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Oh awesome! Exciting! Congrats, the wait is finally over and soon this will all just be a distant memory. Good luck with everything!

Krys what's going on with your application? Didn't u guys already have your interview? How did it go?

Nope all u can do is wait. At least u know it arrived. When they will actually get to it who knows.

After they Send it to havana they will update the same site yes. However they arent always very good at updating. Ours was never updated from the time it got to havana to the time my husband got his visa. It all depends on who is handling your file

Our status didn't get updated at all during the process... Even when my husband got called to go in with his passport etc. even when he got his visa. So it depends on the officer working on the file I guess.

Oh yeah sorry, thought u meant 10 months in havana. Every city has a MP (member of parliament) and once your timeline hits 10 months in Havana then I would be contacting them to look into things for you at that point.

At least now u can get your MP to look into it since u have hit the posted wait time of 10 months. Have u?

Just a photocopy of the passport is needed. I thought also that it was written that they need the original so I sent it in, they sent it back to me though saying that they do not need the original time. And they just took a photocopy of it. So yeah, don't send the original just the copy...

I think there is another forum on this site about interview questions, just search for it

I think the 5 month timeline hasn't been the case since like March...I think it's up to like 9 or 10 months now. Usually visa day is on a Wednesday yes, not sure what day they call though, I can't remember

Everything they need to come to canada will be given to them that Wednesday when they get called in to the Embassy in havana

They prob still take the time to investigate and make sure...I could be wrong but it just seems like the applications that have no family ties at all in the US or other red flags get processed a bit faster.

I think having direct family in the states is prob the thing that makes things take longer....

There were no updates of news on the forum for 4 months...but it seems as if things are starting to move this week

By the way guys IMO (like Skype) is now available in Cuba. This along with public wifi that they have opened up around the country, hopefully this should make the process a bit easier http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=112977

I'm happy to see that things are moving again! Hopefully the flood gates open up now! Good luck everyone!

Ooooo yours was quick like ours! Does your wife have family in the states? My husband doesn't so our thought was maybe that's why it didn't take too long

Keep us Posted! You're getting close! Good luck!!!

My husband flew in from Varadero, havana airport is far too hectic, he flew Westjet to vancouver but it had a stop over in Montreal so that's where immigration did his landing papers so if your spouse has a connections flight I would make sure there is a sufficient amount of time in between...