Thanks Nigea! and hello everyone!
I am glad to find a group of "2013 Inland Applicants". I am sponsoring my husband, who came to join me in September, 2012. We submitted our application on January 2nd, 2013, and was received on Jan 7, 2013. We received the email confirming (or acknowledging the receipt of our application) on February 3, 2013, with our file number.
I have a couple of questions, hope some of you can help me answer:
(1) Do you know how long it is taking to start processing the applications once they have been AORd?
(2) My husband has a multiple entry visa valid for 10 years, but I understand that for every "visitor entry" to the country, visitors can stay for 6 months only. Is that correct? if so, then I suppose we need to apply for an extension of his visitor´s visa, right? - we have done that this past January 24, 2013. Which leads me to my next question:
(3) What if (and I sure hope it isn´t the case) they end up declining the extension? would he have to go back to Mexico? can we somehow appeal that decision? and also, if he ends up having to go back to Mexico, does that mean we would have to re-submit our sponsorship application, as he would no longer be "inbound"?
I have noticed some people were wondering about how to go about some of the back up paper work for their visa extensions. What I did was to submit a copy of my last few paystubs, a copy of my bank account statement (which doesn´t have a ton of money, but enough to prove that we can both live with that), plus a letter from me stating that we have submitted our application for sponsorship, that I am supporting my husband financially, and also added a copy of the receipt of the fees we paid for the sponsorship application (we didn´t have a file number yet at that moment). I am hoping that this will suffice to have the extension approved.
All the best to everyone!!!
Paola
Category: Spouse
Visa office: Vegreville
App received: Jan 7, 2013
AOR: Feb 3, 2013
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