Spousal Interview Questions

[nsr]

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS for Spousal Category


1. When and where did you meet your spouse for the first time?
2. How did you meet your spouse?
3. How old is your spouse? What is your spouse's birth date?
4. What does your spouse do for a living?
5. Where did your spouse go to school'?
6. What degrees or formal training does your spouse have?
7. How did your spouse immigrate to Canada?
8. Where does your spouse work?
9. What is the name of the company? What position does your spouse hold? How long has your spouse worked there?
10. What does the job entail?
11. Does your spouse like his or her job?
12. What is the salary?
13. Where does your spouse live?
14. Whom does your spouse live with?
15. Where are you going to live when you go to Canada?
16. Please explain the type of relationship you have had since your first meeting.
17. What is your and spouse religion?
18. When you and your spouse were dating what would you do together?
19. Do you have any hobbies? Describe them.
20. Does your spouse have any hobbies? Describe them.
21. What type of music do you enjoy?
22. What type of music does your spouse enjoy?
23. What kind of movies do you enjoy?
24. What kind of movies does your spouse enjoy?
25. What kind of books do you read?
26. What kind of books does your spouse read?
27. Have you and your spouse ever exchanged gifts? Explain.
28. When and where did the marriage proposal take place?
29. Was your marriage arranged?
30. If it was arranged describe how it was arranged and by whom?
31. Did you have a ceremony celebrating your relationship?
32. Where was it held?
33. When was it held?
34. Describe the ceremony?
35. Did it conform to your own religious and cultural beliefs? Explain.
36. When did you get married?
37. Where did you get married?
38. Who was at the wedding?
39. What family members were there?
40. How many people were at the ceremony?
41. What day was the ceremony held on?
42. Who performed the ceremony?
43. Do you have pictures of the ceremony?
44. Who was at the ceremony from your side?
45. Who was at the ceremony from your spouse's side?
46. Were any friends present?
47. How many brothers and sisters does your spouse have?
48. Were your parents at the wedding? If not, why not?
49. Are your parents aware of the wedding? If not, why not?
50. Where your spouse's parents at the wedding? If not, why not?
51. Were your spouse's parents aware of the wedding? If not, why not?
52. Was a reception held? When and where was it held?
53. Who was present at the reception?
54. Did you receive any wedding gifts? Describe them.
55. Did you on a honeymoon? Where did you go and for how long?
56. Can you show me pictures and receipts from the honeymoon, wedding and
reception?
64. Do any other family members reside with you and your spouse? If yes, please indicate their names and relationship.
65. What relatives do you have in Canada?
66. What are their names and where do they live?
67. What relatives do you have outside of Canada?
68. Has your spouse met any of your relatives or friends? Who have they met and when did they meet them?
69. Have you met any of your spouse's relatives or friends? Whom have you met and when did you meet them?
70. In terms of education, would you say that you and your spouse's educational background are compatible?
72. Why did you marry your spouse?
74. Do your family members (parents, siblings) want to immigrate to Canada?
75. Did you marry your spouse so that you could sponsor your parents as landed immigrants of Canada?
76. How do you correspond with your spouse?
77. How often do you talk on the phone?
78. Do you have phone bills, e-mails, cards, etc., and can I see them?
79. Tell me why this marriage or relationship is genuine.
80. What makes your relationship with your spouse different from that of a female/male friend?
81. Does your spouse support you financially?
82. Do you support your spouse financially?
83. If I refuse this application what will you do?
84. When and where did you live together?
85. Development of your relationship after very first day?
86. Why didn’t you get married to someone from India??, why to someone from Canada?
87. Personal life of sponsor, school, colleges, courses, work and all important dates such as, date of moving to Canada, date of leaving Canada and entering India.
88. If she is pregnant or not, if not, why not ?
89. Detailed information about her parents
90. Engagement, marriage and reception, who attended and who didnt, if not why?
91 About rituals in religious ceremony and number of guests?
92. Future plans?
93. What kind of job, you are looking for?
94. What side of bed, you sleep on?
95 Where did ur spouse propose u , what time was it ? And how ?
96. When n where did u first time got intimate with your spouse ?
97. What contraceptives did u use ?
98. Her birthdate, her education details, her parents, sister info..etc etc..
99. When and where did you get married?
100.What trips to went to?

