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Well, we landed in Winnipeg on Friday and spent yesterday recovering from the jet lag. We were both living and working in the UK, but these weren't exactly amazing jobs and we were just tired of waiting. So here we are! Now I just need to update CIC about our change of address. Might this cause...

Thank you - I didn't know that. Kind of wondering if the £60 was worth it now... but I suppose it's useful to have the coverage in the meantime and just in case. I looked at the Manitoba Health website to make sure and it just said that "visitors" weren't covered, so I assumed that applied to...

Never mind - crisis averted. We purchased one-way travel insurance for 21 days for around £60. That's not a long period but it gives a little breathing room and hopefully we'll be done this process by then. If not, then we have more time to look into private insurance once that policy ends in a...

We need some advice about private health insurance / travel insurance. We're flying to Canada soon and my husband does not have his PR yet, but we're planning to wait out the process there. What insurance did you buy? A lot of UK travel insurance companies seem to operate on the assumption that...

Sounds a bit like my husband. Though he's English, not Scottish. : )

Congrats! I'm hoping we go to In Process soon... they said they're reviewing the file but it bugs me that it still says Application Received. I got sponsor approval in late November. (Of course if it just skipped straight to Decision Made, that'd be better!)

The "In Process" thing still confuses me a bit. Our file's still just at "Application Received" while most people around me on the spreadsheet are either "In Process" or "Decision Made." But in an email from CIC they said our file is "still under review." I'm not sure whether that just means...

Hello! I'm a Canadian citizen who's been living in the UK on a spousal visa for the last two years. My husband and I have made the decision to move to Canada and we're leaving in June. I set up a Canadian bank account last year when we were visiting for my brother's wedding and now I wish to...

Yay! I got a response from CIC to my second email (I sent the first with incorrect contact details, which I apologized for in my second). "Good afternoon, Your application remains under review. The review process is expected to be completed shortly and we will be in contact at that stage if we...

That is completely absurd and frankly discriminatory. (I'm Canadian btw.) If an employer said that to my husband I'd have half a mind to go down to their business the very next day myself and give them an earful about how their hiring policies are blatantly anti-immigrant. And I wouldn't care...

Right... so, I've sent another case specific inquiry to London and hope it won't cause any issues that I've sent two, asking pretty much the same thing, within about a week. It turns out I did in fact misspell my email address the first time so even if they chose to respond, they wouldn't have...

I suppose I can be added to the spreadsheet as well. Application Received: 14 November 2012 Sponsor Approval: 23 November 2012 Status: Married Haven't heard anything from CIC since sponsor approval and ECAS still just says "Application Received." We fly from the UK on June 7th and I was hoping...

I'm confident I didn't type it wrong (though I guess it's possible), and it's not in my junk folder. They say "within 24 hours" so that's what I'll give it, but I have a feeling I just won't get one at all. Not sure what I'll do when I need to update my mailing address in less than a month if...

So, when you email CIC, is it normal not to receive an automated response? I haven't received one yet (some 8 or 9 hours later), though I'm quite sure I wrote the email address correctly. They say you should receive one within 24 hours of sending your inquiry, and it hasn't been that long yet...

Finally got the courage to send London an email this morning, the first time I've communicated with them since sending in the application in November. I know we're well within "normal processing times," so I don't know if we'll get a response or not, but I thought it might be worth a shot. The...

I'm considering sending London a case specific inquiry just to ask for an update on our file, but I'm not sure that I should. I'm still within normal processing times (got sponsor approval back in late November). We're both living and working together in the UK. However, we're planning to go...

Really! That's better news. My husband has a *provisional* UK license, but he still has to get his proper license. We're trying to cut down on the waiting time to get a full Ontario driver's license because there's an educational program he's interested in starting in a couple years, but he'll...

Right... I get the sense from that, at least, that they will reduce the amount of time you need to drive on your G1 if you have a UK license. So even if he had it for, say, 3 or 4 months, then that'd be 3 or 4 months lopped off the time he needs to drive on his G1 before going for his G2. It's...

Hello, I'm a Canadian citizen who's recently applied to sponsor my English husband as a PR. I've read that UK drivers can convert their driver's license, if they've had it for two years or more, for a full G class driver's license in Ontario. What I've had a little more diffiulty finding out...

Thank you for all your help and avice, Sweden. I'm not sure how straightforward my case is - probably not as complicated as some, but we didn't include an Option C because I didn't pay any tax in 2011, as that's when I moved to England. I'm here on a spousal visa that expires next August, and I...