Interview- Inland spousal sponsorship

[gigi1612]

For those who already had the interview i would like to ask them if they can share their experience. What questions were asked? How long it took? Was it together or separate?

It would be highly appreciated.

 

[gigi1612]

We have a list of questions for inland spousal sponsorship (common-law relationship). We were hoping somebody can add some more base on their own experience.

1. When and where did you meet your spouse for the first time?

2. How did you meet your spouse?

3. What first attracted you to him?

4. What first attracted him to you?

5. When did you start dating?

6. What did you do on your first date?

7. Where did you go on your first date?

8.How long did you date before you decide to live together?

9.When did you decide to live together? When and where did the living together proposal take place?

10. How old is your spouse? What is your spouse's birth date?

11. What does your spouse do for a living? Where does your spouse work?

12. Where did your spouse go to school?

13. What degrees or formal training does your spouse have?

14. How did your spouse immigrate to Canada?

15. What are his/her work hours? What are his/her days off?

16. What is the name of the company? What position does your spouse hold? How long has your spouse worked there?

17. What time does she/he leave in the morning for work?

18. Does your spouse like his or her job?

19. What is his/her salary? What is his/her telephone number at work?

20. Do you still live with your spouse?

21. Please explain the type of relationship you have had since your first meeting.
22. What is your religion?

23. What is the religion of your spouse?

24. When you and your spouse were dating what would you do together?

25. Do you remmenber las saturday? (or last Friday, or last day oof together, etc)

26. Did you spend it together? (if not, last day you spent together was?)

27. Who got up first that day?

28. Who made breakfast?

29. What did you both have for breakfast?

30. Where did you go/what happended, etc.

31. Then what did you both do?

32. Where did you go eat lunch?

33. If at home, who made lunch?

34. Then what did you do?

35. If went shopping, what did you buy? What did him/her buy?

36. Who cooked dinner?

37. What did you have for dinner?

38. Then what did you do?

39. Who went to bed first?

40. What time?

41. When is his/her birthday?

42. What did you give him/her on his/her birthday?
43. What did your spouse give you on your birthday?

44. Did you spend Christmas/Hannakan/Eid, or other recent holiday together?

45. What did your spouse give you on that holiday?

46. What did you give your spouse?

47. When was the last vacation together? Where did you go?


48. What did you do on your vacation?

49. Did you or your spouse go to work yesterday? If so, at what time did you and/or your spouse leave the house and return?

