+1(514) 937-9445 or Toll-free (Canada & US) +1 (888) 947-9445

Visa Processing For Lebanese Nationals

Boncuk

Hero Member
Nov 15, 2008
831
3
It swings for me Marlena.. sometimes I get so happy reading the success stories and other times I get so frustrated and depressed lol
My weekend was hot hot hot..
blows some heat to my canadian friends ;-)
 

MARLENA

Hero Member
Mar 24, 2009
866
2
Hi Boncuk,
I'm freezing to death, I don't know what's wrong with me. After reading the sad news someone get refused today in Damascus, I don't know why it scares me to death. Sometimes I have good days but today is not one of them :(. I miss my husband a lot and called him but it seems it's not enough. Are you with your husband???? Please send us some heat we definitely need some.
Hope you hear a good news as well and nchallah very soon. Me, you, Rasha, Rorita and the rest of us in this forum.
 

Rasha

Hero Member
Apr 26, 2008
529
38
I just want a bloody AOR - so I can send some more docs [with hubby's file number] lol.

Of course, once we get the AOR, we will want something else....

this is the life :).

Wishing some good luck to everyone.
 

MARLENA

Hero Member
Mar 24, 2009
866
2
Rasha, I hope your receive your AOR this week...you'll be in my prayer.
Do you think during the summer the process is a bit slower than usual since there are a lot of people who apply as a visitor. I'm still thinking why some applicant within the same country can have a quicker response.
I was thinking about 0140008, it didn't even took 4 months and they asked for an interview and a decision. I find that is very fast compare to the normal process time.
 

Rasha

Hero Member
Apr 26, 2008
529
38
MARLENA said:
Rasha, I hope your receive your AOR this week...you'll be in my prayer.
Do you think during the summer the process is a bit slower than usual since there are a lot of people who apply as a visitor. I'm still thinking why some applicant within the same country can have a quicker response.
I was thinking about 0140008, it didn't even took 4 months and they asked for an interview and a decision. I find that is very fast compare to the normal process time.
Thanks Marlena - I hope we all hear something good soon :).

I have no idea about the processing speed - I have seen a few files go into Cairo, and be done within three months over the summer - so it's a toss up really.

Isn't Damascus 4-8 months in general? If so, then that's not an odd processing..it would be odd if it was done in two months say....It's sorry to see anyone get refused - I hope they can turn things around in a better appeal.
 

MARLENA

Hero Member
Mar 24, 2009
866
2
I can't even go to bed. I'm getting addicted to this forum. I don't know about you guys but I'm going through some difficult time especially when I hear rejection within the same country. it makes me wonder.
Due to circumstances at work I can't take vacation before September. I'm somehow wishing we don't hear anything until I'm with him.
I usually handle stress very well but not in this situation.
 

Boncuk

Hero Member
Nov 15, 2008
831
3
Marlena.. I totally get you.. because everything is up to someone else.. so we get insecure.. but try to stay confident .. btw yes I am with my hubby and kids... I could never seperate from them :) But I can't wait to go to Canada.. we all can't.. even my kids are psyched up!

Rasha!! Ya rab.. AOR came into my dream even.. how pathetic is that.. I checked everything like the obsessed person I am right now and nothing :(
 

MARLENA

Hero Member
Mar 24, 2009
866
2
Boncuk god bless your heart. I hope you and Rasha get some good news . It shouldn't take them that long to finalize your application especially when you have kids and you are living with your hubby. That's more than enough as a proof and should be granted immediately the PR.
 

