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Related to the Sponsor. CIC has the following: You may not be eligible to be a sponsor if you: •failed to provide financial support you agreed to when you signed a sponsorship agreement to sponsor another relative in the past •defaulted on a court-ordered support order, such as alimony or child...

You have to prove you did NOT have a common-law relationship because otherwise you had to include her in your previous application. If CIC knows about you having a common-law relationship BEFORE your application was finalized and you landed, you may be barred from sponsoring your now wife...

You do not need to prove minimum income on spousal sponsorships; however, when a dependent child is in the mix you will need to prove income (as opposed to just funds). If you can overcome the income requirement imposed for wanting to sponsor a child, CIC may still bar you from sponsoring your...

We used clips to keep the forms together, passport photos in a small envelope, and pictures with descriptions written on sticky notes stuck on the back of the photos were put in small envelope as well... you have to be 'artistic' not to mess up those requirements.

Actually, if you go to Canada to marry and then apply your application will still be processed outland because you will not be in Canada under a 1yr-minimum admission (as a tourist you are only admittred for 90 days in the case of the visa waiver program, or for a maximum of 180days with a...

Her family living that far may be a good reason for CIC. Having been married for over a year by the time you applied will help. Letters of recognition of the relationship from family and friends also help.

Dang! You application will take a long time to process as the Caracas VO takes about 22 months (if you are in Venezuela, that is). I am from Venezuela but I live in the US so my application is being processed in Ottawa (thankfully!)

Aside the fact that a dental examination is no excuse to fly all the way to Canada from asia and much less an excuse to obtain a tourist visa, chances of getting a tourist visa at this point are slim to none as there is an immigrant application being processed for her. Perhaps you are risking...

While it is true that you have the right to have the type of ceremony/celebration you want, you still have to explain the reasons why you did it that way to CIC on your application forms. Since you married abroad you can justify the lack of your family/friends presence at your ceremony but you...

Odd, I thought lawyers were paid by clients not the other way around. Other than to add suspense and to justify the fees they charge for a process that usually does not require one there is no reason why your lawyer should withhold your UCI so you can check your application status online. If you...

To share the experience after applications are sent to Ottawa for processing of stage 2. Good luck to everyone!

That is very unsettling way of looking at it :o primarily because as a canadian citizen/resident no one (not even CIC) should consider your spouse's place of origin/birth/residence politically better or worse than your neighbor's. But as you say, it is what it is...

I have checked the spreadsheets. The reason I asked is because it appears that a large number of outland applications comes mostly from India and the Philippines and yet cases in India seem to be the ones to move along the quickest. I recognize however that the number of applicants from those...

Has anyone that applied in July 2012 and from an area OUTSIDE ASIA received notification of anything else other than sponsorship approval?

If you two want to stay together, you must simplify. Get married at the courthouse (in Canada or in South Africa as both countries have same-sex marriage) and then apply. No one else has to know. In your condition you cannot afford thinking about culture or an actual wedding. Your family will...

We applied on July 31st 2012. Sponsorship approval received on Oct 15th 2012. However, our file was sent to Ottawa, not the visa office that handles the country of citizenship of the sposored applicant. File is still sitting there for review; no other updates.

Thanks. There was a lot of research done before we applied and due to difficulties underdtanding the policies we took a few months before we decided to apply. As noted, the policiy of course is to avoid people from 'moving' to coutries where processing times are shorter. I obviously did not try...

The new rule says that you must live with the person you are sponsoring after that person becomes a Permanent Resident in Canada so that should not be a problem to file an application. Now, here's what I see. You had a girlfriend while processing your application and CIC may want you to prove...

The manuals say that having lost legal status is not a problem unless the admission granted into the country where you live and where you lost your status was for less than a year. After having lost my status i never left the US. This policy was created to avoid people moving to a country where...

You definitely don't want to do that. Proving the relationship as common-law will not be the issue. The issue will be that you would be in Canada under an admission that was not at least for 1yr (extensions do not count because visitor admissions are at most for 6mos at a time and that would...