Smoothies....how the heck do I do this thread...much questions to come!!! :D

[SmoothiesQueen]

Please my head is spinning....I'm reading these pages of info and its all like a farrin language. I'm the Canadian, my husband is the Jamaican.

Here's what I have done.

- I've filled the papers out
- I've gotten five photos according to the specified special size done for the medical examiner, eight for the application
- I've gotten a letter from my employeers stating how my current position will change to the Canadian Branch vs the Jamaican when I go back to Canada. The letter states what my position and salary will be.
- I have a letter that states my current job and pay, and as it's a fairly new job I don't have a super long paper trail for it so I'm not sure if I need to provide anything else.

- My husband has a job offer and the company has sent him a letter offering employment and stating the specifics


Now here is my confusion. Please I know there is so much I can read but I need to hear this from people who've done the process...not long pages of explanations on the website that are making my head spin.

Because I live in Jamaica with my husband and have for several years...I have to prove reasonable plans to re-establish in Canada. Our plans was to stay with my parents while we search for a house to rent...after all its kinda hard to rent a house from abroad. Will that satisfy immigration?
What else should I be doing to show them my plans? And how do I present it to immgration??

Now how do I file??? Do I send everything together in one package....my husbands part of the package...mine...the financial sponsership etc....at the same time?

Do I have to send the financial first....the rest later???

I'm paying all my fees online at once...will this confuse immigration.

I'm so confused and stuck!!!!

Also because my job is new....what do I need to send with my financial sponsership to show them I'm capable??? I will have had the job just under six months when this is all filed. And do I send my job offer from Canada with my financial sponsership thing??

This is insanely confusing. Lawd a mercy....killlllll me now LOL
Thanks in advance for your help. I'm sure there is plenty of questions to come

 

[PMM]

Hi

Please my head is spinning....I'm reading these pages of info and its all like a farrin language. I'm the Canadian, my husband is the Jamaican.

Here's what I have done.

- I've filled the papers out
- I've gotten five photos according to the specified special size done for the medical examiner, eight for the application
- I've gotten a letter from my employeers stating how my current position will change to the Canadian Branch vs the Jamaican when I go back to Canada. The letter states what my position and salary will be.
- I have a letter that states my current job and pay, and as it's a fairly new job I don't have a super long paper trail for it so I'm not sure if I need to provide anything else.

- My husband has a job offer and the company has sent him a letter offering employment and stating the specifics


Now here is my confusion. Please I know there is so much I can read but I need to hear this from people who've done the process...not long pages of explanations on the website that are making my head spin.

Because I live in Jamaica with my husband and have for several years...I have to prove reasonable plans to re-establish in Canada. Our plans was to stay with my parents while we search for a house to rent...after all its kinda hard to rent a house from abroad. Will that satisfy immigration?
What else should I be doing to show them my plans? And how do I present it to immgration??

Now how do I file??? Do I send everything together in one package....my husbands part of the package...mine...the financial sponsership etc....at the same time?

Do I have to send the financial first....the rest later???

I'm paying all my fees online at once...will this confuse immigration.

I'm so confused and stuck!!!!

Also because my job is new....what do I need to send with my financial sponsership to show them I'm capable??? I will have had the job just under six months when this is all filed. And do I send my job offer from Canada with my financial sponsership thing??

This is insanely confusing. Lawd a mercy....killlllll me now LOL
Thanks in advance for your help. I'm sure there is plenty of questions to come

1. You enclose a letter with the sponsorship with a copy of the letter showing the job in Canada and explain that you will be living with your parents when you first arrive, and that once your spouse is issued a visa you will be returning to Canada.
2. You send the sponsorship and the application with all the attachments, medical receipt, Police Certificates, proof of the relationship to Mississauga. If the application is approved/refused, you will receive a letter in about 37 days. They will then send the application to Kingston where it takes up to 16 months to process 80% of the spousal applications. Don't forget to include the receipt for fees with the application.
3. Include a copy of your employment letter, sponsored spouse don't have to meet the Low Income Figure, they just can't be on welfare, or and undischarged bankrupt. They can be refused for finances, but it is very rare. (sponsor has no employment, and sponsored spouse has no skills or language to be able to work in Canada) Don't worry it won't apply to you.
4. After you have completed the forms. Let them sit for a day or 2 and then go over them again to ensure that you haven't missed anything and that everything is clear to the Visa Office. You really want to avoid an interview, which will draaaaaaaaaaag out the processing time. Don't leave any blanks, VOs won't guess, if it doesn't apply put N/A.

 

[Eddy070]

PLs see this link it mean't help you
http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/kingstonjamaica-t29680.0.html

Make you point accross in the above link. Goodluck

 

[angtao]

Hire an immigration consultant. They are not that expensive as hiring a lawyer.

When you think about it, these are your lives you are talking about. You don't want to make any mistakes.

 

[SmoothiesQueen]

THANK YOU

Now I'm on the right track. Thank you thank you....

One more question....

The medical exam....has to be at a specific place right..and I make the appointment right?? Someone told me immigration makes it for you and tells you when and where to go??

But someone else told me I fill out the form and go do it myself.

Oh wait...one more question...

asked this before....and just rechecking before i send this off.

As long as I'm working...I don't have to meet any specific income right...just prove im gonna support my family or have a plan

 

[Huron]

You can find the Designated Medical Practitioners (DMP) for Jamaica here

http://www.cic.gc.ca/dmp-d/medicalinfo.aspx?CountryID=2056&CountryName=Jamaica

You will need to fill out the form Appendix C from the regional guide from your area. You will also need the pictures for the appointment. Just call a Dr from the list make an appointment and take your photos and Apendix C form filled out.

No income requirement when sponsoring a spouse.

