naijacanada said:
Hello friends,
I have been a silent reader of this great forum and i most thank you all for your love in this lovely forum
Please i need your help.
My application has not been straight forward as me and my fianc'e applied for 2014 FSW and luckily both application receive PER. But now we are married. I married since December last year but yet to tell Accra Visa office about my marriage
We have not told AVO about our marriage because they asked for more doc in regards to my own application since they have started processing mine which i provided to them
Now I have done my medical and also sent a bank draft for the RPRF and also updated schedule A form last month but yet to tell AVO that i am married. I am actually waiting till they ask for my passport before i tell them about our marriage
1)Do you think this is good thing to do or i should tell me now that i am married before they request for passport?
2)Is there any possibility of refusal even after medical?
3)My wife is still in Nigeria while am in UK, would that affect anything?
I will really appreciate your help here
Thank you
App recv: 12th June 2014
Per : 11th Oct 2014
More Doc requested and sent : 16th Feb 2015
Medical recd: 17th March 2015
Medical done : 24th March 2015
You haven't done anything wrong exactly, but you are required to inform the VO of any changes in family composition. After you inform the VO, you are going to have to submit the same documents and updated forms and fees regardless of when you inform them. They extended processing time for the VO to account for the changes will be the same no matter when you tell them. You might as well tell them sooner rather than later. In fact if I were the VO, I would wonder why you waited so long to inform about it.
A few things to note:
It doesn't matter whether your wife had her own FSW application before you married, you will still need to add her to your application just as anyone else who got married whose wife didn't have her own FSW application. And if your wife wishes to keep her application active, she would also have to contact the VO to add you to her application. That means both of you will need to send updated forms and documents, and will have to pay the CAD$550 application fee for the spouse (both of you, for both applications), each of you will have to have POF for a family of 2 instead of 1, etc. Just because you both have applications doesn't mean you don't have to duplicate the work and fees. Each application stands on its own and is entirely unrelated. However, eventually you will be asked to cancel one of the applications and only the other will be processed to completion. You can save money and trouble by withdrawing one now, but you run the risk that the one remaining application will not be successful.
Good luck.
