PLZ HELP .INLAND APPLICATION TRANSFERED WITHOUT FIRST STAGE APPROVAL

[jdwhite21]

Hi niseguy:

Have you heard anything about your interview?
We also had the same situation.. was transferred without AIP in November 2009.
We have our interview this coming Tuesday. Somewhat nervous...

 

[justina]

Hi niseguy

We have a very similar timeline, applied inland in September, transferred to local office without AIP in March. After that, nothing. When I called I was told 18-24 more months before sponsorship approval and there was no information on my file yet!! So if you were told 10 months count your blessings!

We have submitted additional evidence of our continuing relationship in hopes that we will speed things up a little.

Good luck.

And JD best wishes for your interview!

 

[niseguy]

jdwhite i wish u guys luck plz keep us updated with ur interview....justina where is ur local office?

 

[justina]

Edmonton

 

[jdwhite21]

justina our office is also Edmonton. We were told 18-24 months also but it clearly wasn't that long, about 8 months from the time they told us it was transferred to a local office.

 

[justina]

JD that's great news!! Where are you from?

Please let us know what sort of stuff they ask at the interview!!

 

[jdwhite21]

Justina:
We are from Camrose, what about you?
They asked questions like when did you meet, how many siblings.. where do you live, with you etc etc. some of the questions were quite personal like when was the last time we had sex. It felt like you were in a prison or something.. hardly anytime to answer the questions and the officer was rather rude. I hope you have better luck with her than we did, we were told that she does not believe the relationship is genuine but her decision would not be finalized till she comes back from vacation :S
I guess all we can do is pray that she has a change of heart...

 

[justina]

Thanks for the reply JD.Its good to have an idea what they might ask here! I posted the question list I found a while ago but every IO seems to be different.

Sorry you got a rude IO. It sucks that you have to wait but hopefully she will come back refreshed from vacation with a positive answer!!

We are living in Edmonton (my hometown) and my husband is from East Africa.

I had heard they ask some pretty personal questions but I guess if they want to be rude then when we answer we could always go into detail!! Lol. Still, asking when you had sex really seems inappropriate but I guess they weed out the people who are not genuine that way....

 

[jdwhite21]

Ya we kind of looked at some questions that were posted on here but none of them were asked, definitely threw us off. So I guess don't be too prepared... :S
Yes I agree, hopefully this woman will be in a much better place after vacation!!! Hopefully you have lot's of proof, or more than us, obviously we didn't have enough. We have a daughter and a joint bank account but she said that's not enough but we don't have lot's of stuff together because we live off of one pay cheque.. and make sure you say you love each other because I guess we didn't say that enough either :S just can't please some people, you guys just might have to do a demonstration but I wish you guys more luck than us! Do you know why your application was transferred to a local office?

 

[justina]

We are single income as well, as he is out of status and can't work. Well, he could, but that would harm the application so he won't. We finally managed to get joint accounts, and I added his name to the cable and epcor bill but it doesn't show up on the bill so that doesn't really help. We have a joint lease, but no children. I was at school until very recently so I just started working too. We submitted some extra proof, like the bank stuff, offer letter for the job, facebook stuff and photos, and some letters from friends and family. However they were not notarized so we may have to do that part over again. We don't have lots of stuff together because I lived abroad for 5 years or so and all my stuff is old and was in storage or is handed down from my family. He gave most of his stuff away when he moved here from the east coast. We have no money to buy together things and don't want a whole lot anyway!!

I hate the fact that we have to dissect our relationship - it makes love into a clinical process and it feels so unfair!! When I was giving my parents an update recently, they had no idea of everything we are going through!!

 

[jdwhite21]

Yep thats our situation as well essentially. We submitted all the same kind of stuff, the bank stuff, offer letter facebook and photos but it wasn't enough. I really don't know what else you can do or what we could've done.. we plan on getting letters from as many people as we can to send in here before she makes her final decision, hoping that that'll help her believe that we are in fact genuine.
I also agree about the dissecting and I mean really, how can you tell how genuine a relationship is simply by reading some things on paper..
I forgot to mention the IO didn't even ask us the same questions so I don't know how she expects to compare answers to see if they are the same.. it's an unfair process simply because some people have taken advantage the rest of us have to suffer :S

 

[justina]

That's messed up about the questions. How do you compare answers to questions that are different!!!



You should probably get the letters notarized. Someone said it should be done or they don't look at the letters. I hope they still do because we didn't get ours notarized. We will later if they request it.

 

[jdwhite21]

I don't know if we will be able to get 30 letters notarized, we got the ones notarized that were originally sent in. And it's too late for the ones coming from El Salvador... hopefully she still looks at them, now I'm more worried :S because we don't have that much time either like I don't know how long she's on vacation.

 

[justina]

I don't think the letters all need to be notarized, just the most important ones!!

We may order our FOSS notes soon, haven't decided, but I want to wait a little to make sure all the stuff we added to the application will be included in the notes!

I wonder what kind of stuff the officer expected you to have together. Living together and the bits and pieces of daily life and raising a child together should count for a lot!

We have made very few non-consumable purchases together...most of the stuff in our home I bought 10 years ago or we have may pieces that are hand-me-downs from my parents or our friends. Mostly we just shop for groceries together, and sometimes clothes. We don't go out a lot either, to places that would give receipts. We have saved most of those though, I think. Most of the gatherings are at the homes of friends or family, and we eat and the guys usually play cards while the girls chat. With a single income, outings need to be cheap! I really can't think of what other proof we could come up with. Our lawyer told us that sometimes in a suspected non-genuine marriage, they sent officers to the house to check if you really live together. I wish they would come, so they can see for themselves and we wouldn't have to keep coming up with evidence that we are together and love each other.

 

[niseguy]

jdwhite: we received a letter to come for an interview on july 28th.... could u please mail me what ur interview was like and what to expect.....