letter that my Permanent Residence file can take up to 12-24months.
I dont know... Why so long ? again i have to wait 2yrs!!!!
Meanwhile, i can not go back home and meet my family.
Any suggestions. what should i do now ? again WAIT...& WAIT
Please reply
Spousal sponsored PR applications are allowed in-land to avoid some (intending to avoid most) of the injustices and hardships it would impose on many families if it was not allowed, but in many ways it is the exception, even if it is numerically very common, more or less "allowed" but not encouraged.
Foremost, in-land applications are not given the priority that outland applications are given; this means fewer resources, including personnel, which translates into a longer queue and longer processing time. Simple math really.
And there are indeed many reasons, legitimate reasons, for treating a substantial portion of in-land applications with a skeptical eye -- except that there is no magic formula for distinguishing which should be treated more skeptically than others, so the skepticism tends to leak into most if not nearly all in-land applications.
Imagine the hardships if the rules required you to leave Canada and be separated from your partner pending the decision, while at the same time demanding that the relationship continue to be characterized as a conjugal one and imposing possibly drastic consequences if the amount of contact you can prove during the separation falls below their expectations.
Patience is in order. At least you can work, and stay, so for most purposes you can live a normal life except for international travel.
Added note:
I glanced at your previous posts and note that you were initially denied AIP. As RobsLuv replied in that thread, there are a number of reasons why that might have occurred; you have been referred to making records requests that might shed some light on the particular reasons for the initial AIP denial . . . but that obviously underlies one reason (and enough of a reason) that your app was transferred to the local office . . . and as others have pointed out, unfortunately the local office to which your case has been transferred is one of the busiest and slowest.
So yes, you wait.
The particulars of your situation make all the difference, including your personal history, how and when you came to be in Canada in the first place included.
If you are from a visa-exempt country you may consider withdrawing the app and re-applying via the outland process (but of course if you were from a visa-exempt country you probably should have done that in the first place), but that would be expensive, would not really obviate any of the reasons there were issues with your app in the first place, would terminate your work permit, and the app would end up in a new queue which in ordinary circumstances would be much faster but now that you have had an app in process probably would get sidetracked into a longer processing time anyway, so I don't see that as a viable alternative at this stage. So waiting with patience is probably your only choice, or at least your best choice.
If you are not from a visa-exempt country, all you really can do at this stage is wait. Wait with patience.