Hello, I have been following different Canada Visa forums to help me get through PR. I am an American citizen with a very tricky situation. For starters, I moved to Canada on November 1, 2013, to be with my boyfriend(husband now). Our plan was to slowly integrate my 2 kids from a previous marriage to Canada. After a few bumps in the road, I was able to file for PR in November of 2015. In January of 2016, I received a letter from CIC stating that there was paperwork missing. I remailed the application the next day. My husband passed the sponsorship side of the application on April 15, 2016. I started getting e-mail requests to have my un-accompanying daughter examined. Her father has sole custody of her. In Ohio courts "sole custodians" take on the name of a "residential parent". The officer refused to see that. The only thing he did see was that I had shared with the other 2 children. At that point, I involved the MP. I was emailing my x and begging him to let her have a medical just so we could finish. I signed a multitude of forms and had them notarized trying to get him to see our point. In January of 201, we were denied PR for 3 different reasons! The first reason was that we failed to have my daughter examined. The second was that my husband was not a Canadian citizen. The 3rd was that I didn't maintain my status in Canada. I cried. I thought we did everything right. I knew we had to appeal. We mailed the form in and started looking for legal help. We were able to find a pro bono lawyer in Vancouver. I was able to show proof that my husband was indeed a Canadian citizen.. as his family has been here for generations. I was also able to show proof that I had maintained my status. We also found proof from an Ohio lawyer stating that my x, had sole custody. We were chosen for ADR in July of 2017. Our date was September 21, 2017. We got down to Vancouver and there was a fire drill...Our hearing was postponed for 45 mins. An hour later our lawyer found us waiting outside and told us that he had bad news. Apparently, the Immigration Counsel needed to re-draft our denial letter because the reasons had changed. So, again we were in the waiting process. Our hearing was rescheduled for Nov 16, 2017. My husband and our lawyer were a little shocked. I got told I couldn't even be in the room with my husband. I had to leave. I was so mad. This was about me! Our lawyer also got told that he wasn't allowed to talk. It was between my husband and the Ministers Council. My hubby walked out 15 mins later and it was a Win!!!! Under Humanitarian and Compassionate grounds! We had waited so very long for this..So many hardships. Now I feel like we are in the waiting process again. We are living off nearly maxed credit cards and I am terrified they are going to ask for medicals again. I was wondering if anyone knows how long this process takes to actually get your PR card. From what I have been reading so far it looks to be about 2-6 months. Hoping to ask the lawyer if there are Humanitarian and compassionate ground for the medicals as we have resided in Canada and have not left this entire process. Any feedback would be much appreciated!!!
Sarah
