February 2015 spouse sponsorship application

[BhaveshCanada]

Hello everyone,
First of all, I would like to thank everyone for posting their experiences during their application process. Your posts were really helpful for me to finally finish the application process to sponsor my wife. Since everyone here is an experienced person, I am hopeful I will be getting some useful replies.
To start my story, I came to Canada as a student in 2011 and got my PR status on Feb 22nd 2014. In 2013, I was in India for 5 months and in July 2014, I met my wife (then girlfriend) and we fell in love with each other. My return was scheduled for Sept 2013 and since then, we both were in a long distance relationship. During this long distance relationship period, my wife (then girlfriend) applied for a tourist visa twice and it was rejected both the times stating the reason that they don't see her intentions to come back and lack of financial support. Which was partially true as she didn't tell her family that she applied for a Canada TRV and hence cannot provide financial support documents. However, we booked her return tickets at that time itself. Since her visa was rejected twice and we wanted to be together, I went back to India in July 2014 and we got married.
During my visit to India, we went to Goa as well as I introduced my girlfriend (now wife) to my parents that this is the girl I want to marry. However, they did not agree with our decision and we got married in court with very minimal rituals. We do have photos and proofs of everything since our relationship is genuine.

We started gathering our documents in December 2014 since my wife was occupied with her CA (Chartered accountant) exams. We already kept PCC as well as medical report in the application and today (Feb 22nd 2015) I mailed her application to Mississuaga CPC under spouse sponsorship category.


Having said all that, below is the list of my questions:
1. I would like to add my name is the excel sheet which is being rotated for Feb 2015. Can anyone help me with that?
2. Since we have a complicated story and most of the time of our relationship was long distance, does that affect our application? Just to recap, I have provided all the required proofs such as phone bills, whatsapp chat history for 2013 as well as 2014, viber chat/call history, gmail chat history, emails we exchanged, gifts we exchanged, mails we sent to each other, etc
3. I am in Canada since 2011 and I have attached all my notice of assessments with the application and someone advice me that if I have all notice of assessments, I should not wait for Option C. What do you suggest? Shall apply for option C and send it if requested or will just notice of assessment suffice for my application?
4. I have heard that average processing time on CIC website shows around 15 months for Delhi office but people get the process completed in a span of 7-8 months. How true is that?

Thanks and will be waiting for the reply.

Cheers,
Bhavesh

 

[Mercy24]

I can answer a couple of questions.

Re: Q#1
I am not sure which excel spreadsheet you are referring to, as there are a number of them.

Re: Q#2
I don't think that will affect your application but the onus is on you to prove that your relationship is genuine.
The proofs that you have are good. I think you should also have pics of you and her with family/relatives.

Re: Q#3
If you have all your documents except number Option C printout, which happened to me; it takes 3 weeks to receive in the post.
Do not add further delay, it takes them currently about 3 months to look at your file.
I sent my T4 slip and Notice of Assessment instead.
You can send them your Option C later, when you receive (no rush).

Re: Q#4
The stats published are for 80% of the cases that were closed in the previous year.
I can believe some cases decided much earlier. I find it really varies by case and timing during the year.


Also, just to let you know. You need a minimum of 8 posts to add the timeline to your profile and post links in the forum.

 

[BhaveshCanada]

Thanks for your reply and time. I really appreciate it.

for Q3, if I send option C later, does it add a couple of more weeks to our application? Also, is it mandatory to send option C? Or notice of assessment is enough (since I have sent for all 4 years I have lived in Canada).

 

[BhaveshCanada]

Forgot to add about question 2, I do have her pictures with my grandmother and niece. But no one else. Does that work?

 

[Mercy24]

In my case, I explained that I did not have the option C currently available and included my notice of assessment and T4 slip instead.
As soon as I got my Option C, I mailed it.
You don't want be waiting in the queue more than you have too, so don't delay.
Pictures with your grandmother and niece are fine.

 

[sohaib1]

Thanks for your reply and time. I really appreciate it.

for Q3, if I send option C later, does it add a couple of more weeks to our application? Also, is it mandatory to send option C? Or notice of assessment is enough (since I have sent for all 4 years I have lived in Canada).

I just sent notice of assesment, pay stubs, employment letter. When I recieve option c. Then i will send my option c. I don't think it delays anything. Because they have already saw your papers just need to look at option c quickly. So no worries

 

[BhaveshCanada]

My application was delivered today at Mississauga... Yeyyy ;D

 

[Ka101]

My application was delivered today at Mississauga... Yeyyy ;D

Did you use new Imm008 form which came out yeesterday?

 

[BhaveshCanada]

Hi,
No. I already mailed them my application this Sunday and there was no new IMM0008 at that time.
Will this be a problem??

 

[BhaveshCanada]

I just checked the form and it still says at the bottom of the form that it is 08/2014 form as well it has same fields.
I am tensed now. ???

 

[sohaib1]

I just checked the form and it still says at the bottom of the form that it is 08/2014 form as well it has same fields.
I am tensed now. ???

When I applied there was no new form either. I applied on Feb 14/2015. They just released it 2 or 3 days ago. I am worried to, because my wife is in Pakistan and her signature needs to be on this form. Lets hope that they don't ask for new form because it will delay the paper checking process. I pray please CIC don't ask for anything more or new forms.

 

[Ka101]

I just checked the form and it still says at the bottom of the form that it is 08/2014 form as well it has same fields.
I am tensed now. ???

I don't know but probably they will ask for new form and when yesterday i checked new form its written "feb 2015" at bottom.

 

[sen5e]

Just out of curiosity does anyone know what was updated in the imm0008? I quickly compared the old form with the new one a couple of times and didn't notice anything different. Perhaps I'll find out when I'll start to re-fill the new one.

edit: so after re-filling the new form, I did not notice any difference in the new form, as in any extra fields or anything. Maybe they just fixed something subtle, like a typo or an extra option in a drop-down that I didn't notice when re-filling.