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

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]

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!