Havana, Cuba

[windsorgirl]

I am at nine months and one week and still haven't heard from the embassy. Although my husband is going there today.

 

[madameR]

really??? from the time your file is in havana it is 9 months or from the beginning?and how come he is going??/ does he have an interview?

 

[windsorgirl]

Yes nine months and one week since it has been in Havana! He is just going there to ask what is going on. He was told he will be getting a phone call soon. He has not been notified that he has an interview or nothing hopefully he gets a call just to bring his passport in and his visa will be issued later that day. Dont forget our application was also lost by CIC when it was in Toronto they finally called my lawyer two months after they lost our file. So we sent a new file at my expense and i had my approval to sponsor him within two days via email! Our application was submitted in March of 2014 it has been eighteen months since it was submitted to cic in Toronto! !!

 

[newgirl1]

no the 10 months mean 10 month in havana i think??? am i wrong???and i dont have an MP .I USED AN IMMIGRATION LAWYER...

Oh yeah sorry, thought u meant 10 months in havana. Every city has a MP (member of parliament) and once your timeline hits 10 months in Havana then I would be contacting them to look into things for you at that point.

 

[Mrs.DoryBaby]

10 months means 10 months in Havana We are at 8 months in Havana and 14 months since we sent the application.

I have heard that MPs have gotten involved earlier. Galano. U sure ur hubby doesn't have family that works for the military in Cuba? This might be the hold up for u... Sometimes they don't wanna let people go when family works for the military- I've heard tons of stories... But they all got what they wanted in the end. So nonfear...

 

[Galano1213]

My husband is an only child, his Mother and Father are both deceased. His daughter is a school teacher and her husband is a mechanic for the bus system. The only thing we thought of was that his Father ,whom he never met went to the USA and never returned to Cuba. My MP was told we would have an interview because they wanted us to prove our marriage was genuine. And because of that they put the application as not a priority. I guess being married for two years, thousands of dollars spent on travel to Cuba to be with my husband every few months,phone calls, money sent for his support proves nothing Several calls by MP's from both parties doesn't count. I find this system is biased because I am 12 years older than him and we certainly do not intend to have children. We knew each other five years before we married. I am a retired school teacher and he is a Chef and wants to continue working. I am so sick and tired of all of this I could scream. Our life together is being held hostage by a system that has no compassion for couples. I wonder if this is really Cuban officials or Canada's officials playing with numbers.

 

[luigui]

My husband is an only child, his Mother and Father are both deceased. His daughter is a school teacher and her husband is a mechanic for the bus system. The only thing we thought of was that his Father ,whom he never met went to the USA and never returned to Cuba. My MP was told we would have an interview because they wanted us to prove our marriage was genuine. And because of that they put the application as not a priority. I guess being married for two years, thousands of dollars spent on travel to Cuba to be with my husband every few months,phone calls, money sent for his support proves nothing Several calls by MP's from both parties doesn't count. I find this system is biased because I am 12 years older than him and we certainly do not intend to have children. We knew each other five years before we married. I am a retired school teacher and he is a Chef and wants to continue working. I am so sick and tired of all of this I could scream. Our life together is being held hostage by a system that has no compassion for couples. I wonder if this is really Cuban officials or Canada's officials playing with numbers.

Hi Galano, the age difference probably raised a flag, my wife is quite younger than I, this week will be 6 months since our file has been in la Habana, my MP called last week and was told that everything still been processed for eligibility and that the 10 months wait will be till January, it was generic information, they didn't provide anything specific about our file.

 

[Galano1213]

Yes ,we knew that age might make a difference but my husband is 54 and I am 67 so we have talked about a lot of the major changes in both our lives as well as the fact if we were denied that I would move to Cuba and live there. If we don't get a date this month I will order notes to see if they provide more information. I am travelling to Cuba this month to celebrate our second wedding anniversary. If we have to wait the ten months it will be November, so I keep praying that winter is kind.

 

[madameR]

honestly it just frustrates me how they just think they have the right to play with peoples lives.......its sickening.if two people love each other and want to be together nothing should be allowed to keep them apart!TO THE PAPERWORK AND MOVE ON!

 

[luigui]

Yes ,we knew that age might make a difference but my husband is 54 and I am 67 so we have talked about a lot of the major changes in both our lives as well as the fact if we were denied that I would move to Cuba and live there. If we don't get a date this month I will order notes to see if they provide more information. I am travelling to Cuba this month to celebrate our second wedding anniversary. If we have to wait the ten months it will be November, so I keep praying that winter is kind.

If we don't hear anything this month I will visit my wife again in October, I have submitted copy of my passport entry visas for all the trips I have done after our marriage as a proof of our relationship, they just acknowledged the fax I sent to them two weeks ago. I was hoping she was here before winter starts.

 

[luigui]

If we don't hear anything this month I will visit my wife again in October, I have submitted copy of my passport entry visas for all the trips I have done after our marriage as a proof of our relationship, they just acknowledged the fax I sent to them two weeks ago. I was hoping she was here before winter starts.

Hi Galano, how you request notes from Havana?

 

[Galano1213]

Here is the link to give you the information on how to get the note

www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/atip/requests-atip.asp

 

[luigui]

Here is the link to give you the information on how to get the note

www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/atip/requests-atip.asp

tHANKS

 

[Er84]

Hello everyone. My spouse was called to bring his birth certificate for our application and they were also asking him questions about our relationship. All this over the phone. Not sure what to make of this? Good in that they are "processing" our application and asking for something (although I don't recall this being needed in the checklist). Or bad in that our application is now back to the "bottom of the pile". Oh, and nothing on E-Cas....surprise surprise :

 

[Galano1213]

Birth certificate was a required document when application was sent in. When did you send the application ? Are you approved as a sponsor?