New year, new rules. Visas will now be mailed from Montreal instead of being available for next-day pick up. It feels like familiar territory to be scratching my head and wondering "how long"?

If anyone has an interview coming up, it might be worth keeping a record of how long it takes to receive a visa. I'd be interested in knowing the interview date, Xpresspost postmark date, and the day it finally arrives.

Good idea?

I could fit a Visa arrives in the mail column to the Montreal timeline to Interview thread... but I don't think there would be room for the postmark date.

Or you could track it separately Either way.

Good idea for a thread. Unfortunately, I think I have the 1st one in Montreal this year which won't do either of us any good but at least we can be the guinea pigs for someone else, lol.

Monique

sounds like a good idea, and will give people awaiting interviews down the line an idea of the timeline to expect. It seems by looking at the timelines that those of us interviewing in january are all interviewing within a week or so of each other.

Good idea for those that have the interview later in January and so on

Lola,
Will you also have to wait forever and a day for you visa or will they give it to you next day? I don't know much about the change and am wondering if it affects everyone or K1s only.

Mo

When I called Montreal, the lady I spoke to worried me when she said: we need 3 to 5 days to do our work. What work? Verifying the alien's passport? Or letting the stamped passports pile up so they only have to make one trip a week to the Post Office? (Yes, I've finally become cynical.) We may be smoking banana leaves if we suppose they'll mail the visa a day after the interview. Time will tell.

My husband had his interview on Tuesday morning and his passport with his Visa was at his house in Surrey, BC on Thursday morning

His interview was before this new procedure was implented though, so one can't really go off of that.