Hi all, after using this site many times throughout our entire process, I have finally hit a speed bump that I could not find any solution to and therefore I am making my first post!
My wife has sponsored me for PR - we sent our application off in March 2015 under common law but have since been married and have updated our application.
We applied from outside of Canada as we are both living in the Cayman Islands, sent our paperwork off to Mississauga and had her approved as the sponsor. We had been told that my paperwork would be sent off to Jamaica, but upon seeing the processing times were huge (29months), we requested they be sent to London, England as that is where I am from and at the time, their processing times were less (19 months originally but jumped to 28months after we sent off our paperwork).
After my wife was approved as a sponsor, they sent our application to Ottawa instead of London to our surprise, as this had a much shorter processing time (17months) giving us an estimated hearing date of October 2016.
On Friday evening(13/11/2015), we received an email requesting my passport be sent to Trinidad & Tobago and upon checking our application status online, it now states Decision Made!!
This is obviously amazing news and came at such a shock coming in 1 whole year earlier than expected, but now puts us in a sticky situation!
We are leaving our home of the Cayman Islands permanently on December 17th, flying to Toronto for a few days before flying to England and then onto Spain to do some traveling for a few months. All of our flights and travel arrangements have already been made and I am concerned that I will not receive my passport back in time for our departure in 4.5 weeks time.
Also, I just got my passport out ready to send off first thing Monday morning and realised that I do not have two blank pages as they have requested, I only have one empty page left!
Help!!? :-X
My wife has sponsored me for PR - we sent our application off in March 2015 under common law but have since been married and have updated our application.
We applied from outside of Canada as we are both living in the Cayman Islands, sent our paperwork off to Mississauga and had her approved as the sponsor. We had been told that my paperwork would be sent off to Jamaica, but upon seeing the processing times were huge (29months), we requested they be sent to London, England as that is where I am from and at the time, their processing times were less (19 months originally but jumped to 28months after we sent off our paperwork).
After my wife was approved as a sponsor, they sent our application to Ottawa instead of London to our surprise, as this had a much shorter processing time (17months) giving us an estimated hearing date of October 2016.
On Friday evening(13/11/2015), we received an email requesting my passport be sent to Trinidad & Tobago and upon checking our application status online, it now states Decision Made!!
This is obviously amazing news and came at such a shock coming in 1 whole year earlier than expected, but now puts us in a sticky situation!
We are leaving our home of the Cayman Islands permanently on December 17th, flying to Toronto for a few days before flying to England and then onto Spain to do some traveling for a few months. All of our flights and travel arrangements have already been made and I am concerned that I will not receive my passport back in time for our departure in 4.5 weeks time.
Also, I just got my passport out ready to send off first thing Monday morning and realised that I do not have two blank pages as they have requested, I only have one empty page left!
Help!!? :-X
