Spouse sponsorship - Documents and Process (Islamabad Office)

[sat1234]

Hi All,

I am a Canadian Citizen getting married in Pakistan this month, my plan is to sponsor in the first week of May after I am back in Town. Can someone please assist me with the following questions:

- Application Forms: Do I need to fill form IMM5669 and IMM5406 or are these specific to my future wife.

- Forms Specific to Pakistan: In the information package specific to Pakistan, there is a section/form for education background and work experience question. There is also a mention in there that it needs to be completed by applicant who claim children 22years or older. Obviously we don't have kids, just wanted to make sure the primary applicant (My wife) does not have to fill that

- Past Visa Refusal: She applied for a study permit to get higher education in canada and to live closer to me while application is processing in Islamabad. It got refused, Should we provide an explanation of why we applied ?

- Proof Of Marriage: Should I save my daily chat/sms history with my wife. some of it is our private discussion that I am not comfortable sharing. If I am required to submit it, can I just remove conversation that is of private nature ?

- Processing times: What would be a reasonable time to expect for processing

Finally, If someone that summarize what documents/forms are required from me and from my wife that would be really helpful.

Thank you all in advance for helping !

 

[SchnookoLoly]

App forms: On the checklist, if the form is listed under your docs, then you fill it out. If the form is listed under the forms for the principal applicant, then your wife fills it out.

Pakistan forms: Not sure, will wait for someone else to respond.

Past visa refusal: Yes, disclose and explain everything.

SMS etc: No, do not include absolutely all of it. Use common sense and judgement. If you are just trying to show that you have ongoing conversation, then just provide a random selection of days - it's unlikely that you texted a bunch in a few days then radio silcence for weeks, and so on. Provide enough to make your point, but not so much that it becomes overwhelming. If you provide 500 pages of texts, your application could be sent back for being completely unmanageable. So use some common sense and judgement. You can always write a letter that just says "We have provided a selection of texts over the past x years to show ongoing communication. Further detail can be provided if required."

Processing times: Pakinstani applications are being processed in London. You can expect it to take over 2 years to PR.

 

[sat1234]

Thanks for the quick response, for the sms should I take screenshots from my phone or export to a word document

 

[SchnookoLoly]

Whatever is easiest, really. Screenshots pasted into Word is probably pretty easy as you can then put a bunch of screenshots on one page and just provide maybe 10ish pages covering however many years.

 

[sat1234]

Thanks for your help SchookoLoly..
Any tips on making the application process go faster (Nice to have documents etc) ?

 

[SchnookoLoly]

Thanks for your help SchookoLoly..
Any tips on making the application process go faster (Nice to have documents etc) ?

Make sure your application is complete. Go throuhg the checklist. Don't leave anything out. Do your medical up front and pay your fees up front. Make sure your application is organized, methodical, and is MANAGEABLE! (This ties into what I said before, don't provide hundreds and hundreds of pages of proof - provide enough to get your point across but not so little that it raises questions.) Really that's all you can do.

 

[sat1234]

Thanks again!

 

[sat1234]

Does anyone know if there is a difference between medical for immigrations and medical for student visa.
My fiance got her medical done for a student visa a few months ago, now that we are getting married and applying for sponsorship the medical office has been telling us that they cant do another one till the student visa one expires.

Does any one have experience in getting multiple medicals done within a year ? And is the student visa and immigration one the same.

Ideally we wanted to get a new one done as the immigration process is long and this expires in 6-7 months.

 

[SchnookoLoly]

The medical for marriage is a chest xray, blood test, and a very cursory physical. It's nothing particularly strenuous. I'm not sure if it differs at all. Might be worth just booking an appointment at another DMP if you're worried. I've never heard of someone being able to use the same medical for both streams, but that's not to say that it's not allowed. So I'm not sure.

 

[sat1234]

Unfortunately there is only one office in town and they are pretty adamant on not doing another till either the old one expires or we get something from cic asking us to redo it.
Hopefully CIC accepts this now, and it doesn't hold up the application