Hello everyone.
Almost a month after an interview I received a phone call from Canadian High Commission in Islamabad, asking personal information about wife of my spouse's ex husband! I don’t know his wife or even him as such. What are they thinking about? Actually I am from Pakistan and ex of my spouse was a Pakistani as well. She had sponsored him and he went on welfare and my spouse ended up paying the debt. We have told everything about it to CIC already. I even applied for visit visa after my marriage and I was told by Canadian High Commission to apply for PR through my spouse sponsorship. That was in 2006. So we applied, and it’s almost a year now and no decision has been made on my application yet. Ex of my spouse married a Pakistani woman later on after divorcing my spouse and he sponsored her from Pakistan to Canada on PR. The "locally hired tunnel versioned interviewer" in Islamabad suspect me of being a gang member from Pakistan who marry Canadian citizens and then get PR and divorce them and later on bring more Pakistanis like that! I am suffering for being suspected of marriage of convenience. Thanks to my country men for being famous for using infamous means for landing in Canada and abusing the system, while CIC on the other hand could only agonize those who are truthful and sincere about themselves! I don’t need to marry a Canadian for the sake of visa. If I wanted to go to Canada on immigration I would have done that through skilled class long time ago, as I still make more than 85 points on that. I never applied for even a visit to Canada before I got married. So how come they suspect me of interested only to land in Canada so that I can smuggle Pakistanis later on. I am an MBA from the most distinguished institution in Pakistan and working as qualified investment manager in the government department here for the last ten years. I got a decent pay as well. I have multiple USA visa for five years. I have been abroad for trainings already. Yet in their view I married a Canadian white divorced woman just to get PR for Canada. Needless to say I have received QSC (Quebec Selection Certificate) long time ago. Means CIC or MICC in Canada has no issue with me or my wife sponsoring another Pakistani husband, but the local office in Pakistan is very much upset about it. I think CIC/MICC gave green signal to sponsor just to avoid burden of refusing an application. They have hired local people for interview because they are sick and tired of obnoxious and idiotic interviewees from Pakistan on daily basis. They should think that if I wanted to go to Canada on PR shouldn’t have I find a woman who has no past record for previous marriage, or sponsorship and things like that? That would have been much easier for me. Or I may have found a Pakistani origin girl who is a Canadian citizen or have PR. I married my wife during the period while she couldn’t sponsor me. We got married in 2004 and she was able to sponsor me in 2006 after paying off her obligation. She visited Pakistan twice during the last three years and we lived together as husband and wife. I have provided each and every document that has been asked from me by CIC and Canadian High Commission in Islamabad, from time to time. They are unable to swallow the fact that a Pakistani guy, who has never married before, could marry a divorced white Canadian woman just for the sake of his love for her and is sincere in carrying on with his life with her and kids for the rest of his life. She can’t live in Pakistan because she got two kids and she cannot just leave them there. I don’t wish my wife and kids to suffer living in Pakistan, with all the nonsense and security issues going on in here. Their quality of living standard will be severely affected here. Its better for one person of the family i.e. me, to adjust in Canada rather than asking those three who do not know the local language, to live all by themselves while I am at work from nine to nine. May I mention here that my relationship started on internet since 2000 and it took us a while to really be sure about ourselves to marry? We got married in Pakistan in front of all my family members and relatives under Islamic law. We have the CD of it and I sent the photographs of our marriage and normal pictures with me, my wife and my family members. Yet the locally hired interviewer asked me the dumbest question. I had mentioned that almost 70 people were there in our wedding. He told me that he is concerned he doesn’t find 70 people in the photographs. I didn’t know whether to cry or laugh at his question. I said I have brought the CD of our wedding with me, why don’t you count the people in it? The pictures I sent you were not taken for the purpose of immigration they were taken by my nieces and nephews. These are amateur pictures. They didn’t realize that they had to capture all 70 people in the photographs because you will be asking me about that in the interview! By the way all of my family members are present in the pictures except for some distant relatives who were sitting a bit far from the centre stage at wedding ceremony. Could anyone tell me if the visa office is pondering upon to find a valid reason to refuse my application? Am I right in thinking that they are all hot and bothered because they are unable to find a reason to refuse my application yet? Do they need a solid reason to refuse otherwise if I appeal they might be concerned that it will be accepted and that will put them in trouble with CIC in Canada? Should my wife call someone in Islamabad and talk directly as to why they are not giving me the visa yet? Because we are being patiently waiting as a decent couple and never bother them with questions about status.
