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Well, after months of overtime waiting (14 months; avg was 7-8 when we started) we just found out we have an interview coming. We called our consultant, who has handled according to her thousands of cases through Seoul office, and this is the first time someone had to go have an interview...

Hi Achkorea, What's going on with CIC Seoul office these days? We are also in the dark. Anyway, after a lot of thinking we decided to ask for GMCS notes again; we decided it was at least better to know what's coming even if the officers may or may not like it. is it possible that now you...

I am wondering about that too... we started the application, then I had to go to the US for work for the past year... recently Seoul office asked for police check for Korea and we sent that in. Being the keeners that we are, we thought we'd cover the bases and go get the US one too from the...

We also had for biopage only. As for travel history we didn't get asked for a certificate but on the general form or some other form we had to fill out all the previous addresses and such. Really who can certify a travel history anyhow? Let's see.. I don't remember exactly but our app got...

Well at least they requested your medicals, so I think you guys are more ahead of us. But at the same time it seems like they don't request everything from everyone so hopefully you guys don't need to submit more info. Sometimes I wonder if it is because we submitted WAY too much info in our...

Achkorea I hope the officers are reasonable people and both of us can get through this soon. It seems like we all got similar letters recently (our letter came in mid-August; Achkorea when did yours come?). Except in Achkorea's case there was no need for marriage record and in our case they...

More questions for Barlowe and Achkorea, or anyone else who knows: When you had to provide the information, did they also ask you to update your address? For our case, they asked us for a Korean address, but we are actually staying in Canada while waiting it out. We ended up submitting our...

Why would they fine you for not reporting? How much was the fine? And also, why would CIC care about a korean marriage cert if you had the Canadian one? That's so bizarre.

Congrats Barlowe! We're in the same situation as Achkorea. Wish there was some kind of transparency to the process and I'm itching to either get another copy of GCMS notes (requested one a few months ago but I am not sure if it will piss them off if I order again) or contact an MP (again, I...

Yes, having lots of patience and try not to worry so much, something that is very hard to do in practice =)

5 days that's pretty good. But I mean how long after you submitted the documents did they get back to you, I guess this time just for your passport?

Achkorea, Additionally just to compare how many days did they give you guys to respond to the criminal record check and medical check request? Did you just email back or did you send the original docs? Our consultant insisted we had to file the originals.

Achkorea, It's good to hear it sounds like at least the criminal record check and medical was ok (otherwise why would they ask for more stuff). Anyway, Seoul office also received our app back in June 2011 but we only got a request for criminal record check now. And we had to fill out the...

I am wondering if anyone can answer/help with this question. We just got a correspondence asking for criminal record. Does anyone have experience submitting a criminal history that has a fine? There was an unfortunate incident years back and my wife was innocent but unlucky and got caught in...

our border officer didn't even bother to look at the computer. but he did take an awful long time before he came to say 'hi' to us even if we were at the front of the line. so i would suspect he made his decision before he even started to chat by digging up the computer info. i have heard...

if you order GCMS notes it will say expired or not. but I think the officer can extend it in some cases..depends on situation

imho, that is not enough for intent. I was in a similar situation with more evidence than yourself and got a not-so-kindly worded letter from CIC and now sit in limbo. I wouldn't want anyone else to go through what we are going through currently. If you can get some pre-arranged, legit...

Our new (and hopefully, more competent) consultant has told us that she would not take any case involving people who are not in Canada concerning the intent to return. So, if you could help it I would strongly advice staying in Canada.

I wouldn't worry about it too much; same issue with our case. But if you get the GCMS notes they will definitely show that they received the letter, just that they haven't gotten around to changing the address / didn't feel like doing it. Took us I think a couple of months...

@Charlie: Actually because of that note it did indicate an interview was imminent. You're right I need to take it more positively, as more information and knowing the situation is still better than guessing in the dark. Takes some time to get over that the officer doesn't view very highly of...