lsturtle said:
Here is what happened.
My wife was sponsoring me outland. They stared processing our case in February of this year. They asked me to do more medical tests which I did and it was not untill November when they were satisfied with the results. So, on November 11, I was notifed my visa might be ready and my passport was requested. So i sent out the passport. On November 13, i was notified by email that i need to give them police certificates within 30 days. In this email showed a previous mail asking for police certificates back in February. I was shocked to see this because I never realized they need more police certificates untill November 13. So I applied for the police certificates immediately and wrote a letter to cic asking for more time than 30 days, because the police certificates would take more than 30 days. On December 18,I got a letter stating my case was refused and everything was returned to me. The VO said they had given me a long time to complete the request and refused to give me more time and refused my case on the grounds that police certificates were not provided.
So, I know I made the first mistake by overlooking the email sent to me back in February asking for police certificates. And I made the second mistake by not explaining why I didn't see the email and just asked for more time. So what steps should I take next?
1. Contact the VO and explain what happend and ask for one more chancce? Is this evenan option since everything is returned to me?
2. Reapply.
3.Appeal.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.
same thing happened with my brother's wife, my brother appealed and lost at the ADR and at the full hearing, he just re-applied with all the documents, the judge at the full hearing said that he does not see any problem in re applying and he sees the marriage as genuine.
Even though my brother attached the affidavit explaining that he, his wife nor her family in India received any letter requesting for Police Clearance, and said he could submit ASAP, they refused. The whole ADR and full-hearing process wasted additional almost 1.5 years, plus now he is still waiting with the new backlog.
I am not sure what would be the fastest in your case, Do you have GCMS notes? 2 options :
1. Maybe better to withdraw and just re-apply with all the documents, if the GCMS notes states that they don't see any problem in relationship.
2. Appeal and have the originals, of your Police Clearance and an Affidavit explaining why you didn't submit in PC on time, to your wife in Canada and when she appear at the ADR, she will have those documents. The ADR takes about 4 months just to get the GCMS notes (Blue Book), plues have to wait for the date and after acceptance I think same processing time and NDVO.