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Also from South Africa :) It takes a while for them to give AOR for some reason, they probably have their reasons. We only submitted on 10 September so its probably going to take until December for us to get our AOR. And here we were thinking that we will be in Canada by January 2019 already...

I don't think it will be a problem. I think they will still understand :)

Hi all. September applicant as well. Both sponsor and applicant outside of Canada, in South Africa. Hoping and praying all goes well. We sent our package on the 5th of September via DHL, and it arrived in Sydney on the 10th of September two weeks ago. Here's to us all! Hoping AOR1 does not take...

Thank you! When you say you tried to link your paper app to your online account, how do you create the online account to start with? Do I first need to get the case number and then wait 80 days after AOR to link the app? So basically an estimated 60 days plus another 80 days then my app is...

Thank you. Is there anything I should do in the mean time? I cannot register for any updates or anything right? Need to get an ID from them first...

Hi guys, sorry for hijacking. I sent in my application two weeks ago and it was delivered last week. As far as I know, I now have to wait roughly 2 months for the first e-mail from CIC statiting that my application has in fact been received? I should not have received any other form of...

Hi, how was your overall experience with the Pretoria VO? We are applying outland from South Africa and our visa office is Pretoria. Are the visa officers in Pretoria local (South Africans)? Would be interesting to know, we were wondering about this last week.

Hi, is there a thread for 2018 September Family Sponsorship applicants? We sent our app yesterday (outland).

Hi, I have written a few essays and do a lot of projects so for me it was not difficult to organize it. We have been spending roughly two years on gathering evidence etc, but only because we have been saving on the sidelines. Sadly our currency's value dropped so much due to illiterate people...

Thanks, hope I can pay it forward somehow!

Maybe try the express entry forums...I can tell you about funds regarding family sponsorship but thats about it...

Supporting documents for Sponsor (detailed explanation): Proof that sponsor will move to Canada: For those of you who need to provide proof that the sponsor is moving back to Canada once the applicant receives permanent residency, here is an example of some of the things we included to show...

Hi all, so we finally sent in our application (outland from South Africa) this morning. I thought I might share how we compiled our application, since so many rules have changed over the years and we could not find any new organizing/compiling examples... I am going to try to add photos...

I only had one checklist for our common-law relationship. The checklist has sections for sponsor, applicant, both sponsor and applicant and supporting documents. As far as I am aware the sponsor does not have a separate checklist, it should all be under one document. We do not have an open work...

Hi guys, so the time has finally arrived. I am sending my application via courier tomorrow morning (cpc Sydney 49 Dorchester street NS). I’m so nervous! My whole application is extremely thick so it could not fit in an envelope, the courier service Im using is gonna use a box (DHL). My...

We are sending out our application tomorrow...this is so stressful. We double checked that we signed everywhere, and we wrote N/A literally everywhere when we did not answer something, even if the blocks were already greyed out. How I see it, they can return the package if you do not put in N/As...

Yeah I bet it can get nerve wracking. I truely hope our application will go smooth as well :) I have tried not to overwhelm the officer with too much evidence, and kept with the max photos and max chats limits. The rest of the evidence required I threw in as much as possible.

I like your signature, can you maybe PM me how you did it? I'm sending in our application next week and would also like to track it and maybe be able to assist people in the future :)

Thank you PB&J, I was worried it might cause issues so I just put in a note that it should be ignored if not needed. Would not want them to think we have a co-signer.

Thanks! Yeah we created a huge section for providing proof that the sponsor will move to Canada. I think our proof is about 100 pages (housing research, job apps, budgeting research, transportation, severing ties to our current country, shipping quotes etc.) we have heard that people have had...