Completed timeline for Canadian PR

[SJSantos]

My Husband:

Aug 22/06 married in Punta Cana
Nov 17/06 sent papers for sponsorship
Dec 17/06 Sponsorship is approved
March 25/07 Application in process in Haiti
April 11/07 Call from Haiti for interview for Spouse
May 1/07 Interview at the consulate
May 23/07 Decision Made
June 3/07 arrives in Toronto Canada!!!

My Step- Daughter:

June 17/08 sent papers for sponsorship
July 18/08 Sponsorship approved
Nov 4/08 Application in Process
Feb 16/09 Haiti asked for originals
Mar 31/09 MP gets an answer that Visa has been approved
April 6/09 Decision Made
April 9/09 arrives in Toronto Canada!!!

 

[Santos]

May 08 - Married
May 08 - Sent Application to Mississauag
June 08 - Approved as sponsor
Oct 27 08 - Application In Process
March 09 - Call to drop off passport, ready to issue visa
March 09 - Call to pick up passport
April 09 - Arrive in Canada

 

[sangria]

Sangria
March 8, 2008 - Married
July 11, 2008 - Application Sent
August 7, 2008 - Sponsorship Approved
November 11, 2008 - Status Update - In Process
November 25, 2008 - Daughter Born
March 23, 2009 - Phone call requesting Passport, Original Birth Cert and Marriage Cert to be couriered to Haiti
March 30, 2009 - Call to pick up visa
April 1, 2009 - Pick up Visa - 2 visas inside
April 14, 2009 - Return to Santo Domingo to have 2nd visa cancelled
April 16, 2009 - Arrive in Canada

 

[todiscover]

the day has finally arrived. Here is my completed timeline for the entire process:

Aug 29,2008 - Married
Sep 27, 2008 - Sent in forms to Mississauga
Oct 31, 2008 - Approved as a sponsor
Dec 1, 2008 - Status to in process in Haiti
March 6 2009 - Called to drop off his passport
March 9 2009 - Dropped off his passport
April 7 2009 - I send a follow up email to Haiti to find out whats taking so long.
April 8 2009 - They reply back "claiming" they sent my husband a letter asking for form IMMH10a on Feb 18 2009. Waiting for that form before they can issue the visa.
Apr 8 - 13 2009 - My search for this form continues as they cant fax or email it to me.
April 13 2009 - Letter arrives at my husbands house with form IMMH10a, letter was dated March 19th
April 15 2009 - We UPS the IMMH10a form back to Haiti
April 27 2009 - Status on CIC website changed to Decision Made
May 7 2009 - Call to pick up his passport
May 8 2009 - Passport in hand with visa
Arrives in Canada - TBD

 

[sangria]

Viajar

viajar

Married: June 28, 2008
Sent papers to Mississauga: July 24, 2008
Approved as a sponsor: August 27, 2008
Papers received in Haiti: September 2, 2008
Processing in Haiti: November 17. 2008
Recieved "no de dossier" December 2008. -- b file number
Baby Born February 3rd, 2009.
Received mail request for Complementary Medical Exam Feb 28th dated. Feb 2nd.
Received mail request for Secondary documents of identity of birth, Feb 28th, dated January 29th.
Late receipt due to being the DR for the birth of our baby.
Completed Complementary Medical Exam- March 3rd.
Sent Secondary documents, March 20th.
Applied for citizenship card for son March 17th.
Request for copy of passport application for son and for wife's passport. April 7, 2009.
Submitted passport application for son. April 20th, 2009.
Submitted passport April 27th, 2009.
Received son’s passport: May 11th, 2009
Received Visa: May 18th 2009
Arrived in Canada June 7th, 2009.
((Only issue was secondary search of luggage at POP. Turned out they were interested in the baby formula.). Did make me miss the duty free and a bottle of Scotch.)

FINALLY, Completed.

 

[caredbl84]

caredbl84

married Dec 29, 2007
sent papers jan 18, 2008
received docs jan 21, 2008
approved as a sponsor Feb 12, 2008
additional docs requested april 22, 2008
sent additional docs may 14, 2008
port au prince received additional docs may 15, 2008
send many, many letters asking for additional documents between june 2008 and april 2009, never heard back even through my MP
finally got an immigration agent call by the end of april 2009
got visa approved may 2009
my wife came to canada June 2009

 

[princesa_pineda]

