{"id":338,"date":"2021-02-08T00:43:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T00:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getgcms.com\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2021-07-24T14:18:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T14:18:25","slug":"requesting-gcms-notes-from-cbsa-or-ircc-when-how-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getgcms.com\/blog\/requesting-gcms-notes-from-cbsa-or-ircc-when-how-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Requesting GCMS notes from CBSA or IRCC? When, how and why?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

GCMS notes remain the only accurate source of knowing the processing details of your application filed with IRCC. GCMS notes can be obtained from IRCC or CBSA. The importance of GCMS notes has been acknowledged as they are often used as evidence before the Federal Court and the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). The GCMS notes are frequently cited and produced before the Federal Courts and IRB to challenge IRCC’s decisions. In one of the meetings of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Immigration and Citizenship<\/a>, Mr. Vance P. E. Langford (the then Chair of the Immigration Law Section, Canadian Bar Association<\/a>) testified<\/a> that to increase transparency, “[a] suggestion made was to attach the GCMS printout to the rationale for the decision………. That isn’t really hard to do, and that would make it no longer necessary to do an access to information request to get the reasons in order to understand whether this was just not a viable application or whether it should be appealed or redone.”<\/p>\n\n\n