 

[nsr]

These are some questions that they can ask to couples living together..

Development of Your Relationship

What did the two of you have in common?

Where did you go for dates?

When did your relationship turn romantic?

How long was it before you decided to get married?

The Wedding


How many people attended your wedding?

Did each of your parents attend?

Was there music or other entertainment?

What kind of cake (or other food) did you serve?

Who were the bridesmaids/groomsmen?

How late did the guests stay?

Did the bride change clothes for the reception?

Did you serve liquor? What kind?

Did anyone get drunk or otherwise embarrass themselves at the reception?

What time did you and the [bride or groom] leave the reception?

Did you go on a honeymoon? When did you leave? How did you get there? What airlines?

Regular Routines


Who gets up first? At what time?

How many alarm clocks do you set in the morning?

Who makes breakfast?

What do each of you eat for breakfast?

Does your spouse drink coffee in the morning?

What time do the working spouse or spouses arrive home?

Who cleans the house?

What day is your garbage picked up?

Who takes care of paying the bills?

Do you have a joint bank account? Where?

Do you have a cat, dog, or other pet? Who feeds it? Who walks it (or cleans its kitty
litter box, cage, etc.)?

Do you and/or your spouse attend regular religious services? Where?

Where do you keep the spare toilet paper?

The Cooking

How many times a week on average do you eat out?

What is your favorite restaurant for special occasions? For weekly outings?

Who does most of the cooking?

Who does the grocery shopping? Where?

Is there a particular food that you eat every week?

What is your spouse’s favorite/least favorite food?

What color are the kitchen curtains?

Do you have a barbecue grill? Do you use it?

Other Family Members

Have you met each other’s parents?

How often do you see each other’s parents?

When was the last time you saw them? Where? For how long?

On important holidays, do you buy individual gifts for your parents-in-law? Do they buy individual gifts for you?

How do each of you get along with your parents-in-law?

Which other members of your spouse’s family do you see frequently? When was the last time you saw them? What did you do together?

Home Technology

How many land-line telephones are in your house? Where are they?

Do you have an answering machine on your home telephone? Who checks the messages?


How many televisions are in the house? In which rooms? Do you watch shows together, or separately? Name one show that you always watch together.

Do you record any television shows?

Do you subscribe to a DVD rental service?

Does your spouse listen to the radio? What station?

How many cars do you have?

Do you have a garage? Who parks in it? Do you use a garage door opener?

Do you have a camera? Who uses it most often? Who takes pictures at important family occasions?

In the Bedroom

What size is your bed (Twin, Queen, or King)?

Do you have a regular mattress, futon, or waterbed?

How many windows are there in your bedroom?

What color are your spouse’s pajamas?

Who sleeps on each side of the bed?

What form of contraception (birth control) do you use?

When was your wife’s last menstrual period?

Where do you keep your toothbrushes? What kind of toothpaste, soap, and shampoo does each of you use?

Do either of you read or watch television before going to sleep? Do you have lamps next to your bed?

Have you ever had an argument that resulted in one of you sleeping in another room? Who, and which room?

The Rest of the House

Do you live in a home or apartment? Who pays the mortgage or rent? How much is it?

Is there a carpet in your front hallway? What color? Is your sofa a regular one or does it have a pull-out bed?

Have you ever had houseguests sleep there?

What type of curtains or window coverings is in your living room? What color?

How many staircases are in your house?

How many sinks, toilets, and showers are there in your house or apartment in total?

Do you leave any lights on when you go to sleep at night?

Celebrations

When is your spouse’s birthday?

What did you do for your spouse’s last birthday?

How did you celebrate your most recent wedding anniversary?

What religious holidays do you celebrate together?

What’s the most important holiday of the year in your household? Where do you typically celebrate it?

Have you and your spouse gone to see a movie or other form of entertainment lately? When, and what did you see?

What did the two of you do last New Year’s Eve? Canada day?

 

[canadianwoman]

What were you looking for in a partner?
Deescribe how your husband fits what you just said you were looking for.

