Thread for Acrra Ghana applicants

[umuchima]

My dear we are in similar situation. My spouse and baby's passports was received on 31st of Aug. at AVO and no pick up yet. I tried reaching out to AVO and was told that the application has been referred for additional reviews in other to complete it (wondering what hat means) nothing changed on myCIC until today. Background Checks moved to in progress today. So I'm hoping they release them soon.

Mine has changed to DM, but no pick up mail yet.
it changed today...

 

[kwame22]

My question was to know if both of u are from the same country(Liberia).
Here is the link for the thread
http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/spousal-sponsorship-interview-questionaires-experience-preparations.220698/

no she's from ghana

 

[Pake]

no she's from ghana

Take a look at this
These are the quetions that someone else shared with me

Please see below:
1. When and where did you meet your spouse for the first time?

2. How did you meet your spouse?

3. How old is your spouse? What is your spouse's birth date?

4. What does your spouse do for a living?

5. Where did your spouse go to school'?

6. What degrees or formal training does your spouse have?

7. How did your spouse immigrate to Canada?

8. Where does your spouse work?

9. What is the name of the company? What position does your spouse hold? How long has your spouse worked there?

10. What does the job entail?

I l. Does your spouse like his or her job?

12. What is the salary?

13. Where does your spouse live?

14. Whom does your spouse live with?

15. Where are you going to live when you go to Canada?

16. Please explain the type of relationship you have had since your first meeting.

17. What is your religion?

18. What is the religion of your spouse?

18. When you and your spouse were dating what would you do together?

19. Do you have any hobbies? Describe them.

20. Does your spouse have any hobbies? Describe them.

21. What type of music do you enjoy?

22. What type of music does your spouse enjoy?

23. What kind of movies do you enjoy?

24. What kind of movies does your spouse enjoy?

25. What kind of books do you read?

26. What kind of books does your spouse read?

27. Have you and your spouse ever exchanged gifts? Explain.

28. When and where did the marriage proposal take place?

29. Was your marriage arranged?

30. If it was arranged describe how it was arranged and by whom?

31. Did you have a ceremony celebrating your relationship?

32. Where was it held?

33. When was it held?

34. Describe the ceremony?

35. Did it conform to your own religious and cultural beliefs? Explain.

36. When did you get married?

37. Where did you get married?

38. Who was at the wedding?

39. What family members were there?

40. How many people were at the ceremony?

41. What day was the ceremony held on?

42. Who performed the ceremony?

43. Do you have pictures of the ceremony?

44. Who was at the ceremony from your side?

45. Who was at the ceremony from your spouse's side?

46. Were any friends present?

47. How many brothers and sisters does your spouse have?

48. Were your parents at the wedding? If not, why not?

49. Are your parents aware of the wedding? If not, why not?

50. Where your spouse's parents at the wedding? If not, why not?

51. Were your spouse's parents aware of the wedding? If not, why not?

52. Was a reception held? When and where was it held?

53. Who was present at the reception?

54. Did you receive any wedding gifts? Describe them.

55. Did you on a honeymoon? Where did you go and for how long?

56. Can you show me pictures and receipts from the honeymoon, wedding and reception?

57. Have you or your spouse been married before?

58. Why was that relationship dissolved?

59. Do you have any children from your current relationship or marriage?

60. How many children?

61. What are the names and birth dates?

62. Where are the children now?

63. Who looks after the children?

64. Do any other family members reside with you and your spouse? If yes, please indicate their names and relationship.

65. What relatives do you have in Canada?

66. What are their names and where do they live?

67. What relatives do you have outside of Canada?

68. Has your spouse met any of your relatives or friends? Who have they met and when did they meet them?

69. Have you met any of your spouse's relatives or friends? Whom have you met and when did you meet them?

70. In terms of education, would you say that you and your spouse's educational background are compatible?

71. What will you do when you go to Canada'?

72. Why did you marry your spouse?

73. Since your marriage have you seen your spouse? If not, why not?

74. Do your family members (parents, siblings) want to immigrate to Canada?

75. Did you marry your spouse so that you could sponsor your parents as landed immigrants of Canada?

76. How do you correspond with your spouse?

77

 

[kwame22]

no she's from ghana

thank you very much

 

[Cutie101]

77. How often do you talk on the phone?
78. Do you have phone bills, e-mails, cards, etc., and can I see them?
79. Tell me why this marriage or relationship is genuine.
80. What makes your relationship with your spouse different from that of a female/male friend?
81. Does your spouse support you financially?
82. Do you support your spouse financially?
83. If I refuse this application what will you do?
84. When and where did you live together?
85. Development of your relationship after very first day?
86. Why didn't you get married to someone from India??, why to someone from Canada?
87. Personal life of sponsor, school, colleges, courses, work and all important dates such as, date of moving to Canada, date of leaving Canada and entering India.
88. If she is pregnant or not, if not, why not ?
89. Detailed information about her parents
90. Engagement, marriage and reception, who attended and who didnt, if not why?
91 About rituals in religious ceremony and number of guests?
92. Future plans?
93. What kind of job, you are looking for?
94. What side of bed, you sleep on?
95 Where did ur spouse propose u , what time was it ? And how ?
96. When n where did u first time got intimate with your spouse ?
97. What contraceptives did u use ?
98. Her birthdate, her education details, her parents, sister info..etc etc..
99. When and where did you get married?
100. What trips to went to?



Each situation is different, and the visa officer is looking for discrepancies between the answers at the interview and the application as well as common sense.

