Recent content by JulianS

Does anybody have good news?

It looks like Canuck_Morb drank th coolaid.

What will happen if Ukraine get strong armed into a bad peace settlement? Things are looking much worse than Munich 1938 where Britain, France, Italy and Germany decided the fate of Czechoslovakia with Czechoslovakia's participation!

My mother in law had submitted an H&C application before the family reunification program was commenced. I am pleased to say that her H&C application was approved today, which came as a total surprise. The H&C application was declined at first instance and then sent for judicial review. You...

At this rate, I will become an asylum seeker myself. An insane asylum.

IRCC is to cut 3,300 jobs. Now applications will be processed even slower.

Did they give you any details about what they would accept as "evidence that you made arrangements for your care and support"? Do you have a copy of the letter that they sent you (with redactions to protect privacy)?

CUAET was great. I am still amazed at how few Ukrainians who received the visa ended up coming here. Only about a third came and many have gone back to Ukraine. Those who have stayed want to continue staying here. I think that our group includes those who want to stay and get PR. We have friends...

My mother in law is 69. Of course we will support her and she will of course live with us. However, this was not supposed to be a sponsorship application and they seem to be turning it in to a sponsorship application, which is not fair. They are doing it indirectly by putting the onus on the...

Our application is for my 69 year old mother in law who does not work and relies on us to support her. She is definitely not self-supporting and has been living with us for the last five years. I thought these applications were not sponsorship applications. It seems like the government is trying...

Has anyone had any movement of their applications?

It is amazing how nothing gets done over the Christmas holidays.

This government looks close to collapse. Freeland is stepping down. The government is now reneging on the $250 HST cheques. Again I ask, is this government or the next going to go back on promises.

I see that many countries have now frozen asylum claims from Syrians. This has me somewhat concerned that should the war stop in Ukraine, the Canadian government could put a stop to all of our applications. What are your thoughts on this?

Actually, paint dries a lot faster.