CAIRO VISA OFFICE

[sonia5555]

[special thanks to Fadi pal and Ex eng

 

[mr.x]

She told me in the interview 4 weeks

and now its more than 5 weeks no news yet ?!
doesn't sound good. maybe they looking so hard for any reason to refuse.

did they take your passport ?

 

[Dr Eng X]

She told me in the interview 4 weeks

and now its more than 5 weeks no news yet ?!
doesn't sound good. maybe they looking so hard for any reason to refuse.

Maybe they are in a mess or maybe it is just another story
did you see this

The Canadian Embassy in Cairo



Those who check the website of the Ministry of Immigration and Citizenship will see lots of images for smiling people including an image of a smiling Muslim woman wearing the traditional headscarf. But many of those who had to deal with the visa section of the Canadian embassy in Cairo know that there is absolutely nothing to smile about! Your experience with the embassy will only leave you feeling humiliated, insulted, and angry.

Many Egyptians have to apply for a temporary visitor visa to visit their family members in Canada for one reason or another. Canada is home to around 300,000 Egyptian Canadians.

It is only natural that many parents would like to visit their children. In other cases, someone is having a surgery or going through tough health time and needs a family member to arrive from Egypt. In other cases, young children would like to visit their cousins in Canada and spend some time with them. In all these cases, the relative in Canada initiates the process by sending an invitation letter in which he vows to cover all the expenses of the visiting family member.

The first thing to get such a visa is to fill an application and attach to it a money order. You are not usually allowed to enter the embassy. Egyptians are left to line up in the street under temperature as high as 50 Celsius for hours. An embassy employee picks the paper and the money order and tells you that you will hear from them soon. In most cases, the next thing you get is a rejection letter with no logical reason. You are not allowed to speak to anyone on why you were rejected. The only thing you can do is apply again and pay that same substantial amount of money one more time only to get another illogical rejection!

Some of these cases really make you feel angry. One such a case is that of a woman who has a daughter and is expecting twins. She suffers from a medical condition and she needs her mother to arrive in Canada to take care of her and her kids while she recovers from the delivery. She attached a note of her medical condition to the invitation letter. Her mother got rejected for no logical reason. In that specific case, the MP representing her riding was able to have the embassy reverse their abusive decision through his contacts. Many were not so lucky.

Another case is for another woman who needed her parents to be with her during her delivery. She has 3 children and is about to deliver the 4th. Her husband is a busy person and may not be available for a long time. So they invited her parents to visit them vowing to cover all expenses. Her parents visited Canada before with no problem.

Unfortunately, they got also rejected for no reason. Her parents are relatively wealthy and they proved proof of their assets in Egypt. The husband tried to get his MP's help. The MP sent several communications to the embassy but they simply ignored him. This family do not know how to take care of the three kids until the mother is home again and capable of caring for them. The wife simply feels angry and betrayed by our Canadian embassy in Cairo.

In the past, Egyptians who held a visa to the US would get the Canadian visa easily. The US does not give its visa without carefully checking every applicant.

Only recently, having a US visa became a reason for rejecting an application for a Canadian visa!

An Egyptian woman who works for an American company in Egypt wanted to visit her brother who is a Canadian citizen. She has a multiple entry visa to the US as she routinely travels to the US to visit the company branch there. She got rejected recently for no reason. The immigration officer indicated in the letter that she was rejected because of the US visa! She was given no chance to understand what this means. The same story was repeated with many who applied for a Canadian visa while holding a US visa.

Even spouses of Canadian citizens did not escape this abuse. A Canadian woman married to an Egyptian man wanted to visit Canada with her husband and spend some time with her brother who is a Canadian citizen. The embassy denied him visa because he “holds no sufficient ties to Egypt”. He showed them that he have a prominent job and have a large sum of money in Egyptian banks in addition to owning an expensive condominium. This all did not matter to the embassy officials.

This abuse also extends to visitors who are entitled to student visas. One Egyptian lady received a scholarship from a Canadian university. The university, in the admission letter, vowed to pay her a sufficient income to live and study. In the past, she would get her student visa immediately. This woman was rejected 4 times! Every time, she had to pay the same application processing fee to get an illogical rejection.

One time she managed to meet the agent and asked her why she was rejected. The agent responded by yelling at her and kicking her out! This Muslim woman who wears a headscarf was about to pay the fees for the 5th time when a nice employee in the embassy recognized her face and asked her why is she there again for the 5th time. She informed him of what happened. He then advised her not to apply that week and wait for one more week until some of the embassy employees who are known for abusing certain applicants will go on vacation! She did exactly that and she received the visa.

The most interesting part is that Egyptians who are residents of other countries receive the Canadian visa in a normal way when they apply from their country of residence. I am aware of many cases where Egyptians living in Saudi Arabia or Kuwait for example were able to get a temporary visitor visa to visit relatives in Canada. It seems that the issue is only localized to the Canadian embassy in Cairo. The applications for immigration to Canada seem to be also processed in a normal way. It is only the temporary visitor visas that have been almost completely blocked!

I call on the minister of Immigration and Citizenship to investigate the abuse of power in the Canadian embassy in Cairo. This issue is very serious because of its social impact. Many complaints were received by Canadian MPs and by provincial governments. This issue can simply escalate into a full blown diplomatic conflict between the two countries given the accusations of discrimination and humiliation. I call on Mr. Jason Kenney to show that the Canadian government does not target Egyptian Canadians and that Canada is indeed friendly to the people of Egypt.

