APRIL 2016 - OUTLAND SPOUSAL APPLICANTS

[snowl26]

We recieved the COPR in the mail today. We are planning to run down to the Buffalo border, maybe Queenston-Lewiston bridge next weekend.
Just want to say thank you to everyone who has answered questions, given support, company and kept me sane during this process! I appreciate it more than you could know. I wish all of you good luck and a speedy remaining process!

Congratulation!! I'm happy to hear you also got copr as we have similar timeline. Good luck with your landing!!

 

[LongDistanceLife]

WE JUST GOT OUR SA. After waiting for so long! (apparently there was something wrong with the address, they thought the sponsor was living outside of canada so we had to submit information via the online form).

AND

Our application is being transferred to the Ottawa visa office

Am I right in thinking that they process applications so much faster than London?

updating the spreadsheet now

 

[yijiequ]

WE JUST GOT OUR SA. After waiting for so long! (apparently there was something wrong with the address, they thought the sponsor was living outside of canada so we had to submit information via the online form).

AND

Our application is being transferred to the Ottawa visa office

Am I right in thinking that they process applications so much faster than London?

updating the spreadsheet now

yes.. expect to be finalized in weeks.

 

[yijiequ]

did you see what happened in France??

ahh.. not good news for us. my wife is Tunisian origin... our application was just forwarded to Paris a month ago.

nothing i can do about it..

 

[CDNPR2014]

yes.. expect to be finalized in weeks.

i really would recommend not giving such short time frames and expectations. does ottawa process quicker than london, yes. can it be guaranteed it will only take "weeks" to process? absolutely not.

did you see what happened in France??

ahh.. not good news for us. my wife is Tunisian origin... our application was just forwarded to Paris a month ago.

nothing i can do about it..

I don't understand what you mean by it's not good news for you? Were you personally affected by this tragedy in another way? my condolences if you were. Has some official word been released that the office has been closed and processing is at a standstill because of the incident? yes, for sure what has occurred is a tragedy and awful news, though i fail to see how this impacts immigration processing at the Canadian visa office in Paris. Am I missing something?

 

[Brandon.D]

WE JUST GOT OUR SA. After waiting for so long! (apparently there was something wrong with the address, they thought the sponsor was living outside of canada so we had to submit information via the online form).

AND

Our application is being transferred to the Ottawa visa office

Am I right in thinking that they process applications so much faster than London?

updating the spreadsheet now

Congratulations! Someone from May just got DM out of Ottawa, so not much longer hopefully!

 

[kyatto]

WE JUST GOT OUR SA. After waiting for so long! (apparently there was something wrong with the address, they thought the sponsor was living outside of canada so we had to submit information via the online form).

AND

Our application is being transferred to the Ottawa visa office

Am I right in thinking that they process applications so much faster than London?

updating the spreadsheet now

Big congratulations!

 

[yijiequ]

i really would recommend not giving such short time frames and expectations. does ottawa process quicker than london, yes. can it be guaranteed it will only take "weeks" to process? absolutely not.

I don't understand what you mean by it's not good news for you? Were you personally affected by this tragedy in another way? my condolences if you were. Has some official word been released that the office has been closed and processing is at a standstill because of the incident? yes, for sure what has occurred is a tragedy and awful news, though i fail to see how this impacts immigration processing at the Canadian visa office in Paris. Am I missing something?

ok.. it's a weekend. being a redneck oriental.. i gonna explain in a way, which gonna drive lefties/white liberals crazy. why i predicted a slower process? background check gonna be even longer. my wife is a tunisian origin. the attacker was a tunisian-french citizen.

dont believe liberals all holding hands and singing kumbaya kinda of stuff. in the reality, all people in the immigration process have 3 different classes. the top of the food chain= UK, Americans, Common wealth all western nationals visa exempts, aka extremely short background check.

next tier is the one needs the visa like Asians, East Europeans.

then you have the bottom of the food chain, Africans, Middle Easterners, Muslim countries require biometrics, the list is on CIC website.

I know people gonna say.. how the heck you are so not PC. sorry. I am an Asian.. all I care about is the statistics and numbers. if you do a search and category people into those 3 groups. maybe you can see... i know people gonna think i am crazy.. sorry.. I am from a small town in the West.. people here tend not to be political correct and straight talk.. haha.

you know how most of Government Cheese reacts.. they tend not to have a proactive attitude like private businesses' any unexpected incident usually can be translated into slow process.

wanna hear something even funny? if my wife is not a Muslim or from Tunisia.. say she is an American; then she can visit me; while we are waiting...

she applied a visitor visa.. got reject.. the reason is "having a family tie in Canada." which is me.. I know it's funny and almost like a joke.
but that's just the way how a government sector functions.

the whole PR process just reinforces my belief about the big government and red tape and why private sectors created the real wealth of the society. not little government cheese in Gatineau/Ottawa.