 

[MaxLet]

WOW! thanks for the topic! It is really detail and it will probably help a lot of applicants to prepare for the interview. In my case, first time I had an interview with an immigration agent, It was 4am at Toronto Pearson airport, I was 17 and just left my hole family back in my country. The agent I got was kind of rude (or tired!) anyway, he end up making me cry cause I honestly couldnt think in english at that moment! So he told me "how do you expect to study in english when you can not even answer me!" I was sleepy, sad, and scare! Anyway, he let me pass cuz all my docs were ok, and I think he felt sorry for me. hahaha..so I think Ill just have to suggest to be always honest with the immigration officer, to read the questions but dont memorize answers (they dont want robots) they want you to talk with the heart!

Some of the questions are pretty intimate... did someone experience this?
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE, AND GOD BLESS!

 

[canadianwoman]

Some of the questions are pretty intimate... did someone experience this?

Yeah, the visa officer asked me when I first had sex with my then boyfriend, and asked my husband who made the first move the first time.

 

[PC0827]

Thank you for the information. Please share more information for people like my husband who is waiting to be interviewed. This is very useful info for people like us

 

[nsr]

To all who are waiting for interview, prepare these questions and many more you can think of and you will be fine. If your relationship is genuine, then most of them you guys would know anyways, but still its good to go through them while sitting together with your partner.

gud luck
cheers!!!!!

 

[over_jj]

This is a great list of questions.

Thanks

 

[Jamesdavid3]

This should be a sticky

 

[Rose13]

Hi members,
Thanks for sharing these possible questions for spousal interviews.
I have got an email from my Visa Officer and my interview has been fixed for next month (September 2013). This gives me just few weeks to prepare and these questions will be so helpful.

Anything else i can prepare prior the interview?? Any other advice or tips? I will be grateful for your advice.
All the best to you all.
Rose13

 

[ACS]

Wow! What a great thread!!

Haven't even got our AOR, so no idea if we will have an interview....but this is an excellent help!!!!

Would love to hear from others about the questions they were asked in the interview, and if the Officer doing the interviews was nice, friendly or not so nice...

 

[DaleandMonica]

Wow. And how hard are they with couples answering the same? I'm thinking.....I wonder how couples that has nothing to do with immigration would do in a test like this. There is many of these questions I know my husband and I would have a hard time answering.....I know my husband would say I don't know. Like, where I went to school in my home country. He wouldn't have a clue. We are around 50 years old.....and school isn't anything we have discussed that much.....it is such a long time since we went to school. Like in another lifetime lol And the same thing with dating....we are not so into the dating game. We are pretty boring when it comes to that. Like when we have a birthday.....we just like to stay home and maybe buy something yummy to eat and stay home watching tv and have a cozy night. We don't like celebrations anyone of us. So our answers would be: Nothing, we just had a tv night together. I'm afraid we would be so boring in our answers, that they wouldn't believe us. But my husband and I like a calm peaceful life. Well, we have our camping life....that's when we take our trailer and go out in nature and fish and just have a cozy time together. But other then that, we like our peaceful life at home together with each others....and not at all into all these celebrations and holidays. So thank you so very much for posting all these questions. Good to know what they might be

 

[Foster]

My husband is going for an interview on Aug 27th and this truly helps!!! Thanks everyone for your input

 

[europe]

Try to be relax, make eye contact with the office, dont be nervouse, and scare , they see rght away if you are nervouse or not.

 

[ACS]

Try to be relax, make eye contact with the office, dont be nervouse, and scare , they see rght away if you are nervouse or not.

Good advice...but easier said than done!

My husband and I are a legit couple, have been together a long time, but I think anyone in the situation of an interview could be pretty nervous because there is basically the outcome of your LIFE hanging in the balance....!

DaleandMonica - I totally agree! I bet if they set up a game show where they asked couples these questions lots would get them wrong...lol.

Similar to the Citizenship Exams..I am a born and raised Canadian and I tried doing a sample Citizenship Exam and I failed it!! lol. Most Canadians would fail it, and most legit couples wouldn't get all the questions in these interviews right...lol