P.S. I can connect anyone interested to many of the families whose loved ones were subject to this abuse in Egypt.

 

[abdoon]

Hi all,

Case processing pilot -Ottawa sent me an email today asking for copies of my children's Canadian passports. I have a 1 year old child and a 2 months old one. I can obtain a passport for the first one because I already have the Canadian citizenship card for him, but I have to apply for the Canadian citizenship card for the other one which can take up to a year to be issued. Have anyone hear faced the same problem, and what did he do?

Thanks,
Abdullah

 

[bondar]

Great Mr.X Congrats to you!!!
If you are really in love with your wife and everything is real, like everyone here on this thread, then I would not worry about it, Just pray!!Everything will be so great! ISA.

sorry but you said if i love my wife and every thing is real ,,, like every one here ,,,,, sorry , do you know any thing about me and my wife ? do you know how long i know my wife ? do u know for how long we have been married ? i'm sorry if you think again about that you will know who is real and who is not

Mr.X I think you should read what Mish was trying to say to you again! She was not being rude, but kind and helpful. You misunderstood her point Take it easy everyone here is going through the same process be cool WOW 8) Inshallah everyone will be with their loved ones soon

 

[mr.x]

Mr.X I think you should read what Mish was trying to say to you again! She was not being rude, but kind and helpful. You misunderstood her point Take it easy everyone here is going through the same process be cool WOW 8) Inshallah everyone will be with their loved ones soon

dont worry i got what she mean and we are fine about it .... any way , where is mohamed ?
how come he didn't call or go online ?
tell him i said hi ( ahmed elkasas )

 

[maybenot]

To be honest guys

today i remember that i had a file going on
dont want to sound negative , but i think they will refuse :! she told me 4 weeks and now its 6 and never heard anything.
i already made important decisions with my business and my life over here , that effect my stability in egypt.
feeling unwanted from stupid unjust system not really a good feelings.

Moving to dahab by the end of this month, where i stabilized my business and a nice house , quite place not too many people , sunny warm weather whole year , and beautiful spot on the red sea. my wife coming also even she is mad because she will be apart from her family but she love dahab anyway

Finally we can say Fine Canada we gave up, and good luck to everybody else waitting.

 

[madatito2000]

To be honest guys

today i remember that i had a file going on
dont want to sound negative , but i think they will refuse :! she told me 4 weeks and now its 6 and never heard anything.
i already made important decisions with my business and my life over here , that effect my stability in egypt.
feeling unwanted from stupid unjust system not really a good feelings.

Moving to dahab by the end of this month, where i stabilized my business and a nice house , quite place not too many people , sunny warm weather whole year , and beautiful spot on the red sea. my wife coming also even she is mad because she will be apart from her family but she love dahab anyway

Finally we can say Fine Canada we gave up, and good luck to everybody else waitting.


dont give up and have more faith in god that he will do what he want and he will also do the best for you so be positive they will respond you soon and hey you have all the rights to contact them and bother them and dont give up call them and bug them .they not give you favour

 

[Dr Eng X]

To be honest guys

today i remember that i had a file going on
dont want to sound negative , but i think they will refuse :! she told me 4 weeks and now its 6 and never heard anything.
i already made important decisions with my business and my life over here , that effect my stability in egypt.
feeling unwanted from stupid unjust system not really a good feelings.

Moving to dahab by the end of this month, where i stabilized my business and a nice house , quite place not too many people , sunny warm weather whole year , and beautiful spot on the red sea. my wife coming also even she is mad because she will be apart from her family but she love dahab anyway

Finally we can say Fine Canada we gave up, and good luck to everybody else waitting.

It seems that Cairo VO needs big change! I hope Ana_Mo will do something as he said. You can easily get 20 cases of abuse.

 

[mr.x]

i dont know what to say but thanks allah forevery thing
i got that email from cairo office today .

A visa officer requires the following document in order to continue your file's processing:

(X) Evidence of sponsor's 3 visits to Egypt

we sent them the real plan tickitt with the application to Ottawa also the passport photo copy of the visa at the cairo airport ,,,,,,
also i went through interview so i take those passport visa copyies with me .
so what else do the want me to do ?
i really dont know what to do , we dont have any other copy of the plan tickitt

 

[Dr Eng X]

i dont know what to say but thanks allah forevery thing
i got that email from cairo office today .

A visa officer requires the following document in order to continue your file's processing:

(X) Evidence of sponsor's 3 visits to Egypt

we sent them the real plan tickitt with the application to Ottawa also the passport photo copy of the visa at the cairo airport ,,,,,,
also i went through interview so i take those passport visa copyies with me .
so what else do the want me to do ?
i really dont know what to do , we dont have any other copy of the plan tickitt

contact the airline and ask if they can provide any proof if they still have. Copies of pages indicating arrival to Cairo airport (although it is silly the numbers are hindi numbers!)

 

[mr.x]

contact the airline and ask if they can provide any proof if they still have. Copies of pages indicating arrival to Cairo airport (although it is silly the numbers are hindi numbers!)

the only thing we have is the passport visa and we already give it to them 2 times

 

[emadiano]

the only thing we have is the passport visa and we already give it to them 2 times

hi mr x can you tell me please what is your e-case status say now?

 

[mroliveland]

Can any of the recent applicants of the Cairo visa office tell me whether Mississauga -after the sponsorship approval- send the files to Cairo or to Ottawa pilot project .

 

[mr.x]

hi mr x can you tell me please what is your e-case status say now?

in process
and last thing it sayes ( interview scheduled for march 14 , 2012