sylvain1 said:
I understand exactly how you feel, but believe me, in the end, just live your normal life and don't give too much importance to the process; don't let the process affect your mood and your everyday life. I know the frustration you might feel.
Maybe our story might comfort you... We applied on August 12, 2015. I ordered GCMS notes in November 2016, then again in early March 2017. On these March (8th) 2017 notes, it says the my eligibility as a sponsor isn't started yet (closing on 19 months after application); my wife's eligibility (PA) was not started... Only 12 days after these notes, on March 20th, we got SA and AIP, then the next day, DM. So what I'm trying to say here is, it does not matter that they haven't started yet according to the notes; whenever they will do, you will likely be processed within few days.
I saw most of Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec 2015 landing before our eligibility was assessed. I started to see 2016 applicants being processed. I started to really feel mad and angry about the unfairness of the process and then Profiler calmed me down, there are more important things to care about. I know it's easier said than done, but really my wife is here, living a quite normal life. We all want to have the process finished as soon as possible; but let's care more about our beloved ones than about IRCC processes!
I know. Thanks for your great support. Some people think it's simple. Like profile said it doesn't matter too much since his wife wakes up and goes to work everyday. Good for them but my situation is a little bit different and I'll try to summarize it for you
We applied inland end of May 2016. At that time we were told by our lawyer that the processing time was about the same for both inland and outland which was a total lie especially cause our home country (Brazil) used to be one of the fastest ones to process outland applications. To be honest we'd rather be apart from each other for some months than going through all this. Anyway, we decided not to apply for an OWP for my wife once her English skills are really basic, almost none to be very honest and our thought was "how's she gonna get a job without speaking the language?"
We decided to wait for a bit and let her do some English classes. That was another issue too cause we thought that at least with AIP she would be able to do English classes paying local rates. It's not like that so we had to pay like $7 an hour. That comes out to something between 400-700 a month. On a single source of income, you can imagine that it's not reasonable so she, unfortunately, had to leave her classes after a couple months.
Next thing, once she's not eligible for OHIP we were like "OK, there may be some private health insurances right?" Wrong again, it's insane how there are no regular health insurances in Canada and you can only apply for Visitors Insurance that covers emergency/urgency costs. So sponsored spouses get to a limbo. My wife has good health but she has some existing conditions that are not let's say a matter of life and death but that require her to be followed up by a doctor every now and then. Can we do that with her insurance? NOOOOOOOOOO. Cause it's not FU..... EMERGENCY..... In other words, her hormones went crazy and other things that I'll not mention here due all the stress and everything but again if we want to see a doctor for that, guess what????? $$$$$$$$$$$
After figuring out how long that would take, we decided to finally apply for an OWP for her back in December 2016 and hope that she finds someone who can give her any entry-level job even with very few English skills so she can at least help a bit out with the family income as well as apply for OHIP in case she manages to get a full-time position.
Last March, her father happened to pass away. Her OWP was not issued at the time and I called CIC to ask them if in this specific case she could leave the country to attend the funeral and have any kind of guarantee that she'd be able to come back with no issues. We all know if an inland sponsored leaves the country and does not manage to return the application is considered abandoned and the answer I got from CIC was
Leaving Canada during processing to sponsor a spouse, common-law partner in Canada
After mailing the application, it is recommended that the sponsored person remains in Canada until the application is approved. If they choose to leave Canada, an officer will need to ask them questions to ensure they meet all requirements before allowing them to re-enter Canada and avoid having their application considered as abandoned due to their absence.
If the sponsored person plans to travel outside Canada during the application process, or if they have not been allowed to return to Canada after leaving the country:
They should consider submitting an Application to sponsor your spouse, partner or dependent child outside Canada to the Case Processing Centre in Mississauga, Ontario,
if a sponsorship application from inside Canada was already submitted, a request to withdraw that application should be sent and approved by the CPC in Mississauga before a new application is submitted.
Should you require more information on sponsoring a spouse or common-law partner, please visit our website.
In other words, the decision remains on the border agent. Considering that we are low on funds and we would only be able to afford a single ticket back home for her, meaning I would not be able to go, guess what? She lost the right of attending her own father's funeral once she didn't wanna take the chance of being rejected on the way back. And since he was cremated HEEEEEEEY she doesn't even have a tomb where she can take flowers to whenever she goes back home. Exciting and fun hey? Nice how Canada deals with families and how supportive they are... I'm not a refugee but a taxpayer right? So who cares about me?
@Profiler my friend. Exciting hey? Piece of cake I'd say huh? What do you say? What if it was your wife?
So now you understand what's my feeling like? How this process' struggling us? How I really wanna have this done sooner than later so we can simply start living our lives instead of me just going to work every single day and coming back home. Not managing to do any kind of thing cause I have to save money in case my wife gets sick? Sorry, that's not what I left my country for.