Princesa Pineda

Oct 25, 2007-Married
Jan 22, 2008-papers sent to Mississauga
Feb 11, 2008-approved as a sponsor
April 8, 2008-application in processing
May 8, 2008-recieved letter asking for orginal marriage and birth certificate(letter date back to April 22, 2008)
May 22, 2008-hubby sent in requested docs by mail
July 27, 2008-emailed Haiti through the CIC website asking if docs had been recieved
July 28, 2008-Haiti replied to email stating docs recieved and would contact us shortly for futher action
Dec 2, 2008-put in a call to MP's office asking for an update
Dec 8, 2008-recieved a letter asking for my hubby to redo his police check and sign a declaration that he has no children(letter dated back to Nov 24, 2008)
Dec 12, 2008-recieve an update from my MP stating that our case would be reassess on or around Feb 22, 2009 and then hopefully a desicion would be made
Jan 7, 2009-hubby took papers in directly to Santo Dominigo
Feb 11, 2009-took it upon myself to sent more "proof" of relationship to Haiti
Feb 13, 2009-package recieved in Haiti
Mar 2, 2009-hubby recieved a letter stating he needs to have an interview as the next step in processing our case(letter dated to Feb 18, 2009)
Mar 4, 2009-we e-mailed Haiti to set up an interview date.
Mar 13, 2009-we received an email from Haiti stating the interview would be booked within 2 weeks
Mar 25, 2009-we received an email from Haiti stating my hubby will have his interview on April 23rd @ 11am and to bring his passport
April 23, 2009-my husband went for his interview and he got APPROVED!!! he was notified at the interview that he needs to redo his medicals so now we are waiting for Haiti to mail him the forms to redo the medicals and then he can take in the medicals slip and his passport to Santo Domingo.
May 21, 2009- My husband went to Santo Domingo to redo his medicals and drop off his passport so they can issue his visa!
July 10, 2009-E-mailed Haiti, direct to the lady who did our interview asking why it has taken so long for my husband to get his visa.
July 13, 2009-Recieved a reply to the e-mail stating Visa would be sent out this week.
July 16, 2009-Recieved an e-mail stating the visa was sent out today
July 23, 2009-My husband recieved a call to pick up his passport on July 27th.
July 27, 2009-My husband went to go pick up his passport with his visa

It has been a very long process for us, 18 Months from start to finish. My husband will be flying home on Aug 15th!!!

 

[dominican_daisy]

Dominican_Daisy

**Please note this is our second time around~ This timeline is based on the second time**

Married - January 25/06
Application re-sent May 28/08
Sponsorship approved - June 28/08
Status Update- In Process - October 28/08
Interview - April 30/09
Request for additional documents sent - May/09
Request to redo medicals/police check - June 18/09
Request for passport & IMMH10a form to be sent - July 9/09
Sent Passsport & Form by courier to Haiti - July 10/09
Received a call to pick up passport - July 30th/09
Picked up Passport -Aug3/09
Arrived in Canada Aug7/09

 

[Ellie2008]

Happy to report that I can now be moved to this list!!!

Aug 5th 2008--Approved as Sponsor
Nov 12th 2008--In process
Feb 9 2009--email requesting an interview
Apr 2 2009--email with particulars of the interview time and date and further docs required
April 22 2009-Interview.....APPROVED
May 14th 2009-documents received to complete for my husbands work in the police
May 25th 2009--Documents completed and dropped off with passport to SD
July 10th 2009-- Medical expired
July 17th 2009--picked up passport to redo the medical
July 22nd 2009--medical completed and passport dropped back off to SD
Aug 10th 2009 --email stating visa issued
Aug 14th 2009--CIC website changed to decision made
Aug 17th 2009--phone call to pick up visa
Aug 21st 2009--Husband to land in Toronto Canada!!!

 

[sangria]

CanWest

Married ~ Nov.30/08
Application received ~ Feb.16/09
Approved as sponsor ~ Mar.3/09
IN PROCESS ~ Mar10/09
Called by embassy to bring passport and cedula ~ Jun.18/09
Received letter in SD requesting secondary identity documents ~ Jun.22/09
Requested documents delivered to SD ~ July 23/09
Wife called by Haiti to bring passport to SD to complete process ~ Aug.17/09

My wife received her PR Visa Sept 11th 2009~ Process Complete!

 

[missrnb]

Missrnb

Married: january 30, 2008

Application Sent to Mississauga: May 22, 2008

Approved as Sponsor : June 19, 2008

IN PROCESS: October 17, 2008

Interview : april 30, 2009

April 30 : husband went to the interview, was ask for more proof in 90 days

July 16 : got the proof to Santo Domingo's embassy for Haiti
As today it still says "en cours" on the CIC website

September 23, email requesting the second medical, to sign form Immh10a and to drop passeport!

