This probably isn't the right place to post this, so if there's a better thread, just let me know.
I'm getting really frustrated (nothing new with immigrating to any country, am I right?)
I'm Canadian (dual citizen of USA and Canada actually) and my wife is American. We decided to move to Canada last summer and I officially land in November with all of our possessions. We sent in our application (applying from outside Canada because my wife didn't join me in Canada)around the same time and CIC received it on November 16th, 2011. They started processing it in January. My wife did join me in January and immigration officer at the border gave her a 5 month visitors visa. The application was transferred to Washington in March. Since then we haven't heard a peep from CIC, the online status hasn't moved from "In Process". They've had her medical since they received the application. Now, I know that her being here probably complicated the process, but I don't know if they would have switched her application from applying outside of Canada (outbound?) to applying from within Canada.
Oh, and there's more to the story. Immigration gave her the 5 month visitor visa because we told them we had a wedding in the USA to attend in May. When we came back, the immigration officer gave her a 12 month visitor visa. We live in a border city and my wife was working in the US, she didn't have an issue going back and forth for over 2 months nearly 5 times a week, until one agent that was grumpy told her she needed to change her status. They made her officially land in Canada in the middle of August.
so to sum it all up, I'm not sure if we're still considered as applying from outside or inside Canada and what I should be expecting for processing times. The website tonight said 69 days for outside and 9 months for inside. Both of which I think we're over.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Dan
black friday has fantastic sales.... 