Hi all,
Me and my Girlfriend have applied for Family Sponsorship PR under common-law. We've also applied for an Open Work Permit for me.
I'm a British Citizen but now live in Canada and have done since Dec 2017. (I'm principal applicant)
She's born and raised Canadian. (She's the Sponsor)
We became common-law 28th December 2018 (1 year to the day since I moved, I've not left the country since).
We are based in Quebec, suburban Montreal.
I have no kids or criminal convictions.
Hopefully that's all the required background information, though I'll happily provide any more if it's relevant.
We sent off the Initial application to the Federal Government, the $1040 inc PR Fees plus the extra $255 for the Open Permit Fees. - this was sent 12th January 2019.
We, 9 weeks later received our whole application back because we didn't realize that schedule A plus police certificates was required, I sent off for my UK certificates straight away and got them back here within a week or so.
We're all told that if the application is incomplete that nothing is processed, yet a week later as we were about to re-submit the application we received another letter telling us to apply to Quebec for the CSQ? But I was holding the sent-back application in my hand? I have a UCI and application number so I'm assuming it's on file anyway.
Anyway so hopefully it's being processed. It was sent back to the Fed about 3 weeks ago and was received therefore about 2.5 weeks ago.
We've now sent the Sponsorship stuff to Quebec too, this arrived there yesterday.
I'm just really confused as you can imagine, but it looks like good news so far.
I also can't link the application to my CIC account, I've tried every combination possible and still cannot find my application. And even when I enter the application number, it says that the application number isn't right for this particular type of programme, even though it is, Sponsorship - Common Law.
Hopefully I'll have some good news but counting no chickens yet as you can imagine!