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Hi everyone, Just thought I'd let you know that our approval came through last week! We're really excited. Due to work, we'll be waiting until December before heading to Canada (not really looking forward to arriving in the winter, but we'll survive) All the best to everyone that is still...

From a Canadian who loves winter, here are two pieces of advice for surviving a Canadian winter. 1) Buy high quality winter gear. The $100 winter jacket may look the same as the $300 jacket, but trust me, the correct materials make all the difference. The same goes for gloves, boots, toques...

Hey Mez, Here is a link for IOM Guatemala. This is the organization that we used for translation/certification. It doesn't say anything about being a UN organization on the website that I can see, but I think it is. http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/guatemala

If you had translated them yourselves, that will be the problem. The translations need to be certified. I will ask my wife where it was that we had our documents translated. In the meantime, you could try calling the Embassy in Guatemala. We found out about the UN organization for translations...

Congrats Mez! It's strange how they ask for stuff that's already been sent. That seems common. It would be nice if they gave some description of why they want it re-sent. With my wife's medical, we decided to just go ahead and get it done as quickly as possible. Hopefully we'll have that...

Hi everyone, My wife just received her PPR :D With the e-mail they attached two photocopied documents. One is a list of the documents they need. They are requesting the passport, a prepaid airway bill and also medicals for my wife. The medicals were done last December though. We sent the...

Hi everyone, My wife just received her PPR :D Hopefully that means yours will be coming soon Mez! With the e-mail they attached two photocopied documents. One is a list of the documents they need. They are requesting the passport, a prepaid airway bill and also medicals for my wife. The...

Hi Mez, Yeah, were on almost exactly the same schedule. Hopefully you'll see the CIC website updated to say 'in progress' very soon!

Just curious, where were you able to get these statistics? I have heard that the 25 mo. processing time is how long it takes for 80% of the applications to be completed. I remember there being a place where we could find the statistics for 25% complete, 50% complete etc. Does anyone know where...

It was sent by e-mail to my wife who is the applicant. Maybe if you didn't put both e-mail addresses they will send it by regular mail.

My approval from Mississauga was April 20. I think I received the AOR from Guatamala about a week later. I can't remember exactly. It did not take very long though.

I'd be interested in knowing that too, I received my AOR a couple of weeks ago. Also, I've heard that some VOs make the passport request as soon as they start on the application and some wait until the application is approved before requesting. Does anyone know what Guatemala does? Does anyone...

Yes, that's definitely what it seems to me. This was requested in the form letter e-mail that was sent to me by the VO in Guatemala. It's possible that different VO's operate differently. From what I understood from the e-mail, it is some kind of prepaid express envelope through DSL or Fed-ex or...

Hey, I am wondering if anyone is familiar with what a prepaid 'air waybill' is? In the approval letter from CIC it said that we needed to have a prepaid airway bill on file with the VO at all times to facilitate the processing of the application. So, is that something that I should send to them...

Hi Everyone, I got my approval today! ;D

I was just wondering, do I need to make an update in Canada to reflect that I was married outside the country. I got married three weeks ago, but have not been in Canada for about a year. I'm going to file my taxes, even though I didn't have any income, soon. Is this where I update my marriage...

Nice work! I'll add my app the the list. Name App. Filed AOR XAVIER14 03 Jan 2012 imatra 04 Jan 2012 sunrise9 05 Jan 2012 alf+jlh...

missmini means that it is beneficial. It is not required, but from what I understand it does speed the process up. You can also be proactive and have the medical done before they ask for it. That should help speed things up a bit. I don't know anything about the process for that, though, so...

ok, thanks. Do I not receive an e-mail from them verifying that they have received the application though? That's the one I'm waiting for.

Hi everyone, I'm sponsoring my wife who is from El Salvador. The package arrived at CIC-M on the 20'th and I'm awaiting the e-mail confirmation from them. It's driving me crazy, I'm checking my e-mail all the time! I just want to be able to see that it's in process. This is the 3'rd business day...