ParadiseCrystals

Full Member
Feb 23, 2009
33
0
Hello All, I am also Lebanese living in Canada, sponsoring my husband through Kenya, Nairobi Office. I am 8 months pregnant. My due date is July 5th. Maybe my situation is worse than yours. No need to stress. I am trying not to because I know stress will affect the baby. The file has been in Process since March 2008, and they keep telling me they are doing backround checks...I am sick of hearing that. I am trying my best to go to my MP to get some answers and they say the same.."backround checks". At interview, they told my husband that they would have given him a visa on the spot, but since we were first cousins...they wanted to process more...ahh..I dont believe backround checks take this long, they just want us to beg on our knees and kiss their floor? I dont know. I just hope he's here before I have the baby, even if its by one day...
 

rorita_76

Hero Member
Feb 11, 2009
638
3
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
LANDED..........
July-3-2009
Boncuk and Marlena, thank you for your wishes for my computer, but he is officially dead...:), I ordered a new computer , I will get it in few days, so now I am checking this forum , and near me are kids , about 7 kids playing on the internet...at their age , I used to be studying by this time of the day, things changed...
I find it strange as well, but from what I have read on this forum and other, each case is unique, even for people from the same country, it varies from application to other, once my lawyer told me that he has a client going thru Damascus office, who got her interview request after 9 week of her AOR, she is Lebanese and her spouse as well.
So I guess the rule here is no rule.
Marlena, I can feel you pain, cause I am passing thru the same, one day I am good, and I can see everything is good, the other day, I see everything black. Specially when I read about a refusal, I feel very sad and angry, specially when I don't see a reasonable reason for refusal, so I start thinking, Oh my God, what if we get refusal, they have refused this person, why not us...it is a leaving heal.
And what it is making extremely bad, is everyone around me keep asking me stupid question, why? when? who ? where? and no one of them knows even how to pronounce immigration; they are getting into my nerves.
I hope we will be done soon, my husband has moved all our stuff to the apartment in Windsor and start leaving there and getting to know the area, so as soon we get the passport request letter, I will be flying on the first plane as he say, but what I don’t even have the courage to tell him, : what If they refuse us, what then????
 

MARLENA

Hero Member
Mar 24, 2009
866
2
Rorita I am confident that everything will be ok for you nchallah and you will get a response very soon.
If your pc is dead perhaps it's a good sign for receiving a letter and asking to submit your passport.
I know the feeling when everyone asks oh by the way is your husband get approved. My parents think it's a peace of cake. They can't refuse him, his your husband !!! He is entitle to be with you but I don't have the patient and the energy to answer anymore. I don't have the patient to see anyone anymore because they keep asking the same over and over. At work is the same. Everyone want to help but no one in your situation to understand what you are going through!!!!
 

Boncuk

Hero Member
Nov 15, 2008
831
3
Yeah.. I think we all get that especially from our elders because in their days it WAS easy to get there.. especially after marriage... My mom god bless her said let me call them I will tell them it's great.. they should give my husband the visa.. I'm like well the letter you sent will help just keep praying :) what more can you say!
Rorita.. keep the faith.. you will get there .. Focus on the end result.. Think about what you will do first when you get there .. other than the obvious! LOL Keep thinking about yourself there..
Here's hoping we get some news this week.. :)
 

rorita_76

Hero Member
Feb 11, 2009
638
3
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
LANDED..........
July-3-2009
yes I know, question...question...and most of them very stupid...:)
and the problem is that in lebanon we are a small society, witch means everyone knows everyone, and everyone think he has the right to ask you personal question...I try not to meet people and relative as much as I can...
 

rorita_76

Hero Member
Feb 11, 2009
638
3
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
LANDED..........
July-3-2009
Thanks Boncuk, that is what I try to do, I even imagine myself in our new appartment in windsor, witch is in the 20th floor, and has a wonderful view over the detrroit river, having a cup of good turkish coffee with my husband, ...but I don't let myself imagine a lot, I am the one that need a solid proof in her hand about anything to be sure of it... I have the faith, but I am tired, my nerves are so tired, that some time I am blowing up in my parent, hope they will forgive me, they are trying their best to make my stay here is confortable..
 

MARLENA

Hero Member
Mar 24, 2009
866
2
Paradise welcome to this forum and i hope you reunite with your husband very soon.
You are not sponsoring your husband through Damascus. Is it because he is not living in Lebanon? You also mentioned he went through interview. Would you kindly share with us what kind of questions they have asked.
Again best of luck with your pregnancy.