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zardoz

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Feb 2, 2013
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09-11-2013
SHE ASKED FOR GOOD STORIES AND YOU GUYS CAME IN HERE WITH NEGATIVITY....KEEP IT MOVING AND LEAVE HER ALONE. STAY BLESSED HUN IT'S A ROCKY RD BUT YOU WILL GET THERE.
Seriously? You believe that a false sense of security is helpful? Especially when the OP states "our application is perfect".
It's much better to be aware of any potential problems up front, so that they can be prepared for?
If you want "soft and fluffy" , I can recommend the Disney Channel. This however, is the harsh world of immigration and faceless bureaucracy.
 

EmmaShazma83

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Dec 29, 2016
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Hello,

I can share my story. Me and my spouse first met on the internet (2013) and was in a long distance relationship for many years. Over the years, I visited him once and stayed for about 1 month, and he visited me once and stayed for 5 months. We have quite a big gap in age (11 years) and our respective families come from different cultural and religious background as well. When we got married, it was only a small civil ceremony attended by very few friends as we are living in a city far away from both our families and old friends.

When we are going through the spousal sponsorship process, our approach is to stick to what the application requirements asked for. For example, max 20 photographs and not more than that. We take note of what senior people in this forum said, in terms of not making extra work for officer processing our file.

Thanks to this forum, we are mindful that the circumstances surrounding our relationship may raise red flags. To address our worry, in the 'additional document' portion we wrote an explanation letter to highlight our relationship - emphasizing on the things me and my spouse have in common. We hope this would help the officer in understanding our relationship, how is it that we came to be together and in love with each other even though we are two people who originally came from quite polar opposite corners of the world.

Personally I understand the anxiety and the frustration that comes with being in a long distance relationship, and the indescribable anguish that comes with the uncertainty of the immigration process. I hope my story can give hope to genuine loving couples who have been in LDRs and have been waiting to be together for so long. You can check my signature to see our timeline which is still in progress.

Having said that, I don't think it's 'harsh' or 'mean' when people answer these kind of questions with candor. Realistically, if your relationship have red flags, it's so much better to understand up front what your challenges are.
 

DiiDii

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Apr 8, 2019
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Toronto Canada
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Kingston VO
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01-23-2020
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File Transfer...
23-01-2021
Med's Request
18-09-2020
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23-09-2020
Passport Req..
13-07-2021
Seriously? You believe that a false sense of security is helpful? Especially when the OP states "our application is perfect".
It's much better to be aware of any potential problems up front, so that they can be prepared for?
If you want "soft and fluffy" , I can recommend the Disney Channel. This however, is the harsh world of immigration and faceless bureaucracy.
Dude...They asked for successful stories from OTHERS...NOT advice on their case. Makes more sense when you read slower. Have a wonderful day
 
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canuck_in_uk

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Dude...They asked for successful stories from OTHERS...NOT advice on their case. Makes more sense when you read slower. Have a wonderful day
You will notice a distinct lack of success stories in this thread. This is because apps with profiles like OP's are rarely approved.

We chose to provide OP with relevant and useful information that could assist her.
 
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zardoz

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LANDED..........
09-11-2013
Dude...They asked for successful stories from OTHERS...NOT advice on their case. Makes more sense when you read slower. Have a wonderful day
"Successful stories from OTHERS" will be of no relevance to THEIR application. Nor will they be useful. Every case is different.
 

DollyM

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Jul 6, 2016
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Middle of Nowhere, Perth, Western Australia
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Sydney
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App. Filed.......
27-07-2016
Doc's Request.
29-07-2016
AOR Received.
02-09-2016
File Transfer...
31 August 2016
Med's Done....
25-07-2016
If it's successful stories the OP is looking for, then I'll share mine.

My (now) husband and I met each other online in December 2014 while I was visiting my family in Canada (I'm Canadian living in Australia for the past 13 years) and he's British but has lived in Australia since 1986. We met in person in January 2015 and started dating. We are both in our mid 50s (were 51 and 52 when we met), of English/Irish heritage and similar social backgrounds, i.e. both lapsed Catholics. We moved in together in July 2015 and traveled to Canada in June 2016 for him to meet my family and for us to have a holiday for 6 weeks. After coming back to Australia we talked about moving to Canada as he had been offered a job in BC. We applied for a common law visa based on our living together for over 12 months. Both of us had been divorced twice before and between us we had 8 children, 2 of mine who were/are Canadian citizens and 6 of his, 5 of whom were over the age of being sponsored and not interested in coming anyway. The youngest of his children was 17 and had absolutely no interest in coming to Canada with him so we declared him as not accompanying and asked that he not be included in the application and declared that we were aware that he could never be sponsored. We are not real photo types (there's only about 15 of our wedding!), so only included 3 or 4 but did include letters from my daughter and a couple of friends stating that they know us as a couple and that our relationship is genuine and ongoing.

Our application took nearly 16 months to be processed, but we were in the end successful. The job fell through because it took so long, but that's ok. We traveled to Canada in December 2017 to activate his PR but as of today we're still in Australia. We intend to move to Canada in the next few years but for now this is where we'll stay.

Note the similar ages, ethnic backgrounds, social history, religious history, proof of living together, and stuck to the CIC guidelines regarding what we included.
 
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