I received letter from CIC on January 23, 2018 saying they received our file. I never heard from Rabat until the middle of March when they asked for recent proofs of contact and a new background check. I don't think Rabat updates the status in ECAS or CIC account. Ours hasn't been updated since November 2, 2017 when they sent out letter requesting medical.
Sponsoring husband from Morocco
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Did anyone on here take pictures of people eating at their wedding? We have a lot of wedding pictures but our photographer didn't take pictures of the food or anyone eating. I am just thinking about it now because I was reading a post of here where the VO asked where the food was in the wedding pictures.
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By the way , the cic account is never updated ! Never count it . Just wait until you get an email asking for additional documents that' s it.
Hahah are you serious ?? They ' ve never asked about something like that .. it' s too much details for them
Yeah, I thought that too but was Rabat office - page 467 on this thread - was 2015 though.
May 23, 2015 at 4:59 PM
The visa officer looked over all photos, had commented as she skimmed over, like where's the food, and turn the page and see ppl at wedding eating. What she take from proof was my passport stamps.
We didn't - we probably would have if it was just family at our wedding, but we had friends and neighbors and not everyone likes to get their picture taken. We felt it would be disrespectful to have a wedding photographer snapping pictures while people were trying to eat.
Oh Man hold my beer plz i want shot my head hahaha how its possible . We failed our file without wedding pictures just few pic with familly and our Adoul thats it .im not worry at All ..u really made my day
They give some people a really hard time. If you read the appeals thread you can see some really petty excuses they use to turn people down. I think sometimes the visa officer makes up their mind before they even do the interview and then they just look for any reason they can use to support rejecting the application.
Some people on here say they have gotten approved without even having a wedding. It just depends on the visa officer, I guess.
I find that to be true the more I read various threads. I also found the whole process of getting married to my husband there was almost a no-go for the same reason. I got the impression that because I was married and divorced before that they had in their mind that our relationship was a sham from the start and then sought out to look for any reason to not let us marry and to make the whole process as painful as possible. It wasn't until I paid a huge sum of money to the reviewer and called in a favour for her husband (long story) that the wedding was allowed to go through. This is also why I don't hold out much hope they will approve his application for PR without an appeal but I guess eventually I'll find out if I'm right.
Some of the reasons they approve and reject people are so bewildering. One couple was denied because the husband didn't speak good English and the visa officer assumed they couldn't have good communication, so therefore it couldn't be considered a genuine marriage. Another couple was turned down because the husband didn't have a good job and they said he had economic gain to come to Canada, so therefore they didn't consider it a genuine marriage. Then another couple was denied because the husband spoke good English and had a good job - the visa officer said that because he could work anywhere in Canada and had no language barriers he didn't have to stay with her and they felt he would leave her once he arrived in Canada.
I have seen posts where in the rejection letters some of the reasons couples were denied was because people (guests, not the couple) were not smiling enough in the wedding pictures. Another rejection, where the brother was wearing a suit jacket and jeans to the wedding, so that proved it was a sham marriage. Quite a few couples were denied because the spouse could not afford to fly relatives from Canada to come to the wedding. On the other hand, there are couples that don't even have a wedding that are approved.
They are couples who have been denied because their marriages were registered too quickly and then other couples who were denied because they knew one another for years before registering their marriage, and the visa officer said because they led separate lives for so long they were not considered a genuine marriage as they were not emotionally tied to one another or they would have registered their marriage sooner.
There are couples who are denied because they don't have the same culture and/or religious beliefs, then there are couples where the wife converted even before the marriage, and the visa officer said that she only converted because she thought it would help when she applied for spousal sponsorship so it was a sham marriage.
As far as being married before, there was a woman that was in the Facebook spousal sponsorship group that sponsored a spouse before and divorced him (not sure how long they were married), and then she applied to sponsor another spouse and was approved. There are also a lot of couples on here that are rejected when neither partner has been married before.
I am completely at a loss to see what formula they use to decide who to approve and who to reject - looks to me like it has to do with luck and the quotas the visa office has to fill at the time they are looking at your application.
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...and sadly, you don't have to look too far or twist the facts too much to find a hundred red flags in our application. I just wish they'd stop wasting time and deny the application if that is their intention so I can decide what to do next, if anything. I think they secretly relish the power they have to make dreams come true or destroy people's lives.
shani.kaye said
...and sadly, you don't have to look too far or twist the facts too much to find a hundred red flags in our application. I just wish they'd stop wasting time and deny the application if that is their intention so I can decide what to do next, if anything. I think they secretly relish the power they have to make dreams come true or destroy people's lives.
Your application may not be refused. There are a lot of people with red flags and many of them are approved. It is a good idea to know what other people experienced so you know what to expect if interviewed, but that doesn't mean you won't be approved. There are couples with no wedding, divorced people with children, couples that haven't had many visits, couples that have big age gaps, couples that only had one side of the family at the wedding, couples that met online, had no honeymoon, couples who were engaged or married on the first or second visit that were approved. They say that they look at the relationship on a whole. I kind of hope they do have some kind of procedure they use when deciding, because I don't think it is fair to judge the genuineness of a relationship based on one visa officer's opinion. You probably have as good of a chance as me, I have a few red flags too - don't let it get you down.
...and sadly, you don't have to look too far or twist the facts too much to find a hundred red flags in our application. I just wish they'd stop wasting time and deny the application if that is their intention so I can decide what to do next, if anything. I think they secretly relish the power they have to make dreams come true or destroy people's lives.
Your application may not be refused. There are a lot of people with red flags and many of them are approved. It is a good idea to know what other people experienced so you know what to expect if interviewed, but that doesn't mean you won't be approved. There are couples with no wedding, divorced people with children, couples that haven't had many visits, couples that have big age gaps, couples that only had one side of the family at the wedding, couples that met online, had no honeymoon, couples who were engaged or married on the first or second visit that were approved. They say that they look at the relationship on a whole. I kind of hope they do have some kind of procedure they use when deciding, because I don't think it is fair to judge the genuineness of a relationship based on one visa officer's opinion. You probably have as good of a chance as me, I have a few red flags too - don't let it get you down.
Its hard not to get frustrated and a little depressed while waiting. I don't think you should assume they are going to deny your application, probably the only people without any red flags at all are the fraudulent couples who planned it. Most of us weren't thinking of the CIC and how we might have to defend our application when we met, fell in love and got married....and sadly, you don't have to look too far or twist the facts too much to find a hundred red flags in our application. I just wish they'd stop wasting time and deny the application if that is their intention so I can decide what to do next, if anything. I think they secretly relish the power they have to make dreams come true or destroy people's lives.