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The hearings are in open court and open to the public. You might want to consider making time to attend an actual hearing to get the full experience. Every case is different. Some are allowed based on the strength of the evidence submitted prior to the hearing, some are concluded within a...

His job is probably the strongest tie that he has to his home country, especially if he needs it to support you (or will need to support you when your savings run out) while you are on maternity leave, with no EI. He'll need a letter from his employer, stating how long he has been with the...

I think that is the key, whether he/she decides to reapply, or wait for the hearing. You need to fix the circumstances that led to the original refusal.

It's difficult to give up on your appeal, especially after you've already invested so much time and money into it. But it's not all wasted - everything that you've learned since then and everything you've put into building your case and addressing the visa officer's concerns will help you in...

Don't read too much into csturner92's experience. Your situation is much different, and it sounds like your ties to Canada are much stronger than your ties to your home country, so there is a greater risk that you would not return to your home country at the end of your stay.

The wait for appeal is generally 2 years, a bit faster for Vancouver, and I believe, a bit slower for Quebec. You should have been assigned an IAD file number. You can call the IAD office that is handling your case and ask them. Or you can have your MP make a inquiry on your behalf...

Yes. You must include everything. To omit something as significant as that is misrepresentation, and can earn you a ban. You are allowed to write an explanation of why his visa extension was refused,

Section 63(1) just says that you are allowed to appeal the refusal of your family class application: http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/i-2.5/section-63.html That is usually in the letter accompanying the refusal letter, telling you that you are allowed to appeal, and that you have 30 days to...

They are talking about having him come and visit you in Canada (where you are allowed to marry), and that he will leave Canada at the end of his visit. You will need to find out whether visitors from his country will need a visa: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/index.asp I don't know...

You only have 30 days to file a Notice of Appeal after you get your refusal letter. Since 10 months have already elapsed, your only recourse is to re-apply.

You definitely must list your spouse on your EE application, otherwise you will not be able to sponsor her in the future, short of renouncing your PR and re-applying. If your spouse does not have very strong ties back to India, it will be very difficult for her to get a visitor's visa.

This is for your own protection, lest the non-custodial parent later decide to accuse you of child abduction. Read up on the Hague Convention on International Parental Child Abduction: https://travel.state.gov/content/childabduction/en/legal/law-and-regulations/hague.html "Abduction by a...

It's usually 3-4 years after you've put in the application. Things happen over the intervening time. Memories fade, especially with respect to minor details like sequence of events, dates, etc. Your perspective on certain events are coloured by personal experience. Two people can experience...

I don't know whether legally uttering threats is considered a form of violence or not: http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-264.1.html IMHO, the psychological harm can be just as damaging. But if there was no actual bodily harm, then the bar doesn't apply. That's the way I...

Read the part about rehabilitation: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/inadmissibility/conviction.asp This applies to the person being sponsored, and not the sponsor. For the sponsor, there is a sponsorship bar for certain types of charges...

What makes you so sure it will be a refusal? Did you have an interview with CIC? Did they already send you other correspondence? Refusal of the sponsor, or of the applicant?

This is nothing new. Marriages of Convenience have been around so long, that there's a name for them. There's a 1990 movie called Green Card that is about a MOC, and more recently, Dr. House's Russian bride in the medical series, House M.D. Unfortunately, with the revocation of Condition 51...

If you don't recognize the GCkey login, then you are probably using ECAS. In our case, ECAS just says "Decision Made", then "We sent you correspondence on XX XXX, XXXX about the decision on your application." But it does not explicitly say what the decision was. We need a better idea of...

Welcome to the club! They will only give you ADR if they believe that the outstanding issues can be resolved within an hour, by only talking to you. No counsel, no witnesses. I don't know your reasons for refusal, but it is likely they feel they need to talk to your spouse as well.

canuck_in_uk is right. Family Class allows you to sponsor orphaned relatives under 18 years of age, including: brother, sister, nephew, niece or grandchild who is orphaned under 18 years old and not married or in a common-law relationship...