 

[CDNPR2014]

ok.. it's a weekend. being a redneck oriental.. i gonna explain in a way, which gonna drive lefties/white liberals crazy. why i predicted a slow processing? background check gonna be even longer. my wife is a tunisian origin. the attacker was a tunisian-french citizen.

i am going to go on a limb here and say i highly doubt this one incident is going to trigger longer background checks or a domino effect on processing. perhaps that's just my liberal bleeding heart talking.

CIC is not going to change the way the do background checks because of this one terror attack, the process will remain the same. what can change and what often affects processing times is how quickly of a turnaround they will get on requests from specific countries. Remember, you are not applying to immigrate to France or the UK, you are applying to immigrate to Canada. The visa office is going to follow Canadian rules/regs, not the rules/regs of the country the office is in. Technically, the CIC offices abroad are considered Canadian soil.

 

[browning911]

ok.. it's a weekend. being a redneck oriental.. i gonna explain in a way, which gonna drive lefties/white liberals crazy. why i predicted a slower process? background check gonna be even longer. my wife is a tunisian origin. the attacker was a tunisian-french citizen.

dont believe liberals all holding hands and singing kumbaya kinda of stuff. in the reality, all people in the immigration process have 3 different classes. the top of the food chain= UK, Americans, Common wealth all western nationals visa exempts, aka extremely short background check.

next tier is the one needs the visa like Asians, East Europeans.

then you have the bottom of the food chain, Africans, Middle Easterners, Muslim countries require biometrics, the list is on CIC website.

I know people gonna say.. how the heck you are so not PC. sorry. I am an Asian.. all I care about is the statistics and numbers. if you do a search and category people into those 3 groups. maybe you can see... i know people gonna think i am crazy.. sorry.. I am from a small town in the West.. people here tend not to be political correct and straight talk.. haha.

you know how most of Government Cheese reacts.. they tend not to have a proactive attitude like private businesses' any unexpected incident usually can be translated into slow process.

wanna hear something even funny? if my wife is not a Muslim or from Tunisia.. say she is an American; then she can visit me; while we are waiting...

she applied a visitor visa.. got reject.. the reason is "having a family tie in Canada." which is me.. I know it's funny and almost like a joke.
but that's just the way how a government sector functions.

the whole PR process just reinforces my belief about the big government and red tape and why private sectors created the real wealth of the society. not little government cheese in Gatineau/Ottawa.

Umm so where do persons from the Caribbean fall?

 

[Gary_87]

WE JUST GOT OUR SA. After waiting for so long! (apparently there was something wrong with the address, they thought the sponsor was living outside of canada so we had to submit information via the online form).

AND

Our application is being transferred to the Ottawa visa office

Am I right in thinking that they process applications so much faster than London?

updating the spreadsheet now

unlucky about the SA wait but lucky about the Ottawa decision. Take a look at the spreadsheet and see how everyone else from Ottawa is doing. I'm a Brit but got sent to London so luck of the draw I guess. Congrats!

 

[Canadian_Irish_]

Me and my husband drove down to the Carway border to do his landing today... Went very well and very quick. US side took about 5 mins, and the Canadian side took about 30 (there was a family ahead of us).

Best of luck to everyone still waiting, I hope it goes quickly and smoothly!

 

[CanGer]

Congratulation!! I'm happy to hear you also got copr as we have similar timeline. Good luck with your landing!!

Thank you!! Good luck to you to!! When do you plan to land?

 

[CanGer]

WE JUST GOT OUR SA. After waiting for so long! (apparently there was something wrong with the address, they thought the sponsor was living outside of canada so we had to submit information via the online form).

AND

Our application is being transferred to the Ottawa visa office

Am I right in thinking that they process applications so much faster than London?

updating the spreadsheet now

YAY congratulations!! Things will be super speedy now!

 

[Decoy24601]

Me and my husband drove down to the Carway border to do his landing today... Went very well and very quick. US side took about 5 mins, and the Canadian side took about 30 (there was a family ahead of us).

Best of luck to everyone still waiting, I hope it goes quickly and smoothly!

Awesome ;D.

WE JUST GOT OUR SA. After waiting for so long! (apparently there was something wrong with the address, they thought the sponsor was living outside of canada so we had to submit information via the online form).

AND

Our application is being transferred to the Ottawa visa office

Am I right in thinking that they process applications so much faster than London?

updating the spreadsheet now

Congratulations! And yes, Ottawa processes applications much faster than LVO. I would estimate that it won't take your application longer than 3 more months, and it probably won't take that long.

Edit: I edited out my own news, because within the last day I have received three negative ratings and I suspect that's why. I'm sorry if my own news is so offensive. I'll shut up about it from now on.