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"on the Sponsor checklist it clearly asks for a signed copy of IMM 1017" Some posters around here think the sponsor checklist is the Final Word and read it very literally but I'm not one of them. You only need to submit an original IMM1017B signed by a Panel Physician IF the physician does not...

Between February and April 2012, the waiting time for sponsorship approval was 100 days, so the current waiting times are not unprecedentedly long.

"A few people I know have been granted TRV's in similar situations." Similar including a recent TRV rejection? I would think she had work, children etc to return to last time as well yet she got rejected anyway. It says quite clearly in the standard rejection letter, "Should you wish to...

I'd say the effect of her TRV on a PR app is zero AT WORST. It may even help.

I'd recommend trying to get her a U.S. visit visa first. The 2014 U.S. rejection rate for "B" class non-immigrant visas is just under 20% for Indian nationals. You could emphasize your education and your employment in a support letter that talks about how you will be travelling in the U.S...

It's now 3 months to SA, and it could easily be 4 months by the time they get to the applications of readers who haven't yet filed but are reading this thread. Then it goes overseas, where every last overseas visa office has a posted processing time of 8 months or more except for one (Hong...

I would refer readers to the "MEDICAL UPFRONT INQUIRIES" thread (now almost 3 months old) where there is a back and forth on this issue. I disagreed then, long before I got sponsorship approval, that there was any real chance that my application would be returned to me and I have encountered no...

Just to follow-up on my own post, I uploaded electronically the E-medical info sheet from the medical exam done earlier this month and the sponsorship approval letter using the the "Case Specific Enquiry" weblink and now it says on E-CAS that medical results have been received. So 1) the...

"They accept i sponsor my husband the 19 august. they send it after to beijing and they recived the 15 septembre." Of the three people on this forum who reported getting SA around the first week of August after which the file was sent to Beijing, they got AOR2 (acknowledgement of receipt from...

"stay as far away from the application as you can" is good advice, unless you are from a country where someone else has gotten a visit visa despite the visa application docs, or the facts, indicating a potential long term relationship. I didn't think I could completely stay away in the case of...

Is anyone else who will or is being processed by Beijing worried about supplying or having supplied a Gmail address as one's contact email? Back in June the website Gmail.com was blocked by the Great Firewall, but one could still check mail through applications. Now that has been blocked too...

In my case the medical was not done prior to application and that did not affect the timeline for sponsorship approval (SA), at least not more than a day or two. SA took a long time, but it took a long time for everyone who applied in mid-October 2014, aside from some special cases like some...

Special circumstances for us are 1) she applied for a tourist visa before we were married and she was rejected. They said she'd overstay and ticked off travel history, reason for visit, her assets and financial status as reasons for believing that, plus ticked off insufficient funds to...

I can't seem to update the spreadsheet but I just received SA today (Tuesday, Jan 6), 81 days after the application arrived in Mississauga on Friday, October 17. I received the SA email at 7:40 pm EST. It mentioned the same UCI and application number as the AOR, stated my full address (I am...

AOR from a overseas visa office would mean you could get a passport request in a matter of days if that office was, say, Beijing (going by the Beijing spreadsheet, it looks like about two weeks for most but just 3 to 6 days from AOR2 to PPR for some!) but Sydney apparently operates differently...

Happy New Year, I woke up to 2015 with an email sent in the middle of the night from cic.gc.ca (I'd make sure this suffix is deemed non-spam in your email settings) assigning an 8 digit UIC number, an "application number" that started with "F000" (obviously for "Family"), and wording addressed...

There's nothing magical about 58 days, unfortunately, so don't mark your calendar. They say it was 58 days on December 10, and it isn't December 10 anymore. It's been getting longer with every update. Some of us are at 60 days or more and haven't heard anything. There isn't much point in my...

"she used to be an employee of a large company [so could] get confirmation of her birth information there" I believe this is a reference to the dang'an (档案) as one's work unit (danwei or 单位) is supposed to be keeper of that file. Unfortunately, my spouse has only worked for small, private...

"You continue to reference what is said in the rest of the CIC websites..." Yes, outrageous behaviour. Especially for a "newbie". "not understanding CIC's definition of 'family member'" And from where did you derive your particular "understanding" from? The website, perchance? Or the...

I am not the only one on this forum who read all the resources on this issue and came away with the understanding that an upfront medical is an option, canuck_in_uk. I note that in general, the checklist is less demanding than what you find on the website, not more. "an applicant could not...