My wife also thought it was PDOS, because she had friend in Canada who needed it, but the sponsor was a Canadian permanent resident in their case, NOT a Canadian citizen. Since StephanH is Canadian citizen, GCP is the correct one here.
Also, good luck. Had to fill the form 9 to 10 times. It's fresh wound for me so brace for sarcasm.
Not sure what it was, but started to get paranoid after 5 to 6 tries and suspect everything of causing the form to fail.
It seems like the form does not work on chrome or a non windows computer.
They suggest internet explorer only, which is great considering microsoft is phasing out internet explorer and edge will become a microsoft branded chrome clone (same code base). Which means it won't work anymore with edge either... (Great forward thinking there!)
The form ask for you middlename. Even if you don't have one, you will be force to give one. I tried enter "not/applicable" or "n/a" but after 10 times filling the form with errors I got paranoid and stop using any special character. So now my middlename is something like "none"
Then still failing, I figured, maybe I can't use my address in the philippines as the foreign sponsor. So i entered my parents address in canada.
Again, fun thing. They won't let you enter letter in the zip/postal code. Which is great for Canadian postal code!
Also when entering address in manila, you can't just type in what you want. You need to select the province first. They split NCR into 4 zones. So you got to open each one to figure out where your city is.
There is like 2 to 4 city per zone. It seems like they got there and thought, what could we do to make the form even more tedious?
Obviously instead of using the standard select field they did something custom, which prompt the browser auto complete OVER the choices. So unless your browser don't have auto complete suggestion, selecting your city without being able to see what you click on is again really nice!
They are crazy over reaching. Asking for all kind of thing like your religion and education level, your mom maiden name, pictures of you and your wife together.
With the quality of the form and the amount of info they ask it looks like a bad phishing attempt.
Seriously the form looks like it was coded by a 15 years old learning how to code with the foresight of an intern.
I guess, when in doubt of what information to ask for, why not ask for everything right?
Took me almost an hour just to get the bar code. You need to arrive early to fill a form. So a full day even if it claims to be only 3 hours.
