SPOUSAL Sponsorship PAKISTAN @ London Visa Office

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Update: COPR received July 14th

 

[Landing_PR]

PA is required for interview in their country of residence. Sponsor can join (optional) to support the applicant.

To add on to MM345's post, it's suggested for PA and Sponsor to appear together for the interview as it helps to remove any doubts and also supports the idea of real vs fake marriage.

99% of the applicants who were at the interview had requested to appear voluntarily.

 

[Kinza_Bee]

PS: I got DM in 5 months, so I must have done something right

Thanks for the two part, extremely detailed post about what you did in your application. I am sure it will help people put together a well organized application which will reduce their processing time significantly.

I am also optimistic about the new process and hope that we see more DMs especially all those waiting from last year and the year before. Hope we are all reunited with our loved ones soon.

 

[Kinza_Bee]

GCMS notes would not mention officers comments on your NN just as yet. once your file is opened in LVO for initial and further reviews of eligibility, then only will they check the docs in detail and send you a request if they require. Sharing this from last experience of members on the spreadsheet.

Thanks for the heads up. When we applied, there were a lot of people mentioning that Mississauga was doing some of the work in house, so hopefully there are some notes for us to go off of because this paranoia and anticipation is, well exhausting! I don't know how those stuck in this process for 12+ months cope! Great respect for you all.

 

[Faizi1234]

My husband has submitted my application to CIC. My application is received by LVO on 24th March 2017. Its been three months and there is no update. I was wondering should i wait or request them to share the status. Please guide

You should call or email them to share the update. We applied on march 8, 2017 and did not receive any update; so my husband called missisagua call center from where we came to know that our file is still in transit and has not been transferred to lvo yet.

 

[25may2k7_applicant]

Depends on the request..does it say to be uploaded or sent via post?

Sent it to cic by mail today.

 

[Samlia]

Just a little background: I submitted voluntary docs couple of months ago and the status of docs changed to reviewing additional documents and today I opened my CIC account and the status changed to we don't need additional documents. Any thoughts?

FROM --> Review of additional documents : We are reviewing your additional documents. TO -->
Review of additional documents : We do not need additional documents.

 

[su005]

It took 6 six to reply me

Its been a couple of weeks since I sent them an inquiry, never got a reply!!!

 

[vkay]

2 months after additional documents uploaded and 1.5 months after re-medical done, finally update that background is in progress. though, eligibility still show in progress..

 

[su005]

Just a little background: I submitted voluntary docs couple of months ago and the status of docs changed to reviewing additional documents and today I opened my CIC account and the status changed to we don't need additional documents. Any thoughts?

FROM --> Review of additional documents : We are reviewing your additional documents. TO -->
Review of additional documents : We do not need additional documents.

This is a good update. Suggests you don't require any additional documents for now. Mine still says reviewing additional documents for last month. At least you are seeing some movement in your account.

 

[su005]

2 months after additional documents uploaded and 1.5 months after re-medical done, finally update that background is in progress. though, eligibility still show in progress..

which month applicant?

 

[MM345]

Post 2/2


- Letters from friends

Like i mentioned earlier we had a lot of mutual friends, so I asked 15 of my friends to write a letter explaining how they know us and to shed some light on our relationship. I asked them to send me the letters as the body of the email and NOT attach word documents in the email I then took printout of the email which showed that it was sent by which email to which email address. They also ended the letter stating that if the officer wants to reach out to them they are free to do that via email or phone and gave their contact info. Some of the friends also attached pictures of themselves with us. This is, again, NOT necessary; if it fits for you, then you should do it.



With all the evidences this is what was done:

-Before every type of evidence I submitted a letter in which I mentioned what supporting docs were following the letter and whether they were copies or originals

- On all the receipts and every other peice of evidence I stuck sticky notes and labels with notes describing what the receipt is for. I used to send cakes, flowers and gifts through an e-gift portal (express gifts) and the invoice they used to send used to show any message I had sent along with that, so i stuck sticky note on the top of the page stating what this invoice is for and stuck a label on the part where the message was written highlighting it for the officer

- On emails and whatsapp messages I stuck labels and sticky notes highlighting an important part (like tell them that in this email your spouse is wishing you a happy birthday or congratulating you on getting promoted etc.). The immigration officer is mostly going to skim through the evdiences. If you provide them notes on every piece of evidence you have done them a huge favor and it will reduce their job immensely and will clarify any questions they have.

- When providing evidences I was being very pessimistic and critical person, evaluating the evidences form the point of view of a person who did not believe what he was seeing. So i made sure that I dotted all my I's and crossed all my T's and ensured that the officer will not have any questions about the application

- For photographs I wrote behind the photographs with a marker. I wrote the following:

- Date the picture or screenshot was taken

- Description: Mention what is happening in the pictures; if its from a particular rasam (doodh pilai, kheer wali rasam etc.) explain that rasam as well that what happens in it and tie it to its cultural importance. Again if you guys dont have such rasmain, its good no issues; I am just putting into details of what happened in my case and what we did.

- People who are in the pics and their relationship to the applicant or the sponsor (just write <sponsor's name> father, or <applicant name>'s mother, etc.). What I also did was that for big groups I mentioned that all the people in this picture are related to the sponsor or the applicant. So basically for the group containing all my cousins i just said everyone in this picture are osama's cousins UNTIL MENTIONED OTHERWISE. You can do this with group of friends as well.

- I also attached sticky notes on every social media proof again highlighting what it is for. Eg for the see friendship pages there were many posts of different checkins made, so i put sticky labels on them stating that this is a checkin made when we went out for dinner with blah blah, or checkin made for a dinner date or anything along those lines.

- Its great if you have multiple evidences for the same thing. EG any date you guys go to, submit a picture, a facebook checkin and a receipt


If you guys need any help you can always send me a message. Hope this helps everyone.

Good luck to you all.

Wonderfully explained & very detailed. Thanks lot for sharing your experience with the new comers. As we are 2016 applicants, we don't have much knowledge of the newest forms and checklist so your explanation will be helpful to those who r applying now. Great job, so nice of you to take out
the time to share your details here.

 

[MM345]

PS: I got DM in 5 months, so I must have done something right

You prepared a very solid case file no doubt. Also LVO timing was in your favour. they were processing apps in full speed in May and June.

 

[MM345]

Thanks for the heads up. When we applied, there were a lot of people mentioning that Mississauga was doing some of the work in house, so hopefully there are some notes for us to go off of because this paranoia and anticipation is, well exhausting! I don't know how those stuck in this process for 12+ months cope! Great respect for you all.

I could not cope at all...had been venting my frustration for the 9 month duration on this thread.

 

[MM345]

2 months after additional documents uploaded and 1.5 months after re-medical done, finally update that background is in progress. though, eligibility still show in progress..

Gr8, eligibility stay in progress until u get your passport back. Your case will be finalised soon.