MrGreen

Misissauga recieved our application in November 2005 and it is 'in process'. My Calgarian wife's sponsoring me for PR status through London office - can anyone give us a realistic clue as to how long it takes to process at the moment. I'm not sure I trust the CIC timetable examples. We hope to fly out in June/July? Anyone been down this route have any advice?

cov-canuck

Mississauga received our spousal application on October 24th, and it's been in process since November 24th...no movement yet. Some people report turnarounds at Mississauga within a week, but that's certainly not been our experience. So far we're at 51 days and counting, when our date came up on the CIC website it quoted 39 days. We think there may be a minor issue with our application (missed out the photo with details written on the back), but have received no contact from them whatsoever, so who knows for sure?

nickybum

hey my husband has just received his visa via London we found the time lines on the CIC web site were a little generous we had all ours done in about 5mths and that was with an application returned. have a look at our time line good luck it won't be long.

MrGreen

I can only hope our application begins to make that sort of progress!!! We're about to put the house on the market and we're due to move into/start paying fees for our new condo in Calgary in July/August so we have to be there by then! Not quite time to panic yet I suppose.

nickybum

hey i would lay hard cash down that you will be there by July/ Aug no really we are the lucky ones as long as it's a normal case and no funny stuff it's very straight forward, it's the skilled workers i feel sorry for 3-4 years those poor sod have to wait :scared:

woodmanbg

I too am Calgarian and my husband British. I have sponsored him. We sent application off to Misissauga in June 2005, (end of) London started processing on 29th July. He received his visa October 2005 and landed December 17th when we visited for christmas. All we have to do now is pluck up the courage to go and at 57 and 65 its quite scary to start a new life but it might just keep the old tickers going longer!! :scared:

MrGreen

I know how you feel....We're only 30 and 28 and the reality of it's just starting to kick in properly now. We keep getting the odd surge of adrenalin from time to time, but it's more excitement and anticipation...although I'm sure that will soon change to fear once we sell our house and buy our plane tickets!!!

You only live once though and life's not worth the living without some adventure!

woodmanbg

Yes that is what I told my husband, I am ready for an adventure. Travel insurance for my husband starts to get expensive. Our 16 year old is looking forward to it (at the moment) but our 18 year old now at Uni wants to finish her education here so thats a bit of a downer but still she could leave home at any time. Hope your decision is the right one and that all goes well, I am sure it will, good luck.

AnyaT

I sponsored my husband and it took 6 months for the application to be processed and approved. So it looks like 5-6 months is about the standard timeline.

stevenkilleen

I agree with the sentiments here. My Canadian wife sponsored me - the whole process from start to finish was round 6 months (providing you make no mistakes with your paperwork, and it helps to pay the fee in total).

Good Luck, and keep the faith.

britishvixen21

I recieved my AOR from London about 2 weeks ago and they say 6 months, I had a fast turnaround at Mississauga 31 days from sending it to decision. I only hope theres no hickups at London end.
Id bet you will be here within July!

pkc

The processing time is usually pretty short, but my sponsorship of my husband took 9 months b/c of needing overseas police clearances (he had lived in several countries long enough to need to provide these). Very frustrating and annoying but I can only say thank heavens we lived in China for slightly less than the 6 month limit or who knows how long it would have been

MrGreen

Thanks for the replies everyone. I can't see any problems arising really, but then again we did do the applications ourselves, so you're never 100 per cent confident; even though we spent months on end agonising over it. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and will be happy to have it complete in 6 months...just in time to get there for our first Stampede too! Although I may have just tempted fate.

kellydrew

Hi,
I'm a Canadian living in the UK and am sponsoring my husband for permanent residency in Canada. Our lawyers filed our application in Mississauga on 7th Nov 2005. As its now almost 70 days, has anyone experienced such a long wait, as our lawyers initially said it shouldn't take more than 4 weeks.
Cheers
Kelly

britishvixen21

Holy cow thats a long time! you havent heard anything from them at all? has your lawyer contacted them and asked why?

Are you sure your lawyer filed it when he said he would? that does seem an awfully long time without them sending ti back with changes or anything.