The following generic questions may be asked:

How did you meet your sponsor?
Who was involved in arranging the marriage?
How is the middle man related or known to both families?
Did you talk with each other privately before agreeing to the marriage?
Why did you not get married earlier? (especially asked of a woman in the Punjab marrying later than 26-28)
How many people attended your marriage (look at the photographs provided to the visa officer - is it in conformity with your answer? Very often there are limited number of people at the laavan ceremony)
When did your sponsor immigrate to Canada? (the visa officer is attempting to find out if the applicant has knowledge of the sponsor)
What does your sponsor do for a living? (this is basic - every husband/wife should know this about their sponsor)
What is your sponsor's phone number? (this is basic - every husband/wife should know this about their sponsor - however I have come across situations where the applicant does not know)
Do you have any relation with your sponsor other than marriage? (visa officer is attempting to ascertain whether there was a relationship and therefore a motive to sponsor the applicant other than a genuine marital relationship)
Who accompanied your sponsor when he/she came to get married? (something the applicant should know if they are in a genuine relationship)
Who proposed? When was the proposal made? When did you get married? (basic...)
When did you and your sponsor live together? (also elementary, and a question contained in the sponsorship questionnaire)
Did you and the sponsor attend any weddings or functions together? (It's almost a certainty that a newly married couple will be attending other weddings, especially if their wedding was during the marriage season)
What is the name of your spouse's company? (applicant should know the employment of sponsor)
What kind of work does sponsor aspire to do in the future? Any career plans? (see above)
What was his/her previous job before present employment? Why did sponsor change jobs? How long at current employment? (see above)
What does sponsor like about the job? What is his/her boss/supervisor's name? What are the names of the people he/she works with? What is the nature of the job? How much does he/she make?(see above)
What does sponsor like/dislike about [INSERT CANADIAN CITY]? (visa officer is attempting to get a spontaneous response)
Where do you and your sponsor plan to live in Canada?
What do you plan to do once you get to Canada (go to school, learn english, get a job)
What are your spouse's friends' names?
What does your sponsor do in his spare time? What does your sponsor do when he's not working?
What is spouse's favorite sport?
Did you go on a honeymoon or outing after your marriage?
Where did you go to/How long did you go for?
How long did your sponsor stay in India after the marriage?
How often, and how do you stay in contact with your spouse?
I don't believe that an applicant can ultimately succeed by simply memorizing a list of possible questions. Instead, the applicant should understand what the visa officer wants, and should assure that visa officer as to the bona fides of the marriage. This requires the applicant to know the personal details and history of his or her sponsor. Communication and other indicia of a genuine relationship must be highlighted and brought to the visa officer's attention.

 

[Woodex]

DHL Lagos Nigeria is a disaster. My husband has been waiting for his passport delivery since morning - out for delivery 7:04am. He can't go anywhere because he needs to sign for it. Now, it's 9pm and the website says delivery before the end of the day. Also, there charges are ridiculous N23,500... As it is, I don't think they will deliver today

 

[becos]

@kwame22 my husband just had an interview on the 21st. They didn't ask for extensive documentation, only the ID of his sons mother and passport photos for his son, nothing else. Anyways they asked questions about his son but also about our relationship. The questions that @Pake and @Cutie101 just posted are what guided us in our preparation. Go through all those questions and write out short answers for each question. You need to practice being quick and straight to the point for each of those questions. They are not going to ask you things you don't know, but you should be prepared with simple and straight answers. This was the advice we were given from our lawyer, so I am passing it to you. You also need to study very well what information you submitted and what information you are bringing with you. With all of this relationship proof and identity proof they have asked you for, there is doubt in their mind. Study hard and gather everything you need to prove them wrong. You can do it. Work very diligently to prepare these questions and the documentation. It will help. You can do this. My husband came out very confident because we went over these questions and the lady asked a lot of them. We received our medical request twenty minutes later. Prepare and all will be well.

 

[Cutie101]

@kwame22 ......yes definitely gather all your whatSapp conversations.. when your talking take screenshots, the whatsapp call log history screen shoot it and you can email to yourself and shrink it all to a word document and or once you email the screen shots you can print each one. Also you can print the chat history of your whatsapp conversation. you can edit it if required to remove the erroneous items from the convo. If you have visited each other since the application took place visa entry stamps from passport, itinerary of the trip, pictures. friends and family who know of your marriage you can have them draft letters and get an affidavit or notarized. The more information (latest info after the initial documents you provided ) they know relationship is ongoing. And when the visa officer asks when were you initiated contact sometimes they mean sexually WHATEVER QUESTION YOUR SPOUSE MAY NOT UNDERSTAND- have her ask the visa officer to clarify and or she can re-iterate back to the visa officer if this is what she means to ask. trust me Ghanaians are always afraid so when it comes to sexual questions they tend to shy up and this is where you have to prove your marriage. and also buy a lot of credit you pretend to be the visa officer and ask your spouse the questions see how she answers. and align your story with the application you submitted dates because they want to make sure it corroborate and no disreptency.
You may keep the answers simple ... be friendly not timid and if your spouse may not know the answer to the question like what is your husband favorite food. if she cant come with a specific food

example
her response : oh my husband what food does he not eat as long as I made it. he loves everything but rice he isn't a fan but he don't have a favorite... so atleast she didn't narrow it to one specific...

hope this helps all the best...

 

[queenanetor]

@becos please inbox me I need to talk to you thanks in advance

 

[Pake]

@becos please inbox me I need to talk to you thanks in advance

My friend did u hear from them finally??

 

[queenanetor]

@Pake check your inbox

 

[Pake]

@peg204 any news??

 

[xls]

Mine has changed to DM, but no pick up mail yet.
it changed today...

It is not an easy road. MyCIC updated again this morning to "application approved" with counterfoil number and visa expiration date, but no PUM or update on ecas yet.

 

[Ugoswife]

AVO please get to October already. Urrghhh!

 

[peg204]

@peg204 any news??

@Pake
Nothing yet !! We’re still waiting . Have contact my MP and he will help me to send them an email !!