Well, well, well. My ol' friend Dadzin. Wanna get together in POS and have a major *censored word*-about-POS fest?
I have a similar situation to Dadzin. After months of hearing nothing from POS and being ignored continuously, while people who applied after me heard news on their application, I decided it was time to get my MP involved. She replied almost immediately and contacted POS the same day. Hours later, I receive an email from POS requesting an interview - October 24. The day before Dadzin. I agree, that if I hadn't gotten my MP involved, POS would have been happy to let my application rot without a thought about me or hubby at all. I was rather pi**ed off to say the least.
There had been nothing in my notes, however, about an interview. My MP told me that the only "little red flag" that the officer she spoke to could see on our file was that "additional proof of co-habitiation is required" since we applied common-law.
I'm a little lost for what else they expect from us, but I spoke to my landlady (at the time we lived together) and she has offered to write a letter on our behalf. With our original application, we included copies of our lease with both of our names on it showing we lived together for over a year, monthly rent receipts in both our names (over a years worth). We did not have any bills or anything because they are included in our rent (which I stated in the application and is clearly stated on our lease itself) and our apartment was furnished (hence no purchasing of items together for the apartment because they were already present). We also submitted a letter from our landlord the first time stating we lived together.
This time we are going to submit a new letter from our landlord with her stating that everything is included in our apartment (hence no bills) and she is going to get it signed by a Justice of Peace to prove its her. Her husband and our neighbour at the time are also going to submit letters that we lived together for that amount of time. I'm not sure what else to provide, given that we submitted TONS of letters and leases/receipts when we applied and they want additional proof.. what else IS there in a situation like this!? We submitted a couple pieces of mail (in each of our names) to the same address, but I didn't get much mail there because I was a student and all my bills went to my address in Canada and there were no bills, etc to arrive at the apartment (as above). So there were only a couple of those.
Anyway, so we've heard as well. Maybe not what we had hoped for, but news none-the-less. Thank goodness for MP's though, because as Dadzin said, these people are not held responsible for anything and who knows how long both of us would have wondered how our application was processing, when clearly it "wasn't" processing AT ALL.
@ Zouk, liquor request approved! lol
and I LITERALLY LOL'd at the IV of alcohol. Great minds think alike.
Thank you to everyone who has reached out to me lately.. I've been having a terrible time with all of this. I'm not happy about being called for an interview to provide the same proof again to these people.. but I'm happier to do that and be with hubby sooner instead of waiting and waiting while no one does anything (unless pressured by an MP, of course).
). Better that you are in T&T right now so you do not have to pay for all of those flights back and forth. Pretty annoying about the mess POS has made in your process though regarding the interview. Why would they need to interview a couple with your history and 2 kids? And after so long? I am glad that things are moving though so at least the immigration ride will soon be over. Blessings for your interview and landing.
