PPR - you see the humour after the long struggle is done! At least I want to.
Posting not on behalf of a friend or his friend or my neighbour or his neighbour or my uncle’s aunt.
I would like to thank myself on this occasion.
Timelines:
WES: PA(wife) - completed in July 2018. Two or more degrees. Getting transcripts from IGNOU took forever. My WES was easier - Degree - Bangalore University.
IELTS - SIGH! I cleared first attempt - LRWS - 8.5/8/7/8. Spouse got stuck either in writing or speaking but after multiple attempts for 4 painful months she finally got the magic score - 8777.
While she wasn’t clearing IELTS our agent (kindly don’t ask their name etc) offered a job offer which would increase our points. We didn’t know if she would get the magic score so we took it without looking at any documents but before ITA we got the magic score. Anyway we thought we had now 50 points extra for job offer too - such fools were we!
CRS as per agent - 493. What we actually had - 443. Draw was 442 on 30th October.
Submitted all our documents to our agent.
ITA - 30 October 2018
AOR - 13 November 2018(PA’s very happy birthday falls on children’s day - 14 November)
Medicals cleared - 13 December 2018
FSWO INDIA - file was at Ottawa all along.
After that cic probably got a little upset and gave us the silent treatment. We tried so hard, sang songs - even from the 70’s, cracked jokes, called, made promises, said sorry, but all we got back was just silence.
And while we expected our Golden e mail fully diamond studded within 3 months, just like that 6 months passed.
I left my business mean while, my wife left her job - imagine the fun at home - two frustrated jobless people at each other all the time - such fun times, will miss it! SIGH SIGH!
7 months passed, cic still very quiet. Another problem - should we start our son’s school this year or not - fireworks at home regarding this decision - finally the PA won - kept him at school.
Asked my agent to order gcms - they refused. I did it on my own. Got it in June after 35 days. SHOCK - just like HAvells! No job offer!! And employment under review - file review required. So happy danced again.
Fired agent - hijacked my account. Thanks to this group - learnt how to do that.
Send a 46 page dossier as webform explaining her employment and also another one explaining a previous visa refusal that we had (USA) but had not mentioned - why? Cause our agent said not required.
Now we were prepared to sing and dance for 3 more months at least.
But all our singing and dancing didn’t go unnoticed by cic. A ghost danced with us on 18 July! Within 40 days file got approved and we received our PPR this morning (Tuesday, July 23) at 4.30 am ist.
We actually had to sing and dance a lot more but not mentioning it here, especially with our agent. Advice - don’t visit the agent’s disco. Dance on your own at home- it’s easy - you can do it.
So today we plan to dance our way to VFS.
Dancing for more than a year was exhausting, tiring , frustrating and the uncertainty was killing.
I understand the pain of all of you who are still dancing and singing, may it end soon.
Any dances classes/tips required by any of you, feel free to contact.
Please excuse my humour - but we needed it after all that.
Sorry and thank you.
