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uttsweb, honestly I don't have solid answers to your questions but I will answer anyway. 1. I doubt that you could restore a status you never had. I'm not positive though. 2. I had the same problem with the online application. My guess is that CIC only wants $200, but we filled out a paper...

Well, the restoration of status application has been signed for at Vegreville—so I guess my wife is now in implied status. :) In other news, the lawyer called a few days ago—after being silent for about a month, and AFTER we submitted the application! And of course it’s too late to avail...

Quickly: user828, thanks for the info regarding visits to a doctor. I have private health insurance for my wife and I know that that doesn't cover checkups, but I didn't know that you can just walk in and get a checkup if you pay. Not sure how it works but there's a doctor we've known for years...

Thank you SenoritaBella, it's so nice to get a reply from someone who seems to know what they're talking about.

So I've sent this application by registered mail requiring a signature. I guess I'll know if it reaches them. However, do they acknowledge receipt in any other way? Do we receive an application number, UCI, or anything?

Thanks so much! Well, we're fairly confident that she'll have her status restored and (hopefully) extended, but the uncertainty is awful. And then there's the question of how much longer the spousal sponsorship is going to take, and what the outcome of that will be.

You know, I'm very angry today because my wife has had a pain (a lump?) in her arm for a while, and she can't see a doctor because she's on a visit visa. She misses her family but she must remain here, otherwise she may not be let back in. I'm beginning to question why we content ourselves with...

user828, I know all about the "reasons for the delay." My wife worked for an American-funded project in Pakistan. Anyone who works in Pakistan for anything remotely connected to the American (or Canadian) governments is suspected by some Pakistanis of working for a spy agency. My wife's...

Well, we couldn't wait any longer. We went to the post office and sent it. Now if anyone tells me we should have used the IMM 5401, I'm going to cry.

Well, honestly I don't know whether it's because of the Tories or not because when the Liberals were in power I didn't pay much attention to immigration issues. All I can say is that over the past decade immigration has become much more difficult, ridiculously so. From what my parents tell me...

I don't know the answer to this at all. My wife tells me that the NY Consulate does not accept online payments, as you've said. But does it say so anywhere on their site? If you want to make sure that the application goes through, you should really call them at (212) 596-1628, and see what they...

I lived in America for 7 years getting my PhD at an Ivy League university. I was always known among my friends in the States as a proud Canadian and one who generally defended Canadian ideals such as health care and so on. In the end I got a job offer in Canada and was thrilled and proud to move...

My wife is also applying for restoration of status. We're still biting our fingers over whether we've done everything correctly, but we did get some help from people on this forum, for which we're grateful. We're going to file a paper application soon. Let me know if you need any advice and I'll...

Can anyone quell a paranoid fear I have? My wife is applying for restoration of status as a visitor and extension of her visit visa. After uploading all of the documents online, we decided not to submit online because the site is partially malfunctioning. However we have paid $275 online and...

We've prepared a paper application for restoration of visitor status and paid online ($275 for restoration plus extension). However, the checklist that we submit with the paper app seems to indicate that we should submit an IMM 5401. Since we've paid online, we don't have an IMM 5401, we have...

That's really ridiculous, but since the point is to keep her in the country, I imagine it works in our favour. I hope we'll be able to pay online send out the (paper) application by tomorrow. We're just paranoid that we may have made some mistake! Wish us luck.

Just updating: The lawyer has completely disappeared and we're doing everything ourselves. I've taken ssparkles' advice and explained our answers on the form in the letter. My wife emailed CIC about this some weeks back. No reply...of course. We've been trying to submit online, but the online...

After reading luckydude's horror story here, we've decided to send in a paper application. http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/new-cic-online-temporary-resident-visa-trv-application-t128299.15.html Can we pay for this online nonetheless? And where do we send it...

Thank you SenoritaBella, yes a lawyer we consulted said that it's safer to pay $275 for the restoration plus extension. However the online application seems to want us to pay $200 even though it "knows" that she is applying for both things. If we go the paper route we'll pay $275 just in case...

My wife needs to submit a restoration of status application to keep her legally in Canada—this is the same, in her case, as the visit visa application (IMM 5708). We're ready to submit and have been trying to do it online for the past week, but the site (MYCIC) has been having unending technical...