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  1. Sledge

    No stamp on arrival ?

    1. This happened to my wife. This means her visitor record is valid for 6 months from the date of entry. 2. Nothing you can do now. 3. If you will be sponsoring her and want to add her to your provincial health benefits, you may need to request her Travel History Report. This was the case for...
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    SOWP

    It's been almost 5 months since we applied. We are hoping to have it by the end of March. We have been told it gets approved approximately 4-6 weeks after the eMedicals have been submitted. With visas from the Ukraine being expedited, I can only imagine everything will be taking longer.
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    staying address

    This post is from 10 years ago. It's highly unlikely they are still around.
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    Return ticket

    I'm not sure, I can't answer this.
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    Return ticket

    After applying for her sponsorship, it is very important to NOT leave Canada, in case the border agent is having a bad day and decides to not let her back into Canada. If that were to happen we would have to cancel the inland sponsorship and start over with an outland sponsorship. We applied...
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    Return ticket

    That is exactly what we did.
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    Sowp - Inside canada - Any updates?

    Yes.
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    Sowp - Inside canada - Any updates?

    We applied for SOWP along with PR back in October. At the end of January, medicals were requested. My agent told me that when medicals are requested, the application is paused until the medicals are completed and submitted. After that, he said there is about a 4 week wait for the SOWP to be...
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    Visitor Visa for Spouse

    In my experience it does not mean much. TRVs from my wife's country stated 240 days but it was processed in 30.
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    Visitor visa for my long-term partner

    Common law would mean the date you started cohabitating together, not when you decided you started dating...
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    Visitor visa for siblings

    In your invitation letter, if you say you will cover her expenses, you will also want to include your pay stubs and bank statements from the past several months. Naturgrl is correct, you should request the GCMS notes to know exactly why they refused the application. On the next application...
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    Tell us more about what you'll do in Canada. Include dates.

    Only you know what you plan to do in Canada. Simply state what you want to do and the dates you plan on doing these things.
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    Questions about online application for visitor's visa for common-law partner

    1) Most fields only allow one document. What I did was compile all the relevant documents into a Word file. Once completed, I saved the Word file as a PDF. If the file is too big, change the optimization to "Minimum size". There are also free PDF compilers online if you search Google. 2)...
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    Visitor visa for my girlfriend - Help!

    I am the one quoted here. I would like to add, my girlfriend was from Indonesia so she is from a country that is very similar to the Philippines as far as standard of living goes. We openly disclosed our relationship status in the application, why hide it? Plus, she also required IMM006 for...
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    Visitor visa for my girlfriend - Help!

    Request the visa officer's notes with an ATIP request. They may be more specific in the notes and you may be able to address the deficiencies. That happened to me, so I requested the notes and addressed the issues explicitly in my invitation letter and in a letter from her that we added in the...
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    Suggestion needed to appeal the refusal letter

    Our notes document was 36 pages, with the VO notes on the final page, which was quite detailed.
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    Suggestion needed to appeal the refusal letter

    My request for GCMS notes DID in fact have detailed notes that we were able to address. Luck of the draw I suppose.
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    Visit Visa Refused

    That is incorrect. I requested the notes for my girlfriend's first refusal and there were clear notes as to the reasons for the refusal that were not on the form letter. We addressed all the notes in the second application and it was approved.
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    Question regarding declaration form

    Your Authorization for Exemption would have been valid for 6 months from the date of issuance and says so specifically. If you received this in March, it has expired and a new letter is required...
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    Confusion about vaccines??

    https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid/travel-restrictions/covid-vaccinated-travellers-entering-canada#determine-fully Canada currently recognizes a combination of accepted vaccines, so the Pfizer and Astrazeneca combined count as fully vaccinated.