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[Shuwei69]

Good day, I am a natural born Canadian citizen attempting to sponsor my Chinese national wife who lives in China.

We applied more than 16 months ago and are still told the background check is being done. She continues to work at the same small( 22 person) government office in a small city (<0.8M) in China and has been there since graduation from university more than 20 years ago. Given an estimated 11 months for most routein applications to be processed, can anyone give us any insight as to what is going on? We greatly appreciate any information or suggestions. Really demoralized.

 

[canuck78]

Her work for the Chinese government could be slowing down the application. That would be my guess but application times are always estimates there are always some that take longer. Have you ordered notes yet?

 

[Jaywill]

I second the vote for notes if you havent already ordered

 

[Shuwei69]

Thank you for your response, I am unaware of Notes? Would you please inform me?

 

[canuck78]

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/atip/requests-atip.asp

 

[canuck78]

https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/how-to-order-caips-notes.72568/

 

[Shuwei69]

Thank you very much

 

[Shuwei69]

May I ask what notes will do? Other than provide us info on what they will say they have done to date? How can we find out file is actually currently active and not delayed as a result of a request tor information from us that we did not receive or any other administrative error.
While there was an 11month time line( for most applications) we had hope and a date to look forward to. Now after 16 months everyday is more and more depressing as we do not know if it will be a few weeks, months or years. It’s incredible that 80% can be done within 11 months but others take so much longer and it totally inhuman that no new time estimate given. I can guarantee we do not have medical, criminal, or security issues. Have been in a relationship for almost 3 years, been married 18 months and started living togeather in China over 2.5 years ago( except for my trips home to visit family and maintain my provincial residency). So it’s very difficult to believe in the line about attaching importance to family reunification.
Is there anything we can do to facilitate or move the process? Lawyer? Would protesting to our politicians only result in our file being thrown into a deeper circulating file? How much longer could this take? Thank you very much to anyone with knowledge and advice to offer!