treemanstu

i know what you mean your timeline is almost the exactly the same as mine has taken, just your one step ahead as yours is in process in london. ill be checking to see how yours is doing.

Ill add my timeline when i have a little more time

ashleyi

Decision made! things have moved quickly for us, so now our timeline looks like this:

App received in Mississauga 23 May. Sponsor approved around 17 July. Decision made this week, now just need to wait for something in writing before we give notice at work.

Good luck to everyone who is waiting!

Ashley

stuabroad

cool (Add the timeline of events to your signature, in order to allow others to see how long your app took)

rosskilgour

Congrats ashleyi! Hope ours goes that fast!

treemanstu

Donethe signature for you and all to see. just one question, where you have stated in process, is that the info on the e-cas. whereas mine only says application received, but when i look at the information guide (clickable link below) for out side application, it translates it as to be in the process stage. hope that made sense.

richtee

COPR all approved! Thanks for the help and advice given from the forum.

markstimson

Hey all. So currently applying for my common law sponsorship with my Canadian girlfriend - Outland - although I am English and we are currently living together in Canada. How do I answer "Have I visited my sponsor" under the 'Maintaining contact' section ...we have been living together since I arrived in Canada on a working holiday visa? I have since activated my second WH visa (IEC scheme). We met in London prior to my moving over here.

Do I say yes and that I came over on this visa even though it's not a visitor visa? It's a little one size fits all for this set of questions!

laurenhannah

Hi Mark,

my boyfriend and i were in the same situation, we explained that we had been living together for X amount of time, he came on a work visa etc, and since his work permit expired he has remained in Canada as a visitor.

Some of the questions can seem difficult to answer, as they have to cover a multitude of answers/situations, so just explain that you're living together etc and all will be good

Good luck!

scottish_maple

Richtee that's awesome

scottish_maple

Thats great. its good news for you

vancouverpickles

We had the same questions - it seemed odd to be answering those questions when you are living together! We literally wrote something like "When we are not together (when at work etc.) we maintain contact on a daily basis via email, text and phone calls". It was like the questions about what language we communicated in..um english. It seems obvious so we just put the obvious stuff.

richtee

Thanks! You cant be far away now

stuabroad

That was pretty quick Keep us updated...

stuabroad

Congrats, holy crap that was quick. I wonder why the discrepancies between submission/approval times, this has been endlessly debated with no answer

Looks like there's a bunch of people ahead of me in the spreadsheet who haven't gone 'in process' yet...though they may not have updated yet. They sent their app packs to CPC-M in April, as oposed to May with me. I checked the web yesterday morning and it was listed as 'Application Received' but by 7pm last night had changed to 'in process'.

.c.s.o.

My timeline is similar and I recon if I had payed the ROPR fee when I applied and they hadn't requested an extra form then I'd be getting a decision nowish aswell. But alas, now it looks like I'll be waiting another month.