CHC, Islamabad Spouse Sponsorship Timeline 2011 -2012

[adnanham]

I have been in fights kicking a** and getting my own kicked
I have been beaten by my lovely parents when i was a kid
I have been beaten by my teachers when i was kid

I have gone through a lot in the past and never cried but CIC nay Rolaa diya bhai. I give up

Ya man !!! i am pretty aggravated myself i just wanna storm in the embassy and/or either confront them to even get a response from them or even do anything right. I abide by all their laws and everything. This is insanity

[Kiinngg Farakh Gujjar]

Last update: April 23, 2012
Person to be sponsored lives outside of Canada
Type of application   Step 1

Assessment of Sponsor   Step 2

Assessment of Person Being Sponsored (applicant)

(The Call Centre does not have processing times for step 2)
Spouse, common‑law partner or dependent child   
82 days

(working on applications received on February 1, 2012)

[Kiinngg Farakh Gujjar]

My Original Message which I emailed to Canadian High Commissioner, Ross Hyness in Islamabad and I got a response from Visa Section last month!

Dear Farakh Ejah,

Your recent email to High Commissioner Hynes was passed to the Visa section for response.  We understand that these concerns have been addressed by the Minister's Office as reflected in your email.  The Visa office in Pakistan strives to ensure that all applications are processed in a timely manner, and in accordance with the applicable legislation and regulations. I thank you for raising your concerns, and  I wish to assure you that we are working diligently to improve the processing times in the office in Islamabad, which I acknowledge are longer than the average processing times for many other offices.       

Regards, 
 
Kate O'Brien
Immigration Program Manager 
Canadian High Commission
PO Box 1024, Islamabad, Pakistan

My Origional Message


Dear Ross Hyness,

The reason I am writing this email to you is that, nowadays people have been suffering  about the lengthy wait processing time for their spouses to immigrate to Canada from Pakistan. As you know that Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has been claiming that family reunification is the first priority. It is also in the constitution that a Canadian permanent resident  or Citizen of Canada can legally sponsor their spouses and these application will be processed ASAP. But this is not the case for Pakistani people, CHC-Islamabad is been taking  26 months to process spouse applications and the sad thing is they don't even look at your application within first 12 months and they leave your applications in their storage to get dirt for the next 12 months till they start first  initial review of  your applications in the meanwhile they loose some important documents and they come back to you after a year and ask to fill up some more forms which you have been already filled up. People are also complaining about that once their spouse visa applications are transferred from Mississauga to Canadian High Commission Islamabad they don't send applicants their Acknowledgement Letter you got to email them several times and start begging for your file no# from Islamabad and they approximately reply you with in 30 days of your first email. Canadians citizens have similar issues that CHC-Islamabad is not sincere with Pakistani people as oppose to other embassies in other counterpart countries.
 People have sponsored their  wives almost 10 to 12 months ago and they still do not know the status of their applications. Every time they send an inquiry request to CHC-Islamabad, They get a generic reply from the embassy that "Your application is currently in process and is in queue for initial review". After 10 to 12 months they have not touched their  files and it is taking almost 26 months to get a spousal visa.

Minister Jason Kenney claims that the delay at CHC-Islamabad is due to some extra background checks (specially for Pakistani people) and he also claims that Visa officers are highly trained to find out whether the marriage is genuine or not by looking at the supporting documents.
On the other side Indian has identical culture and same tradition as Pakistan, their spouses coming to Canada within 6 months and  same with chinese spouses coming to Canada within 5 months. If Chinese and Indian spouses can come to come to Canada within 6 months then Pakistani spouses can come to Canada within 6 months. We all know India and china has the highest rate of fraud marriages. But Government of Canada is not haunting them because they have good relationships with India and china and off course Canada has lots of  Indians and Chinese MPS who would represent their people.

Terrorism is not only exist in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan it still exist in India, Asia in Europe and in North America. That would be a stupid reason that Pakistani spouses has to go more than twice under background checks.

The reality is hundreds of families have been suffering for this never ending delays and the most frustrating thing is CIC charges almost $1100 up front to process one application and their online status system shows that your files is "IN PROCESS" even after you have received your visa. There is no way to find out how long it will take to process these applications.

People have filed complaints to Immigration Minister and Prime Minister but their offices reply after 1 or 2 months and in that reply they say that we are already aware of the situation, your complain has been forwarded to the concerned departments.

Following is the link of CIC website and you can read that they claim to complete 80% of spousal applications within 12 months which also includes step 1 of the process which gets processed at Mississauga step 2 of the process which gets processed at Canadian Visa abroad.

These activities have happened in the past but we did not see any outcome because media was not involved. Therefore, I request you to please look into this matter and bring this issue forward and ask questions from the concerned authorities. Your help can make a huge difference in hundreds of peoples lives and they will be relieved form this waiting pain, if this is resolved soon enough.

