Canadian Citizen Stuck with her husband in Syria because of CIC

[gcg000]

Well, no, that's not fair. However, the times for my country (Romania) went up because they started taking applications from countries in the Middle East. I was expecting my straight forward application to take no longer than 7 months, but now, it might take double that (hopefully not though, fingers crossed!)

Do you think I should also go to the media and tell me how unfair it is that my VO is taking other applications instead of focusing on mine?

As well, it pisses the s*** out of me that applications from the US and other "Western" countries are processed within 3 months or less, while applications from Romania, which is in the European Union, take over a year to process. How's that for unfair?

I don't think your spouse is a Christian minority living in a terrorist infested war torn country with his life on the line ! I really hope your get application processed in 1 month it won't bother me!
Forget about me I just want to feel that my Husband's life who is living in Syria is as important as the lives of those refugees living in safe havens like Jordan or Turkey

 

[gcg000]

Well, you just said you don't want your application being processed faster than applications from other countries, you just want yours to be processed at the same speed as those from refugees. So which one is it?

Do you know what a privately sponsored refugee is?
Lets say you are a Canadian and you want to sposnor a Syrian refugee living in Jordan, according to CIC the processing time for this type of applications is 10 months. Its in the same page you check to see your processing times.
So Ammaan VO needs 10 months to process the sponsorship of a Syrian refugee living safely in Jordan meanwhile It takes the same VO 15 months to process the applications of Spouses living in Syria.
In other words I can sponsor a Syrian refugee living in Jordan much faster than sposring my own husband who lives in Syria and both applications are processed in the same VO.
It gets better I can sposnor my husband as refugee much faster than sponsoring him as my spouse. Now please tell me do I have the right to be angry?

 

[UA2014]

I don't think anyone who is an applicant from a "safe" country has any right to criticize applicants from countries that are unstable and have wars currently ongoing. You have no idea what people have to go through IN ADDITION to the stresses of this process that each of us are experiencing.

Here we have people in varying situations, applicants from visa exempt counties, non visa exempt countries, Visa Offices that reject close to half of their applications, Visa Offices that call people for interview and make them wait months for a date, many different circumstances.

7 months processing time? What is that, the fastest in Europe? Maybe that's why they are being assigned more applications since CIC is moving to a Global processing model.

I don't know why people need to be ignorant to others whose situation is obviously not as fortunate as their own.

And the government prefers people do not apply as refugees. So those who could lay claim to refugee status, but don't, in my opinion should be expedited if they are doing every thing right. If we can expedite SOME refugees in three months for a political decision, I'm sure AT RISK Family Class applications can be expedited too.

My wife didn't ask for a war in her country and I'm sure the OP didn't either. You have no idea what that is like to deal with EVERY DAY.

 

[profiler]

So, I have debated on whether to throw my $0.05 out there or not. I will say upfront that I do not have all the details on the OP's application or situation.

In terms of Right v. Privilege to live in Canada. EVERY Canadian Citizen has a RIGHT to live in Canada. Additionally, the Canadian government has an over-arching responsibility to protect Canadians -- both at home, and abroad.

While I don't necessarily agree or disagree with the choices that the OP made thus far, I do wonder why they hadn't left Syria long before now -- that war has been festering for 5 years. That said, does the OP's husband have some kind of visa to enter Canada currently? Could they enter as a visitor, and switch the application to an in Canada sponsorship??

If the objective is to speed the case up, you might as well go to the top. Tweet @JustinTrudeau as he is pretty active on social media.

Please stay safe, and try to get away from that area as soon as you can.

 

[ra03ra]

While I don't necessarily agree or disagree with the choices that the OP made thus far, I do wonder why they hadn't left Syria long before now -- that war has been festering for 5 years. That said, does the OP's husband have some kind of visa to enter Canada currently? Could they enter as a visitor, and switch the application to an in Canada sponsorship??

I don't think she would be in Syria if her husband had some sort of an entry permit to Canada, she would go for that option in a heart beat.

 

[km9203]

So, I have debated on whether to throw my $0.05 out there or not. I will say upfront that I do not have all the details on the OP's application or situation.

In terms of Right v. Privilege to live in Canada. EVERY Canadian Citizen has a RIGHT to live in Canada. Additionally, the Canadian government has an over-arching responsibility to protect Canadians -- both at home, and abroad.

While I don't necessarily agree or disagree with the choices that the OP made thus far, I do wonder why they hadn't left Syria long before now -- that war has been festering for 5 years. That said, does the OP's husband have some kind of visa to enter Canada currently? Could they enter as a visitor, and switch the application to an in Canada sponsorship??

If the objective is to speed the case up, you might as well go to the top. Tweet @JustinTrudeau as he is pretty active on social media.

Please stay safe, and try to get away from that area as soon as you can.

I think it would be very difficult/impossible for her husband to get a visitor visa given that he is from Syria. The officers would probably think that he wouldn't leave Canada if denied PR, given what is going on there and that they've just taken loads of refugees in so they are aware that people are needing to leave.

OP, I hope you get something sorted soon. I am sorry you are going through this.

 

[ra03ra]

Well, no, that's not fair. However, the times for my country (Romania) went up because they started taking applications from countries in the Middle East. I was expecting my straight forward application to take no longer than 7 months, but now, it might take double that (hopefully not though, fingers crossed!)

Do you think I should also go to the media and tell me how unfair it is that my VO is taking other applications instead of focusing on mine?

As well, it pisses the s*** out of me that applications from the US and other "Western" countries are processed within 3 months or less, while applications from Romania, which is in the European Union, take over a year to process. How's that for unfair?

I think it cause CIC doesn't know where Romania is probably... ;D ;D.........JK..

 

[emamabd]

I chose to be in Syria with my husband and yes i do have the option of going back to Canada but my husband does not have this option and he will still be in great danger while your spouse will be hopefully safe in his/her country!

As safety is your major concern, isn't there a 3rd country which you can both reside in until the CIC processing gets completed? I assume there are a few countries out there that accept Syrian passport holders without a visa.