CHC, Islamabad Spouse Sponsorship Timeline 2011 -2012

[lonelyinca]

How long did it take to get the passport back from the embassy

10 days

 

[uzafar88]

Hi everyone,

First time posting here but have been lurking around for awhile.

Have a few questions about the application to sponsor your spouse. I'll start off with some background information first:
- I'm a Canadian citizen sponsoring my Pakistani wife. I came to Canada when I was 5 and we're both 24.
- I was engaged in December 2011 to my wife.
- Completed Biomedical Engineering in May 2012 while my wife got her Masters in Business Administration.
- Went to Pakistan at the end of June 2012 with my family.
- Got married in July 2012.
- My family came back earlier and I stayed until the end of September 2012.
- Found out she was pregnant before I left. We were both really excited.
- Going back to visit her and taking parental leave from work in March 2013.

Here are my questions:
Q1: Regarding question 26 on IMM 5490 (Sponsored Spouse/Partner Questionnaire) . It asks to provide documentary evidence for how we communicate when we are not together. About 99% of our daily means of communication are through instant messaging on Facebook. I checked and we have a total of 16,500 individual messages on Facebook. I put that into a Word document and it takes over 1000 pages in size 11 font. I also have all of our text messages saved, they're over 5000 in total. That's a lot, plus many of our messages are extremely private and would prefer not to share them with anyone else.

Q2: Related to the Option C Printout and the last Notice of Assessment for the most recent taxation year for the sponsor. My dad has a personal account who files all of our income taxes, and for some unknown reason, Canada Revenue Agency did not receive my income tax information for 2011, the deadline was on April 30, 2012. I have the T1 General form from our accountant completed. Can I send that in since it contains all the required information, or should I first file my taxes first and then send the Notice of Assessment once Canada Revenue Agency receives my tax return information, which will take between 4-6 weeks? I have the Notice of Assessment for 2010 and can get a proof of employment letter from my current employer.

Q3: The Document Checklist asks for my wife's original educational documents. She's going to apply for some jobs and they'll probably ask for her original degree and certificates, especially the MBA. What should I do and does CIC ever return everything once the application process is complete?

 

[hopefully very soon]

loads of undelivered shipments for karachi!! praying.....

 

[mianz]

Group # 1-EN1IGS:

Ezee------ since 10/16/2012. (No update after this day)
sabii------- since march 2012 (remedical/forms request after this... file is in que for DMO)
(i dont know if it matters what group your file is in or not but i guess it matters who your VO is)
Mianz------ since 15 Aug 2012 (supp forms/remedical/repcc/ppr)

 

[hopefully very soon]

Hi everyone,

First time posting here but have been lurking around for awhile.

Have a few questions about the application to sponsor your spouse. I'll start off with some background information first:
- I'm a Canadian citizen sponsoring my Pakistani wife. I came to Canada when I was 5 and we're both 24.
- I was engaged in December 2011 to my wife.
- Completed Biomedical Engineering in May 2012 while my wife got her Masters in Business Administration.
- Went to Pakistan at the end of June 2012 with my family.
- Got married in July 2012.
- My family came back earlier and I stayed until the end of September 2012.
- Found out she was pregnant before I left. We were both really excited.
- Going back to visit her and taking parental leave from work in March 2013.

Here are my questions:
Q1: Regarding question 26 on IMM 5490 (Sponsored Spouse/Partner Questionnaire) . It asks to provide documentary evidence for how we communicate when we are not together. About 99% of our daily means of communication are through instant messaging on Facebook. I checked and we have a total of 16,500 individual messages on Facebook. I put that into a Word document and it takes over 1000 pages in size 11 font. I also have all of our text messages saved, they're over 5000 in total. That's a lot, plus many of our messages are extremely private and would prefer not to share them with anyone else.

Q2: Related to the Option C Printout and the last Notice of Assessment for the most recent taxation year for the sponsor. My dad has a personal account who files all of our income taxes, and for some unknown reason, Canada Revenue Agency did not receive my income tax information for 2011, the deadline was on April 30, 2012. I have the T1 General form from my account completed. Can I send that in since it contains all the required information, or should I first file my taxes first and then send the Notice of Assessment once Canada Revenue Agency receives my tax return information, which will take between 4-6 weeks? I have the Notice of Assessment for 2010 and can get a proof of employment letter from my current employer.

Q3: The Document Checklist asks for my wife's original educational documents. She's going to apply for some jobs and they'll probably ask for her original degree and certificates, especially the MBA. What should I do and does CIC ever return everything once the application process is complete?

congrats on the baby!
regarding your first question. when i printed out the communication between me and my husband over cell phone, it came around to over a 1400 pages, and skype logs were alot too, so we sent them a couple of records from each month, and also from all the numbers my husband was using around that time, cause he was doing alot of travelling back then. about the private part, we deleted some of the msgs from the record but blacked out most of them. blacked them out so that they know that we are in a genuine relationship. cause i had read once that they ask really private questions in interviews and that is something i just cannot go through.

second question i have no idea cause my husband does all the taxation

third question, they do return all the documents once the case is done, everything, but u are looking at atleast 12 months, so if u dont have an origina; degree or dont wanna send it, then just mail them the certified copy. and if possible give them a reason why you cant send the original

 

[Khilafah5]

asa

congrads to all the brothers and sisters who are getting good news

may Allah join all of u with there spouse and bless u with happiness

 

[immigratingcanada2011]

Dear All -- would be interested to hear your reaction and get senior members' guidance on the following: I just called the Immigration Call Center. They told me my file was transferred to Islamabad from Ottawa in October 2012. They said there is a criteria (unspecified) by which they decide whether the file will be processed in Islamabad or Ottawa. Initially, Mississauga Case Processing Center forwarded it to Ottawa in June 2012 upon sponsorship approval. But then, Ottawa decided in October 2012 that they can not process my file, so they sent it to Islamabad. The criteria is unknown i.e. nobody (including call center agents) knows whether it's a good thing or bad thing if one's file is in Ottawa or Islamabad, or based on what they decide where to process it. I filed for sponsorship in March 2012 and they approved sponsorship and transferred my file to Ottawa in June 2012. Now I'm wondering if I have lost the 4 months between June and October i.e. Did my file go to the back of the queue when it reached Islamabad in October? It's all unclear.

