In Canada Spouse PR Application

[next_Step]

Time line

We received your application for permanent residence on June 14, 2008.

We started processing your application on July 12, 2008.

Medical results have been received.

A decision has been made and you will be contacted.

We sent you a letter on November 26, 2008 to xxxxxxx Street Apt xxx, xxxxx, British Columbia, Canada, about the decision on your application. Please consider delays in mail delivery before contacting us. If we have sent the letter to the wrong address, please contact us.

We received the requested information on January 4, 2009. Thank you for providing the information.

We received the requested information on January 24, 2009. Thank you for providing the information.


I guess what I am wondering, what the next step is, we received a letter last week that says we are please to inform you your application has been completed, your fiel has been transfered to a local CIC office and you will be contacted about an interview time and date.

This is an in-Canada spousal application

How long before we are contacted for the interview?
will they give my wife her PR card right at the interview site or do e need to wait more?

Anyone who could inform me of the procedure is an angel!!

 

[next_Step]

30 views and not one response. Does anyone here know about this process?

 

[AMB]

The "interview time and date" isn't really an interview- it's actually called a "landing appointment". You'll get a letter from the local CIC office giving you more details about what you need to bring (most likely, immigration-sized photos for the PR card, ID, travel document and Right of Permanent Residence fee, if you haven't paid that yet).

When you go in, they'll just ask a couple questions like if there's been any criminality since the time of the application, is the address correct, and then they'll outline the "rights and responsibilities" of being a Permanent Resident. You WON'T get the PR card at this time, the officer will send away for it, and you'll most likely receive it in the mail 4-6 weeks from the time of the landing appointment.

I don't know how long it will take for you to hear from the local office- it it's a busy office, similar to Toronto, ON, it could be months. Here in Niagara Falls, we received our landing letter from the local office BEFORE we got the letter from CPC Vegreville saying the application was completed (super fast!). My husband landed exactly one month from the date of the letter from CPC.

You could try calling the local office to ask them, generally, how long it takes from the time the application is completed to the time you get the letter from them.

Good luck, and congratulations on completing the process!

 

[next_Step]

Thank you kindly

 

[rich_m0nd]

hi next step,

was there an interview done with your application? what kind of documents did you give them? i have provided as much as i can and i'm wondering if there's still more that i need to give. i've paid everything already.

hi AMB, maybe you know. help please

 

[AMB]

richmond-

If you provided all the documents requested in the Document Checklist, along with all the relationship proof asked for in the sponsored person's questionnaire, you most likely won't have an interview (if the officer can see the relationship is the real deal).

Things that most people send as proof of relationship: pictures, communications like email, letters & phone bills, proof of trips you've gone on together, passport stamps and tickets when you've visited each other in your home countries, joint leases or mortgages, joint bank accounts, joint insurance, listing of spouse as beneficiary on life insurance, statutory declarations, or letters of support from family and friends, birth certificates from the kids you've had together and more. If you have a good handful of this stuff, you will be fine.

In my experience, the majority of in-land sponsorships don't require an interview.

 

[next_Step]

Thank you kindly

Thanks, Here in Vancouver there is no number you can call to ask questions except for the call centre and as my experience tells me, you can't believe anyhting the calls centre tells you, since they don't really know what is happening with your file. They probably read the same stuff you do on E-cas and try to interpret what it says.

 

[rich_m0nd]

Hi AMB,


well i have not provided most of those list that you gave me. it's just pictures and car insurance and others. for the joint account and the mortgage i didn't provide. the house is under her and her mom's name. we'll be having some joint account soon. i think she had a miscariage. well the doctor thinks she might had. it's just some proof i can't provide cause we don't have it. we're very new in our relationship not even a year. if you can tell me more what i need to do and if i can send more things to follow.

 

[AMB]

Richmond-

The list I gave is just an example of what you could send. If you have all- wow, great. If not, you should just send as much of what you do have from the list. If you feel unsure of what you sent, you can continue to send more proof (like joint accounts you said you were getting etc, letters from friends saying they know of your relationship).

If you send more evidence, make sure you accompany it with a letter saying your full names, dates of birth (for sponsor and applicant), the date you sent the application and your client ID (if you have one already). That will help them "marry" the information with the file.

 

[rich_m0nd]

thanks AMB. so much