CHC, Islamabad Spouse Sponsorship Timeline 2011 -2012

[khankhan]

Hi Dear Cvimm congratulation for some progress in your case. I am just doing COPY/PASTE from previous threads. On the day of interview you being with your wife is a very good idea. Just be honest and confident Insh- Allah everything will go great. My all the best wishes and duas are with you and everybody who are suffering without their spouses.
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INTERVIEW QUESTIONS for Spousal Category

1. When and where did you meet your spouse for the first time?
2. How did you meet your spouse?
3. How old is your spouse? What is your spouse's birth date?
4. What does your spouse do for a living?
5. Where did your spouse go to school'?
6. What degrees or formal training does your spouse have?
7. How did your spouse immigrate to Canada?
8. Where does your spouse work?
9. What is the name of the company? What position does your spouse hold? How long has your spouse worked there?
10. What does the job entail?
11. Does your spouse like his or her job?
12. What is the salary?
13. Where does your spouse live?
14. Whom does your spouse live with?
15. Where are you going to live when you go to Canada?
16. Please explain the type of relationship you have had since your first meeting.
17. What is your and spouse religion?
18. When you and your spouse were dating what would you do together?
19. Do you have any hobbies? Describe them.
20. Does your spouse have any hobbies? Describe them.
21. What type of music do you enjoy?
22. What type of music does your spouse enjoy?
23. What kind of movies do you enjoy?
24. What kind of movies does your spouse enjoy?
25. What kind of books do you read?
26. What kind of books does your spouse read?
27. Have you and your spouse ever exchanged gifts? Explain.
28. When and where did the marriage proposal take place?
29. Was your marriage arranged?
30. If it was arranged describe how it was arranged and by whom?
31. Did you have a ceremony celebrating your relationship?
32. Where was it held?
33. When was it held?
34. Describe the ceremony?
35. Did it conform to your own religious and cultural beliefs? Explain.
36. When did you get married?
37. Where did you get married?
38. Who was at the wedding?
39. What family members were there?
40. How many people were at the ceremony?
41. What day was the ceremony held on?
42. Who performed the ceremony?
43. Do you have pictures of the ceremony?
44. Who was at the ceremony from your side?
45. Who was at the ceremony from your spouse's side?
46. Were any friends present?
47. How many brothers and sisters does your spouse have?
48. Were your parents at the wedding? If not, why not?
49. Are your parents aware of the wedding? If not, why not?
50. Where your spouse's parents at the wedding? If not, why not?
51. Were your spouse's parents aware of the wedding? If not, why not?
52. Was a reception held? When and where was it held?
53. Who was present at the reception?
54. Did you receive any wedding gifts? Describe them.
55. Did you go a honeymoon? Where did you go and for how long?
56. Can you show me pictures and receipts from the honeymoon, wedding and
reception?
64. Do any other family members reside with you and your spouse? If yes, please indicate their names and relationship.
65. What relatives do you have in Canada?
66. What are their names and where do they live?
67. What relatives do you have outside of Canada?
68. Has your spouse met any of your relatives or friends? Who have they met and when did they meet them?
69. Have you met any of your spouse's relatives or friends? Whom have you met and when did you meet them?
70. In terms of education, would you say that you and your spouse's educational background are compatible?
72. Why did you marry your spouse?
74. Do your family members (parents, siblings) want to immigrate to Canada?
75. Did you marry your spouse so that you could sponsor your parents as landed immigrants of Canada?
76. How do you correspond with your spouse?
77. How often do you talk on the phone?
78. Do you have phone bills, e-mails, cards, etc., and can I see them?
79. Tell me why this marriage or relationship is genuine.
80. What makes your relationship with your spouse different from that of a female/male friend?
81. Does your spouse support you financially?
82. Do you support your spouse financially?
83. If I refuse this application what will you do?
84. When and where did you live together?
85. Development of your relationship after very first day?
86. Why didn't you get married to someone from Pakistan?, why to someone from Canada?
87. Personal life of sponsor, school, colleges, courses, work and all important dates such as, date of moving to Canada, date of leaving Canada and entering Pakistan.
88. If she is pregnant or not, if not, why not ?
89. Detailed information about her parents
90. Engagement, marriage and reception, who attended and who didnt, if not why?
91 About rituals in religious ceremony and number of guests?
92. Future plans?
93. What kind of job, you are looking for?
94. What side of bed, you sleep on?
95 Where did ur spouse propose u , what time was it ? And how ?
96. When n where did u first time got intimate with your spouse ?
97. What contraceptives did u use ?
98. Her birthdate, her education details, her parents, sister info..etc etc..
99. When and where did you get married?
100.What trips to wen

You have been waiting for 32 months , what really scare me .. i was expecting 26 month maximum . when r u expecting your visa?

