I have been out of canada for so long it's hard for me to think about voting but you can bet your ...that I'll become a lot more involved when we are 'allowed' to move back. This is almost criminal for the government to hold people's passports for this long without even a timeline or guarantee that there will be a visa coming. Again, that would have been the breaker for us. My husband would not be able to do his job without his passport.GabbieLovesAya said:
Oh yes, medical is expired. Money paid, unnecessary x-ray done.... at this point they will probably have us redo it. I went to the MP's office, I sent in messages by alll available means saying "now would be the time because the medical is just about to expire..." but nothing, only ignorance, that is what we get from our government.momeh_30 said:
It's not almost criminal. It is criminal. Except they get away with this, because they are on foreign land and it is hard to apply the Canadian laws if the crime inflicted transpires in the Philippines - against a citizen of the Philippines. They treat people like cattle. They even send back passports without advising you that they did so and without providing you with a tracking number. So your passport just shows up one day... who knows when.Hwseyl said:
Well said GLA. Highly presumptuous of these people to assume all Filipinos are unable to travel and therefore they can hold onto the passports as long as they wish. Ridiculous. I was actually wondering myself should we wish to get my wife's out how we could do it. Thanks to you I know the answer now & it is not encouraging. Did you ask via the CIC Hot Line in Canada at all, if they could do something ... like say fly a pigeon into Fortress CEM and have them return it that way?!GabbieLovesAya said:
We e-mailed to the embassy (no answer), we called the embassy (can't get a live person), we called the 1-888-242-2100 (they said to contact the embassy), I went to the MP's office (they said to contact the embassy...) we went to the embassy in person (they would not let us in or would not entertain our request). Pigeon? That one I did not try yet LOL. Anyway, I manged to get some direct contact information to Manila through submitting an ATIP request. Mind you, I had to wrestle the ATIP bureaucrats every inch of the way... I will be sending out some to-the-point emails to some people that are not used to receive e-mails from clients. Because we are going on the 14th of October to the Embassy and we want an appointment to get that passport out of there. The next day (on the 15th) we have an appointment to get the EU visa... so it's crunch time.Gumper said:
Access to Information and Privacy - there is such an "act" which provides certain rights to citizens of Canada for the release of certain information. You can make an online request here - it costs $5Hwseyl said:
Pigeon! hahaha!!!GabbieLovesAya said:
Lazy? Nah, just that he will not incriminate himself. See, I live in Ajax and my MP is the Honorable Chris Alexander, the CIC minister. So the rules in my MP's office are a bit different. First I thought it is a blessing, when my MP was assigned the ministerial portfolio. Now I know it is a curse. My MP's staff will simply not dig up information that shows that the CIC employees are not doing their jobs.SAMANTALA said:
Oh, I'm so sorry. I had to giggle a bit when I read who your MP is. Talk about bad luck!GabbieLovesAya said:
Isn't that funny. My MP (even though my ppr was June) said that my background check wasn't even started yet. This is the first time I've even heard of background checks other than the required documents we sent in. I asked them for clarification so if I hear exactly what that means I'll let you know. She said they will take months yet since it is an outside agency that checks. Sounds like a nuch of bs to me. Sent a pretty nasty letter last week.EBUENCONS said:
I just got my GCMS notes. From what I see, there is a hierarchy in the process; for example at one point somebody wrote into my file "not ready for B/CRIM", which I interpret as Background / Criminality check. Furthermore, in the summary area, it says "Security: Not Started, Criminality: Not Started" and guess what - Medical: Not Started. What this tells me, that they don't even bother doing these checks until they decide that otherwise the application is heading for approval. What a process - is this what I paid thousand bucks for???? My blood is boiling OMG, my wife's medical expired in April...Hwseyl said:
Just curious, is your wife japanese? I wonder if there are different piles for phillipins, Japan and South Korea??GabbieLovesAya said:
