My application for spousal sponsorship reached Vegreville in December 09 and for a few months I've been extremely worried as I couldn't track it online, it just didn't seem like it had reached the CPC although I had the tracking confirmation from the postal service.
I was checking every week and had recently read other peoles timelines on this and other forum sites which really made me worry(as they had alot more information than was available to me), to the point that I tried phoning Vegreville about 50 times, never getting thru and each time it taking 3 1/2 minutes to find out they're too busy!
Then yesterday by complete fluke while scrolling down on the drop down menu for "Place of Birth" on another attempt to access my online tracking, I noticed that Scotland appears on the list. Then I wondered about England.......Oh yes, there it was.....Eureka, months of worry followed by weeks of hair pulling and close to crying worry evaporated! IT WORKED! I know its not been lost, yay!
It would be worth noting that I imagine all British people would automatically look for United Kingdom on such a form, probably followed by Great Britain if there was no UK....
When you find "UK and Colonies" you'd imagine it'd include the UK (The United Kingdom of Great Britain(which is made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) and any British colonies (possibly Gibraltar and Falklands etc).
BUT IT REALLY DOESN'T!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe this should be changed, hopefully this may help out some other Brits in a similar boat!
Best of luck to all.
I was checking every week and had recently read other peoles timelines on this and other forum sites which really made me worry(as they had alot more information than was available to me), to the point that I tried phoning Vegreville about 50 times, never getting thru and each time it taking 3 1/2 minutes to find out they're too busy!
Then yesterday by complete fluke while scrolling down on the drop down menu for "Place of Birth" on another attempt to access my online tracking, I noticed that Scotland appears on the list. Then I wondered about England.......Oh yes, there it was.....Eureka, months of worry followed by weeks of hair pulling and close to crying worry evaporated! IT WORKED! I know its not been lost, yay!
It would be worth noting that I imagine all British people would automatically look for United Kingdom on such a form, probably followed by Great Britain if there was no UK....
When you find "UK and Colonies" you'd imagine it'd include the UK (The United Kingdom of Great Britain(which is made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) and any British colonies (possibly Gibraltar and Falklands etc).
BUT IT REALLY DOESN'T!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe this should be changed, hopefully this may help out some other Brits in a similar boat!
Best of luck to all.