Hi Zakaria,

Jamal received notice by telephone only.  Actually i am still waiting to hear from him. His interview was today, this morning at 8am Rabat time and until now i still don't know what is going on. I am totally nervous, but at the same time confident. I know that Jamal knows me like a book. He knows all my life story, and i certainly hope that immigration sees that too.  The only news i have is that on ECAS they have entered his mailing address on the file now..but no other update other than they started processing our application since 04FEB08. and now i need to go to work without any news..this is stressful...i have tried calling his cell but its off...i think he still maybe waiting or something.,..i hope its good news...insha allah it is and i am worrying about nothing. i will post later when i have more information.

i hope that everyone else gets their calls..

Indira

Zakalex,

It's nice to be optemistic but trust me the embassy does not give EVERYONE a visa. This embassy in particular is very hard on people and refuses for no reason at all and has refused many people on this message board with genuine relationships.

Lots of poeple are now doing appeals.

Good luck

well i am a little confused now, after having spoken to Jamal all i could think about today was all the questions he was given and all the whys...its not his fault my past was and is the way it is. He and are just want to start our lives together and now with baby on its way even more so now. I surely thought he would have received a better answer this morning. I am feeling a little blue and down right now.  It took me six years to finally meet the man/husband to spend the rest of my life with..so what i meet him on the internet..so what we got married two months after the fact...it was love at first site. This is REAL!!! i don't usually stick around with people that do me harm or are no good for me and even more important my daughter from my previous relationship.  My daughter was a blessing in my life as now is the baby that i am carrying. My daughter wasn't asked to be born. I chose to have her, even after her father never wanted to stand up to his family who made me marrying his cousin to grant him citizenship in Canada.

Having said this..immigration asked Jamal all about my past...and wanted very specific answers..they believe that i just married him to grant him citizenship to Canada too...this is definately NOT the case at all.  Jamal doesn't want to come to Canada...but its the only option we have right now..since i can not leave Canada with my daughter since my ex, her father does not allow me to live in Morocco. I am fighting for full custody of her and still in the legal system with that...this is why i can't go to Morocco to be with Jamal..so our only solution is for him to come here. I never thought that things were going to be this difficult. Like i told Jamal today..its a challenge..but i have faith that immigration will see that he and i are really meant for one another.  Its not that easy to find a man who will accept your child from someone else as his own and treat her so well...and she in turn loves him to death!!! They get along so well..its funny to say that she gets along better with Jamal than her own father ..

as per what the woman immigration said to Jamal " this is the first time i ever hear someone doing such things like this." 

I told Jamal its okay since he told immigration exactly as it was..no lies anywhere...even though its kind of confusing. The things that we do in the name of so called love..which i realize now that it was just lust not love...LOVE is what i have with JAMAL now..and because of this love i am having his baby.

Now we just have to sit back and wait.  They didn't keep anything of his..they gave him back his passport and all the originals that i had submitted in the application as well as the photos he took today too with some of the conversations we had.

They also asked why we didn't have a wedding ceremony.  We had a family get together but not with all the works..just a nice meal and some music ..nothing big...i was hoping that when he came here to Canada we could save some money and do that..we did travel within Morocco when i was there with him last. This was our honeymoon...with my daughter too...i cant leave her behind and he knows it.

They asked him all about my family....what each one does and doesn't do..what he plans on doing when he gets here, how does he plan on supporting us, how will he cope with my family living with us(even though its just going to be a temporary thing until he and i find a place) i want an apartment for him/my daughter our soon to be born baby and me.they asked him who he meet in my family what were their reactions to the marriage,

We are a little confused as you can see...but again like i told him this morning GOD is great and does miracles..and does challenge us once in a while to see if its good..so i told him this is just that ..a TEST..
i am pretty sure that it will all be ok..well at least i hope so. I will continue to pray and doing just what i have been doing with him until we can be together again.  Which if he doesn't get his visa then it will be after i had the baby in MAR09..that i will have to travel to see him again...and if we get denied then appeal it is...

I am so sorry this post is long..but as you could all imagine i have so many thoughts racing through my head right now..not sure exactly what to do..all i could do now is just wait patiently.

Oh yeah and immigration also asked when his medical was to expire..and he told them dec..so they said to wait for a call from them..so wait we are..