0ctober 5 : second medical exam done, form immha10 signed, passeport dropped. (1 week delay because when we showed up september 29 in Santo Domingo, the documents weren't at the Embassy as the email said to pick them up the week before!!!!)

October 19, email from haiti , passport will be sent thursday to santo domingo

October 23, Call from santo domingo to my husband to pick up passport on Monday 9:00 am

October 26, status changed on CIC for : decison made

October 26, 9:00, Picked up visa and passeport and a big enveloppe full of proof we sent.

Ticket bought : Husband will be flying to Montreal november 1st!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Timeline total : 17 months and 4 days

Hubby landed in montreal, november 1st

 

[kacy]

kacy

Married November 28, 2008

application sent to mississauga January 2009

received January 29, 2009

approved as sponsor February 19, 2009

IN PROCESS - March 3, 2009

sent email 09/02/09
got response by email for a couple documents and that a letter was sent on July 14/09 requesting an interview but saying no date can be given at this time - we never got the letter so I'm glad I sent an email. and suprised they answered me without the representative form being filled out.
hopefully I can be there for the interview!

Interview Date - October 8, 2009
took his passport and said he'd have it back in 30-45 days with his visa, they also returned all the information we submitted!!!

November 18 - Passport mailed by courier to Santo Domingo

November 23rd - changed to decision made on the website

December 1 - picked up passport

December 7 - Landing in Canada

 

[Barbie38]

Barbie38

Got married March 18, 2009

Sent papers to Mississauga April 29, 2009

Approved as sponsor May 27, 2009

IN PROCESS - June 5, 2009

Ordered CAIPS notes - October 1, 2009

Received CAIPS - November 5, 2009

November 20 2009 - Email sent to Haiti to clarify comments in CAIPS, received response to email indicating my husband had been approved and did not require an interview, only to complete IMM10a.

Dropped passport and IMM10a at embassy in Santo Domingo - November 23, 2009

Decision Made on CIC Website - December 7, 2009

Call to pickup passport - December 8, 2009

Picked up passport in Sto Dgo. - December 10, 2009

Total time in process 8 1/2 months, no interview required

 

[maryhopefull]

Maryhopeful

Application Sent -April 9 /09
Sponsorship Approved - April 30/09

IN PROCESS - May 5/09

Letter Requesting Future Interview Received - Oct 2/09 (Dated Sept 17)
Interview date Dec 17/09 - Visa Approved

__________________________________________________

 

[ElizaJ]

Jan 12, 2009 -application mailed to Mississauga
Feb 4, 2009 - approved to sponsor
IN PROCESS : February 9, 2009.
Sept 16, 2009 - request to drop off passport and IMM10a form
Oct 20, 2009- drop off passport and IMM10a form
I got a call from the Embassy this morning nov 13 to pick up the passport by Monday november 16th 2009.
Nov 16, 2009 -Picked up passport - asked to redo medical and police check before visa can be issued
Nov 17,2009-drop off passport and redo medical
Dec 17,2009 The permanent resident visa issued.
Dec 21,2009-Decision Made..The office will contact you concerning this decision.
Picked up passport with visa in Sto Dgo.-dec 31 2009.
thanks everyone for helping in this process ...

arrival to canada 10 january 2010.

 

[sangria]

twillis

Married: January 17/09

Papers sent to Mississauga: January 29/09

Received letter requesting additional documentation: February 24/09

Sent in documentation: February 25/09

Approved as sponsor: March 9/09

IN PROCESS: March 17/09

Ordered CAIPS notes - September 1/09

Received CAIPS notes - October 13/09

Interview - December 15/09 - Approved

January 8/10 - call to drop off passport and redo medical on Monday in Santo Domingo

February 8/10 - pick up visa - process complete

 

[brown_girl103]

Married: December 29th,2008
Sent Application: May 17th,2009
Application Received: May 20th.2009
Sponsorship Approved: June 17th.2009

IN PROCESS: June 20th

Ordered CAIPS Notes - Mid-November 2009

Received CAIPS notes on January 29th, 2010.
Next BF date as of December 22nd, 2009 was March 8th, 2010.
M19 for Medicals expiring on January 26th, 2010.

Approved for a 6 month visitor visa while waiting for PR visa to be completed due to earthquake in Haiti.

Applicant is a Haitian living in Haiti when earthquake hit.

