Sponsoring husband from Morocco

[waiting1]

hey everybody,
thanks to desperate for the post because the questions, as usual, come in handy, especially for my husband and i because we got a call this afternoon and he will be interviewed tomorrow morning (wed.)!!!  they offered us the opening as they had a cancellation (can you imagine?  what reason could you possibly have for cancelling??) anyway, it was very exciting because we found out at the last minute and barely got back to them on time to accept the invitation before the office was closed for the day.  we've been waiting a little over 5 1/2 months and are rapidly approaching 6 months since the embassy had had our dossier, so we did feel it would be any time, as boras posted earlier. (ok, so it's one week later than you thought, but it's close!)
we promise to post the questions as soon as we have a chance to talk and write them all down.  wish us luck!!!  : )
and best of luck to the rest of you who are waiting too.  vesna, thanks for being so excited when i called earlier with the news.  you and adnane should be next, I believe.

val

[waiting1]

correction, the interview is tomorrow, which is thursday feb. 7, not wednesday as i wrote.
sorry, very excited and not thinking straight : )
val

[hoping75]

CONGRATULATIONS Waiting 1

I am so happy for you , The big moment is finally here for you. Good luck tomorrow with the interview. I'm sure everything will be great.

God bless you both

And I hope to hear good news from everyone very soon.

[Raven]

Val,

I was sooo excited for you and Adil. It's funny because I always keep my cell on in the office just in case my husband calls. When it rang my coworker said "ohhh...it's your sweetie calling...aweeee".

I'm glad you called, I hope the interview goes well and your husband is in Canada before the end of the month.

I'm leaving for Morocco on Monday, keeping my fingers crossed that this snow doesn't delay my flight in any way. I'm going for two weeks and we're now at 5 months and wouldn't it be wonderful to get a call while I am there.

Congrats Adil and Val!!!

Yasmina, you're next.

Raven

[Penny]

Congratulations Val! What a lovely surprise! It is so good to see that things are finally moving again.
Penny

[hardwaiting/meenona]

salam everyonefor
good news congratulation Waiting 1 , waw so great news  good luck for your wife entervew , oh plz Waiting 1 can  plz tell us how mutch time they give you from the date they call until the date  of intervew,thk you so mutch for your information,best of  luck
i hope the good news keep comeing and we all hear soon good news from embassy;, good luck
NoonaAmeen

[waiting1]

hi everyone,
i have wonderful news to share.  my husband had his interview this morning and at the end they told him at the end that he would have his visa in a few weeks!!

for NoonaAmeen: as i said in my other post, the embassy only called less than 24 hours before the interview, but that is because someone else had cancelled so they had a slot available at the last minute.  so of course we said yes because we've been prepared for months for this moment.

we were told his interview would be at 8:30 and although his name was the first called to go into the waiting area, he was not interviewed until 12pm!!!  he had arrived early and barely slept the night before so he was totally exhausted.  there were only two other spouses being interviewed and the rest of the people there were for other types of services.  the two others were women and in both cases they were sent away to get more documents and told that their files would be reviewed again when they were complete, in fact, he felt like one was going to be refused from the way she talked about it, so as you can imagine, he was feeling pretty stressed by the time his chance came hours later.

he was interviewed by two women- one moroccan, one canadian and he found them both very friendly, warm and easy to talk to. the questions that i have posted below will sound like an interrogation, but it was very comfortable and relaxed in tone for the most part and he found it to be a very positive experience.
he wanted me to say this to everyone:

"NOTE: If you are for real, then it's sure and certain you will succeed.  There is truly no need to worry and stress over the questions as we did, and to analyze each possibility.  So please everyone, relax, don't worry, it is only the questions you have heard about over and over on this forum.
Be yourself, speak from the heart, don't try to strategize too much because you don't need to."