Indira

hi indira sorry to hear that , i do feel to u and i understand how come u feel it !
so i hope al is god, just one thing plz they aren't say them anything, if he's accept or refused ???
because i think when they are accept someone they say it and just waiting till calling him back for come get the visa that
that's hard realy me i'm so nerveus and down,
and i hope al become good for everyone,
plz when they are caled him for interview, i mean which day ?
thank u and i hope u feel better and good luck
ciao
ZAK

hi Becca Congorlation , i'm glad for u , really i hope al is good for everyone also for indira, just we need patient but that's little hard :) lol
plz tell me when ur hausband was have interview, ?? how long took for caling him between interview and for get the visa ??
but we have very different case , some person give them visa after two days and soem said them their accept and some no alot things realy different with embassy nothing same !
me i will relax :) lol
thank u and good luck for everyone :)

Congratulations Becca - I'm so happy for you!!!!!

Lynn

Congrates to all that have gotten their calls and welcome to the new comers. 

Well what can I say we are still waiting my husband has now joined the form to see what is happening we are both full from waiting and not seeing each other for so long.   I hope the embassy starts on march because we have waited long enough and if I could afford to go and see him I would but I can't. 

This is not what you would call much of a marriage when it is only online right now all we want to do is start our lives together finally.  Its has been over a year now and still nothing.

Take care and good for you Becca happy to hear all is going better for you.

Well Becca, i guess you are finally glad that your wait is over and within no time you will have your husband by your side. i am truly happy for you gives.

As for us...today we had our status change on ECAS to a decision made..and it says that we should be contacted soon...so far no news...i am just a little concerned and yet relieved that finally the news or decision has been made. I hope its to our benefit!!!! Inshah allah the "good" news come just in time for EID MUBARAK....lets just pray that its good news..and not a rejection ...i don't know how much more i could handle being alone and pregnant without my husband..we are two months pregnant its official..so basically we have another 7 months for the baby to be here...and hopefully with its daddy by its side.

Wish us luck and keep us in your prayers..

as for everyone else who is waiting..best wishes..

EID MUBARAK TO ALL

Indira and Jamal

hi everybody, there'inst any news about embassy , they are strating calling people for entrview ??! good luck for everybody 
zak

Sorry to here that Indira!!!!!!!!!!!!

You should have him scan you the letter (even though you'll be receiving your own copy  in a week or so).  Send the appeal application in right away.  It is a really easy form to fill out.  Then you will have lots of time to get your thoughts together.

Best wishes, let me know if you need any help.

Mariana

Your refusal letter will have a copy of the appeal form with it but coming from Rabat it will probably be in French, mine was.

I printed one in English from th AID website, you can also submit your appeal in person to the office in downtown Toronto.

You will get a letter after you file the appeal giving you a file number, they then have 120 days for Rabat to send your file to the AID. Once the file is received then a case officer will decided if your case can be resolved in an ADR or if a full appeal is needed. This can be set another 5-6 months from when you receive notice that they have a copy of your file.

We were refused by the same embassy but not for the same reason. I hired an incredible lawyer and if you'd like his info I can provide it in private, he's downtown TO as well. He's not cheap but he's been very vital for us and has taught me so much about my rights. We submitted our application for appeal in early Aug and my lawyer has spoken to our AID case worker and Rabat hasn't sent the file in, that's no surprise because am sure they will use the full 120 days.

Once you win your ADR or appeal your application goes back to the embassy for processing, that can take as many months as they like. My lawyer was telling me about another client of his dealing with the embassy in India and they won their appeal over a year ago and the embassy still hasn't issued a visa.

I'm sorry to hear you were refused but I'm not surprised the more research I do about the dealings at this embassy it's shocking the things they seem to get away with.

Good luck

Wow ... what a godsend to find this message board.  I have been doing so much research on how to get my fiance over to Canada and it seems so impossible.  We met in April of this year while I was traveling and we were introduced by a mutual friend.  I have since spent 2 and a half months in Morocco and we have an apartment together there.  I was hoping to start a process to get him here to Canada so we could get married here.  After all my research that doesn't even seem possible.  We are now talking about getting married in April in Morocco.  PLEASE if anyone has any suggestions for us to make this process smoother, I would be so happy to hear from you.  I am spending the month of January in Morocco - are we wiser to get married sooner and get the application process started sooner?  Or will it look better for us to marry in April when we are together a year. How long does the process seem to be taking these days?

Thanks to everyone
Jennie

Stealth,
You are asking the same question as I am.  I am wondering if there is a way to bring my fiance here (we would actually like to get married here) ... I am seeing an immigration lawyer on Friday and will ask that question.   We want to have a ceremony in both places so it doesn't really matter but I want to take the fastest road.  I will post again once I have seen the lawyer.

Jennie