 

[Naqibee]

Guys, I know a husband here in Canada who applied to sponsor his wife last year in July and his wife has already received her passport with visa. She has booked her flight to come in July after Ramadan. This is a great news for me to share with you

 

[EagleMan]

Guys, I know a husband here in Canada who applied to sponsor his wife last year in July and his wife has already received her passport with visa. She has booked her flight to come in July after Ramadan. This is a great news for me to share with you

Thats great. When did his file transferred to london?

 

[Naqibee]

Thats great. When did his file transferred to london?

I am not sure! I will share when I find out more details

 

[ch.immigration]

Thats great. When did his file transferred to london?

No one from early 2013 applicants received anything yet
4 months has been passed
And now again they are taking interviews of 2012 applicants
Dnt know how long they will take

 

[hladha]

No one from early 2013 applicants received anything yet
4 months has been passed
And now again they are taking interviews of 2012 applicants
Dnt know how long they will take

Did you apply for the visa yet?? I'm thinking to do so by the end of this year IF I don't recieve any correspondence from them, though mine was rejected twice. Idk how to just sit back n wait for this immigration thing to come through.

 

[Raheel27a]

No one from early 2013 applicants received anything yet
4 months has been passed
And now again they are taking interviews of 2012 applicants
Dnt know how long they will take

no good news for 2013 applicants yet??? no remedicals ?? nothing??

 

[khankhan]

how the process work after re medical? when chc ask for re medical when they start reviewing the case for 1st time , how long after that will they request for passport ?

 

[imthegreat2004]

hello everyone,

Is there any member who has moved recently on TN visa to USA then applied for TD visa for spouse? please PM me

 

[TORONTONIAN04]

AOA,
Does any one knows that how long chc takes to do background check. any idea please answer

thank you

 

[TORONTONIAN04]

Below is the e-mail of PPR step-1 for Pakistani applicants.
And i would also like to request Pakistani applicants to register yourself in IOM. its like CIIP from the context i get. E-mail is in bold. (it is a copy paste from chc London forum)



High Commission of Canada
Immigration and Medical Services Division
Macdonald House
38 Grosvenor Street
London W1K 4AA
United Kingdom
www.UnitedKingdom.gc.ca
Haut-commissariat du Canada
Direction de l'immigration et des services médicaux
Maison Macdonald
38, rue Grosvenor
Londres W1K 4AA
Royaume-Uni
www.Royaume-Uni.gc.ca



File: Date:
Dear Applicant,
Your application has reached the final stage of processing. Since Pakistani law does not permit the mailing of Pakistani passports from Pakistan to other countries, we will not ask you to submit your passport to our office in London. The issuance of your permanent resident visa will be a two step process.
Step 1: Follow the instructions in this letter to submit the requested items to our office in London. Once we have reviewed them, we will send you instructions for the second step within 6 weeks.
Step 2: Do not submit your passport to our Islamabad office until you receive instructions to do so. The Islamabad office cannot issue your visa before we instruct them to do so. (If you submit your passport early, it will be returned to you without a visa.) The Islamabad office can only mail passports to addresses in Pakistan. If you will want your passports returned to an address outside of Pakistan, then this letter does not apply to you. Inform us immediately so that we can send you different instructions.


Step 1: Submit the documents listed below to our office in London. (These instructions do not apply to accompanying family members who are entitled to Canadian citizenship, because they will have to travel on their Canadian passports.)
1. Clear photocopies of your passport and the passports of each accompanying family member. The passports must meet the Passport Specifications on page 2 of this letter because these are the passports you will use to travel to Canada.
2. The Updated Information Chart on page 3 fully completed for you and each accompanying family member.
Submit these three items within 45 days of the date of this letter (or the date of the email if you received this by email). All items for you and your accompanying family members must be submitted together in one package.
Mail or courier your package to:
PHEP Processing
Immigration Division
Canadian High Commission
38 Grosvenor Street
London, W1K 4AA
United Kingdom
Sincerely,
High Commission of Canada


International Organization for Migration (IOM)

“As an immigrant to Canada, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) invites you to register, through the IOM Islamabad Office using the email coapk @ iom.int, for a free pre-departure orientation session offered in one of these locations: Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi.
Cultural Orientation Abroad (COA), a world-wide orientation project funded through Citizenship and Immigration Canada, is designed to teach immigrants about Canada before they leave their home country, so that when they arrive in Canada they are well prepared to meet the challenges they must face.”

What you should know
 You should not take any irrevocable action such as selling your property, quitting your job, or buying plane tickets until you have received your permanent resident visa(s).
 Your visa will be issued in Step 2 to match the information in your passport photocopy submitted in Step 1. This will be the name that appears on all of your documents after you become a permanent resident of Canada (e.g. driver's license, social insurance card, health card).
 If your family composition has changed (e.g. by marriage, divorce, birth, death), you must tell us now. You must also tell us if it changes before the date of your intended departure. Information in our systems must be up to date and considered before anyone can be granted permanent resident status on arrival.
 Your visas will expire one year after the date of your medical examinations. However, if your passport or any of your family members' passports are due to expire before this date, all visas will expire on the date that the first passport expires. You must enter Canada on or before the expiry date on your visas.
 The validity of a permanent resident visa cannot be extended, nor can a replacement visa be issued with a new expiry date. If you do not use your visa(s) before the expiry date, yet still wish to immigrate to Canada, you will have to begin the application process again, and pay new fees. The new application would be assessed according to the immigration legislation in force at the time of submission.







