Hi everyone. Its good to find a site like this. I recently got married and I need some answers to some questions. I hope I can get some help.
Congrats on getting married - we will do everything possible to make sure that you are 100% ready to send off your application complete! FYI I am in Canada and I sponsored my husband from Jamaica who is now with me.
(1) We had applied for the Option C in october and they said that we would get it six(6) weeks time and that would be in November. The thing is we are not sending in our application until about February 2010. If we get the Option C for 2008 can that still be use or do we have to apply for the 2009 one. How soon can we apply for it.
Well since you will be sending off your package before the taxes are due for 2009 (April 30, 2010) your 2008 calandar year option c is fine - I am assuming that if you call up and ask rev. canada for a new option C print out in January it will be the same as the one you have now. someone correct me if I am wrong please. I had the same issue because I applied March 2009 before I did my 2008 year taxes. I also sent in my T4 slip for the same calandar year (not manditory)
(2) My daughter who is 18 years will also be accompanying me. Do I have to wait until I get her information before sending in the application. How soon should we do the police clearance and medical?
Yes, you need to wait until you have ALL information for you and your daughter before sending in the package. Your medical is only valid for 1 year and must be done by a DMP - if your medical expieres you have to re-do them and that process can add months on to your time line- make sure he is on the list provided by CIC (let me know if you need the link) there has been cases of ginal doctors saying that can do this medical and are not Designated. Make sure to do the medical as close to sending off the package as possible. I sent hubby to do his in Febraury sent off package in March - make it the last thing you do. Police clearnace has to be done within 3 months PRIOR to sending the package in. Again make it one of the last things you do before sending in the package. Make sure to follow the exact procedure outlined by cic.
(3) How can we get a printout from the telephone company for all incoming/outgoing calls?
Many of us didnt send in phone bills. I got my phone company (which I had to pay for)- to send me a print out of all long distance calls I made and for roaming calls (calls that i made while in JA)for the past year. This helped prove that i did infact call his number and that i was billed for calls that i made in JA the same day(s) i claimed to be in JA for. Anyone in JA knows that JA has the best over sea calling so 99% of calls are made from JA to Canada - my phone bill was very small concidering I never called JA too tough.
Some have been able to retrieve phone bills from Digicel and other companies in JA but it can be a real difficult to obtain. Phone cards are no longer accepted. People also send in copies of "chat pages" if you talk on the internet such as MSN or YAHOO messenger.
(4) When my husband is requesting his employment letter to whom should it be addressed?
Letter can be address to whom it may concern - this way he can use it for any other matter / reference as well -just take a photocopy. make sure it lists how much money he made and how many hours per week and if its full time or not. My letter was not a character letter at all (didnt talk about if i was a good worker or not).
(5) Also who should the letters that my husband and I friends/relatives address their letters to and what should it entails?
Again, address it to whom it may concern. All of my letters I provided were different - Hubbies parents wrote things such as when they met me for the first time, spoke about our wedding, how hubby would talk to me on the phone every night and that they were aware of our relationship and how they support it and how i visted them when i visited my hubby. My moms letter spoke about when i told her about my relationship and that she watched it devoloped and said some nice things about me and somet nice things about him and how we are compatable and how she welcomes my hubby into the family and how she cant wait for him to be here. My friends were more detailed, one spoke about how she was there when I met hubby, how she has never seen me so in love, talked about the times she came to JA with me and my wedding and his family and friends and places we went all together. My other friend was strait to the point basically saying that she has always known about the relatinonship, she supports it, and she vouches that its 100% bonifide. They all copied their passports with pic and stamp to JA and attached it to the letters (this way they can put a face to the name and letter and also see them at the pictures of my wedding) They left their contact information and all said feel free to contact me for further information. I also wrote a letter myself describing my situation since I thought I had a lot to prove since me and hubby always lived in different countries so I wanted there to be no room for a questioned asked by the immigration officer (IO)- I covered everything from the time I first saw him to the last time I saw him and how i just wanted to be with my hubby so that we can live out our dreams and have a beautiful family.
I don't want to make an unnecessary mistakes. Please help me.
Feel free to ask away...we will make sure your application is as mistake free as possible. My file was very strait forward. Married my husband in January 2009 after dating 2 years and applied in March. Kingston received my file in April and my husband arrived in Canada 7 months and 2 days later (7 months is 30% of cases). My husband had never left Jamaica before and we have no children and have never been married before.
Have you or your child ever lived in another country before? No ciminal record on either side (even as a yout)?
..want to send off a few things to JA. 
drives me crazy. I say hey I dont work there at IMM so why you asking me what they are doing etc. A big bone of contention I must say. 