Hope for a positive response and would appreciate your help...

Best Regards,

Farakh  Ejaz  (on behalf of all Pakistani Community in Canada)

[SI]

what about september 2011 files people?? CHC-I went through august files then october? dont know whats going on anymore... i had to change my address and i updated CHC didnt hear back from them and my concern now is would i ever hear anything at all? hope for the best for everyone..inshallah

[Kiinngg Farakh Gujjar]

I have noticed on this forum by reading that people were talking about Cheap Long Distance Calls to Pakistan...
I have a crazzzzyyyy Idea!
I have known one Long Distance Service which provides cheap rates to Pakistan... Can you guys believe it?
can you believe it it is 2 Cents per mint for Pakistan?
Try Local Phone ( Cheap Calls to Pakistan) I recommend all of you who are intrested. I have been using their service for last couple months. O my God It is unbelievable. They email you your montly statment at the end of each month. Plz try that! They will give first 5 mints of  Free Call.
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[kashsid]

My Original Message which I emailed to Canadian High Commissioner, Ross Hyness in Islamabad and I got a response from Visa Section last month!

Dear Farakh Ejah,

Your recent email to High Commissioner Hynes was passed to the Visa section for response.  We understand that these concerns have been addressed by the Minister's Office as reflected in your email.  The Visa office in Pakistan strives to ensure that all applications are processed in a timely manner, and in accordance with the applicable legislation and regulations. I thank you for raising your concerns, and  I wish to assure you that we are working diligently to improve the processing times in the office in Islamabad, which I acknowledge are longer than the average processing times for many other offices.        

Regards,  
 what email address you used to sent tht mail??
Kate O'Brien
Immigration Program Manager  
Canadian High Commission
PO Box 1024, Islamabad, Pakistan

what email address you used to sent tht mail?

[ek_larki]

I am also in the same boat. I have been almost waiting for my wife request for anything from them. My wife's file went in process in early march too. It's almost 2 months now we haven't heard anything from them.

I don't know what they are doing.?

i recieved my GCMS in almost 30 days                     

 & they said that everything is clear ALLAH KA SHUKAR 
even in my notes they clearly said that they attached
my PHEP n med letter in my file since last month
for sending but pta nhi kab bheje gae im so worried 
i wait for that since 2 months mujhse badh k logo ko
 bhej rahe mujhe q nhi

[Khilafah5]

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I have noticed on this forum by reading that people were talking about Cheap Long Distance Calls to Pakistan...
I have a crazzzzyyyy Idea!
I have known one Long Distance Service which provides cheap rates to Pakistan... Can you guys believe it?
can you believe it it is 2 Cents per mint for Pakistan?
Try Local Phone ( Cheap Calls to Pakistan) I recommend all of you who are intrested. I have been using their service for last couple months. O my God It is unbelievable. They email you your montly statment at the end of each month. Plz try that! They will give first 5 mints of  Free Call.
and don't forget to mention my email address when you sign up! (   Been recommended by a friend?)
Create a free account

farakh_29  @  hotmail.com

[Kiinngg Farakh Gujjar]

Hey kashsid

I used  re-islamab​ad-im-enqui​ry @ internat​ional.gc.ca

I sent them on March 26,2012 and I received their reply next day.
Good Luck!

 

[Kiinngg Farakh Gujjar]

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[philantropist]

Dear KiinnFarakh Gujjar gg
I must appreciate the email sent by you ..it was quite influential..but look at the reply..the same kind of generic reply which most of us get from these officials when we write to them..

I hope that whats written in this email would become a truth and reality and we all get the visas ASAP..
 

[Khilafah5]

I wouldnt suprised if this letter got chc moving

There doing october 2011 already

Dear KiinnFarakh Gujjar gg
I must appreciate the email sent by you ..it was quite influential..but look at the reply..the same kind of generic reply which most of us get from these officials when we write to them..

I hope that whats written in this email would become a truth and reality and we all get the visas ASAP..
 

[Kiinngg Farakh Gujjar]

I wouldnt suprised if this letter got chc moving

There doing october 2011 already

Ho do you know they are working on October 2011 Files?

[Khilafah5]

Ho do you know they are working on October 2011 Files?

Call me the updater

Mahira11 is october 2011 file transfer

I will update the complete list in the morning for 2011 cases and u can see the progress

[Kiinngg Farakh Gujjar]

Dear KiinnFarakh Gujjar gg
I must appreciate the email sent by you ..it was quite influential..but look at the reply..the same kind of generic reply which most of us get from these officials when we write to them..

I hope that whats written in this email would become a truth and reality and we all get the visas ASAP..
 

Are you going to send them an email?
Inshallah WE will all get Visas very soon!