I can't speak for recent history but back in 1999 when Yris and I started the process to bring her to Canada the Embassy in Santo Domingo phoned her and told her to bring her passport in, and 3 weeks later(another phone call) she had her Landing paper/Canadian immigrant Visa with a grace period of six months. During the whole process they sent her one letter asking her to send more pictures and that was it, no interview...etc. Now this may have been for a number of reasons- more experienced and dedicated person working on her file, absolutely perfection in the paperwork we sent in, her being a well educated professional with a computer like brain and me a long time government worker used to government paperwork. The updates online seem to take forever, but in hindsight it wasn't that long. Our total process - May 1999 to March 2000. When my wifes nieces came to Canada in the summer of 2006( age 15 and 18) for ESL school. They also received phone calls to give the Embassy(Santo Domingo) their passports and two weeks later they had their visitors Visa. Her brother tried to do the same thing and they denied him- not sufficient ties to the DR to return- even though he owns a business and two houses. Go Figure. Patient my dear and good luck.
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