 

[SmoothiesQueen]

Huron...the link doesnt work for me.

Do you know what the costs are for the medical examination??

 

[Huron]

Try This one.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/dmp-md/medicalinfo.aspx?CountryID=2056&CountryName=Jamaica

For the costs you will have to ask the DR office as it varies

 

[rjessome]

Hi

1. You enclose a letter with the sponsorship with a copy of the letter showing the job in Canada and explain that you will be living with your parents when you first arrive, and that once your spouse is issued a visa you will be returning to Canada.
2. You send the sponsorship and the application with all the attachments, medical receipt, Police Certificates, proof of the relationship to Mississauga. If the application is approved/refused, you will receive a letter in about 37 days. They will then send the application to Kingston where it takes up to 16 months to process 80% of the spousal applications. Don't forget to include the receipt for fees with the application.
3. Include a copy of your employment letter, sponsored spouse don't have to meet the Low Income Figure, they just can't be on welfare, or and undischarged bankrupt. They can be refused for finances, but it is very rare. (sponsor has no employment, and sponsored spouse has no skills or language to be able to work in Canada) Don't worry it won't apply to you.
4. After you have completed the forms. Let them sit for a day or 2 and then go over them again to ensure that you haven't missed anything and that everything is clear to the Visa Office. You really want to avoid an interview, which will draaaaaaaaaaag out the processing time. Don't leave any blanks, VOs won't guess, if it doesn't apply put N/A.

Excellent advice from PMM (as always). I just want to elaborate on point #4. Approach the application from the perspective of selling a new product that nobody has heard of, your relationship being the product. The visa officer does NOT know you and will NOT automatically believe your relationship is genuine. YOU must convince them that it is. I didn't see any mention of proof regarding the genuineness of your relationship in your post. You must think about what you will include and how you will organize it. 9 times out of 10 an interview is convoked because the visa officer needs to question your spouse about the genuineness of your relationship. You MUST take this part seriously. Does that mean you need to send 10 lbs of pictures, emails, etc.? NO! Be strategic and think about what you would want to see if you were in the position of the visa officer and were trying to be convinced that your relationship is real.

 

[SmoothiesQueen]

You guys are WONDERFUL!!! Thank you all so much.

This is what I had planned to do for proof of the relationship.

I planned to write a story of us....complete with pictures from meeting to years later. Just a flip book illustrated with words and pictures of our timeline.

I also planned to send in labelled pictures of different events includin times when our family was together.

I plan to show emails from when we were dating,and hopefully I can get copies of my old phone records...not sure on tha one yet as I'm over seas.

I used to always give my mom cash and ask her to book my tickets on her credit card so I'm going to get her credit card records for my flights.

I had planned to get some letters from people here who knows us to verify their opinion of our relationship and get them stamped by the justice of the peace.

Anyone have any other suggestions?

 

[Baloo]

I used to always give my mom cash and ask her to book my tickets on her credit card so I'm going to get her credit card records for my flights.

If they are booked online, you should also print copies of the receipts, itineraries and boarding passes.

 

[chelley]

if i remember correctly, you're living with your husband in jamaica and have been for quite some time...

in this case, i'd not really focus as much on the trips and dating aspect (do talk to it to some extent), but demonstrate that your lives are very intertwined now (i know harder to do in jamaica, but any shared bills you have, shared lease/leins, any shared contracts you've entered under, joint bank accounts or investments/savings/insurance etc, mail demonstrating you live together etc, testiments from people in your community who know you as a married couple living under the same roof if you can't produce much else)... if you put too much empasis on how you got to be married and produce very little about your life living together in the years since your marriage, it could come back to bite you as an "arrangement" to live in one another's countries (who wouldn't want to escape the canadian cold for awhile ), and not a genuine relationship...

just my thoughts! good luck

 

[SmoothiesQueen]

Hey Chelley

You do have a good memory!!

Its been a journey....we've been looking into filing for some time, been close to it a few times.....its been one big whirlwind.

But now we are finally ready....its just time to move on and explore a bigger world of oppurtunities and make a better life for our family.

Sooo the madness begins!

That makes sense. Everything is in my husbands name...as far as rent and bills and stuff...but I am a photo taker....not because of immigration...just love it. So I've well documented our life together through photos...and lots of people here know us. So I can get testimonials with contact info to verify if needed. Do they need to be stamped by the justice of the peace??

 

[chelley]

pictures are good, but if you're living together, they'll probably expect to see something else to prove that...

if you rent, maybe you can get a statement from your landloard saying he knows you two to have lived as a married couple notarized in some way to make it official, that'd probably be a good idea (might be best to draft one for him and get him to meet you at a the registry (? not sure where you get something notorized in jamaica?) to sign... i know how things can go, and that way it'll say what you want and you'll have it this century lol) ... other letters from the community probably aren't as important to be notarized, but do collect some with contact information included so they can talk directly to these people if they choose (unlikely) ... maybe if one is overly compelling and comes from a more trusted source, it could be notorized too? (i.e from a pastor or post master or someone who knows your family/living situation and is well known/respected in the community)... letters from both sides of the family are also a good idea too (again not necessary to notorize all, but one or two from each side might be a good idea)...

I don't believe it's a huge effort (even in jamaica) to get a joint bank account... hubby and i were going to get one, but never got around to it... i know i called and even with canadian ID and questionable status (i technically overstayed), they would have signed me up... so i'd suggest getting one (or adding each other on the one(s) you have) before applying and submitting that too... if there are any other bills/deeds or anything he can add you to, it's not too late to do so... while you don't want all your proof to be things that you've done in the last couple months before applying, joining up 1 or 2 areas of your finanical life shouldn't back fire on you... quite often they just want to see it exists and won't check since when...

i'll be back if i think of more things