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Oh sorry - I misread "at birth" as "by birth"... thanks for the clarification!

I just wrote a few things back in that thread, but just again, definitely common law, not conjugal! "You can sponsor a conjugal partner if: - there is a significant degree of attachment between the two of you, implying not just a physical relationship but a mutually interdependent...

You should definitely apply as "common law" - conjugal is meant only for those persons who are unable to live together due to immigration barriers, discrimination, etc. If you have been living together for more than 12 months, definitely apply common law! And every time it asks your status...

I actually kept track of all my visa-related expenses. I had to send away to the US for a copy of my birth certificate and an FBI police check. Just in the past year or so they started charging at police stations to get your fingerprints done (for the FBI check) so that was an expense too. It...

Here is the link to the New Delhi 2014 applicants thread: www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/new-delhi-2014-applicants-t180473.0.html And here is the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApoaDx-HWbWGdGdFdC1VblNuNnZobi1CTFFsWUJLMkE

http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/bringing-a-pet-dog-to-canada-tips-t92191.0.html

Could some of it be a misunderstanding? "four to five" sounds very similar to "forty five" Not sure about the rest of it, when I did my medical I went on the cic website to find out where to go to do the medical, there was only one in the area but they were very professional and it was just a...

I think Sydney usually sends an AOR via email to the applicant (not the sponsor), and like you said from the spreadsheet it looks like between 6 and 18 days after sponsorship approval, so yours being a month is later than usual for stage 2 AOR. I'm assuming you're the sponsor, check with the...

The processing times on the cic website are unfortunately not very accurate. Maybe take a look at the Bogota thread to get an idea of what kind of processing times people are seeing at the moment...

For us, it was like this: Acknowledgement Of Receipt at Mississauga: Sponsor UCI Sponsorship Approval: Sponsor UCI Acknowledgement Of Receipt at Visa Office: Applicant UCI To log into ECAS while the sponsor application was being processed, I think we had to use the sponsor UCI, sponsor...

On this page there is a link to the country-specific instructions for applying. Definitely read through this guide! http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/fc.asp Link to PDF: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/guides/3911e.pdf Appendix B has photo specifications and says...

You say: Unless you are splitting your time between Colombia and Canada, it sounds to me like you are living exclusively outside of Canada, and you do not reside in Canada, and you are not currently living in Canada. As a Canadian citizen you are able to sponsor your wife even if you are...

Australia is visa-exempt: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/visas.asp?country=Australia My fiance and I are planning to make the move soon, whether we have the COPR or not. Our plan is for me to enter Canada as a visitor with the intent to wait for my PR from within Canada - from many other...

I sent a message to the Sydney Visa Office before submitting our application: and I received the following reply: We submitted our application without the police certificate, but including a letter explaining that I would forward it once I received it from the FBI, and also printed out the...

Check out this link: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/tools/temp/visa/dual.asp "An intention by a foreign national to become a permanent resident does not preclude them from becoming a temporary resident if the officer is satisfied that they will leave Canada by the end of the period...

As a US citizen who has been living in Australia for the past 7 years I had the choice of visa office... Sydney times at that point were looking great, but at this point no one in this forum has gotten their COPR for the past 6 weeks from the Sydney VO. I am kicking myself a bit, but ah well so...

The sticky at the top of the family sponsorship forum has helpful information on Inland vs. Outland: http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/spousal-sponsorship-t46995.0.html If you apply outland it looks as though your application will go through Port of Spain, you can...

Depending on your situation, you might want to look at applying for your PR via the Outland process instead of the Inland. The first stage approval for Inland is currently taking 12 months to complete, while depending on your visa office by the time those 12 months is up you might have your PR...

You won't get contacted until they start looking at your application. You can check the website here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/perm-fc.asp Right now it says, "Working on applications received on June 13, 2014". Once that moves forward to "Working on applications received...

I've been doing some looking myself (though I haven't picked one yet) and these are the companies I found so far that do a "groupage" rate for sea freight, where you fill part of a container and they ship it once the container is full from other shipments going the same direction. The first one...