50. Do you have any hobbies? Describe them. Does your spouse have any hobbies? Describe them.

51. What type of music do you enjoy? What type of music does your spouse enjoy?

52. What kind of movies do you enjoy? What kind of movies does your spouse enjoy?

53. Who cooks the the meals at home?

54. What is your spouse favorite food? What is your favorite food?

55. Does your spouse drink coffee? If so, does he or she use cream and/or sugar?

56. What kind of books do you read?

57. What kind of books does your spouse read?

58. Have you and your spouse ever exchanged gifts? Explain.

59. How many brothers and sisters does your spouse have?

60. Are your parents aware of your relationship? If not, why not?

61. Are his/her parents aware of your relationship? If not, why not?

62. Can you show me pictures and receipts from the last family function/holiday/day off you whnere together?

63. Have you or your spouse been married before?

64. Why was that relationship dissolved?

65. Do you have any children from your current relationship or marriage?

66. Do any other family members reside with you and your spouse? If yes, please indicate their names and relationship.

67. What relatives do you have in Canada?

68. What are their names and where do they live?

69. What relatives do you have outside of Canada?

70. Has your spouse met any of your relatives or friends? Who have they met and when did they meet them?

71. Have you met any of your spouse's relatives or friends? Whom have you met and when did you meet them?

72. In terms of education, would you say that you and your spouse's educational background are compatible?

73. What will you do when you go to Canada'?

74. Why did you decide to enter in a common-law relationship with your spouse?

75. Do your family members (parents, siblings) want to immigrate to Canada?

76. Did you marry your spouse so that you could sponsor your parents as landed immigrants of Canada?

77. Tell me why this marriage or relationship is genuine.

78. What makes your relationship with your spouse different from that of a female/male friend?

79. Does your spouse support you financially?

80. Do you support your spouse financially?

81. How many bedrroms are in your house? How many washrooms?

82. How many other rooms?

83. Who lives with you?

84. Do you have any pets? What kind, what are their names, and describe them?

85. Who lives with you?

86. How many televions are in your house?

87. Where are they located?

88. What side of the bed do you sleep on?

89. Do you have furniture in your bedroom? What?

90. Where is it located in the bedroom?

91. What type of floor is in your bedroom?

92. Where do you keep your clothes? Where does your spouse keep his/her clothes? Where are the bathrooms towels kept? Where do you keep the dirty clothes?

93. Where is the garbage kept in the kitchen?

94. On what day of the week is the garbage picked up?

95. Where do you shop for groceries? Do you go together with your spouse? How do you get there?

96. At what time did you go to bed? Who went first?

97. Did you have air conditiong or heater on?
98. Who woke up first this morning? Did an alarm clock go off?

99. Did your spouse take a shower?

100. Did you come to the interview together? Who drove/

101. Did you have breakfast? Where and what did you eat?

102. Does you husband wear boxes or briefs?

103. Do you brush your teeth before or after breakfast?

104. Does you brush her teeth before or after breakfast?

105. What kind of cologne do you use?

106. What kind does your spouse use?

107. Where do you have your hair cut?

108. Where does you spouse?

109. Where is your major scar?

110. What was its cause?

111. Where is your spouse major scar?

112. What was its cause?

113. Do you take any medication? What?

114. Does your spouse take any medication, and if so what?

115. Who is your doctor?

116. Who is your spouse doctor?

117. When is the last time you went out with your best friend?

118. Who is your spouse best friend?

119. Whe is the time your spouse went outwith her best friend?

120. Do you own your house or rent?

121. How much is the rent/ mortgage?

122. What is the day the rent/mortgage gets paid?

123. How much was your last hydro bill?

124. What is your favorite hobby?

125. What is your spouse favorite hobby?

126. What are the names of your spouse’s parents?

127. Where do they live?

128. Have you met them? When and where?

129. When was the las time you talked to them?

130. How many siblings does your spouse have?

131. Have you met any of them? Which ones/

132. What is the favorite food/dish that your spouse makes?

133. What is your spouse’s favorite food/dish that you make?

134. Do you have any car together?

135. What kind of car(s) do you own?

136. Do you have a bank account together? Where? What kind of bank account? (checking, savings).

137. Are you both listed on the account?

138. Did you file a joint tax return this year? Do you have a copy of it?

139. Do you own propoerty together? What property? Did you bring copies of the documents with you?

140. Do you have an insurance policy listing your spouse as beneficiary? If so, do you have a copy?

141. Have you taken any trips or vacations together? Do you have photos from these trips?

142. Do you have any utility bills, or ceipts from items you have purchased together?

143. What other documentation do you have to show that you are living as husband an wife?

144. Did you and the sponsor attend any weddings or functions together?

145. When was the last time you and your spouse had intimacy?

146. Do you use any birth control? If so, Which one?

147. What is your favorite color? What is his/her?

148. What was his/her favorite suject in school?

149. What was his/her favorite toy or game as a child?

150. What song would remind him/her of your relationship?

151. What would he/she say is his/her best skill?

152. What is his/ her favorite?

a) Movie
b) Song
c) Singer
d) Actor/Actress
e) T.V. Show
f) Color
g) Car
h) Neigborhood
i) Food
j) Sport
k) Radio station

153. If I refuse this application w hat will you do?

 

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Here is how it all went:

Both my wife and I were requested to be at the interview for those who don't know me I'm the sponsor. Knowing that we have an interview and after getting help from the wonderful people on here I started putting together a binder that had all the proof of our relationship I made sure it was neat and tidy , I had a lot of pictures developed at Wal-Mart about 75 before marriage and 84 after. We got there about an hour and 15 min earlier we waited until it was about 8:10 in the morning that's when the officer cam out and called my wife's name offcourse we were nervous and stressed out but my first impression of the officer was that she was ok and didn't seem to be too grumpy we all went into the booth together where she sat down behind a computer and introduced herself than she began gathering all the information and proof that we had put together By the time she was done with the papers she started browsing through the pictures she asked my wife a couple of questions about the pictures the questions were:

Who are those people in this pic?
where was this?

There weren't too many questions though, after that she said ok now Im going to start asking questions about your relationship but I'm not sure if I'm going to separate you.(I think by the time she went through the proof I had prepared she was 95% sure that our marriage is real) she didn't ask too many questions here are some of which I remember:

Where and when did you meet? And how did your relationship develop?
Do any of you have any scars or birth marks?
What are your plans for the future?

We answered those questions together sometimes I would ask her if she wanted me to answer or my wife and her response was that it doesn't matter so we were comfortable first that we were together and second because the officer was great! After she was done she went to make a couple of copies of some of my wife's ID and of the marriage licence (I forgot to include a copy but I had the originals with me).

When she came back I had a little box of collectables from our relationship I have collected them back from university when our relationship first started (I'm not a psycho but we were madly in love) in the box I had tissues that had different scents of perfume that my wife used I had a paper which had a drawing of her hand , lipstick, parts of paper cups that had marks that were made by her lipstick and a piece of her hair an so on....

The officer smiled when I was showing her the collectables and asked to see some of the stuff after that she said I would like to inform you that I will be granting you AIP and you will be receiving a letter with in two weeks. hats when a big smile drew over our faces and I felt a strange feeling in my chest that feeling was slowly creeping to my legs (I wanted to get out of there before I start jumping up and down like an idiot)
She escorted us out I think i said a million thankyous along the way !!And that was it I know were not done yet but it was a big relief and also a very important step in our process.



Check out this thread :

http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/-t12122.0.html

 

[gigi1612]

Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer my post material.

We hope we get a nice officer. We are a little worried.

 

[gigi1612]

Here is how it all went:

Both my wife and I were requested to be at the interview for those who don't know me I'm the sponsor. Knowing that we have an interview and after getting help from the wonderful people on here I started putting together a binder that had all the proof of our relationship I made sure it was neat and tidy , I had a lot of pictures developed at Wal-Mart about 75 before marriage and 84 after. We got there about an hour and 15 min earlier we waited until it was about 8:10 in the morning that's when the officer cam out and called my wife's name offcourse we were nervous and stressed out but my first impression of the officer was that she was ok and didn't seem to be too grumpy we all went into the booth together where she sat down behind a computer and introduced herself than she began gathering all the information and proof that we had put together By the time she was done with the papers she started browsing through the pictures she asked my wife a couple of questions about the pictures the questions were:

Who are those people in this pic?

where was this?

There weren't too many questions though, after that she said ok now Im going to start asking questions about your relationship but I'm not sure if I'm going to separate you.(I think by the time she went through the proof I had prepared she was 95% sure that our marriage is real) she didn't ask too many questions here are some of which I remember:

Where and when did you meet? And how did your relationship develop?
Do any of you have any scars or birth marks?
What are your plans for the future?

We answered those questions together sometimes I would ask her if she wanted me to answer or my wife and her response was that it doesn't matter so we were comfortable first that we were together and second because the officer was great! After she was done she went to make a couple of copies of some of my wife's ID and of the marriage licence (I forgot to include a copy but I had the originals with me).

