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Neither did I until recently. My Filipina wife went through the process with IRCC and now has her Canadian Permanent Resident Visa, without ever hearing of a CFO. We are now waitng for the Philippine government to give her a CFO before she can leave the country. Read the link I posted, search...

The problem is more likely to be with the Philippines than with Canada. The Philippines seldom recognizes divorce so she may have trouble getting a CFO certificate to emigrate. Read here http://cfo.gov.ph/filipino-spouses-and-partners-of-foreign-nationals/ Without that certificate she is not...

Biometrics at VFS Cebu was fast. Just a couple of days after the appointment is was all submitted and done. The medical took longer. It was about 2 weeks for the medical to be processed at the Cebu doctor and recorded. In our case, both medical and biometric appointments were in the first...

I sincerely doubt they would do a home visit. Why would they bother? Its up to you to prove the relationship is genuine. If they have any doubts they send out a "denied" letter rather than muck about coming to your house. What is more likely to happen, in some cases, is a video call where...

Sorry to quote your whole post but it is SO pertinent to what I am going through. It has taken me days or submitting that form to Cebu CFO and still I get the same error message. I tried Windows 10, Windows 7, Chrome, Edge, and I even opened up the old Internet Explorer to try and get the form...

We are all set to move to Canada. The last step is to attend the CFO Seminar. Cebu is close and their information says make an appointment online, get a barcode, and attend. Not working. No matter how many times we try to upload the required form we get the same error message. There is no...

For those Canadian men who sponsored Philippine wives, I am sure many of you filled out the forms for her. Does that make you her 'representative' and did you fill out that form? Or does CIC know that this happens all the time and this only needs to be filled out if a 3rd party does it. (That...

Wow, there's an insight into your character. Or perhaps I misread you? My interest in bringing my wife and child to Canada has nothing to do with self interest. I am happy anywhere I hang my hat but I will bring them because I believe Canada offers a better future for my children and...

And rightly so. Isn't that what all the bureaucracy is about in the first place? Trying to stop people from coming to Canada as a spouse, dumping the one and going back to get another one?

Good point Betina. I have no problems. I know my c/l wife and I are legit and qualify under the law. I just want to make sure CIS has no problems and I certainly don't want to give whoever reads these forms eyestrain and make them grumpy. I suspect they feed the forms into a 'reader' of some...

I am pretty confident you will find that B4e is the English version of the form and B4a is the Addendum to the form if you have too much to list on B4e or if you have a separate list for things that are being shipped separately. Just my opinion.

The standard font size on the PDF forms seems to be about an 8. Thats extremely small for most eyes. I have to use 3X reading glasses to read what is typed. When I am answering the questions on the computer screen the size of the font is fine, but its about 135% magnification. So the...

I have a question for all the white job applicants who feel that they need to learn French to get a government job. If it is one of the job qualifications to speak a second language then why not learn one? Of course immigrants will have the advantage there. They have their own language plus...

Question for those who emigrated from Philippines; If my common-law wife and I follow all the instructions from CIC and Manila Embassy and get the PRV for her to come to Canada, are there things she needs to do to satisfy the Philippine government so that they do not stop her from leaving the...

Just a thank you for the responses. Between reading forums, CIC sites, and filling forms this is like doing a semester at college. At least I am getting an education.