How much money would you say you have spent on your PR Application??

[sbwv09]

1040-fees
200-medical
45-shipping
80-2 FBI checks (one just in case they lose my original, which Buffalo seems to like to do!)
35-state background check, because I thought I needed it I sent it anyway
35-office supplies (would have been much more, but I'm a teacher and I 'borrowed' some work supplies
45-photos for relationship proof
50-photos for immigration
350-Wedding photos, which I probably wouldn't have had professionally done otherwise

So far-1880. Absurd.

Not counting gas money and car repairs for the many trips!

 

[cuds]

- $1040 immigration fees
- $138 medical
- $14 express mail Canada Post
- $40 notary
- $20 pictures (12 small "passport size" ones)

No I do not count paper or printer ink to this total The "paperclips and pens" make me smile
Photos we developed through a promotion at Walmart (=free) Currently they have another promotion running for 50 free prints for new customers ;D

And eventhough we aren't married - I would never count costs from a wedding, nor trips to visit eachother as a total spend in a PR application.

 

[sbwv09]

I only counted the wedding photos because the PR application is the main reason we had a professional do them as opposed to a family member because we wanted as many photos as possible and as many good and clear ones as we could get. We just had a city hall wedding which did still cost money (I had a 'real' wedding dress, etc), but I don't count those costs, since I would have spent that money anyway

My wedding would have probably cost a lot more if he were American or I were Canadian, because in that case we would have had all the families there for a big church wedding, but we knew there was no way we could A--get everyone in one place or B--afford two big church weddings!

 

[cuds]

- $1040 immigration fees
- $138 medical
- $14 express mail Canada Post
- $40 notary
- $20 pictures (12 small "passport size" ones)

No I do not count paper or printer ink to this total The "paperclips and pens" make me smile
Photos we developed through a promotion at Walmart (=free) Currently they have another promotion running for 50 free prints for new customers ;D

And eventhough we aren't married - I would never count costs from a wedding, nor trips to visit eachother as a total spend in a PR application.

Just an FYI
A police certificate didn't cost anything for me and we didn't need to let anything be translated.

 

[Rob.Barrett]

I like looking at mine in British pounds as its a far smaller figure than its Canadian Dollar counter part!

 

[sbwv09]

Mine are in a mix of USD and Canadian dollars.. they're usually pretty close anyway!

 

[HoneyBird]

* Application Fees - $1,040.00
* Medical - $ 100.00
* Police Certificates - $10.00
* Applicants Photos(immigration) - $20.00
* Wedding so we could apply as married - $My parents never told me (cause it was huge)
* Marriage Licence - $2.00
* Marriage Certificate - $10.00
* 2 Phone Records - $ 15.00
* Photoshop - $200.00
* Paper - $office supplies :0
* Postage -$25.00
* Misc (Paper Clips, files, Bull dog clips, pens etc) - $office supplies.
I am gonna round this off to about 1500.
I didnt include marriage cause no matter if i married locally or foreign, the cost would of been the same.
Neither Honey Moon.

What i want to include is : Assessment of my qualifications to University of Toronto: 300 CAD. And Crap all the tickets back and forth. thats like 4000.
did i mention my hubby is paying off his credit card month by month? AND The phone calls!!! lord! I can't even put a figure on that.
So if we going just administrative work for PR it will be 1500.

I think that's about it!
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[nyssa]

I too have been monthly-credit card paying... I have this hole of debt I can't seem to close. But do I sacrifice living and visiting the love of my life? Call me a romantic, but I just can't seem to justify it! Love over money. Since I don't have kids

 

[BeShoo]

BeShoo - Staples is a store, that's what I meant 8)

Oh, you meant the store. That's a relief. Actually, they've already made something off me. In my hasty move to get my partner away from his U.S. apartment he could no longer afford, I stopped by a Staples store just before the Canadian border to re-print my balck and white forms or at least the revised pages. I also bought some paperclips and those big black clips.

 

[Dayanara]

Hmmmm....Never really thought about it, not sure I want to, lol. But let's see....

(these are a mixture of US & CDN but the dollar is so close it doesn't matter)

• $1040 - Immigration Fees
• $2800 - Lawyer Fees
• $155 - Medical
• $120 - State Clearances (NY, IL, WI, FL not needed but just in case)
• $18 - FBI Clearance
• $89 - Marriage Certificates (2 Long Forms & 3 File Size - sent originals of each, so technically $37 for immigration purposes)
• $40 - Passport Photos
• $30 - Postage
• $50 - Colour prints of photos with descriptions from Word Document
• $150 - Paper, toner, staples, misc stationary supplies

Now...my wedding...*cough*...That is a whole other story and thankfully I have loving parents that were able to and paid for the whole thing (approx $30K). Or else we would have eloped in Vegas or something, lol.

 

[toby]

There are many expenses associated with applying for PR that are not directly part of the application process. For example, to get married in China you have to sign a certificate of eligibility to marry in front of a Canadian consul. I thought a Canadian consul in Costa Rica would do, and got one before going to China. But no ... the marriage officials in Wuhan said I needed a certificate from the designated consul in Beijing. So, flew to Beijing and got the certificate. Then back to WUhan, where (to my horror) I discovered that the certificate had been dated wrongly by the Canadian embassy. So ... back to Beijing we flew, stayed overnight at the only hotel we could find on short notice (read: expensive) , then back to Wuhan again. The next day we presented ourselves and our finally-satisfactory documents to the rather humourless folk in the marriage office in Wuhan, and we were married.

Do I include the cost of Beijing (and other costs I won't bore you with)?

By the way, if you really want to know all the details, my book about my immigration experience will hit the stands next April!! ;D

 

[lynw]

Can we include the cost of comfort eating? I may as well have an account with our purveyor of chocolate

 

[Dayanara]

Can we include the cost of comfort eating? I may as well have an account with our purveyor of chocolate

I know eh? My comfort food is gummy bears and swedish berries....I stock up at the dollar store every trip to the mall, lol.

 

[can_usa_97]

Interesting thread.

Here's mine;

• Filing Fees $1040
• Copies of marriage/birth cert $40
• Rush Passport book $135 book + 65 expedite + 40 overnight = $240
• Medical $320+90 = $410

(not including the 6 hour drive roundtrip and extra the trip required like $20 parking)

• Mailing application $80

photos $50

• Misc copies/printing $50

1910

My kids application;

• Filing fee $150
• Copies of certificates $85

(dh needed his long form from Ontario, and I didn't want to send our only copy of their certificates)
mailing application $50
their passport cards $80
photos $40

325

$2235

That's all I can think of at the moment








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[toby]

How much money would you say you have spent on your PR Application??

In the past 1 1/2 years I would say we have spent around $8,400 including:

* Application Fees - $1,040.00
* Medical - $240.00
* Police Certificates - $75.00
* Applicants Photos(immigration) - $125.00
* Wedding so we could apply as married - $6,000.00 ish
* Marriage Licence - $120.00
* Marriage Certificate - $35.00
* Husbands Divorce Certificate - $22.00
* 2 Visitors Records - $150.00
* Renewal of my British Passport - $260
* Printer Ink (Lexmark black & Colour Ink) - $200.00
* Paper - $20.00
* Photos - Developed for Proof of relationship - $40
* Postage - $50 (some items registered or express mail)
* Misc (Paper Clips, files, Bull dog clips, pens etc) - $40

I think that's about it!

If I include 4 trips to China, culminating in marriage in trip #3, about $50,000. That includes the cost of dry cleaning clothes at two hotels, and a rather delicious chocolate ice cream sundae in Beijing.