Can I keep emailing consulate about 221g processing?

[Deenellej 0]

Guys - I’m separated from my husband right now and it’s brutal! 
is it bad to keep emailing the consulate for answers until I get a reply? An immigration lawyer told me it won’t hurt. All I had to do was submit my police check and it’s 3 weeks in the process already! 
 

consulate: Montréal, Canada 

[Lemonslice 4,553]

You can email them. Montreal rarely takes less than six weeks to issue the visa, if it's refused at the interview - so you might get a generic response to your email.

[Deenellej 0]

3 minutes ago, Lemonslice said:

You can email them. Montreal rarely takes less than six weeks to issue the visa, if it's refused at the interview - so you might get a generic response to your email.

Did you get approved at your interview?. So you’re saying I need to wait for 6 weeks before I worry? 

Edited April 20, 2021 by Deenellej
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[Lemonslice 4,553]

I was approved at the interview and got my visa a few days later.  All I'm saying is that 6-week ish, after submitting documents, isn't unusual for Montreal (so you can have a realistic date in mind).  Hopefully, it goes faster for you.

 

You can email them and inquire on the status of your case. 

[Lemonslice 4,553]

Maybe @rtcan
could give you a better idea, from their recent experience

 

[rtcan 2]

2 hours ago, Lemonslice said:

Maybe @rtcan
could give you a better idea, from their recent experience

 

I can! I was in your shoes a few months ago. I'd encourage you to email the consulate, it forces them to check your case and I think can trigger them to move things forward that have just been sitting there. They never replied when I emailed but my case updated the next day. Keep an eye on the date in CEAC – even if it still says "Refused," the date last updated changing is a good sign your paperwork is being processed. 

 

The consulate received my updated police certificate on Dec. 29 and my status changed to Issued Jan. 8. Received in the mail Jan. 17. I had the Christmas/New Years backlog working against me so hopefully yours is quicker! It does mail extremely fast. I had my visa sent to Alberta and it arrived within a day and a half, Canada Post Express. 

[Deenellej 0]

On 4/20/2021 at 2:43 PM, Lemonslice said:

You can email them. Montreal rarely takes less than six weeks to issue the visa, if it's refused at the interview - so you might get a generic response to your email.

Thank you! 6 weeks is the general time frame that I’m hearing. Pretty difficult to sit and wait! 

[Deenellej 0]

On 4/20/2021 at 5:38 PM, rtcan said:

I can! I was in your shoes a few months ago. I'd encourage you to email the consulate, it forces them to check your case and I think can trigger them to move things forward that have just been sitting there. They never replied when I emailed but my case updated the next day. Keep an eye on the date in CEAC – even if it still says "Refused," the date last updated changing is a good sign your paperwork is being processed. 

 

The consulate received my updated police certificate on Dec. 29 and my status changed to Issued Jan. 8. Received in the mail Jan. 17. I had the Christmas/New Years backlog working against me so hopefully yours is quicker! It does mail extremely fast. I had my visa sent to Alberta and it arrived within a day and a half, Canada Post Express. 

Thanks! That was super helpful. So you just uploaded your fingerprints online? I sent mine in to the address they had online. I wonder if that will also delay my process. They gave me zero instruction on how to send my criminal check in so I did what I thought best. 

[rtcan 2]

33 minutes ago, Deenellej said:

Thanks! That was super helpful. So you just uploaded your fingerprints online? I sent mine in to the address they had online. I wonder if that will also delay my process. They gave me zero instruction on how to send my criminal check in so I did what I thought best. 

No, I believe you have to mail the original copy of the police certificate to the consulate in Montreal. So I had to wait to receive the certificate at my home address in the US (I was on a work visa) then have my husband send it back to Montreal, very silly and the reason my delay was so long. I went through the CEAC system and followed the prompts to send in documents, it sent me to a page with a mailing label and address in Montreal to send to. They sent the police cert back to me with my visa. 

[Ryan H 3,790]

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