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Congratulations!! I'm sure you are both absolutely thrilled and relieved to be through that finally. My wife and I both wish you and yours the very best! Cheers, Doug

Toby, In your case, where your wife can speak some English, I see the translator as an insurance measure just in case your wife gets asked a question she doesn't understand or if she gets nervous and simply stumbles with her English. Your wife will have the option of conducting the entire...

Jdwhite21, That is truly awful that you were not given a fair chance to demonstrate you and your husband's ability to actually communicate despite the fact that you both have difficulties in each other's mother tongue. My wife and I are very much like you two and communicate in our own cryptic...

Be very very very very thankful that your partner is having their application processed in what has become the fastest processing center for PR applicaionts. They are asking for your partner's passport to accommodate the blinding speed that they appear to be able to process most applications. I...

Toby, It sounds like your wife received the exact same form letter as we did. What we did was prepare 3-3inch binders full of pictures and other supporting documents that we hadn’t already provided them in the original application or were new. Included were over 4,000 pictures, MSN chat logs...

Re: bringing interpreter to interview The IO asked us to talk briefly about my first trip to her home town in early 2008. I started off and then my wife and I spoke back and forth and joked around bout some of the funny things that happened during that trip. It was a fairly natural...

Re: bringing interpreter to interview Toby, I can share with you my experience which may be relevant to you. I am a fairly "generic" Canadian who started traveling to China several years ago. I've never studied Chinese but started trying to learn the language when I met my eventual wife. She...

My situation is a little different and would like some opinions on what I might expect... I'm a Canadian citizen who sponsored my mainland Chinese wife last December. We've been waiting for over a year... My wife is scheduled for her interview on January 10th in Hong Kong and I've been in...

I agree with these comments 110% This is what we need to fix the mess our immigration process is in.

Common-Law and conjugal partners can be sponsored...

Got some good news this morning when I woke up... My wife has her interview scheduled for January 10th, 2011. Just a little over 2 months away. By that time it will be just under 12 months since they started processing her file. Her medicals were done last December and will be one month expired...

I'm in pretty much the same boat... HK started processing the application in January and haven't heard a peep from them since... sigh... and now I've seen a few applications on this and the "other" forum that have been processed between 1-2 months.

Signed!

Thanks for the reply... the purpose here is not to "fake" the marriage for immigration purposes but strickly to satisfy the peronal requirements of the family. My main concern is that a marriage "like" cerimony that is used to celebrate the relationship more than anything will be viewed as a...

My situation is this: I'm a Canadian who has worked much of the past 3 years in China and have been involved in a common-law relationship for the past 2 years. However, I am also involved in a divorce proceedings in Canada which are now 2+ years and going with no end in site. I have just...

I also have a sponsorship application which as of January 18th is "in Process" in Hong Kong. Do you or anyone else have any more information regarding processing times and the various steps in the process from this point forward? Thanks, Doug