When she came back I had a little box of collectables from our relationship I have collected them back from university when our relationship first started (I'm not a psycho but we were madly in love) in the box I had tissues that had different scents of perfume that my wife used I had a paper which had a drawing of her hand , lipstick, parts of paper cups that had marks that were made by her lipstick and a piece of her hair an so on....

The officer smiled when I was showing her the collectables and asked to see some of the stuff after that she said I would like to inform you that I will be granting you AIP and you will be receiving a letter with in two weeks. hats when a big smile drew over our faces and I felt a strange feeling in my chest that feeling was slowly creeping to my legs (I wanted to get out of there before I start jumping up and down like an idiot)
She escorted us out I think i said a million thankyous along the way !!And that was it I know were not done yet but it was a big relief and also a very important step in our process.



Check out this thread :

http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/-t12122.0.html

Which local office did you attend for the interview?

 

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Which local office did you attend for the interview?

Hey

I was at the Etobicoke office where is yours?

 

[gigi1612]

Is at Scarborough office. I read this is one of the slowest. By the time we get the interview it will 2 years exactly since we submitted our application, but a least we finally got a date for the so loooooong awaited interview.

 

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Is at Scarborough office. I read this is one of the slowest. By the time we get the interview it will 2 years exactly since we submitted our application, but a least we finally got a date for the so loooooong awaited interview.

When did you submit your app ? and when is your interview? I sent my app in aug 2009 I recieved AIP after the interview. it has been a long wait for me.

 

[gigi1612]

When did you submit your app ? and when is your interview? I sent my app in aug 2009 I recieved AIP after the interview. it has been a long wait for me.

We sent our application on april 20, 2009 and our interview it's been scheduled for april 12, 2011 at 9:30am. We are planing on post all the questions here to help other member of this forum.

Hopefully we get a positive outcome.

I've been reading several post and seems to me the time frame for the landing interview after the AIP is somewhere between 6-9 months. Hang in there, you are more that half of the road...let me know when you get your landing interview date. That will be just a formality. Maybe 3 questions, about 10-15 minutes all together and that's it, you will here the magic words:

Congratulations you are a landed immigrant now.


Cheers!!!

 

[Material]

We sent our application on april 20, 2009 and our interview it's been scheduled for april 12, 2011 at 9:30am. We are planing on post all the questions here to help other member of this forum.

Hopefully we get a positive outcome.

I've been reading several post and seems to me the time frame for the landing interview after the AIP is somewhere between 6-9 months. Hang in there, you are more that half of the road...let me know when you get your landing interview date. That will be just a formality. Maybe 3 questions, about 10-15 minutes all together and that's it, you will here the magic words:

Congratulations you are a landed immigrant now.


Cheers!!!

Wow...I was feeling left out everybody is getting their PR in the normal processing times.

My wife is the actual aplicant for PR ..thank you hope that your interview will go well my advice is gather as much proof of your relationship as possible and put it together in an organized way trust me this will help a lot !! dont worry Im sure you will be fine

I just hope that the landing interview doesnt take as long.....

 

[potcakes]

All we got asked was where did we meet, why Canada. After that it was form filling, and her explaining about the system (which would have been more useful prior to us applying !) Dont over practise they can sense a staged performance a mile off. We went in to the interview together which was nice. We left with an info binder on the best place to learn English :, and a welcome to Sudbury pen All in all a bit of an anti climax!

 

[gigi1612]

All we got asked was where did we meet, why Canada. After that it was form filling, and her explaining about the system (which would have been more useful prior to us applying !) Dont over practise they can sense a staged performance a mile off. We went in to the interview together which was nice. We left with an info binder on the best place to learn English :, and a welcome to Sudbury pen All in all a bit of an anti climax!

I'm glad your interview was so easy and you guys got approved. Thank you for sharing your story, and yes you're right if we over practice the questions it may look stage.

We have been together for almost four years, so i keep telling him, we'll be alright, but i guess he is more anxious than me.

Thanks again for sharing your story, and let's hope that the landing interview date come soon for everybody who is already waiting for it.