Police Clearence/Medical Exam issues

[tabasco73]

Okay, a little about my situation,


Application:
"Spousal sponsorship" transferred over to Humanitarian and Compassionate grounds

Application Status:
Approval in Principle

Current Residential Status in Canada:
Visitor (In Canada)with a work permit valid til Oct,2008

Okay, here's my situation I am immigrating here with my son and I have a Canadian citizen daughter.
last year, Dec, 2006 my immigration officer contacted me with additional forms that were needed to finish processing my application. She allowed me to have them submitted by Feb, of 2007 All document were submitted by the time. After that my officer stopped communicating with me she did not return my faxes or phone calls. In May( mind you i was STILL trying to get a responce from her) I received a letter from immigration in vegreville telling me there was something missing from my son's Medical exam so i brought him back and coughed up and additional 150$CAD(Why Vegreville? My immigration Officer said she would finish the process in Calgary) for the missing info(a mistake from the Dr's office not mine.) I then waited to hear from them, i did not hear from them again til Nov,14th stating the police clearance I gave them, was the wrong police authorities, And finally they gave me the address and phone number(wrong phone number btw) in which to request the certificate. They waited almost 11months....to tell me this and then gave me sixty days to fix it. On top of it now mine and my son's medicals have expired and we have to go through the process yet again!!! At this point I am thinking that i may need a lawyer. This should have been finished last year...why am in this boat now? these problems are not of my control. Am I missing something here? am I in the wrong here and I just don't see it?

 

[thaiguy]

Just a couple of notes..

1. Immigration officials are human. They deal with thousands of applications and probably look more favorably on the ones that don't give them problems. The CIC website states clearly that you should not contact them unnecessarily for updates. So it's possible you upset someone early on with your faxes and phone calls.

2. Application processing is a 'hurry-up-and-wait' situation. Most of what you see is infrequent requests for documents, infrequent communication, etc. What the immigration officer sees is a pile of applications which they try to go through as efficiently as possible, separated by long waits for applicants to provide the documents that are requested. When those documents arrive, they are put in queue along with the rest of the immigration officer's work - making it seems like they're not being processed. But actually, you're just waiting your turn.

So your long wait is probably a result of several factors. It may not be your fault that you sent the wrong police certificate or that the medicals expired. But it's also not CIC's fault. They have to work within guidelines, too.

In the end, you'll be better off if you relax.

 

[DancingFeather]

`Hi, I received your e-mail and I am glad my advice helped you. Don't worry you will get your humantarian because if they gave you the 700$ as you mentioned its because they believed you and not your husband neither your father and a father that goes against his child is not well looked at and immigration has seen it all and has seen through what these men who are supposed to protect you..didn't.

I am glad you have your own appartement and do stay clear of your husband. If he was able to do what he did, you don't know what he will do next, especially once you find yourself another man. Never in any circumstances let him into your house..don't think for a minute that you are *friends* as you say..I wouldn't ever be able to respect or be friends with a husband who did all to deport me and take my child. Trust me..he isn't to be trusted. Live as far away as you can so he doesn't know what you are doing and make sure your daughter doesn't tell him what is going on in your life..tell her to say to him that if he wants to know ..to ask you..and not to make her the informer..that she says that it is his problem and not to make it hers. This is a good way to protect both of you..but keep your red light on in your head all the time..it isn't over yet..he still thinks you will be deported and I wouldn't be surprised if he isn't cooking something. I could never forgive my father either for doing what he did..a parent..no matter what never goes against his child, especially he knows in his heart that you are not what your husband said..I would have kicked anyone out of the house that came to talk against my child..especially with no proof.

Keep me posted..and with all you went through I am sure you will get it..besides if your husband is *such* a friend then he should go and say that he lied.... test him..you will see that he isn't..your friend.

 

[tabasco73]

Just a couple of notes..

1. Immigration officials are human. They deal with thousands of applications and probably look more favorably on the ones that don't give them problems. The CIC website states clearly that you should not contact them unnecessarily for updates. So it's possible you upset someone early on with your faxes and phone calls.

2. Application processing is a 'hurry-up-and-wait' situation. Most of what you see is infrequent requests for documents, infrequent communication, etc. What the immigration officer sees is a pile of applications which they try to go through as efficiently as possible, separated by long waits for applicants to provide the documents that are requested. When those documents arrive, they are put in queue along with the rest of the immigration officer's work - making it seems like they're not being processed. But actually, you're just waiting your turn.

So your long wait is probably a result of several factors. It may not be your fault that you sent the wrong police certificate or that the medicals expired. But it's also not CIC's fault. They have to work within guidelines, too.

In the end, you'll be better off if you relax.

I understand that they are human. But my officer gave me her Fax and Work# and ASKED me to contact her once I had all the documents. She said they were going to give me an answer once the documents were submitted. She and I talked several times on the phone. so any calls or faxes she received from me were of her request, nothing more than that. I have been going through this process now for 5 years......5 years waiting for this and she told me I'd have my answer once the documents were in, not in a little while she said they were "ready to give me an answer" and thats a direct quote. and theres the issue of my son's medical this will be my 3RD time going to this clinic to get "missing info" nothing about mine, mine was fine but 3x for my son? mind you these Dr's or at least the one my son saw keeps a immigration guideline in his office for what required for certain age groups. But i have to keep going back to this doctor and he keeps charging for every time i come back for "missing info".

I was on a spousal sponsorship, but I fled my home due to domestic violence, Now i am a single mom, one child a Canadian citizen(4years of age court ordered to only reside in Calgary hence Humanitarian and Compassionate grounds) the other (13 and a American) I have a work visa, I'm working mon-fri 7am-3:30pm as a cabinetmaker's apprentice I work hard for my kids, its scarey to this i might be ripped away from my daughter due to circumstaces beyond my control. If i can't find a way to contact immigration and say "Hello we got a situation here." where do i go? doesn't anyone have a direction to point me in? or maybe a "Don't worry in your cirumstance they will probably do what they can to make sure your family stays together. They wouldn't just rip you away like that if you are working with them to get the documents they are asking for. " really I just need some reassurence.

 

[thaiguy]

I think it's very unlikely that they could deport you. If they say that, you should immediately see a lawyer. When you're talking about small children and government bureaucracies, public opinion has a lot of power, and a lawyer will be able to leverage that by going to the media. So don't worry, ok?

If at any time you think things are not going your way, you should consult a lawyer. But until then, as long as they let you stay in Canada and work, you should go along with the system.

Best of luck.