 

[haitilee]

haitilee

Married August 22, 2009

Application mailed October 5th, 2009

Received in Mississauga October 8th, 2009

Sponsorship approved October 28, 2009

IN PROCESS - November 10, 2009

UPDATE - Ordered CAIPS notes March 15th, 2010

April 6th - got e-mail from the SD Embassy telling us that they would be processing his application (it was initially sent on March 5th but he never got it in the mail)

April 9th - phone call to drop off his passport at the SD Embassy

April 12th - he dropped off his passport at the Embassy and they asked him to come back for it at 3:00pm!!! By 4:30 he had his passport in hand!!

Approximate arrival in Canada April 23rd (just in the process of searching for a flight...finally a one-way!!!!)

 

[tiguerita]

Tiguerita - PR Visa issued today!

Tiguerita

Married - Febuary 21, 2008
Application Sent - August 31, 2009
Received in Mississauga - September 1, 2009
Sponsorship Approved - September 24, 2009
Additional documents mailed to Haiti: September 30th, 2009

IN PROCESS: October 9th, 2009

Mailed Quebec Sponsorship Application: October 10th, 2009
Quebec received Sponsorship Application: October 11th, 2009
Quebec Selection Certificate issued: October 20th, 2009

Additional documents (hubby updated Education qualifications+letter requesting priority processing for family reasons /handed-in to Santo Domingo): Feb. 18th, 2010

Use of a representative form 1 (mailed to Mississauga): Confirmed as received March 2010.
(Contact center said not yet forwarded to SDQ because they are not receiving new docs from Mississauga at this time due to Haiti crisis.)

Use of a representative form 2 (handed-in to Santo Domingo): March 21st, 2010

Ordered CAIPS notes (by mail): March 23rd, 2010

PR Visa Issued: April, 20th, 2010

Total processing time: 8-1/2 months

 

[sangria]

jojocdn

Married: March 18,2008

Application Sent to Mississauga: February 10, 2009

Approved as Sponsor and papers sent to Haiti: March 2, 2009

IN PROCESS: March 10, 2009

My husband received an email on June 9, 2009 requesting the following documents:
- New Police Certificate
- Original of birth certificate and extract "acta de nacimiento y extracto de acta"
- Original Wedding certificate
- Bio data page of his passport
- Complete the following declarations: IMMH10 and IMMH10a

Received Phone call to go June 25, 2009 to embassy - reason unknown

June 25, 2009 - embassy provided IMMH10 forms to be filled out, dropped off requested documents, advised next step will be interview or call to drop off passport

November 22,2009-emailed POP for correction in document we sent

November 24,2009-received email from POP to acknowledge reciept of email and correction made in document

February 9,2010-appointment with MP regarding status/information on our file; I had to get my spouse to sign permission for release of info-it was form that my MP provided me

February-My MP contacted Minister's office explaining our situation concerning no update/info from visa office since November email (and email received was confirmation of my email sent not relating to anything in our file except a mistake made by them). Minister's office contacted MP and said they needed a few days to look into things directly (my MP and I thought that this was good news)

March-I contacted MP several times via phone/email for update and had difficult time getting hold of my MP and getting the MP to contact the Ministers office for the update

March 18th-Minister's office only told MP that our bring forward date was April. They decided not to assist in my case. I spent several hours on the phone argueing with my MP and several phone calls later, I got some info on our file. Our file was confirmed to be in Sto.Domingo, our medicals are expired, our IMM declaration was not filled in properly, they do not have his birth certificate and they approved our relationship to be genuine and we do not need an interview. This was in our file since last June and we were NOT contacted via mail, email or called for any information/documents.

March 25,2010-embassy in Sto.Domingo called and instructed husband to get another medical and to drop off at the embassy March 29.

March 26,2010-husband completed 2nd medical and went directly to the embassy and handed medical directly to Canadian employee (he requested to speak to one directly).Husband wanted them to take additional identity documents but they would not take them.They told him that it would be approx. 30 days to process this info and will contact him if more is needed.

March 31-I am travelling to the DR to obtain these documents, again, and to go to the Embassy directly with my husband to hand these documents to a Canadian employee in the embassy. We will be getting a second medical, a third police record check, a third birth certificate to bring to the office. Needless to say, this has been very costly both financially and emotionally for both of us.

April 12-husband received a call from the embassy to go on April 15 with passport for 10 am.

April 15-husband and I in Sto.Domingo at the embassy to drop off passport.We were asked to leave it with them and return at 3 pm. We received the visa by 1630. An error in the visa made us wait another hour there...hopefully no issues when presenting the visa and his passport at the airport.

June 7,2010-finally coming home with my husband to Canada=process complete.

Total Processing Time - 14 months