I am in a bit of a situation and am just looking for some opinions, etc.
My husband is Venezuelan and I am a natural born Canadian citizen. We met about a year ago in Costa Rica while I was on vacation and he was there for a long period of time. I returned to Costa Rica on a visitors visa for 3 months in November, I got pregnant and we got married. I returned to Canada at the end of my Costa Rican visa as we knew it was better for the health of me and the baby to deliver here. He returned to Venezuela to take care of some business that we knew would need to be done for the TRV app (renew passport, get documents, etc)
We have not made a decision on where our "final" home will be, being tropical Canada is at the bottom of his list of places he would like to live as it is cold here. Venezuela is also not a nice place to be right now either, which is why he has spent the majority of his time for the past 10 years travelling. But we do know he will have to return to Venezuela at the end of the visa in order to properly apply for residency should this be the path we chose to take. The baby and I will return with him.
We knew that there would be a few hurdles to jump because he has overstayed visas in 3 countries in the past 10 years. 2 because he was just simply stupid and didn't consider the effects it would have later on and in Costa Rica because his passport expired and the Venezuelan government refused to renew his passport outside of Venezuela, which left him unable to travel home or to reset his visa. It took us several months, lots of money, and several trips to the embassy to just get an extension on his passport just so he could return home.
I hired an RCIC consultant to help us with the process as we knew that there might be some issues, after the first two visits supplying a ton of documents, information, etc I very clearly asked him what his honest opinion was on our chances of success in getting the TRV were and he said with the proper financial support documents from me and my family and what I had already provided that we had very high chances of obtaining the TRV for 6 months. I was specific in telling him this as if our chances weren't good we would have to come up with a plan B very quickly as I am a high risk pregnancy and will be unable to fly once I reach my 24th week (May 8).
Today I received an email from him saying we needed a ton more documentation, evidence, etc for the application in order to have a "decent" chance of success. Many of the items he is requesting are not on the CIC document checklist for a TRV (although many of them are on the checklist for a permanent residency or super visa app) and some of the requests are just not attainable for us. Like copies of all his Visas, entry and exit stamps from his passports for the past 10 years as well as copies of airline tickets. Venezuelans are required to return their passports to the government when applying for a renewal. It is also hard for us to provide proof of strong ties to his home country as he is currently not working, although we do have proof of employment for when he returns in November as a company he has worked for in the past has formally promised him a job. A lot of his immediate family has left the country, both of his parents, youngest brother and only living grandparent live in the US now. He does have one brother and several aunts and uncles still living in Venezuela.
Any insight, opinions or advice anyone offered would be greatly appreciated, it is extremely important for us to be together for the birth of our son.
My husband is Venezuelan and I am a natural born Canadian citizen. We met about a year ago in Costa Rica while I was on vacation and he was there for a long period of time. I returned to Costa Rica on a visitors visa for 3 months in November, I got pregnant and we got married. I returned to Canada at the end of my Costa Rican visa as we knew it was better for the health of me and the baby to deliver here. He returned to Venezuela to take care of some business that we knew would need to be done for the TRV app (renew passport, get documents, etc)
We have not made a decision on where our "final" home will be, being tropical Canada is at the bottom of his list of places he would like to live as it is cold here. Venezuela is also not a nice place to be right now either, which is why he has spent the majority of his time for the past 10 years travelling. But we do know he will have to return to Venezuela at the end of the visa in order to properly apply for residency should this be the path we chose to take. The baby and I will return with him.
We knew that there would be a few hurdles to jump because he has overstayed visas in 3 countries in the past 10 years. 2 because he was just simply stupid and didn't consider the effects it would have later on and in Costa Rica because his passport expired and the Venezuelan government refused to renew his passport outside of Venezuela, which left him unable to travel home or to reset his visa. It took us several months, lots of money, and several trips to the embassy to just get an extension on his passport just so he could return home.
I hired an RCIC consultant to help us with the process as we knew that there might be some issues, after the first two visits supplying a ton of documents, information, etc I very clearly asked him what his honest opinion was on our chances of success in getting the TRV were and he said with the proper financial support documents from me and my family and what I had already provided that we had very high chances of obtaining the TRV for 6 months. I was specific in telling him this as if our chances weren't good we would have to come up with a plan B very quickly as I am a high risk pregnancy and will be unable to fly once I reach my 24th week (May 8).
Today I received an email from him saying we needed a ton more documentation, evidence, etc for the application in order to have a "decent" chance of success. Many of the items he is requesting are not on the CIC document checklist for a TRV (although many of them are on the checklist for a permanent residency or super visa app) and some of the requests are just not attainable for us. Like copies of all his Visas, entry and exit stamps from his passports for the past 10 years as well as copies of airline tickets. Venezuelans are required to return their passports to the government when applying for a renewal. It is also hard for us to provide proof of strong ties to his home country as he is currently not working, although we do have proof of employment for when he returns in November as a company he has worked for in the past has formally promised him a job. A lot of his immediate family has left the country, both of his parents, youngest brother and only living grandparent live in the US now. He does have one brother and several aunts and uncles still living in Venezuela.
Any insight, opinions or advice anyone offered would be greatly appreciated, it is extremely important for us to be together for the birth of our son.