What is next? Initial Assessment?

[Stacey]

Hi,
What will happen next after you receive the AOR, request for additional documents and sent them to visa office? Do they send you the Initial assessment? Does anyone have an experience when the visa office asked for additional documents (written explanation about the previous marriage and so on)? Does these things delay the whole process dramatically?
Please share your experience, it's VERYYYYYYYYYY difficult to wait and be in a dark spot without knowing what is going on.

 

[RobsLuv]

Join the club - most of us wait in a "dark spot" without knowing what is going on. You're in good company.

What happens next depends a lot of which embassy is processing your application. Hopefully you included everything with your application that they'll need to assess it, because having to ask you to send additional information/documents does delay processing to some extent. The first thing that happens is that the sponsor receives a decision letter on their eligibility to sponsor. If they're approved, CPC-M will send the application on to the visa office. Some (but not all) visa offices send an Acknowledgment of Receipt letter to the applicant when they receive the application - the AOR includes the application file number. Some offices (but not all) also send an Initial Assessment letter - it's usually to notify the applicant that the "initial assessment" has been completed and that additional info/documents either are or are not required and that an interview will/won't be necessary. After that, you don't hear much (if anything) until the decision letter. The initial assessment pretty much identifies any "issues", or anything that's missing, and once you respond to that - if a response is even requested - there isn't any more interaction between sponsor/applicant/visa office.

 

[Stacey]

Thank you, RobsLuv very much for your clear and full explanation. The visa office asked us for the additional info for my husband's previous marrige we sent it 2 weeks ago and now just waiting.
Thanks you again.

 

[lynw]

Hi. May I ask what sort of info they asked for, relating to previous marriage?
Thanks!

 

[nyssa]

RobsLuv - is Buffalo one of the visa offices that sends the AOR and/or Initial Assessment? I will be mailing my application in a couple weeks.

 

[Stacey]

Hi. May I ask what sort of info they asked for, relating to previous marriage?
Thanks!

They asked to provide info about my husband ex-wife, and her relatives (mother, father, siblings, ant/aunt), their full last & first names, DOB and explanation why they got divorce. An additional they asked whom my husband knows in Canada.
Not sure why they need such info, our lawyer mentioned to us, probably they want to enter this info into the system to make sure that these people will not come to Canada through my husband in the future.

 

[rrdiggy76]

They asked to provide info about my husband ex-wife, and her relatives (mother, father, siblings, ant/aunt), their full last & first names, DOB and explanation why they got divorce.

Wow, i never knew this information was required!

I was previously married (and now remarried). I just put on the forms the details of my ex-wife, her DOB and the dates of our relationship along with the divorce decree!

I have no idea where i'll get the DOB of her family, i struggled to remember just my ex-wife's!

 

[jillandmat]

search it online... everything can be found online..
i haven't spoken to my father in like 15 years.. did a quick google search.. found his address etc...

also imsure ppl have done some type of family tree thing.. its possible to find that info...

google is your friend amigo!

 

[rrdiggy76]

Sorry to hijack the thread, but in addition to Stacey's information on having to provide further details of her husbands previous marriage, i don't recall any forms wanting any information other than the ex-spouse's name, DOB duration of marriage and divorce papers.

If the information is needed for processing of the application, why don't they just ask for it in the application if applicable to save on processing times?

I'll be annoyed if my application is delayed for this reason, when i could have provided the information up front if it had been mentioned in the application!!!! (unless, of course, i overlooked it )

 

[GTWifey]

In my sponsorship approval it states that my spouse has been 'found to meet minimum requirements for completeness under the Immigration Act.' It also states that POS may request additional documents & information BUT does not mention an interview.

We are still prepared & anxiously waiting. . . . ???