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I didn't have a religious ceremony either. I explained that we are both catholic and my husband was married before and the catholic church does not recognize divorce, so we could not have a religious ceremony. I would rephrase the part with his parents not attending the wedding because it's an...

What does it mean "pass our date of processing for about four days"? Did CIC gave you a certain exact date as the deadline for your processing?

There's no way to speed up the process. If it were, we would all try to use it, don't you think? :D :D

You are financially responsible for him for 3 years, but the financial support of the family is to be provided by both of you. But only after your husband becomes a Permanent Resident, not before that. After becoming a PR, he will have the right to work. If you want to stay in Canada before he...

In 1-2 weeks your wife should get the Sponsorship Approval, then the file should be transferred to Manila for processing. For more information about what will happen after that, try one of the Manila threads, like this one...

She will have to get a police certificate from every country she has lived in for more than 6 months. There is no special format for the letter clarifying the lack of an Option C. You just need to use your own words to explain that you are not a resident of Canada and did not file taxes in...

Yes, you can show your pay stubs. And attach a letter explaining why you are not presenting an Option C. You should be just fine :) Good luck!

You only need to be residing in Canada if you are a PR. If you are a citizen, you can sponsor your wife without residing in Canada, but you will have to prove that you will indeed be returning to Canada once the wife's visa is issued. If the sponsor has not been residing in Canada in the last...

I think it certifies the fact that the application falls into the Family Class. It's obviously part of the "sponsorship - family class" block.

As I said, it may very well be a coincidence, I will never know :) If we would have access to people with similar stories going through the same VO, we could do a study. See what happens if half of them request their files every month and the other half just waits ;D ;D ;D Still, I would...

We've done the same thing: got the file, requested it again :) It didn't seem to do any harm. More so, it seemed to do some good, because after each request something happened that moved the process along :D Maybe it was just a coincidence, but the pace really increased after we've started...

From what i know, turkey is not visa exempt. If your husband already has a visitor visa, you may travel together there, but he will be allowed to stay only until his visa expires. If not, it will be very hard for him to obtain a visitor visa after applying for PR. It's highly improbable. The...

I have not changed my name after i got married and it never was a problem. However, I think it depends on how it's usually done in your country. If not changing your name is really unusual in your culture, then it could be a red flag.

You can live with her in Canada for 6 months and then both of you move to the US for 6 months. CIC doesn't care where you live, as long as you live together for 12 consecutive months. So if you move together from Canada to US you will not be interrupting those 12 months.

So, to sum up: you have been online dating for more than 2 years, but never met. First time you meet for 2 weeks and get married. And since then, for 9 months, how many times have you seen each other in real life? And you will not see each other until December 2014?

I knew that. But still did't think it will take the ATIP officer more than 3 weeks to review them :D

From my experience: - if you're doing an outland process, do the meds up-front. It's very likely that they will extend their validity. - if you're doing an inland process, wait to be asked to do the medicals. The process is much longer and they will definitely not be able to extend them (they...

Look at the bottom of every page and you will see the exact date and time when they generated the file. It's not about the number of day between the request and the delivery, but between the generating of the file and the delivery :)

I've asked for them three times, they always arrived in 30 days on the dot. The first time they were generated the day before I got them. The second time they were generated 5 days before they were sent to me. And now bang! it took them 25 days to send the email :D

You need to find out when CIC received the application. If it's Oct. 25, 2012 or after, your husband has the conditional PR. I am not sure if or how that will change once you give birth to his son - maybe someone else knows more about it. It you application was received before said date, you...