Interview for Spouse open work permit application

[ELSIDIK. ALI]

Dears Sir
Please i have Company Albrkal i can opeing my Work in Canada

 

[jass12]

hello everyone i have a spouse opn work permit interview today . i want to ask a simple question that , why they conduct interview for this case and is any negtive chance means rejection

 

[_denise]

Thank you for the quick response. Can you tell me a few questions they asked you if you can recall, please? I would highly appreciate it. I didn't expect my wife to be called for an interview. but I think it might be because we applied soon after getting married and maybe they want to make sure the relationship is genuine.

by the way, the interview letter did not come from CIC account it came as an email from the high commission of Canada.

Hi! Thanks for sharing your experience! I wanted to ask you, from when you got married to when you aplied, how many months had passed?

 

[Silky1234@]

Hello Everyone in this Forum,

As I mentioned above in this thread, My wife is a full time student in Canada and I applied for SOWP. Below is the timeline
Online Application: 2 Feb 2019
Biometrics : 11 Feb 2019
Letter from CIC for the interview : 15 March 2019
Interview : 11 April 2019
PPR request: 11 April 2019
After a long wait finally its approved. I would like to thank god for his mercy.
As interview for SOWP application is very rare I would like to share my experience and hope this may help for the future applicants. I tried to search for my answers before interview but didn;t get any concrete answers. My interview letter said:

" Bring all required documentation with you to your interview including marriage photos depicting all ceremonies, post marriage photographs, proof of ongoing communication, status of inviter in canada, proof of ongoing education of inviter in Canada."

Documents collected: Wedding Album (Both engagement and Wedding), 12 post marriage photographs, Wats app chat history (Initial and latest chats for about 8 months), Call history (Only on wats app- took the screenshots, made collage picture and took a print out), Receipts for the payment done to my wife's account for tution fee, all canadian college documents, etc.

At Canadian embassy, New Delhi:
1. All the electronic medias like mobiles, mobile chargers, Pen drive, hard drive etc. Needs to be submitted at the main gate.
2. The visa officer asked me very general questions like name of the spouse, wedding and engagement dates, exact location my spouse stays in Canada, Name of the college , duration of the study,
3. Documents that was required for the interview- College documents, Wedding Album, post marriage photos, on going communication proof (My wats app chats were approx 100 pages when I was removing that from my folder, the officer didn't really analysed it), all the documents related to my spouse' study and work permit.
4. How may guests were present for the marriage and wanted to see the photograph for the same- I had few pictures in the wedding Album.
5. Why my previous application got rejected.

The interview was very simple if the applicant dont have to hide anything and if the facts mentioned in the applications is correct.

And the best part is that we will get to know about the decision soon after the interview.

Thanks

@scylla Thank you very much for the reply...Yes interview for SOWP is very rare...Let me once complete the interview and definitely share my experience here..so that it could be a help for others....[/QUOTE
Hello. My husband was called for interview on 7 August 2019 and the interview was cleared but the officer told us that you will get mail till 12 August 2019. But still we didn’t get any mail. We only get a biometric valid letter. Please can anyone help me.

 

[Silky1234@]

My husband was having an interview on 7 August 2019. Everything was good. But we didn’t get confirmation mail till now. It has been 5 weeks. I want to know that it comes from CIC account or through mail.

 

[Garim Singh]

Hi,

Thanks for the detailed info. I have few questions it would be great if you can answer:

1. Did you took WhatsApp chat history through screenshots or you took the email printouts.
2. 100 pages were all chat history screenshots ?

My concern was I got married a month after I got my study visa and now I am already in Canada and have applied for SOWP. Do I need to visit college



QUOTE="cvw123, post: 7752871, member: 835013"]Hello Everyone in this Forum,

As I mentioned above in this thread, My wife is a full time student in Canada and I applied for SOWP. Below is the timeline
Online Application: 2 Feb 2019
Biometrics : 11 Feb 2019
Letter from CIC for the interview : 15 March 2019
Interview : 11 April 2019
PPR request: 11 April 2019
After a long wait finally its approved. I would like to thank god for his mercy.
As interview for SOWP application is very rare I would like to share my experience and hope this may help for the future applicants. I tried to search for my answers before interview but didn;t get any concrete answers. My interview letter said:

" Bring all required documentation with you to your interview including marriage photos depicting all ceremonies, post marriage photographs, proof of ongoing communication, status of inviter in canada, proof of ongoing education of inviter in Canada."

Documents collected: Wedding Album (Both engagement and Wedding), 12 post marriage photographs, Wats app chat history (Initial and latest chats for about 8 months), Call history (Only on wats app- took the screenshots, made collage picture and took a print out), Receipts for the payment done to my wife's account for tution fee, all canadian college documents, etc.

At Canadian embassy, New Delhi:
1. All the electronic medias like mobiles, mobile chargers, Pen drive, hard drive etc. Needs to be submitted at the main gate.
2. The visa officer asked me very general questions like name of the spouse, wedding and engagement dates, exact location my spouse stays in Canada, Name of the college , duration of the study,
3. Documents that was required for the interview- College documents, Wedding Album, post marriage photos, on going communication proof (My wats app chats were approx 100 pages when I was removing that from my folder, the officer didn't really analysed it), all the documents related to my spouse' study and work permit.
4. How may guests were present for the marriage and wanted to see the photograph for the same- I had few pictures in the wedding Album.
5. Why my previous application got rejected.

