Hello Everyone,
I am a Canadian national. My wife and I have had a horrible experience with immigration.
We submitted our application March 17th, 2017. Everything was a disaster and delayed from there, full of technical errors.
We were unable to link our application online due to technical errors with the system (still unable to and have had no help from the CIC, despite many communications).
My sponsorship was approved very quickly and the papers were transferred to Manila within weeks of applying.
Now here we are, still waiting, while I see others who submitted well after us have already been approved. This is very discouraging.
Our most recent development is that we received an email inviting my wife to avail of pre-arrival services. That was already a month ago, (October 27) and we still have yet to receive the PPR. I am wondering, is this common? Does anyone know of other cases like this and how long it takes for the PPR to arrive?
This is horrible. I have to work both of our jobs here in Canada because I can not find a Canadian qualified enough to do her work. So I've been going non-stop for 8 months now. 7 days a week, 10 - 14 hours a day. Madness. I feel totally abused by the system. We have been together 4 years. We lived together that entire time. Very difficult.