Re: congrats dcecil! what's the e-client status?
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"We started processing your application on December 06, 2001.
A decision has been made on your application. The office will contact you concerning this decision.
Medical results have been received."
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I am on a work permit in Canada. I had done a medical for my work permit extension last June. When I got the letter of assessment, the status was decision made. Along with the letter of assessment and request for a couple of pending documents, they had sent medical instructions also. So I sent a fax to buffalo asking if the work permit medical was valid for this too (actually it was the same tests). I never got a reply, but in a couple of weeks, the status was changed back to "In process". So I did the medical again. I am assuming that without sending the fax, if I had just sent the pending documents, I would have got the request for passport earlier. If not it was good that I did not wait for their reply and did the medical again because the previous medical would have expired this June. The medical has to be valid till you land. I never got a reply from Buffalo for my fax.
In any case, the status does not seem to be a 100% reliable. There seems to be some issues with that. When I applied for my work permit extension, I had given my cousin's address because I was not at my house during the day, and had requested to send the documents to my cousin's address. So after that, the eclient status reflected my cousin's address even though the work permit had nothing to do with Buffalo. The work permit extension is done at Vegreville,Alberta. I did not want to change that back to my house address again. But the request for passport letter came to my old address. So the address shown in the eclient status screen was not used by Buffalo.
The status is now "Decision Made". If you click on that, I have
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"We started processing your application on December 06, 2001.
A decision has been made on your application. The office will contact you concerning this decision.
Medical results have been received."
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I am on a work permit in Canada. I had done a medical for my work permit extension last June. When I got the letter of assessment, the status was decision made. Along with the letter of assessment and request for a couple of pending documents, they had sent medical instructions also. So I sent a fax to buffalo asking if the work permit medical was valid for this too (actually it was the same tests). I never got a reply, but in a couple of weeks, the status was changed back to "In process". So I did the medical again. I am assuming that without sending the fax, if I had just sent the pending documents, I would have got the request for passport earlier. If not it was good that I did not wait for their reply and did the medical again because the previous medical would have expired this June. The medical has to be valid till you land. I never got a reply from Buffalo for my fax.
In any case, the status does not seem to be a 100% reliable. There seems to be some issues with that. When I applied for my work permit extension, I had given my cousin's address because I was not at my house during the day, and had requested to send the documents to my cousin's address. So after that, the eclient status reflected my cousin's address even though the work permit had nothing to do with Buffalo. The work permit extension is done at Vegreville,Alberta. I did not want to change that back to my house address again. But the request for passport letter came to my old address. So the address shown in the eclient status screen was not used by Buffalo.
