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HaHa - yes! I would get super frustrated - it took 6 months to pull it all together. It's just his personality, not detail oriented and laid back about things whereas I wanted to work on the paperwork on our honeymoon but he was not having that so... Things also move more slowly in his home...

I also applied with my maiden name and was approved at the first stage. Didn't and do not plan on changing my name.

So I received an offer but my counter offer wasn't accepted - or at least I haven't heard from them in a week so I will assume that's the case. So the difference between our offers was $10,000 gross. The thought of earning $38,000 less than I currently earn and giving up $17,000 annually in...

Ok that makes sense - I have to separate PR requirements from citizenship requirements. I'm at stage 2 - have been approved as a sponsor. That's great so he could maintain PR status until we return for good and then we would start counting for CC.....thanks for clarifying.

I'm not familiar at all with what happens if and when my husband would want to apply for Canadian citizenship down the road. I'm assuming though that CIC links information from your PR application to your citizenship application. So in his citizen application we note that we've been abroad when...

That's really great information to have going into this tough decision as I feel strongly that I will be given an offer this time. The best I can do to show intent then would be having the family business write a letter for an open job offer with competitive salary upon him receiving his PR...

This is just crazy - they've asked for an interview in the next few days.

So yesterday a hiring manager at an NGO that I formerly applied to, was shortlisted for (1 of 2) and was unsuccessful securing messaged me that the same position has re-opened and they'd like me to be aware of and apply for the position by the deadline (today) if still interested. This NGO is...

Still waiting as well. Ordered second set of notes. I must admit that I'm surprised that there's such a hold up.

FML, well hopefully the letter helps at least indicating that from the outset we were not trying to hide anything/misrepresent and we simply filled the paperwork out wrong. I will send them an email even though I'm not sure whether he indicated 'yes' to those two question on the background...

We applied through South Africa. I just checked the guide (good idea ;) )and it doesn't seem to require this information for Africa either so odd that the CIC-M would make specific mention of this information missing.

OK - super frustrating that it only dawned on me when reading someone else's post. I don't have a copy of the file but my lawyer does so first I may need to double check that indeed he did not declare his student Visa rejection. Now that I think about it I do remember mentioning in my letter of...

I didn't think that I had to write on the passport photos but then my GCMS notes said "passport photos with no biodata". So that suggests that they were expecting biodata. I would also like to know exactly what details to include in case they ask me to resend the photos with biodata.

My husband lived and studied in the UK for four years. He failed a course at one point and after retaking that one course he returned to Zambia and reapplied for a student VISA to complete his last year of studies. Anyways, that Visa was rejected and he then took his three year degree since he...

I think it depends on the thread. There could be a point where responses are saturated for those one-off questions and I would agree that at times the conversation can get diverted, I think I may have been the culprit of that at least once (my bad). However, I like that the thread for my Visa...

My husband's UK police clearance was late getting to us in the mail so we only sent the Zambian one to CIC-M with the view that we would send the UK one when it arrived and that it wasn't needed at this first stage. Anyways - our entire package was sent back for being incomplete. When I called...

When honour-related violence begins to be prosecuted firmly, fairly and effectively in Pakistan than perhaps I'll take a different view on levels of tolerance - http://hbv-awareness.com/, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19286837. According to her, the families have voiced their concerns about...

I would think that it's not that easy to restore a family's honour - we are talking about Pakistan where honour killings are accepted. Also, if her family is in Pakistan and she received a dowry it could be seen more like a transaction gone wrong, I would assume, and perhaps her family could be...

On the other hand, I didn't send them our FB accounts as I think that we have a plausible relationship history and that could be gathered by the information that was sent via the paper application (i.e., we didn't meet online so FB/Skype etc may provide support but are not central to our case)...

Random question but how commonly do you think that VO officers search the Internet to corroborate information. I am not concerned of anything online but moreso I try to keep my personal FB account private to the general public. Both our Facebook accounts are rather intertwined in each others and...