The interview was very simple if the applicant dont have to hide anything and if the facts mentioned in the applications is correct.

And the best part is that we will get to know about the decision soon after the interview.

Thanks[/QUO

 

[Garim Singh]

What is status of inviter in Canada ?

 

[Garim Singh]

Hello guys,

Can you please inform me that after the interview how many days it takes for the visa as my spouse has already submitted the passport and other documents to vfs and then called for interview.
Do they inform about our approval status right away ?
Do we need to take WhatsApp screen shots for the chat history?

 

[Gurdev khehra]

after interview SOWP its been 1 month and still waiting for the answer by the immigration

 

[Gurdev khehra]

My husband was having an interview on 7 August 2019. Everything was good. But we didn’t get confirmation mail till now. It has been 5 weeks. I want to know that it comes from CIC account or through mail.

My interview was 18 September but still now waiting

 

[cvw123]

after interview SOWP its been 1 month and still waiting for the answer by the immigration

Not sure about that...i got the approval right away...there is immigration toll free number where you can get a application status..try this number... not sure of this is right one..8882422100

 

[Nagulen priya]

Hi guys,
I'm in srilanka, my husband sponser me
I'm going to interview on 19th December

Want to write the details behind the photos ?
Please friends can give me a advise on the above query....

 

[Goodwinthegr8]

Hello Everyone in this Forum,

As I mentioned above in this thread, My wife is a full time student in Canada and I applied for SOWP. Below is the timeline
Online Application: 2 Feb 2019
Biometrics : 11 Feb 2019
Letter from CIC for the interview : 15 March 2019
Interview : 11 April 2019
PPR request: 11 April 2019
After a long wait finally its approved. I would like to thank god for his mercy.
As interview for SOWP application is very rare I would like to share my experience and hope this may help for the future applicants. I tried to search for my answers before interview but didn;t get any concrete answers. My interview letter said:

" Bring all required documentation with you to your interview including marriage photos depicting all ceremonies, post marriage photographs, proof of ongoing communication, status of inviter in canada, proof of ongoing education of inviter in Canada."

Documents collected: Wedding Album (Both engagement and Wedding), 12 post marriage photographs, Wats app chat history (Initial and latest chats for about 8 months), Call history (Only on wats app- took the screenshots, made collage picture and took a print out), Receipts for the payment done to my wife's account for tution fee, all canadian college documents, etc.

At Canadian embassy, New Delhi:
1. All the electronic medias like mobiles, mobile chargers, Pen drive, hard drive etc. Needs to be submitted at the main gate.
2. The visa officer asked me very general questions like name of the spouse, wedding and engagement dates, exact location my spouse stays in Canada, Name of the college , duration of the study,
3. Documents that was required for the interview- College documents, Wedding Album, post marriage photos, on going communication proof (My wats app chats were approx 100 pages when I was removing that from my folder, the officer didn't really analysed it), all the documents related to my spouse' study and work permit.
4. How may guests were present for the marriage and wanted to see the photograph for the same- I had few pictures in the wedding Album.
5. Why my previous application got rejected.

The interview was very simple if the applicant dont have to hide anything and if the facts mentioned in the applications is correct.

And the best part is that we will get to know about the decision soon after the interview.

Thanks

This is really a detailed post! Thanks a lot! I believe this will help a lot of people.
I have a question and a concern here.

If you don't mind can you please tell me how long you have been married before this application, and how frequent you guys met in between. Why I am asking this, because they actually try to see if the applicant is actually well connected with his/her spouse over recent years. They put quite a lot of importance to the physical closeness.

And the concern is it is really difficult to print all those chats, images from any social media or apps. Moreover, Google Hangouts does not show give any option to export/download the chat/call history.

Thanks.

 

[cvw123]

Sorry i was out of the forum for many days...we were married for 3 years and then we applied for the visa...of-course they willl check if the couples stayed together after marriage or not....i believe there were many cases in Canada where they faked the marriage and got the visa but then caught later on.... because of which the rules are stricter now...the officer may ask for chats if they have any doubt the authenticity of the marriage... in my case i took the printouts of the chats but he never asked for that.... all the best for the visa

 

[Vank1628]

Hi guys,

My wife got the visa approved today. They uploaded a letter asking for the passport but there was no letter for work permit that we should bring to Canada to obtain the work permit at the point of entry. Do you guys know why or when i will get that letter

Hi guys,

My wife got the visa approved today. They uploaded a letter asking for the passport but there was no letter for work permit that we should bring to Canada to obtain the work permit at the point of entry. Do you guys know why or when i will get that letter

Hello Srilankan,

First of all congratulations for your wife's visa approval. God bless you both.

I am also in same situation. I am currently working in Canada on my work-permit, which is valid till March 2021.
I recently applied for my wife visitor visa (through my company) which has been rejected due to IRCC 179b.

I am planning to apply for a Spouse Open Work Permit, which seems more suitable category for her visit to Canada.
Our purpose is she can accompany me here till my work-permit validity.

Was there any previous refusal in your case also, and how did you approached further.
One more question, Is there any specific category which we need to select for SOWP. How it will be highlighted that this is a SOWP not OWP.

Any advice would be really helpful. Thanks.