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I sent it to greg.weston@sunmedia.ca. Mr. Weston had just finished an article on the express service skilled people were going to get.... The attached is what I sent.. April 22nd 2008
I found your story "Myth busters, immigration style" but you are just scratching the surface.
I, like most Canadians have always considered immigration part of life from the past. New Canadians are just late party comers’. "Glad to see you ... don't take all the beer!"
As a whole I assumed. If you wanted to come... it was like getting your driver's license renewed.... annoying, but no big deal.
I feel I have good command of the English language; I can read and write adequately. Perhaps I have become overly dependant upon my spell checker… In 2007: I had a paradigm shift. I married a beautiful lady who happened to be Vietnamese. We read all that we could from the Immigration web sites, we consulted others, and we ordered kits and read each page thoroughly… When we completed, double checked and taken every advice to expedite all matters we mailed our “package” to CIC.
Up till now all is rosy… there is no doubt in our minds that the process in the works and in three months we expect to be together in one country and ready to begin our lives.
Now if you read every page… the process works something like this:
You pay your sponsorship application fee.
You send your sponsor ship paperwork to the appropriate office.
If approved. They send you a notice. You pay for your application fee and you can send the paperwork to the appropriate CIC office or embassy.
They send you an AOR “application Receipt” This is supposed to outline a projected time for the completion of your processing of your case. Now this important! You are not to contact them until this projected time has passed! Otherwise your only other guide is the 2006 statistics and your own limited judgment of where you may fit in to the % of the completed cases. It actually states if you contacted them before the allotted time and they need to reference your file and remove your file from the queue: it will be returned to the end of the line…..
Now of course you feel kind of like a hostage… you don’t even get a chance at Stockholm syndrome because you never meet your hostage taker. You have no idea of when. Your life comes on hold. You are afraid to complain because you can not see the effect. Once the numbness passes you feel there has to be other “external” information sites and there are. One is http://www.trackitt.com/canada-immigration-trackers/family-class/ . One has to keep in mind that if you were to receive your information in an allotted or at least in an informed time that sites like this would not exist. Nor that people who get their visa in a timely manner would utilize a site like this… so the results may be skewed.
With all those provisos…. Remember that AOR letter Only a small percentage seem to get one.
Then GREAT NEWS! You find out that CIC recognizes that they have a backlog. Imagine that! I read all the articles with great interest. I found nothing that would actually speed things up. In fact, I noted that it would not help me at all because I applied before the date they arbitrarily set up to help all applications after… IF a bill is passed.
On the whole, for a system that has a priority for “reuniting” families: It seems to go out of its way to accentuate the pain of separation, minimizing information and thereby perpetuate an overwhelming feeling of limbo because you can not plan the next month!
Oh, and by the way two weeks ago I sent a note of frustration to the Minister of Immigration The Honourable Diane Finley, P.C., M.P. and did not even get the standard Aid's acknowledgment with it's thank's for my letter and they would take it under advisement... yada yada yada!
Waiting without a clue...
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