 

[laila hasan]

loads of undelivered shipments for karachi!! praying.....




What does that mean and how do you know abt that

 

[laila hasan]

Six long months have passed since my husband sent his passport to embassy, emailed ,faxed, Called did every single possible thing but No replies. Mp says file in queue for review from DMO.

 

[imthegreat2004]

what is this tcs tracking thing ??? how can we check with their serial numbers our passports ? plz help ?

mine is almost same as yours but didnt get anything yet

 

[lonelyinca]

Hi everyone,

First time posting here but have been lurking around for awhile.

Have a few questions about the application to sponsor your spouse. I'll start off with some background information first:
- I'm a Canadian citizen sponsoring my Pakistani wife. I came to Canada when I was 5 and we're both 24.
- I was engaged in December 2011 to my wife.
- Completed Biomedical Engineering in May 2012 while my wife got her Masters in Business Administration.
- Went to Pakistan at the end of June 2012 with my family.
- Got married in July 2012.
- My family came back earlier and I stayed until the end of September 2012.
- Found out she was pregnant before I left. We were both really excited.
- Going back to visit her and taking parental leave from work in March 2013.

Here are my questions:
Q1: Regarding question 26 on IMM 5490 (Sponsored Spouse/Partner Questionnaire) . It asks to provide documentary evidence for how we communicate when we are not together. About 99% of our daily means of communication are through instant messaging on Facebook. I checked and we have a total of 16,500 individual messages on Facebook. I put that into a Word document and it takes over 1000 pages in size 11 font. I also have all of our text messages saved, they're over 5000 in total. That's a lot, plus many of our messages are extremely private and would prefer not to share them with anyone else.

Q2: Related to the Option C Printout and the last Notice of Assessment for the most recent taxation year for the sponsor. My dad has a personal account who files all of our income taxes, and for some unknown reason, Canada Revenue Agency did not receive my income tax information for 2011, the deadline was on April 30, 2012. I have the T1 General form from our accountant completed. Can I send that in since it contains all the required information, or should I first file my taxes first and then send the Notice of Assessment once Canada Revenue Agency receives my tax return information, which will take between 4-6 weeks? I have the Notice of Assessment for 2010 and can get a proof of employment letter from my current employer.

Q3: The Document Checklist asks for my wife's original educational documents. She's going to apply for some jobs and they'll probably ask for her original degree and certificates, especially the MBA. What should I do and does CIC ever return everything once the application process is complete?

1) What I did was take SCREENSHOTS of several pages of facebook, IMs, inbox. Not more than dozen pages of screenshot per page. No need to send everything, it's really annoying for the officer to handle all that. He doesn't care about how many pages, all he needs to see is how and when (frequency). Make sure you highlight relevant info. I personally did NOT send any texts in word document. Just screens.

2) Did you file your 2011 taxes or not? How did they not receive it? That's another matter. Check online your CRA account if you don't have register. Can't comment here but IMO 2011 paystubs and 2010 tax return should be enough.

3) They do return everything, or at least they should BUT it's your responsibility once it's in the mail system (TCS). They returned everything for us. If she can't provide orginals, provide the attested copies with explanation letter of why originals was not sent. They will understand!

 

[twinkle22]

Dear All -- would be interested to hear your reaction and get senior members' guidance on the following: I just called the Immigration Call Center. They told me my file was transferred to Islamabad from Ottawa in October 2012. They said there is a criteria (unspecified) by which they decide whether the file will be processed in Islamabad or Ottawa. Initially, Mississauga Case Processing Center forwarded it to Ottawa in June 2012 upon sponsorship approval. But then, Ottawa decided in October 2012 that they can not process my file, so they sent it to Islamabad. The criteria is unknown i.e. nobody (including call center agents) knows whether it's a good thing or bad thing if one's file is in Ottawa or Islamabad, or based on what they decide where to process it. I filed for sponsorship in March 2012 and they approved sponsorship and transferred my file to Ottawa in June 2012. Now I'm wondering if I have lost the 4 months between June and October i.e. Did my file go to the back of the queue when it reached Islamabad in October? It's all unclear.

i have around same timeline as you, i got info from MP in oct that ottawa is reviewing my file. But i dont know now where my file is Just wanted to ask you that how did you convince the call centre agent to give you that information? last week i called immigration call centre and the refused to give me this info

 

[immigratingcanada2011]

I just asked where my file is - they said Islamabad - so I clarified against my past knowledge that it was in Ottawa so they told me this.

 

[Usman.Bajwa79]

your emoticon shows you saw your name in these tracking #s :

Allah Tumhari zubaan Mubarik kareh!!
Lekin same the DMO seems to be sleeping on a pile of very important files.

 

[Ezee]

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