Recent content by maru

Thanks. I appreciate your help and encouragement in the process. It certainly has been a lot less stressful with the info in here. We are planning for a suitable time for my wife to come over. But it will be before Christmas for sure, which will be nice!

My wife received her passport with visa inside today. It states that the visa was approved on Sep 27, mailed out on Oct 8 and arrived locally on Oct 11. She was away and couldn't take delivery until today.

The status of our application changed from 12 (in process) to 17 (decision sent) last week. We were surprise because it didn't change to 13 (decision made) first. But I guess they were behind in e-cas updates. Usually changing from 13 to 17 takes only a few days anyways. We are hopeful that...

After receiving an e-mail request 6 days ago, my wife received a physical letter from Beijing on Aug 23, requesting for her passport and other relevant material we think the Visa office would need. We will include some translated letters and chat logs (previously un-translated) in the same...

Medical (OHIP) coverage is provided to Permanent Residents 3 months after they arrive. For Ontario, it's 3 months from the day you arrive at Ontario, NOT the day you apply. (So you can technically have landed for 2 months and apply and the OHIP coverage will take effect 1 month from that...

We received an e-mail from Beijing today requesting for my wife's passport. It also says a physical letter would follow. One more step ahead... Does anyone know if the physical letter will be identical to the e-mail? The e-mail is very standard, auto-generated one and does not reflect much...

just out of curiosity i would like to know whether u were able to see ur status in e-cas before getting ur letter ??? bkz mine is 1 day next to yours and till today my husband details are not able to identify by ecas ... ur reply is of great help to me ... Thanks in advance I was able to...

Now that my wife's application has been sent to Beijing, does someone know what type of correspondence she can expect from Beijing? They asked for a few return address labels (in Chinese). So I suppose they will send a letter. Does someone know whether it will be a AOR letter or will it...

Hello all, Great forum, first of all. I am sponsoring my wife from China and would like to share my stats: App received 28-06-2010 App forwarded to Beijing 28-07-2010 AOR received 03-08-2010