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My husband's passport took 8 weeks to finally be sent back to him, meanwhile he quit his job and was waiting in limbo. We sent a case specific enquiry, and did not get a response back but it may have got them to start working on it anyway. They sent it back about 2 weeks after.

It doesn't matter where you get married, but if you want it to happen sooner rather than later that may affect where you chose to get married. You need to review the requirements for foreigners getting married in the country of your choice. This may involve getting long form Canadian Birth...

I believe the sponsor side will always be in process, my husband has now landed and it still says it.

For our application, I tried to include some receipts for a variety of things across the times of my visits - coffee dates, dinner, supermarket, movie tickets, museum tickets, bus tickets with our names, hotel receipts with both our names (I would ask hotels to add the extra name when possible)...

There's not set guidelines, you just don't want CIC to consider her visiting you as her moving to live with you as that changes the application a bit. If she has a job and coming for a month or less, there should be no issue as that is a very common situation. If CIC suspects she has moved to be...

We got ours back when they returned the passport (Rome office). We sent prints of our digital photos, so it wasn't a problem if they weren't returned. They didn't send back anything else, like proof of relationship documents. Depends on the office you are going through, and I also have a...

Congrats!! It's most likely January, I've never heard of a visa with an expiry over a year away. The expiry should match up around when your medicals were done, plus a year, give or take a few days. I was confused about our expiry date as well.

The office will usually give specific instructions for recommended courier based on your country of citizenship and country of residence, if they are different. If they are aware you are living in Canada, they may give instructions to send it to Ottawa with a prepaid xpresspost envelope for...

If the application form is dated after the entry refusal to Isreal, you should submit an updated form with the correct information - stating that you were refused entry, and explain the details in the space provided. If you do not provide this information they can refuse your application due...

On your wife's side, I think it will always show in process. Mine continues to say "In Process" even though my husband has now landed. We never received a fourth line on his side regarding the decision made or any of the correspondence we received from them. It now has a fourth line indicating...

Hello All, At some point my husband (PR) and I (citizen) would like to travel to the states together for holidays, and he will require a visitor visa. I am worried about applying too soon after he lands here. I'm thinking to wait a year or so until he is established in Canada and working for a...

I had a small wedding ceremony, 2 witnesses, at the civil office. We explained why it was done this way, and why our parents were not attending. We had a small dinner at my husband's uncles house and brought a cake. Usually in my husband's country there is a big wedding party, but I guess they...

Awesome! Congrats to you as well :)

Hi George, sponsor approval time can be checked online on CIC website, currently 53 days. In my experience sponsoring my husband (Applied Feb 2016), once Rome received the application, they completed processing in just over a month and sent us passport & fee request. It took us a while to get...

Ecas finally changed to Decision Made after we got the passport back. Also, no mention of any correspondence, we still only have the 3 basic lines - Date Received, Date started Processing, Meds Received.

Try opening ecas using your receipt # and your information, if it pulls up your application then there's nothing to worry about, they've linked it to your application. The time it will take depends on your VO, I would look at that specific thread to get a better idea.

We received the passport back with visa and copr :) Hopefully you all hear something soon!!!

Hello February applicants, just wanted to share we received visa & copr yesterday. Probably would have got it mid May had we paid rprf upfront tho. We are with the Rome office, applied Feb 5. Good luck to all!

Is the B4 form necessary if only bringing clothes and other non-valuable personal items? I'm preparing my spouse for arrival in a few weeks.

I suggest you pay it before they ask you for it if possible. I didn't pay at the time of submitting my application, and it caused a delay of 8 weeks before our VO finally checked that it was there. As soon as they got the passport they sent an email saying they can't process without the fee...