February 2014 Outland Applications?

[Kayaker]

wow, now I'm getting nervous. I spent 11 years in Russia, and if CIC has to check my background with them, it will take... forever. (took me 8 or 10 weeks of repeated calls and visits to the embassy to get my police certificate). Not to mention the current political climate...?

Which makes me wonder - I mean, there are certain countries that don't view the west (including Canada) in a friendly light. If CIC has to do background checks in those countries, what if those countries refuse to cooperate? Wonder how that works.

 

[Seronic]

wow, now I'm getting nervous. I spent 11 years in Russia, and if CIC has to check my background with them, it will take... forever. (took me 8 or 10 weeks of repeated calls and visits to the embassy to get my police certificate). Not to mention the current political climate...?

Which makes me wonder - I mean, there are certain countries that don't view the west (including Canada) in a friendly light. If CIC has to do background checks in those countries, what if those countries refuse to cooperate? Wonder how that works.

I wouldn't worry too much about it .

 

[Seronic]

This thread is quite those days. No one has anything new? Any question? Doubts, thoughts, anything
I found this in the December thread and I think is very interesting, the only problem is that is impossible to check if is true

Lets assume it's true, does this mean they do another criminal check on me (the sponsor) once the file is in Russia? I was under the impression the background was done in Mississauga, before SA. Not that it matters, just wondering when everything gets done

 

[marlasinger]

Lets assume it's true, does this mean they do another criminal check on me (the sponsor) once the file is in Russia? I was under the impression the background was done in Mississauga, before SA. Not that it matters, just wondering when everything gets done

I was always under the impression that larger scale background check gets done on the applicant and that's why these things can take so long to approve, on top of going through all the things sent in and determining the genuineness of the relationship. Once the file is transferred everything becomes about the applicant. They only care about the sponsor in the first stage and I'm not entirely sure they do a criminal background check on the sponsor? I've never seen that mentioned anywhere. The point is to determine whether someone is inadmissible to Canada or not and the sponsor is already allowed in Canada so it would seem like a strange step.

 

[Kayaker]

The stress of waiting.... how do you guys cope?

Most days I try to believe that we'll be fine, it might take a while but it's going to be alright. It helps to be busy and have little time to dwell on it. But for a few hours now and then I get focused on the PR process and start worrying...

 

[Netkid]

The stress of waiting.... how do you guys cope?

Most days I try to believe that we'll be fine, it might take a while but it's going to be alright. It helps to be busy and have little time to dwell on it. But for a few hours now and then I get focused on the PR process and start worrying...

It's like Christmas...it can be tough some days, just waiting and waiting - what makes it harder is the unknown - nothing is concrete, so having the spreadsheets and people's reported experiences helps. Staying busy is key if you can. I tend to read the forums a lot, just educating myself more and more - plus it can be interesting. Good luck!

 

[Seronic]

The stress of waiting.... how do you guys cope?

Most days I try to believe that we'll be fine, it might take a while but it's going to be alright. It helps to be busy and have little time to dwell on it. But for a few hours now and then I get focused on the PR process and start worrying...

I spend my free hours gaming, haha. Enjoy it as much as I can, cause once my wifey gets here, gaming ends. . But really, takes your mind off of it

 

[marlasinger]

The stress of waiting.... how do you guys cope?

Most days I try to believe that we'll be fine, it might take a while but it's going to be alright. It helps to be busy and have little time to dwell on it. But for a few hours now and then I get focused on the PR process and start worrying...

It can be hard if you don't have things to take up some extra space in your mind...I consider myself lucky because my husband is only a 4 hour drive away so we see each other every weekend. Our weeks are taken up with work and having a regular routine at home - exercise, hobbies, errands, talking to my husband every night - kind of makes the days go by rather smoothly and quickly. I can only imagine how crazy I'd be going if I only saw him sporadically, though. My husband and I are long distance, but certainly not the kind of distance so many others face.

Just try to stay positive too. If you know your relationship is real and you know there's no reason for him to be denied, then you just try to stay optimistic and busy!

 

[marlasinger]

I spend my free hours gaming, haha. Enjoy it as much as I can, cause once my wifey gets here, gaming ends. . But really, takes your mind off of it

Blasphemy! My husband and I game together...Borderlands keeps getting more DLC, we keep getting more gaming time. haha.

 

[Netkid]

That's not too bad then to commute - my wife is is NZ and I'm here, and the time just changed, so it really really sucks when it's 10pm there, it's 3am here - I feel my whole sleep patterns have shifted now to Kiwi time!

 

[marlasinger]

That's not too bad then to commute - my wife is is NZ and I'm here, and the time just changed, so it really really sucks when it's 10pm there, it's 3am here - I feel my whole sleep patterns have shifted now to Kiwi time!

ha, I can see how weird that would be. my husband and I go through our days finding time to talk and keep a regular schedule of talking on the phone every night, but that would be so hard to do with a time difference like that.

how did you meet your wife, if I can ask?

 

[Netkid]

ah we met online! haven't looked back since! she'll be visiting next week - so yay!

 

[marlasinger]

ah we met online! haven't looked back since! she'll be visiting next week - so yay!

us too, on Twitter actually that's just how the world works now I guess - everybody is so close because of the internet, but so far away.

 

[steler]

Lets assume it's true, does this mean they do another criminal check on me (the sponsor) once the file is in Russia? I was under the impression the background was done in Mississauga, before SA. Not that it matters, just wondering when everything gets done

I agree with marlasinger that I've never seen mention anywhere that in the CPC-M (first stage) they do a background check of the sponsor. I think they just check if he/she would qualify economically speaking, for the undertaking.

I also have the impression, after seeing many cases in this forum, that the reason that takes a lot of time is because of the number of applicants that every VO has. Also, the majority of the cases, in normal a situation, the VOs approve as a genuine in a few days. I don't think it could take for a trained person, more than a day to look at what I sent and confirm that our relationship is true. What I think it takes more time is those background checks with third countries, and the background check with Canada it self. Otherwise I think it wouldn't make sense that for some people takes from "in process" to "decision made" just a week and a half.

Blasphemy! My husband and I game together...Borderlands keeps getting more DLC, we keep getting more gaming time. haha.

I think you have found definitely your true love!

ha, I can see how weird that would be. my husband and I go through our days finding time to talk and keep a regular schedule of talking on the phone every night, but that would be so hard to do with a time difference like that.

how did you meet your wife, if I can ask?

We met each other in real life, in an university exchange year in Iceland. Good times!

 

[missmatalini]

My husband and I met online in a random "talk to a stranger' website. We decided to continue our conversation because we both had an interest and obsession with the website 9gag (A rage comic site) I was 16.

Which also leads me to ask this question, with both of us being young (I'm almost 19 and he is turning 21) Does a young age raise any red flags for a relationship?

Also - with my application I did a small Canadian Background check because I have been outside of the country since a month and a half after my 18th birthday. They didn't ask for a background check from me just a medical in our SA letter, so just double checking that I won't run into a problem with that. I thought I read it correctly that it's a background in Countries you lived 6 months or more in since your 18th Birthday. . . . and that for me is Canada.

Thanks guys!