I understand what you are saying. I wanted my wife to come and live with me instead of going through all this, but she says she can't (due to job and family concerns) - my only choice would be to appeal.Yeah, well..... High probability of success or not, appeals take time....as in years in some cases.....tons of money in immigration lawyers and it causes such emotional and physical stress on couples.... I just don't know if I have much fight left in me at this point. I'm going to just leave it in God's hands and if we are denied, I think my time and energy is better spent migrating back to my home country and trying the whole process from there (where I hear it is easier from other couples who have gone through the process)...As much as it would kill me to throw away everything I worked so hard to build here, I have a husband and a life hanging in the balance and that should be my first priority, and it is. These IO have way too much power to destroy lives on a whim..... There is just no rhyme or reason to any of this. But, as I said, I have no choice but to leave it in God's hands and hope for the best.
Sponsoring husband from Morocco
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The negativity is coming from reading this forum and all the people they have turned down. I was pretty confident in my application before that. Good to hear it's not a big deal to you, but being with my wife means everything to me. I don't like to be negative, but I was just answering another post that said they were only 3 main red flags - my post just stated that there were quite a few people getting approved with those red flags and other people being turned down for other reasons. You don't have to read my posts...but some people may get value out of the information if they didn't already know it. If I had major red flags, I would feel it was a POSITIVE thing to hear I had a pretty good chance of not being turned down because other people were approved with the same red flags.
Calm down Man all i said is to be positive in life thats it . Dont be offensive next time ..oh i forgot to tell u we have rainbow flags and we believe in our dream 182%
For your own good Galahad, you should stop reading the forum so much. I did it too, trying to see if their were people with applications similar to mine to find out what chance I might have and it was all over the board with approvals and rejections. I have come to the conclusion after reading this thread, the appeal thread and the interview thread that it all depends on the visa officer you get and whether the visa office has reached its quotas for the month at the time of your interview. Although, I do agree that some of the visa officer's decisions are justified - I am talking about people who give all the information required to prove a genuine marriage (from CIC's own checklists) and are given different outcomes by the VO.
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My husband and I are in the same boat. It is not that he wants to live in Canada, it's that I don't think I can get a good job or any job for that matter in Morocco. I wish I had another citizenship (Canada is cold most of the time and they tax us to death
) especially after dealing with CIC and reading how they treat a lot of people wanting to come to Canada. I don't know whether we will appeal if refused or just try to live in a third country its easier to get a job in. I read on this forum that it was easy to get a job teaching English in Malaysia and a few other countries and its easy to bring your spouse along too.Didn't mean to come off that way...bad day. Good luck with your application!
Canada certainly isn't the welcoming country they like to portray when it comes to immigration, even though they say we don't have enough people - we need a bigger population. My husband's cousin married a man from the States in September 2018 and she was living there by December 2018. I have a friend from Morocco who married a German man - they are allowed to live together once they register their marriage and wait for their spousal sponsorship decision. We also have a friend from Morocco who married an English girl at the beginning of this year and he was living with her by the Spring when I went to visit them. Canada's family sponsorship program lacks compassion and it takes way too long. I hope you get a positive decision once your application is finally processed.Yeah, well..... High probability of success or not, appeals take time....as in years in some cases.....tons of money in immigration lawyers and it causes such emotional and physical stress on couples.... I just don't know if I have much fight left in me at this point. I'm going to just leave it in God's hands and if we are denied, I think my time and energy is better spent migrating back to my home country and trying the whole process from there (where I hear it is easier from other couples who have gone through the process)...
I totally feel for your situation.... I'm in a hard spot myself. I wanted to relocate to Morocco and live with my husband (had a job offer teaching English in Rabat with numerous tutoring opportunities to make even more money) but a few years ago, I was diagnosed with a rare medical condition. It is so rare that it is often misdiagnosed and even when it is diagnosed properly, doctors readily admit they know very little about the cause of it and the treatments are usually hit or miss. The medication I'm on is not easily accessible outside of Europe and North America. So, if I were to follow my heart and move to to be with my husband, my health would be at serious risk. I really pray that you and your spouse get a good answer from immigration. I know just how frustrating this must be for you both.
You're so right. I've been on both sides of this - once as the principal applicant and again as the sponsor. Hindsight being what it is, I should have moved back to the US when I met and decided to marry my husband....get myself established which would have taken less time than it did for me to get myself established here...and then bring him in on a K1, marry him and file the necessary papers. The most we would have been apart during this process is 6 months! Canada needs to revisit their family class immigration program because it needs a complete overhaul.
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Oh happy day!! I finally got my GCMS notes all 193 pages of them. They sent me my whole application back and about 40 some pages of actual notes - but, only from February when I originally ordered them - I was hoping as I had to wait 5 months to get them they would have updated them to today's date, but I guess not. There are no notes on them from Rabat visa officers yet, because my file was just transferred in January - so I have to order them again soon. This time I will complain to OIC on day 31 if I don't receive my notes - no more messing around with ATIP!Let me know when you receive your blank disk.
It just says sponsorship passed, medical passed, schedule A received, criminality not started, eligibility not started. Not much else I can understand - I will have to check with the GCMS thread to see if I can make any more sense of it.
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That must be sooo annoying.
I feel for you guys. We have a kid and no progress yet either. Pretty amazing that people used to get processed in 4 months at a point..I am an August 2017 applicant and I have been waiting 10 months so far. Maha has been waiting 14 plus months, the last we heard. I read it only gets worse over the summer as the visa officers take vacations and they have less officers processing applications.That must be sooo annoying.
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After 14 months of waiting i got my visa finally . Good luck for youu all . We were like 30 people that day . The ambassy is so busy and i think that they have a lot of work lol that's why my file got delayed . I met a girl there that got it just after 8 months
After 14 months of waiting i got my visa finally . Good luck for youu all . We were like 30 people that day . The ambassy is so busy and i think that they have a lot of work lol that's why my file got delayed . I met a girl there that got it just after 8 months
They told me that 60 people got the visa the day before .. and they mix everybody that day express entry ... sponsorship
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... studies lol