Here is the article I wrote about chc.
SPOUSAL SPONSORSHIP FROM PAKISTAN
Why Our Gov't has one of the slowest process for spousal sponsorship from Pakistan and currently the timeline for issuing the visa is 26 months, and the time I applied was Sept 2010 when the timeline was only 16 month, but there are many people waiting for the visa since then, and for some cases the visa is not issued for 5 years or more but on the other hand for people who need visa as student, entrepreneur or skill worker and even for trv/visitor's visa does not take more than 2 months. All of those visas include back ground check as well, but just for getting our spouses to come to Canada and before submitting the spousal sponsorship application the police clearance certificate from Pakistan, medical, marriage certificate and all the required documents are submitted with application so why they have to take years in process which is nothing but a torture. If we look at United states and United kingdom, they don't even take this long to go through back ground check or issuing a visa whenever Canada take's such a long time for this process just because the Gov't doesn't think that there is any benefit from the spouses even though we have to send money from Canada for our spouses and which is not good for our economy either. Whenever if husband and wife work in Canada and support Canadian economy and some of them may be looking into starting business, but the Canadian government just ignore them somehow, which is not fair and it shows that it has two tier systems, one system for the desirable by the Gov't and the other is for undesirable by the Gov't. That is totally lacking humanity and compassion keeping families apart especially whenever this great country is known to be one of the most tolerant and humanitarian.
I can't imagine how to cope under these untenable circumstances. Especially when I see there are so many other applications which had been submitted in 2011 and so many months later after I applied, have received the visas while they just neglect some applicants for years to be interviewed or even after the interview they may take another year or so to clear those applications.
If we search through Google CHC, Islamabad spouse sponsorship Timeline 2009 -2010 and see the website called “canadavisa.com” and go to the page where it had been posted since May 18th 2011 at 7
8 p.m. which shows 2011 applications getting through but when you check May 18th 2011at 12:18 p.m. post shows 2010 applications are still waiting to be reviewed and no visa had been issued for so long and these are just a fraction of the total immigration cases where some people know about this forum and are posting and sharing their problems.
The lack of transparency from Canadian high commission Islamabad is so depressing; one cannot anticipate what will happen at any given time with any certainty. The entire process is as intimidating as it is haphazard and arbitrary, and in dire need of revision or preferably audit, because the system is not working as first in first out but rather it's a total chaos.
