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July 1 Issued (application processing)

July 2 status date update

July 6 ISSUED (receive in 5 days message)

July 8 Waybill (received 9pm)

July 9 Picked up from Loomis (Drummondville)

July 10 POE

Did my POE at the Montreal Trudeau Airport. Make sure you arrive with an hour extra planned. Example instead of 90 minutes before your flight arrive 2.5hrs in advance. My flight was at 6:30am this morning, there were actually a few flights, so there was a long line at security and at customs. In customs I had to line up on the side of US Citizens and Permanent Residents (a first). I gave my declaration form, passport, boarding pass and the sealed package. The customs officers asked how long I waited for this and I said "A long time." He brought me the the back and told me to wait till he called me. I waited for maybe 20minutes or so until he called me into an office. I updated my address since that is where my green card and social insurance number will be mailed to. He pretty much just asked me what I did for a living, looked through the sealed package documents (which contained my medical exam and affidavit of support, and perhaps other documents) and just told me to go back and sit down until he finished filling the papers. Another 15min or so he gave me my passport back all stamped. He told me my stamp is good for a year, but since my passport expires in less than a year its only good up until the passport expiry. He said that before my passport expires if I didn't get my green card yet to make sure to contact one of the government agencies (I forgot which). He also told me everything was going to be mailed out today with the mail implying it shouldn't take to long to process.

note its true that even though our status said ISSUED receive in 5 days (July 6), it was still sitting in the embassy until they order a pickup

once you can track your waybill you can see that the embassy only put out a pickup for it today at noon,

the Loomis picked it up in the evening around 6:39pm and I received an email for my waybill number at 9:06pm

POD | Shipment # | Piece # | Date Time | Status | City

|XXXX |XXXX |2015-07-08 18:39 |Pickup From Customer |LACHINE

| | |2015-07-08 12:00 |Shipment Record Received | LACHINE

Also just got my waybill number around 9pm

(status issued july with AP message, july 6 issued with recieve in 5 day message)

number is out of service. thanks for trying. It used to be the number of DHL before they were taken over by Loomis

Try to see if you can locate the loomis http://www.loomisexpress.com/DropOffLocs/?lan=en

maybe you can call loomis express

(It seems both the Lachine and Drummondville are using Loomis Express, although I know the Lachine branch is tied to Canpar)

Just got email from Loomis with waybill

this is it! Flying to California on Friday

Congrats!

I can't wait to goto Cali too!

Based on your timeline I'll probably get my Loomis message on Wednesday night

June 8 -interview (approved)

July 1-Issued Application Processing

July 6 -Issued (receive in 5 days)

Yeh it finally says I'm getting it in 5 days

ISSUED

hey caliber,

I noticed mine changed today to same thing. Did you get an email or waybill number? I checked the link at us visa-info but didn't see anything. I also put the reference number from loomis but no luck.

I think we will have it next week for sure. But at over 2 years in this process who knows Ive seen everything in this process.......

Hey BoarderCrosser,

Does your last access date state today July 3rd or July 2nd? If yours changed today, there's still a chance mine might change today too.

That's Great Caliboy! I guess you just have to wait for the way bill# now. Let us know when you get it.

Since mine was Issued Ap a day after yours I'll prob only be issued on monday.

I feel so silly for believing the "you'll get it in time" spiel just because he sounded genuine. I feel so overwhelmed by everything because of this ridiculous time crunch I set myself...I haven't been able to see my fiancé in seven months. I just want to see him again. That's it.

Even some people got theirs issued on Canada Day...a closed work day...how does that work? I know I'm not alone in feeling this and I feel bad for complaining because well, I haven't been waiting three months but still. Would be lovely to have something work out instead of literally dreading every minute of every single day of that awful Administrative Processing status....

Sorry for ranting. I just feel like besides my fiancé this is all I have since nobody at home really gets it.

Don't feel bad for ranting. It really sucks having your life on hold for over 3 months.

I didn't realize it would stress me out so much... I had interviews for jobs a year ago, thinking I was almost moving... but because of documents and such I'm still here... Luckily they've kept in contact, but it's starting to become ridiculous...

Sigh means it took 4 working days... If my process takes the same amount of time, I'll only hear back on Tuesday... meaning I'll miss my Monday flight... still hoping it'll come in tomorrow.

It's so weird you got your email at this hour... I wonder if people are still working an Canpar (loomis) then...

Well, low and behold I received our Loomis email a few minutes ago. Apparently, our passport was dropped off at the Lachine location tonight, and is headed over to us.

I wish everyone the best of luck with everything, I'll let you know when it actually arrives.

When did your status change to issued?

I'm crossing my fingers.... I'm so silly I picked Drummondville instead of Lachine, and will have to drive an extra 30mins. I hope they're just as efficient as Lachine...

I am so relieved to finally see some movement on IV cases in Montreal! From what I've read, your status changes from Ready to AP to Issued. Apparently it doesn't show issued until your passport has left the building, so you should be seeing it from Loomis very soon. Perhaps slightly delayed because of the holiday on Wednesday. Now my fingers are crossed I receive the same update tomorrow. My interview was June 17, so it looks like they are getting there if yours was June 10. I'd really like to put in my 60 days notice on my apartment so that I can move August 31 and not have to wait until September 30. I miss my husband!

Where did you hear that Issued means it left the building?

I have hopes if that's the case, since my status changed to issued July 1st. So I'm hoping that means I won't be affected by Independence Day. Crossing fingers I'll receive a pickup email tomorrow.

Have flight plans on July 6th I'd like to keep...

I interviewed June 8th, and got back my passport after I found out about the visa issues so that I could make a wedding. Got my passport June 17th, returned it to courier June 23, got delivered June 25th. Since all mail goes through security checks the embassy said they still didn't have my passport on the morning of June 30th, status was still at 'ready'. July 1 morning my status was 'issued'. Weird part is that the paragraph says

'Your visa case is currently undergoing necessary administrative processing. This processing can take several weeks. As the officer told you in the interview, if further information is needed, you will be contacted. If your visa application is approved when administrative processing is finished, you will receive notification to collect the passport with the visa from the Loomis branch you selected when you booked your appointment.'

instead of

I'm assuming it's because they haven't printed it yet, but already approved everything.

Sounds like they batch process the passports since a bunch of us all had our passports 'issued' on the same date. I'm hoping they mailed it out tonight since they're on vacation tomorrow and just didnt update the database for the paragraph to say printed.

Have flight scheduled Monday... I hope I can make it...

Let me know if you get your waybill#

June 8th -interview (approved)

June 17th - got passport back to attend a wedding

June 23- dropped passport off at loomis

June 24- (holiday Loomis closed)

June 25 -Loomis delivered passport

June 30th -embassy still does not have passport (meaning it is still going through security processing)

July 1 -status changed to issued