orly

No indication there was a problem in Mississauga as far as I'm aware, plus your package only got there last week. Don't expect a confirmation until 2nd week of June-ish

ak9

do you have a link to this second PR??

Siouxie

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle11252124/

http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1169...nal-posts-and-

and

http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1172...g-with-a-commi

pinkandco

And we're in! My hubby's PR form came in the post yesterday! At 4pm I said to him, "shall we just go?" and he said yes so we drove to the border (5.5 hr drive each way). One slightly cranky US border guard and one very kind and benevolent Canadian immigration officer about to go off shift later, and we have his signed PR form. We're a little sleep deprived but it's worth it to have it done, moving on up!

Jim Humphries

Ten months door to door. You can finally breath out. Congratulations.

Siouxie

Congratulations!

oopsbuddy

I feel a bit guilty about this Orly, but we have just gone to "Decision made"!

Yay for us, but hopefully yours will only be days away now.

leg89

What's your time line?

oopsbuddy

It's all in the spreadsheet for 2012, but in a nutshell, posted late Nov 12; received Mississauga 4/12/12; sponsor approved 9/1/13; in process 30/4/13 (with some minor additional info requests); Decision Made (undated, but probably yesterday or today).

(Scottish Maple - can you please update my details on the spreadsheet - many thanks)

So about 6 months all in

Now to get working on a GTF list for her "landing" later this summer.

oopsbuddy

Orly,

I wonder if mine was completed quicker than yours because I've been married for a bloody long time (less need perhaps to scrutinise our "relationship"), whereas you are still a relative "newly-wed"? Just a thought....?

Nonetheless, I'm sure it'll get sorted quickly for you. Best of luck with it. If I could, I'd swap our timelines, as we are not now likely to be heading for a little while yet, whereas I know you're sweating on a deadline.

orly

Happy for you. Gives me a little hope that perhaps it'll change soon. I still have a bit of time. Visa doesn't expire for a few weeks so if it can get through before then I can hopefully continue to work. I'm suspecting that if I don't have the "letter" in my hand I might have to stop work temporarily though. Wouldn't mind that if I knew the timeline would only be a week or two waiting on the mailman.

Just hoping I don't get to the stage where my time has expired and I'm still waiting for news. Still stuck on "application received" so hasn't even gone to "in process" which is concerning. I know some people never go "in process" so I'm not letting that worry me too much.

Not really sure what the hold up is. I don't know why being married for a shorter period of time would cause things to go slower. They have our marriage certificate and plenty of evidence of me sending money to Canada in advance to pay for our wedding. Flight tickets from times I visited. Evidence of my first IEC visa in 2010 when I came to Canada and lived with my wife. When that visa was due to expire I left Canada as required and didn't overstay. I still live with my wife (lol) and I've got a good job here. I pay my taxes :P Switched over my driving license etc. Had joint bank accounts for coming on 3 years. Nothing indicates I'm playing a game or not "integrating" myself.

I've thought about all the things that could slow it up but I'm at a loss. No issues have been reported to me after my medical (which they've listed as received on eCAS) and I've never even had a speeding ticket let alone any criminal problems. No one in my family has a shady past. I've never traveled anywhere out of the ordinary. Only really been to the US, Canada and Hungary for a week one time. Always lived in the UK too and was educated at a UK university. I know they spend time doing "background checks" but there is nothing iffy about my background at all. It's all very ordinary. I know the application itself was complete and accurate because we specifically hired a lawyer to help us through it. A lawyer other family members had used in the past with success.

Asked my lawyer to nudge them and see if there is any indication of what stage they're at. I'd just like to know so I can figure out plans with my employer. Seen plenty of stories on here from people who send an enquiry and it seems to spark them into life so perhaps we'll be lucky. I think we're due some luck after the last month or so with 2 deaths on both sides of the family, multiple car troubles and such like. That's life I guess.

Jim Humphries

My guess would be late june or July for your PR approval. You are still within the range and only this work to rule (which is off effective Friday) could slow things down now.

orly

Could cope with that timeline. While we've planned for this possibility and have some money saved up to carry us along for a few months on my wife's earnings I'd prefer not to have to leave my job if at all possible. If it was a short period of time, and we could get an idea how close they are to the end, I'd hope my employer would be willing to put me "on hold" but obviously the longer it drags out the more difficult it is to do that.

I fully accept I'm a name on a screen and the officer isn't paid to "care" about me any more than the next guy and has a checklist to complete. Still frustrating though.

oopsbuddy

Sorry for your troubles Orly.

The 'length of time married' was just a random suggestion based on nothing at all, other than wondering why there is now a difference in our timelines!

Hang in there man!

Moonchild67

I feel for you Orly , the closer it gets , the more anxiety and almost mania presents with checking the threads , email , and ecas. I told myself I would not check again until next week , but then I saw oppsbuddy had some good news. We can't be too much longer.
Can't wait to just move on from all of this.