londonwe

Wow! That was fast. We submitted 4April and were hoping to be in Canada for August - the end of my maternity leave. Desperate to go home especially with a little one now. My husband's file should be straight forward as all info was there & nothing complicated there. You give me hope that it can be quick! The job hunt continues and back up plan in place just in case they take until December....

erinmcc174

Hi! thanks for your advice, thats great advice that I can apply to london without being in the UK, hopefully it will go through alot quicker. Im plannin on applying in September, although we've been to gether a year already I figured id wait until we could show we had been living together a year in Canada as i think this would be better! Would you suggest using a immigration lawyer or just doing it myself? are they much help?

PMM

Hi


the latest Open Data shows the following processing times for spouses in London from 01/01/2011 to 31/12/2011 in months

20% 30% 50% 70% 80%
Spouses & Partners 2 3 4 5 7 1,379

conjonway

I did use a lawyer, but actually regret it. I decided to go with a contact of my OH's mum, and thought we'd get a good deal. Still worked out at around $5,000 (not including CIC fees). I spent a lot of time researching questions I had on here in the hope that the lawyers would charge me a smaller amount (assumed the less time they spent checking/correcting me then the less it would be). Turned out despite my incredibly accurate draft that I sent to them they still charged me their flat fee, and they then took about 3 weeks from the date I gave them the application before they sent it to Mississauga.

Basically, if you're competent and confident enough that you'll get the answers from the forum (and many many people have done successfully!) then you'll be way better off financially, and potentially time wise. If you want to take out the stress of worrying if you've filled in the forms out right, and have someone to blame/fix it if it goes wrong, then yes hire a lawyer.

That's a total applications through London of 1,397 in 2011?

PMM

Hi


Thats what it shows for spousal.

conjonway

Wonder whose butt you gotta kiss to be the 20%.

Is definitely not 1 in 5 people on this forum getting PR in that time

peng

From my time on here, most people who got the forms spot on were within 3 months (in the london office). Errors on the forms added a few weeks or more depending on the reason. Check out my timeline. The November group were all done by April.

PMM

HI


You probably don't want to be in that 20% as that is where most of the refusals are.

merylbaz

Or errors by the CIC London office, we had an email saying my OH needed a RCMP certificate, even though he had never been to Canada. Took 3 weeks to get a reply to my email, and they then said it was an error and he didn't need one

123me

Right, us November group got through quite quick!

peng

Make sure you process you child citizenship and passport now. Your move will be simpler if you get it don't ahead of time. Good luck with the wait.

As a general comment to those waiting, when we submitted in november there was a 76 day wait-so 83 isn't that much more-even if it feels a lot worse! S

teacher1000

It's been 89 days for us and no word as yet. Ugh frustrating

CANorBUST

Two weeks today until the IEC VISA runs out! I thought we may squeak in the PR VISA but not sure. Sponsorship was approved Feb 18th for PR VISA. Do they send an email with the VISA in it or by letter mail? This is crunch time now.

conjonway

Mine ran out already, was kinda hoping that my PR would come by the end of April, but oh well. Have got a TWP to entertain myself with starting in a few weeks.

Screenwriter

Hi there,

We sent off our application on March 22nd. I have just tried to check the application status using our recipet number and my husbands details seeing as he is sponsoring me but nothing came up?