Passport Specifications
Your application will be delayed if any of the passports do not meet the following specifications. This delay will shorten the amount of time that you will have to travel to Canada to become a permanent resident.
1. Submit only copies of the passport pages showing the passport number, date of issue and expiry, your photo, name, date and place of birth, as well as any amendments to this information.
2. The photocopies must be from the passports you will use to travel to Canada. If you submit a different passport in Step 2 than the photocopy submitted in Step 1, then all passports will be returned and you will have to start again from Step 1.
3. Diplomatic, official, service or public affairs passports are not valid for immigration to Canada.
4. All names and dates of birth must be printed in each passport in English or French.
5. The given name (first name) of the passport-holder must be clearly printed on the Given Name line of the biodata page of each passport. The surname (last name) of the passport-holder must be clearly printed on the Surname line of the biodata page of each passport. They should match your Updated Information Chart.
6. Your spouse must have their own passport. Your accompanying children should also each have their own passports.
7. Each passport must have at least two empty pages.
8. For your visas to have maximum validity, all passports should be valid for at least 12 months from the date of your medical examinations.
9. All passports must be intact and not worn, torn or otherwise damaged; the laminate on the biodata page must be securely attached. Each page must be securely affixed to the passport; there cannot be any loose pages. Ordinary passports are the only type of passport into which a permanent resident visa may be inserted. Diplomatic, official, special or other similar types of passports are NOT acceptable.

Updated Information Chart

Write your file number here: B______________

Surname
(as in passport) First Name
(as in passport) Passport Number Passport Expiry (dd/mm/yyyy) Height (cm) Eye Colour Code (see chart below)
Principal Applicant
Spouse or Partner
Child 1
Child 2
Child 3
Child 4
Child 5
Child 6

Continue on a separate sheet if you have more than six children.


Eye Colour Code
Black 1
Blue 2
Brown 3
Green 4
Hazel 5
Grey 6
Other 7

 

[Naqibee]

Thats great. When did his file transferred to london?

He is in Pakistan right now, once he is back in Canada. I will ask him

 

[mrashid123]

The writing is on the wall my friend. Some obvious causes I mention:

Pakistan. Unsafe country. Nobody wants to visit. Nobody wants to go there. Not even cricket teams. Extremism. Even overseas Pakistanis are scared to visit. Too many files. Everything can be forged with money. High fraud rate in documentations. Nobody wants to trust you. Not many visa officers. Too many Pakistanis going back to Pakistan to get married(almost everyone, both guys and girls) = v. large number of files.

I'm assuming u haven't been to Pakistan lately... but sadly that is wut the media has portrayed our country to b.... unsafe... extremism... terrorists... etc.... the fact is it couldn't b further from the truth....

Fact is most middle class families in larger cities of the country r not any different than middle class families in Canada.... go on facebook n u'll see wut I mean.... ppl r living n enjoying their lives a lot more than most of us in Canada r able to with our busy schedules.... Most if not all of overseas Pakistanis r from these middle class families.... cuz frankly the poorer parts of the country r not able to afford $1000+ for sponsorship applications....

In larger cities its a lot harder to get away with forgeries n most respectable families don't participate in these kinds of things.... record keeping is accurate n up to date n everyone in larger cities have all their documents in order.... in fact NADRA (the govt agency responsible for issuing ID cards to every Pakistani) has such a great reputation that its been winning contracts from other countries like Sri lanka.... I really don't buy the argument that Pakistan is an unsafe n corrupt country....

N I doubt there is such a large number of applications that come into CIC from Pakistan n e more compared to other countries especially with these types of processing times... in fact if I recall correctly somebody on here posted the number of applications that CIC has received every year for the past 10 years... n Pakistan was a small number compared to the rest of the countries n the number had been declining over the past few years!

 

[mrashid123]

Guys, I know a husband here in Canada who applied to sponsor his wife last year in July and his wife has already received her passport with visa. She has booked her flight to come in July after Ramadan. This is a great news for me to share with you

Impossible..... there must b more to this story than wut uve been told.... this is typical Paki mentality.... we'll exaggerate bout the final result to show off n skip on the important details.... these types of claims should always b taken with a ginormous grain of salt....

 

[TORONTONIAN04]

Any one knows about how long CHC Islamabad takes to check applicant's background, ( CHC Islamabad kitna time leta hai applicant ka background check kerne mein). 1 or 2 months??? Please reply
Thank You