Hi
How do they contact you at first. Do they mail you a letter to let you know the app is in process or your approved as sponsor and at that time do you get a # so you can check it on-line.
Just wondering
Thanks
Bunny
Hi,
they will mail you when a decision is made on your sponsorship.
Until then you can check E-Cas using your receipt number from the fees and the sponsor details. Nothing will show though until a decision is made. And then it will only tell you a decision has been made, not what that decision is lol.
hope this helps
Sara
Hi Bunny
There won't be anything in the system until after CPC-Mississauga makes a decision on the sponsorship part. AFter that, they'll send you a letter - which will give you (the sponsor) a client ID# that you can use to access eCAS. Sometimes your receipt number works, sometimes not, but there won't really be any info there except, like nhbiker said, "Decision Made" when they finally make it.
As soon as CPC-M makes their decision - assuming it's positive - they'll transfer the ap to Buffalo. Buffalo will send your husband an Acknowledgment of Receipt (AOR) letter that gives him his file number and that's the number he needs to log into eCAS for updates on his application. Unfortunately, Buffalo really doesn't "update" eCAS. They will log in the application as "In Process", note "Medicals Received", and then note "Decision Made" at the end - but that's about it. From Day 1 until our Decision Made 10 months later, eCAS never changed once.
The best way to get information on what's happening with your case is to order CAIPS notes - but you really don't need to bother doing that unless you get months into the normal processing timeline with no contact. A straight-forward case is just going to process - and there won't really be any info in CAIPS either - until they finish doing what they have to do to assess the ap and they make a decision. Hopefully you're at the shorter end of their timeline and it'll all be over soon. In the meantime, from experience, don't drive yourself crazy checking eCAS every day because it will only make you anxious and frustrated.