Hello,
I'm a Canadian citizen sponsoring my common-law partner under family class sponsorship INLAND. Our app was filed early 2016. We have passed everything from Medical, Criminal, Sponsor Approved letter, Applicant approved letter, DM letter and Landing Interview Invitation letter for next week. However, the process typically takes a long time inland and legal status can sometimes expire. We applied while my partner was still legal status and held a holiday working visa at the time and also applied for OWP.
The Vegreville, AB work permit office was a huge headache because they sent a refusal letter to the wrong person and we were notified many months later about how they made the mistake and things got lost. Immediately upon receiving the OWP refusal letter my partner quit working (my partner was legally allowed to continue working under implied status until we received our OWP letter). Reason behind OWP refusal was due to unfortunate timing with sending the OWP app and PR app around the same time via the mail and when Vegreville received our OWP app, at that point our PR app was mailed back to us with instructions to sign one form that we did not sign because it didn't apply to us and nothing needed to be filled in for that particular page (we fixed the mistake and sent back to the processing centre the same day express post), we assumed it didn't have to be signed, but they requested us to sign it.
As you can see, we unfortunately have a unusual case.
Everything has passed and we've followed the rules, its just been unlucky with the OWP situation. We were going to reapply for OWP and called CIC before hand to confirm, but they advised us to just wait until PR is complete as we were already so far into the process and had many stages approved at that point.
Please, does anyone have any advice or experience? I'm hoping everything will be okay and the interview will be just standard. At this point the government has spent so much time and money on the app, I can't see why they would say no at this point during an interview solely based off of status. We had no choice, but to remain in Canada because if my partner left, the inland app would be automatically cancelled... I truly hope the CIC agent during our interview will be able to understand this unique situation and have sympathy.
My biggest worry is during the interview is when they open my partners passport and write "VOID" on the expired work visa(remember, it was still legal and active at the time of applying) they may notice the dates on it and ask more questions.
I can't properly sleep because of this stress. We just want the process to be done/approved like everyone else and move on in life. Are we going to be okay? We have all our letter and paperwork for proof of Vegrevilles mistake and recorded our entire process.
Also, for 2017 inland family class landing interviews that had recent experiences to share?
Thank you to everyone taking the time to read/help.
I'm a Canadian citizen sponsoring my common-law partner under family class sponsorship INLAND. Our app was filed early 2016. We have passed everything from Medical, Criminal, Sponsor Approved letter, Applicant approved letter, DM letter and Landing Interview Invitation letter for next week. However, the process typically takes a long time inland and legal status can sometimes expire. We applied while my partner was still legal status and held a holiday working visa at the time and also applied for OWP.
The Vegreville, AB work permit office was a huge headache because they sent a refusal letter to the wrong person and we were notified many months later about how they made the mistake and things got lost. Immediately upon receiving the OWP refusal letter my partner quit working (my partner was legally allowed to continue working under implied status until we received our OWP letter). Reason behind OWP refusal was due to unfortunate timing with sending the OWP app and PR app around the same time via the mail and when Vegreville received our OWP app, at that point our PR app was mailed back to us with instructions to sign one form that we did not sign because it didn't apply to us and nothing needed to be filled in for that particular page (we fixed the mistake and sent back to the processing centre the same day express post), we assumed it didn't have to be signed, but they requested us to sign it.
As you can see, we unfortunately have a unusual case.
Everything has passed and we've followed the rules, its just been unlucky with the OWP situation. We were going to reapply for OWP and called CIC before hand to confirm, but they advised us to just wait until PR is complete as we were already so far into the process and had many stages approved at that point.
Please, does anyone have any advice or experience? I'm hoping everything will be okay and the interview will be just standard. At this point the government has spent so much time and money on the app, I can't see why they would say no at this point during an interview solely based off of status. We had no choice, but to remain in Canada because if my partner left, the inland app would be automatically cancelled... I truly hope the CIC agent during our interview will be able to understand this unique situation and have sympathy.
My biggest worry is during the interview is when they open my partners passport and write "VOID" on the expired work visa(remember, it was still legal and active at the time of applying) they may notice the dates on it and ask more questions.
I can't properly sleep because of this stress. We just want the process to be done/approved like everyone else and move on in life. Are we going to be okay? We have all our letter and paperwork for proof of Vegrevilles mistake and recorded our entire process.
Also, for 2017 inland family class landing interviews that had recent experiences to share?
Thank you to everyone taking the time to read/help.
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