questions he was asked:

do you know why you are here?
when was the first contact with your wife?
how did you meet her?
who made the first contact?
what is your wife's name?
what do you call her? (I think this was because in all our emails he calls me val but my full name is valerie)
how old is your wife?
(they asked him my age, then tried to correct him, but he stood his ground and they said "yes but she will be that age in a few months", which is not really true, my birthday's not until the fall.  i found that interesting)
when is her birthdate?
where does your wife work?
what does she do there?
she's lived in different countries, what has she done there?
do you know your wife's family members?
what contact have you had with them?
have you travelled together?
where did you travel together?
did you have a honeymoon?
your wife is divorced, right?
it hasn't been very long since you met each other, but you decided she would come and visit you very soon after you first met online (4 months). why so fast? how did that happen?
what happened when she visited the first time?
why were you so rushed to be married?  how do you explain that?
your wife is older than you, can you explain that?
(this led into a bit more of a discussion about our age difference and whether we had discussed how it could affect us etc., it was the most nerve-racking part of the interview because it took on a more serious tone but my husband was strong and spoke from the heart with conviction and they accepted his response- this was clearly the biggest concern)
what do your family members do for work (brother, sister, parents)?
what do you do for work?
noticing our receipts for sending money back & forth:
does your wife send you money because you need it?
did you send her money for the same reason?
do you have family in canada?
are you still in contact with them?

They also looked at some of the photos and asked a few questions about who was in them and where they were taken.

There was some confusion over some of the information we had provided so he had to go over that in some detail and clarify it (some dates were confusing in his forms apparently).  Also, they needed him to get our original Arabic marriage certificate certified again in the government office so they would have an updated version for the file. 

Bottom line, and all that really matters to us is that they said he had succeeded and was accepted and they would be in touch to let us know when he can pick up the visa within a few weeks.   He has the feeling it will be the end of the month.

Again, he said to tell all of you it is much more calm and easy going than you are expecting so don't worry so much!!!!!!!! 
We wanted to take the time to post all of these questions so we could help other people the same way we've been helped, so thanks to you all and best of luck to you all as well.  I'll let you know the next steps.
For now, I need to go get some sleep because I've been up since 5am and only slept 4 hours last night!!! : )

Val

[waiting1]

And thank you so much for the kind words Hoping75, Penny and Vesna! 
Val

[hoping75]

Congratulations,

I am so happy hearing that everything went well for your Husband. I look forward to the day you post that he received his Visa. I know the wait is long and painful, but yours is almost over. You will finally be able to start your much deserved lives together.

Also thank you so much for all of the information. It is so very helpful to all of us who are still waiting.
Today is our 5 month wedding anniversary, and I miss him.

God bless you, and I wish you the happiest of futures.


Good luck to everyone who is waiting

[hardwaiting/meenona]

hi everybody
congratulation Val so good news , thk you so mutch for posting us what happened in the interevew  , oh yes  24 waw so tight but alhamdolah everythg went  well for you husband in cha alah  he will get his visa soon  and you wlil be together for ever wih all hapeness, good luck ,
 happy anniversary wedding for you hopeing75  good luck for you i hope you get the good news soon good luck ,
and good luck for us all th rest , Boras Yasmina  and me i thk we are at the same time frame ,i hope we will hear soon the good news from the embassy  good luck 
NoonaAmeen

[waiting1]

Thanks everyone for the good wishes!  I will definitely post when we hear from the embassy about the visa.  Final stage of waiting.....and soon I won't be "waiting1" anymore : ) 
I certainly wish the same for every one of you on this forum.

Val

[mou]

hi everyone i wanted to know if the criminal record "fiche anthropemetrique" delivreé au maroc doit
etre legalisée au ministere des affaires etrangeres??
j'ai besoin d'une reponse le plutot vite possible
je vous remercie de tout coeurr
 

[CDAGE79]

Salaam Mou,  si c est pour le visa oui tu devrait le legalisee.  Dsl pour mon poste avant, je pensait de  qq chose different.

[hoping75]

Oui,

Il faut que ca soit legalisee aux Ministre des affaires etrangers, est nous avons aussi l'etampe du Ministere de l'interieur

Yes it needs to be legalized at the Foreign affairs office We also have the stamp from  the Minister of interior.

Good luck with everything.

You should also legalize your original Marriage contract. It will be necessary. That is what we were told.

Vous devrez aussi legalisee votre contract de Marriage, vous l'aurez besoin.  c'est caque ils nous avons dit.

Bonne chance avec tout

[boras]

hi you dont have to legalise it send it us it is it comes in french and arabic both languages so you just send it like that good luck