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Interesting point about the medical exam. I had some questions of that couple's thinking myself, but then again while going through this inexplicable process who can blame anyone for making things unnecessarily hard on themselves. In the end, I don't think they chose the $10,000 route in this...

Wow. Thanks for the advice, ddobro2. I noticed the other day a story in which a Canadian fellow and his PR-applicant wife had to have their baby delivered in a hotel bathroom on account of the long delays. That could have happened to my wife (due May 12) and I if we'd applied via the inland...

Definitely file a request for information on your file. That's a long time to be waiting! Here's how. http://immipedia.ca/Ordering_FOSS_and_CAIPS_notes

Yay! My ISP cut me off for a long period, I would have responded earlier. Congrats to you both. +1

Very sorry to hear it, Dragoon. Every time I read a story like this I wonder, is CIC: stupid; racist; or just callously bureaucratic. Any way you look at it, it doesn't add up well. Surely they realize that there's more to the way parents worry about their children than how things will look on a...

Did you see the note from ddobro2 above? There has been an important development - the Canadian government is accelerating spousal visa applications from Syria. See this announcement in Arabic (from ddbobro2's link)...

Nicely spotted!!

I've just received this. ======= Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird the Honourable Diane Ablonczy, Minister of State of Foreign Affairs, just issued the following statement regarding Syria: “The situation in Syria continues to deteriorate. With additional sanctions imposed by the Arab...

I suggest that you call your MP's office, too. Your MP's office should be experienced in dealing with CIC, and by law CIC has to respond to an MP's request within two business days. (BTW, they'll ask you to fill in a form granting them the right to inquire on your behalf. You can run that into...

Merry Christmas!! 8^)

alo, I updated the spreadsheet when you made your post, but it looks like my response to you was swallowed by the website, somehow. Congratulations! Possibly one or two things on their plate, right now. 8^/ It'll be worth the way, Arezou.

I'm sure she'll appreciate the change in weather. I took my wife from Tokyo to Toronto in January .. not quite the same effect. All the best with your new lives together, atethepaint!

Bureaucratic insanity aside, congratulations!!

8^O I though that those shenanigans were reserved for the inland process. Very sorry to hear that we're this bad at this. As to fixing it, I'm not sure that there's any appetite for immigration issues with goverment. The Conservatives ran an anti-immigration platform this summer (and the...

Sorry to hear about the set-back, Dragoon. By waiting for two years for the interview do you mean that they've set an interview date for 2013!

Congratulations!!

Congratulations! If you see the spreadsheet in my signature you'll see that six months is not out of line. It's a substantial process.

I was in a LDR with a six hour train trip involved myself, many years ago. Funny, isn't it, how a train trip somehow makes a long-distance relationship somehow less difficult? It's like it grounds the relationship by including all of that intervening geography.... Given how frequent it is...

It really does seem like a crap-shoot. Someone on the forum who'd gone through the Tokyo visa office told me that after submitting the passport they waited six weeks for it to be turned around. Aside from Canada Post &$^## losing the passport, it looks to me like the Tokyo VO turned around our...

Yaaaay! Noted in the spreadsheet.