Inland Spousal Sponsorship

[McGill Lopez]

Hi knowledgeable lovely people. I'm desperate for help here since it's been 16 months and I still have no OWP or PR. I feel like a caged lion in limbo with no more sense of time or further plans.

My wife a Canadian PR is sponsoring me and our 4 year old daughter. The other two girls were born in Canada. The paper application was received by IRCC on august 24th 2018. The last update we got is that we did pass the medicals.

I have submitted webforms and they thanked me for waiting and apologized for the situation I'm in but again, the answer is to wait.

Important details-
* I was deported to Mexico from the USA 10 years ago on May 10th, 2020

* my criminal background check from the FBI includes 2 misdemeanors in the state of Wisconsin. One for hit and run when I was 14 years old and another is a CCW (carrying a Concealed weapon)
*I have no other record with the law since I was a kid. This is more than 10 years ago and I heard in canada it doesnt count against you after 6 years. (Not sure if that's true)

The portal has no new information and when I contact the agents on the phone they only say that my file was transferred to the Edmonton office back in June of 2019 and to keep waiting.

Is there anything else I can do besides waiting? Our representative who charged us almost $4,000 for the application says there's nothing else to do.

I really want to work because we have 3 daughters under the age of 4 and all of my plans have frozen in time and I'm not getting any younger. I'm in my prime to work and here I sit, counting the days to get an answer. Hopefully a positive one.

Anyone has any comments of any kind or info?

My friend told me "No answer is better than a No from IRCC"

Thank you all for your time and advice.

 

[scylla]

Hi knowledgeable lovely people. I'm desperate for help here since it's been 16 months and I still have no OWP or PR. I feel like a caged lion in limbo with no more sense of time or further plans.

My wife a Canadian PR is sponsoring me and our 4 year old daughter. The other two girls were born in Canada. The paper application was received by IRCC on august 24th 2018. The last update we got is that we did pass the medicals.

I have submitted webforms and they thanked me for waiting and apologized for the situation I'm in but again, the answer is to wait.

Important details-
* I was deported to Mexico from the USA 10 years ago on May 10th, 2020

* my criminal background check from the FBI includes 2 misdemeanors in the state of Wisconsin. One for hit and run when I was 14 years old and another is a CCW (carrying a Concealed weapon)
*I have no other record with the law since I was a kid. This is more than 10 years ago and I heard in canada it doesnt count against you after 6 years. (Not sure if that's true)

The portal has no new information and when I contact the agents on the phone they only say that my file was transferred to the Edmonton office back in June of 2019 and to keep waiting.

Is there anything else I can do besides waiting? Our representative who charged us almost $4,000 for the application says there's nothing else to do.

I really want to work because we have 3 daughters under the age of 4 and all of my plans have frozen in time and I'm not getting any younger. I'm in my prime to work and here I sit, counting the days to get an answer. Hopefully a positive one.

Anyone has any comments of any kind or info?

My friend told me "No answer is better than a No from IRCC"

Thank you all for your time and advice.

I assume you've ordered your GCMS notes? What did they say? Your case is not straight forward unfortunately. Did you have valid status in Canada at the time you applied?

 

[McGill Lopez]

I assume you've ordered your GCMS notes? What did they say? Your case is not straight forward unfortunately. Did you have valid status in Canada at the time you applied?

Yes, I came in with an ETA and got the Temporary Permanent Residency. My TPR expired but now I'm in Implied status until I get a response. I was very honest in the application. I dont know what GCMS notes are or how to get them. Can you please explain little more?

 

[scylla]

Yes, I came in with an ETA and got the Temporary Permanent Residency. My TPR expired but now I'm in Implied status until I get a response. I was very honest in the application. I dont know what GCMS notes are or how to get them. Can you please explain little more?

So just to make sure - you included an OWP (open work permit) with your inland application?

GCMS notes:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...rmation-privacy/requests-information-act.html

FYI - they take around 30 days to arrive.

Also, kind of a fail on your lawyer's part if ordering notes hasn't been suggested yet.

 

[McGill Lopez]

So just to make sure - you included an OWP (open work permit) with your inland application?

GCMS notes:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...rmation-privacy/requests-information-act.html

FYI - they take around 30 days to arrive.

Also, kind of a fail on your lawyer's part if ordering notes hasn't been suggested yet.

Great! I'll order the notes ASAP. I feel like my representative got annoyed with me because I kept calling her and emailing her. Its like they lost interest and follow up once I payed up and the application was submitted. At this point I'm looking for other alternatives and information outside my current dead ends.

Thanks for the tip!

 

[k.h.p.]

Did you apply for an OWP with your application? If you didn't, you may not have implied status.

 

[McGill Lopez]

Yes, I applied for OWP and PR and was all mailed together. I even payed the fee for the OWP. I havent gotten a response for the OWP 16 months later when the deadline was 3-7 months when I applied.

 

[k.h.p.]

Okay. At least you do have implied status from that.

 

[McGill Lopez]

So just to make sure - you included an OWP (open work permit) with your inland application?

GCMS notes:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...rmation-privacy/requests-information-act.html

FYI - they take around 30 days to arrive.

Also, kind of a fail on your lawyer's part if ordering notes hasn't been suggested yet.

Hey, I ordered the notes. One for me and one for my 4 year old daughter. Thanks! Let me know if anything else comes to mind. Thank you so much....

 

[scylla]

Hey, I ordered the notes. One for me and one for my 4 year old daughter. Thanks! Let me know if anything else comes to mind. Thank you so much....

That's really the most you can do. Once the notes arrived in around a month, you'll have a better idea of what the hold up might be.