jiggyzealous said:
Thatgirl123
My friend is 24 yrs old. he did his medical and background check from last August in Jamaica because his mom is being sponsored inside canada and he's on her sponsorship. She landed like 2 weeks now and they said they will send to Jamaica to inform the embassy to issue their visas. Your step is a minor so they wont be doing any background check so it shoud be faster. I beleive that when you get AOR they should automatically send an OWP! Why wait until first stage approval. Because even if youre approved for first stage and fail second stagr ur application is f.......ed! Ao why not giving us now?
Its silly! My husband had a medical done before he got here and had a work permit (he was on a farm program fro 11 years) anyway......... there has been no change so they should (imo) just extend the existing work permit - but they don't. And cant use the same medical (that was still valid at the time we filed - altho it would be expired now) because we don't have a copy of it, it is with the laison office.
I sponsored someone 22 years ago, and it was not this difficult! We had an office right here in London. I went in and submitted the paperwork (which was only a couple of pages) and he got his work permit same time. It was not an "open" work permit, so he was not allowed to work around children or vulnerable people until he was cleared and landed, but it was much easier to address questions, etc with a real person in a real office, face to face.
My husband has another son who is 23, we couldn't add him to our sponsorship at this time because he is not a "dependant" . After things are all sorted out with my husband and his youngest, we will start an application for the oldest one (altho, he doesn't seem to have much interest in coming for any longer than a visit......... but maybe his mind will change in the future)
