What did you send your application in??

[itscoezy]

I have taken 3 trips to office max and depot to find some type of expanding envelope to put all of these papers in...I've had no luck! The only thing I've found is plastic folders or boxes of course.
What did you send your application in? Did you separate it into a few envelopes or just use DHL or....

Thanks!

 

[Nessa]

Sent mine in an office size envelope, which I then put in a small box provided by dhl. (For security, since the envelope wouldn´t close properly!!)

 

[Fencesitter]

I sent mine in 5 A4 sized envelopes. 1 for the sponsor, 1 for the applicant, 3 for proof of relationship. The envelopes are labeled 1 of 5, 2 of 5, and so on...with a description of the contents. I also put the courier address on a sticky label and stuck it to the back of each envelope. All 5 envelopes went in a plastic UPS express pack baggie...(I double bagged them just to be safe).

Inside envelopes 1 and 2 are the forms in plastic sleeves. Each plastic sleeve has a sticky label on the front describing the contents. The first page within the sleeve is the same label as on the front of the sleeve (printed on paper). I put everything in order according to the document checklists. There are no staples and no paperclips. Everything is loose (that's why I used the plastic sleeves...).

For the proof of relationship envelopes, again, I put everything in plastic sleeves as described above. I separated the envelopes into 1) cards, 2) photos (160 of them from 2006 to present), and supporting documents (travel stuff, letters from friends supporting our decision to move to Canada, hotel invoices / vouchers, samples of Gmail chat records from 2008-2010, samples of e-mails between my wife and my family in Canada, copies of my current and old passports, and a copy of my wife's old passport showing her visas for Thailand, our current rental contract for our apartment and our ID cards, and our health insurance policy showing my wife and son as my dependents).

We didn't go overboard, because we have been living together since 2006. No point in putting in a lot of e-mail stuff or other evidence...they won't expect this for our situation.

Anyways, it is all very easy to navigate and I'm sure the VO won't have any troubles...

FS

 

[mobeyk]

I did use 2 Purolator bags. One for the main forms and one for evidence. I did write on both bags spousal sponsorship and our names as well as bag 1 of 2, 2 of 2. Taped both bags together so they do not come apart. 6.5 kg of paper. We provided over 200 pictures, postcards, many childrens drawings showing us as family ( my kids never met my wife in person but in video chat ), hotel invoices, plane tickets, sight seeing tickets, Love story, Guestbook from our Wedding, phone bills and proof of financial support and all documents and letter from a refused TRV application as we felt it to be necessary to show that we had already enough evidence at that time and the refusal made no sense to us. I shipped puroator express and it arrived next day at CPC.

 

[Mrslwsn]

you guys are a trip !!! I sent mine in a big manila envelope. It didnt close so great but it was ok. Then I bought a bubble envelope thing from Canada post and sent it expresspost.

 

[Fencesitter]

^ I know!! I'm never actually been like this before... If only CIC knew...if only they knew!!

 

[kaede1977]

Mine was sent off day before yesterday...it was sent in a rather plain large envelope with bubbles-registered post, no boxes or accordian folders, should i be worried now?

 

[Mrslwsn]

Mine was sent off day before yesterday...it was sent in a rather plain large envelope with bubbles-registered post, no boxes or accordian folders, should i be worried now?

nope...thats wat i sent my app in and I beat records for fastest time thru my vo!!

 

[Lemondrop78]

I used a large white water proof and bubblewrapped on the inside envelope. I'm guessing it was about 16 x 12...I got it at Kinkos.

 

[itscoezy]

Thanks everyone

 

[parker24]

One of those express cardboard envelopes from Canada Post haha .I was not paying to send in a box or anything. Only around 13 dollars to send.

 

[kaede1977]

nope...thats wat i sent my app in and I beat records for fastest time thru my vo!!

well done! fingers crossed our application gets a speedy delivery and record time too...good luck to everyone