Spousal Sponsorship in-land Applications 2016 timeline and updates

[SA_to_Canada]

I hope not profiler

Last year was like hell for us. Our life's completely struggled. My wife has no public health. She does not speak english and also there's no way for her to study (Cause she's a hell of a visitor so international students' rates) and now this thing of her father 2 weeks ago

Man I never felt as a piece of sh... as I did the two last weeks. I called CIC waiting for an answer like "In case of a family loss she can go and return" but no what I heard was "She can go out anytime she wants but if the border agent denies her entry her application is abandoned?"

What the hell man? Abandoned cause she went to bury her father? What is the concept of family for this guys? Wish sometimes she was a refugee. Our life would be way easier....

She would have health, free english classes, assistance here, assistance there. Thank god there are foodbanks man, those are what are saving our lifes for the last 6 months....

I know the agony of such a decision. My wife initially applied for PR in August 2014. Her father passed away in November 2014 and she made the hard decision to leave Canada to go bury her father and mourn with her family. She had been here on a one-entry visitor visa, and when I tried to get her back after the funeral, she was denied as she no longer met the definition of "visitor". I was outraged, consulted with a lawyer and expressed the ridiculousness of the situation to my MP. Our 6 month old daughter went with her as we had no one to care for her while I worked. So here we were, doing everything legally, and only through a tragic family event, had to abandon the PR process and face the denial of her reentry to Canada with our Canadian-born daughter. So all of this "family first" garbage from the government is nonsense. They were keeping my wife and daughter from me.

After an exhaustive effort to comply with the "visitor" requirements (done all by myself, by the way, since the lawyer and consultants said it was unlikely they could get it approved), we were able to get an approval for her return to Canada under a one-entry visitor visa again (even though I had gotten her mother and brother multiple-entry visitor visas, go figure) in January 2015. Life happened, and after getting a student visa while she completed her studies, we reapplied for PR in Feb 2016. Thankfully, we are almost to the end, just awaiting the landing interview letter.

I hope at some point they change the rules regarding immediate family deaths and allow those grieved to attend funerals without losing status in Canada.

 

[profiler]

Wife's MyCIC today:


Application status We received your application. We will send you a message when there is an update or if we need more information from you.
Review of eligibility We are reviewing whether you meet the eligibility requirements.
Review of medical results We are reviewing the results of your medical exam.
Review of additional documents Not applicable.
Interview You do not need an interview. We will send you a message if this changes.
Background check We are processing your background check. We will send you a message if we need more information.
Final decision Your application is in progress. We will send you a message once the final decision has been made.

I find the medical funny...

 

[polarvolcano]

Wife's MyCIC today:


Application status We received your application. We will send you a message when there is an update or if we need more information from you.
Review of eligibility We are reviewing whether you meet the eligibility requirements.
Review of medical results We are reviewing the results of your medical exam.
Review of additional documents Not applicable.
Interview You do not need an interview. We will send you a message if this changes.
Background check We are processing your background check. We will send you a message if we need more information.
Final decision Your application is in progress. We will send you a message once the final decision has been made.

I find the medical funny...

I think the request for you to do another medical was sent in error. I am in the same situation - I just sent the previous eMedical form via CSE. myCIC also says this for me now as well. Hopefully you get that DM letter before your booked doctor's appointment and save yourself $200.

 

[Hope-for-luck]

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Good evening, good news, I just got a Landing
interview email from local CIC, My wife will be landing on
April 4th, Wow very fast, just got DM on March 21st 2017.

Good luck everyone. all the best to come.

 

[profiler]

I think the request for you to do another medical was sent in error. I am in the same situation - I just sent the previous eMedical form via CSE. myCIC also says this for me now as well. Hopefully you get that DM letter before your booked doctor's appointment and save yourself $200.

CIC's level 3 agents (the ones MP's call into) said it wasn't in error, and that they want it done ASAP. Validity Period states November 25 2016. So, technically, it's not valid any longer. We will hold onto the appointment anyway. If we end up going and they DM without the results, then $200 was collateral damage for being compliant, right?

Once she has the PR, she will never have to do this stuff again... And it's not like it's $13k...

 

[profiler]

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Good evening, good news, I just got a Landing
interview email from local CIC, My wife will be landing on
April 4th, Wow very fast, just got DM on March 21st 2017.

Good luck everyone. all the best to come.

Which office?

 

[SA_to_Canada]

I think the request for you to do another medical was sent in error. I am in the same situation - I just sent the previous eMedical form via CSE. myCIC also says this for me now as well. Hopefully you get that DM letter before your booked doctor's appointment and save yourself $200.

For medical, I think that is just their standard (inaccurate) boilerplate wording. When we received the request for medicals on Feb 22 2017, the next day in MyCIC it also changed to "we are reviewing the results of your medical exam." They did not get our medical results for until two weeks after that, and then the description changed to "passed" three days after that.

 

[carolbb23]

Nope. Your only view is eCAS, my friend.

This is why I have to wait for her bank card for information. She did this, so I wouldn't keep checking every day and reporting to her no change. It pissed her off...

I know my friend same with my friend me. Carol was like relax

 

[profiler]

For medical, I think that is just their standard (inaccurate) boilerplate wording. When we received the request for medicals on Feb 22 2017, the next day in MyCIC it also changed to "we are reviewing the results of your medical exam." They did not get our medical results for until two weeks after that, and then the description changed to "passed" three days after that.

For us, it was already "Passed", and I have GCMS notes stating the same (Want the Doctor's ID??) eCAS and myCIC are reporting there is a medical there. MyCIC is now not saying passed.

 

[Hope-for-luck]

Yes sir!

Congrats Zumbagirl, I just got a landing appointment
on April 4th the same place as you will land.

 

[browning911]

Wife's MyCIC today:


Application status We received your application. We will send you a message when there is an update or if we need more information from you.
Review of eligibility We are reviewing whether you meet the eligibility requirements.
Review of medical results We are reviewing the results of your medical exam.
Review of additional documents Not applicable.
Interview You do not need an interview. We will send you a message if this changes.
Background check We are processing your background check. We will send you a message if we need more information.
Final decision Your application is in progress. We will send you a message once the final decision has been made.

I find the medical funny...

Thanks Profiler. Gosh I hope we do not have to redo the medical too. It expires in June 2017.

Our Review of eligibility: Your application is in progress. The next step is to review your eligibility.

 

[browning911]

Good evening, good news, I just got a Landing
interview email from local CIC, My wife will be landing on
April 4th, Wow very fast, just got DM on March 21st 2017.

Good luck everyone. all the best to come.

Yay Hope. Great news. Congrats.

 

[Hope-for-luck]

Which office?

Ottawa, same as Zumbagirl

 

[carolbb23]

I hope not profiler

Last year was like hell for us. Our life's completely struggled. My wife has no public health. She does not speak english and also there's no way for her to study (Cause she's a hell of a visitor so international students' rates) and now this thing of her father 2 weeks ago

Man I never felt as a piece of sh... as I did the two last weeks. I called CIC waiting for an answer like "In case of a family loss she can go and return" but no what I heard was "She can go out anytime she wants but if the border agent denies her entry her application is abandoned?"

What the hell man? Abandoned cause she went to bury her father? What is the concept of family for this guys? Wish sometimes she was a refugee. Our life would be way easier....

She would have health, free english classes, assistance here, assistance there. Thank god there are foodbanks man, those are what are saving our lifes for the last 6 months....

Cic is like God I am sorry

 

[Hope-for-luck]

Yay Hope. Great news. Congrats.

thank you browning911 , your turn will come very soon too.