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Global Case Management System or more commonly known as GCMS serves your right to information from the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC). Under the Access to Information Act (ATI), an applicant can has the right to know any information CIC has on him/her throughout the immigration process. Sure you can check your current application status from MyCIC account or through e-Client Application Services (ECAS), but that would only show you a highlight of your current application status and won't detail the entire processing details and information they have on you. For this very reason, you can order GCMS notes online from CIC by paying a nominal fee. But does this mean ordering GCMS notes escalates or speeds up your application process? Read more to find out.
What do GCMS notes offer?
What do GCMS notes offer?
As expected, GCMS notes have tons of details and are about 37 pages long. Keep in mind most of the information would not make sense to us and is purely for their official working purposes. However, there are some information you may be interested, for instance your detailed application status with timestamps and officer name. If there is something wrong with your application that is causing a delay, you can know from the notes and contact the immigration department rather than wait.
The notes divides your application into various stages such as eligibility, admissibility, medical check etc. It also includes the entire client information they have on you. Every stage of your application process is mentioned with the start date, end date, current status, change in status, officer ID etc. For some stages, you would also find a 'Due Date' which is interesting to note since they would get a reminder to pick up your application for processing on that due date later.
Usually a due date is generated by the processing staff when you order a GCMS note, for their use. But you can expect your application to get processed around or near your due date. As mentioned in the image above, you can look for the due date mentioned in the notes when you receive them.
So can GCMS get you PR faster?
So can GCMS get you PR faster?
Unlike normal assumption of the Immigration consultants, GCMS notes are purely intended to receive information and not anything else. They cannot speed-up your application process. They can help you look for anything that may create any issue in your application processing but apart from that, they cannot do much. If you ask me, GCMS notes are not important unless your application has been stuck at the same stage for longer than the average processing time mentioned on CIC website.
You can order a set of GCMS notes from CIC website by paying a nominal $5 fee. You would need either be residing in Canada for this or need address from a person residing in Canada. Alternatively, if you do not know anybody inside Canada, you can also choose from many online services that provide you GCMS notes on a small commission.
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