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we hired a lawyer and we wish we hadn't. he really slowed us down when we were putting together our application and in the end i did most of it myself. plus we spent loads of money on him! i wouldn't recommend using a lawyer because you can really do all this yourself. however, if you feel like...

i did an actual timeline in MS Word. like Dec 1 2003 - first met husband at so and so place (see picture #1) Dec 12 2003 - frist date, went to movies (see ticket stub #1) etc. then of course all of this was reworded in the questionaire part

anything goes as long as its easy to follow. you want to make it so easy to follow that a 3 year old can do it...

and forget about getting a lawyer, waste of space and time. anything you need answering you can find on this forum. it does help to be organized and thorough with your application. take the extra time to make sure everything is correct because if you are missing anything in the application the...

not really... they told us we had an interview in jan 2010 but thats it

tell him to apply for useless mail order things, just so that he is getting mail sent to your address. make him a beneficiary on your insurance and such...

we received the letter telling us we had first stage approval in june 2009 and then another letter nov 2009 telling us we had an interview scheduled for jan 2010

call immigration... we called them non stop evertime something new happened with our case. they are quite helpful, once you actually get someone on the line. btw we are doing ours inland as well and we are in edmonton too.

they alway say a decision has been made but they never tell you what it is!! drives me nuts! they said the same thing for our case when we checked online and then we received first stage approval, which basically means they are starting on the background check. for us this took around 3-4...

sorry cant help you there... we sent in my husband's medicals long before we received first stage approval. so when we got the letter that told us he could now apply for an open work permit, we applied with no problems. maybe call back and talk to a different agent. if he tells you the same...

Try the Provincial Nomination Program. it's for sponsoring over any family member that is not your spouse. And it's supposed to be much faster.

it doesnt matter where you are when you are living together... my husband and i were living on a cruise ship during our "conjugal" time together before we got married.

which letter?

just listen to your lawyer, isnt that why you hired him? our lawyer got my husband an extension on his visitor's visa 3 months before his was going to expire. as for the work permit application, you should send it in with your residency application. once you have first stage approval they will...

why not have your girlfriend sponsor you over via family-class out of country common-law? while the application is being processes you can still come over to canada and stay with her since you have a uk passport. out of country vs in country is much faster.

i dont think there is such a thing as a "normal" case... just whether you can prove its real or not. i met my husband on a cruise ship and for the past couple of years both of us have been travelling and living on the ships more than we were home in both our countries. try explaining that to...

why dont you get married in both places? that way you can take lots of pictures of the 2 of you with both sides of the family. it tells the immigration office that this marriage is accepted on both sides of the family. or a wedding in one country and a reception in the other.

etriumph, we are pretty much in the same situation that you are in... my husband is from the UK and we started out in-land application at the end of 2008. we hired a lawyer and everything. the application was submitted in jan 2009 and they didnt start processing until feb 2009. we got a letter...

i was asked to pay this fee as well... but how do we pay it? i didnt know how or where to pay it so i was giong to wait until the interview... but obviously its better to pay as soon as possible.

We were in the same position. Sent in our application Jan 2009, they started processing Feb 2009, got AIP (first stage approval) in June 2009 and it took them til Nov 2009 to do background checks even though my lawyer (who lied thru his teeth) told us once we get AIP then its only a couple of...