tsc

Leggy - that's awesome - good for you!

Quick query to anyone who might know... as the sponsor do I have to travel with my husband when he enters Canada for the first time with his PR papers?

Thanks - TSC

leggy969

Thanks again tsc.

Regarding your query, I'm not 100% but with the spousal sponsorship I don't think that you as the sponsor has to be with your hubby when he lands. I'm sure many people here on BE have landed on their own without their sponsor present.
Maybe someone else on here can clarify if this is correct or not.

mandymoochops

Yup I think you're right Leggy, cos I know if my hubby has to work away when I do my landing thing it's fine for me to go alone - there's been a couple of occasions where the IO has asked for contact details of the spouse and tried to get hold of them in their absence.

BrennaBoo

So so glad you got your application sent off Victorfoxtrot! I know you've been waiting so patiently - best of luck with your application!! Congratulations!!!

sanjuk

Spouse got the email today saying the application has been forwarded to London. i fly out on the 28th sept..i got a feeling il be coming back

Online checker thingy hasnt been updated

janham

Definitely, us too! We are currently filling in the dreaded forms and weren't sure about that one. The other thing we noticed was that we had some of the older forms printed off, most of the new ones now have July 2011 on bottom other than 2 that are still dated 2008 just to confuse use further and make us more nervous

123me

Right, make sure you always use the latest forms.

Linlaz

Hi all, just to say that we arrived in Toronto on Saturday and going through immigration etc wasn't t all what I expected. We just had our passports checked at immigration control, we told them I was landing and had goods to follow. We didn't have to present any other documents until we headed around the corner to another row of desks where the immigration officer asked a couple of easy questions, checked everything, I had presented the document we received with my passport and visa and he stamped everything and that was it, it stapled a top copy of the document in my passport and then we headed to customs with the goods in list. We had no queue and the officer was very nice, didn't go through our bags, just checked the list and we signed two forms. The only thing he mentioned was our mattress, I thought there were no issues with fumigation of mattresses unless they were second hand, White & co are saying they are no aware of anything, so I'd just warn anyone just to double check the status so you don't lose your mattress at customs. Hopefully we won't have an issue, but we will have to wait til our shipment arrives now. All in all a seamless process and we are here sorting out bank accounts, Ohip and SIN numbers etc. Will keep all posted on our progress living here! Good luck everyone still in the process. X

BrennaBoo

My husband recieved his passport today!!!

Pretty awesome - only took 3 weeks and 2 days!!!!



We should be flagpoling tonight or tomorrow ! WOO HOO!

shudda

I LOVE THIS FORUM!!

Congrats all of you! Hope this keeps up for when we apply in 2 months!! xx

tsc

Linlaz - that's great to hear how seamless it was - congrats.

sjgreenman

hey folks, my husband received his passport through last week making it about 2 weeks from when we sent the forms in until it arrived. All in all with only a small delay for getting forms sorted again, maybe five days, it has taken us about 5 months for everything to be approved and the passport to be in his hands with our tickets booked for the 8th of October. That is including the processing times for the sponsorship portion. A 4 month improvement on the quoted timeline from London for when we started. Looks like they're moving folks through really quick. Good luck everyone. :-)

leggy969

Yay.....thats great news Brennaboo, am really pleased for you!

Nsxer33

Hi everyone,

I have been reading these forums quite frequently in the last 2 months just getting all the information I could from sending away my documents to dual intent entries, etc. I just wanted to post my timeline for those who are still waiting or are in the process of applying.

May 12 2011- Application sent
May 13 2011- Application received
June 14 2011- Application approved Mississauga
June 27 2011- Application received with medicals
August 31 2011 - Passport request email sent.

I will update everyone about how long it takes to get my wife's passport back.

Thanks again .

rodderzzz

Hey guys, we are agonisingly close to sending our applications off now. Just a couple of last things before we get everything signed by commissioner of oaths and sent tomorrow!

First off, The copy of my birth certificate, passport and my GF passport pages (she's canadian and sponsoring me) do these need to be certified by the CoO? What about my 8 passport photo's?

we have filled in a statutuory declaration of common law form, however, on the document checklist it says you need copy of above form 'if you have a co-signer and he/she is your common law partner'

She hasn't got a co-signer on her forms as sponsor, does that mean we don't need that form?

Thanks Guys, hopefully I'll be able to re-pay the advise soon