Berlin, Europe Spouse Sponsorship Timeline 2011

[waikiki]

Is this now a common procedure to get an email from Berlin requesting copy of passport? In the past, didn´t they send COPR right away?

 

[maya2011]

Congrats to everyone that got their visas!

Mine still says in process which began June 2011 and background checks began August 2011. I ordered GCMS notes which took one month and everything looks fine. Hoping to get a request for a new medical soon. I will also send another request to order GCMS notes for early April to see if there are any new updates and see what the new due dates are.

Fingers crossed!

 

[blur]

Received COPR yesterday

 

[Marco2011]

Received COPR yesterday

Congrats!

Was het aangetekende post?
(Did you had to sign for it?)

 

[blur]

Congrats!

Was het aangetekende post?
(Did you had to sign for it?)

It was sent as registered mail and I think it should have been signed for, but the postman just dumped it in the mailbox (Dutch postal service is not what it used to be...).

 

[sahm2boys]

Received COPR yesterday

Congratulations Blur! OMG we're dying here... why in the world does Berlin take so long for some and so quick for others? I hope my husband gets his Monday! We've been seperated for too long. :'(

 

[sahm2boys]

Is this now a common procedure to get an email from Berlin requesting copy of passport? In the past, didn´t they send COPR right away?

I don't understand why they are requesting passport for some also. They are not suppose to.
My husband already sent his copy in and they asked for it again. ???

 

[mel_n]

In our case, they asked for the passport because my husband is from a country which is not visa exempt (Venezuela).

ECas says decision made ;D I hope we get the passport back soon, my husband gets a bit anxious without his passport (considering were immigrants in another country at this moment).

 

[sabaniga]

Congratulations to all the good news!!

I haven't been waiting for long, but the wait is driving me crazy! I have started to second guess myself and if we filled everything out correctly.....what a frustrating process!

 

[mel_n]

Congratulations to all the good news!!

I haven't been waiting for long, but the wait is driving me crazy! I have started to second guess myself and if we filled everything out correctly.....what a frustrating process!

I know what you mean. I think everyday that passes without much feedback makes the anxiety grow. My husband and I did make some mistakes in our forms which drove us nuts (a signature missing from one of the forms, forgetting to tick a box). We started calculating the days our setbacks would cost us.

Adding to that, around the holidays the sponsorship approval time went up to 70+ days... we were very concerned. Eventually it has turned out fine (we sent in replacement forms via snail mail, a long with many faxes, to amend our errors and have the newly sent files added to our application... apparently this worked, in spite of getting yelled at by a CIC worker for doing this).

We still have sources of stress and doubt: my husband's passport expires in November and we will probably fly in July, so he may have to renew his passport (sometimes you can't travel if your passport is 6 months from expiring) and Venezuelan passports often take time to get renewed.

But that's part of this gig. A life changing decision will generally carry such weight since you are almost literally changing your life.

Good luck sabaniga. Feel free to add your details to the Berlin Spreadsheet. Likewise to sahm2boys!

 

[sabaniga]

I know what you mean. I think everyday that passes without much feedback makes the anxiety grow. My husband and I did make some mistakes in our forms which drove us nuts (a signature missing from one of the forms, forgetting to tick a box). We started calculating the days our setbacks would cost us.

That is my biggest fear! I picked over those forms with a fine tooth comb, and yet I still feel we missed something, and what that mistake will cost us. And we really NEED these process done before august. The thought of leaving my wife in Germany while I take the kids with me to Canada scares me. I feel like I am going to have to rip my family apart.

Adding to that, around the holidays the sponsorship approval time went up to 70+ days... we were very concerned. Eventually it has turned out fine (we sent in replacement forms via snail mail, a long with many faxes, to amend our errors and have the newly sent files added to our application... apparently this worked, in spite of getting yelled at by a CIC worker for doing this).

YIKES!!

We still have sources of stress and doubt: my husband's passport expires in November and we will probably fly in July, so he may have to renew his passport (sometimes you can't travel if your passport is 6 months from expiring) and Venezuelan passports often take time to get renewed.

I have heard that too. About the 6 months thing. I hope he can land in Canada before he hits that deadline.

But that's part of this gig. A life changing decision will generally carry such weight since you are almost literally changing your life.

I don't know how many months we thought about this and made sure this is what we really want, and if all this stress and money and craziness would be worth it. But it will be, I am sure. And so we run into this head on and hopefully I make it through with all of my hair

Good luck sabaniga. Feel free to add your details to the Berlin Spreadsheet.

Thank you!!

 

[Elizabeth Joe]

We still have sources of stress and doubt: my husband's passport expires in November and we will probably fly in July, so he may have to renew his passport (sometimes you can't travel if your passport is 6 months from expiring) and Venezuelan passports often take time to get renewed.

I think he will be fine as long as he lands before his medical expires or his passport expires. Once he has the visa in his passport he has to use that passport to land. he can't renew his passport before he lands, but they wouldn't issue his visa in the old passport if he couldn't travel with it.

 

[Marco2011]

Finaly received COPR by mail on the 27th.
I will land on the 05-04-2012 (flight booked)!!! Yeaayyyy going back to my sweetie!!! ;D ;D

 

[sahm2boys]

Finaly received COPR by mail on the 27th.
I will land on the 05-04-2012 (flight booked)!!! Yeaayyyy going back to my sweetie!!! ;D ;D

I can't wait until you come HOME hunny!!!!! Yay!! SIX more days!! :-*

 

[Pummelchen]

I will add my stuff to the sheet, too. Maybe we need a new thread for 2012 ? "Berlin 2012" ;D
Besides that it seems not many ppl go over Berlin ?