Hi everyone,
been stalking the forums for a while now and finally thought it was time to post. My partner is from Canada originally and is doing commonlaw sponsorship, so hoping we will have a smooth application process. We visited Toronto and southern Ontario last September and I feel in love with the area and people, so upon our return to not so bonny Scotland we started the paperwork. I'm very lucky that my partner is very skilled at filling in forms but still it took a lot of running around getting correctly sized photographs, notaries signatures and my medical. By this point Christmas had arrived and it wasn't until the start of January that we got it sent away. Side story DHL won't deliver to a postal box so we had to send to my partners parents in Caledonia who then sent it on to Mississauga. We checked the E-CAS site last night and discovered that that a decision had been made the same day, waiting on some sort of notification to as to if its was successful or not. Does anyone know if they would say if it was unsuccessful at this stage or do we just have to wait to see it in the unreliable post? Does anyone know what kind of time line to expect with spouse sponsorship at this point?
We are both have IT backgrounds, currently finishing off a Cisco CCNP (both unemployed due to the terrible job market in scotland) we will be initially staying in Caledonia though we could end up in Cambridge if my partners 96 year old relative (a really amazing lady, hope i can be that active and mentally aware at that age) moves into assisted living as she plans. Other than RIM is there any other IT employers that we should look for jobs with in those areas or will we have to move closer to Toronto to get IT work?
Looking forward to moving over and have my "Timmy's" fix, if anyone has any advice i would love to hear it.
Chris
been stalking the forums for a while now and finally thought it was time to post. My partner is from Canada originally and is doing commonlaw sponsorship, so hoping we will have a smooth application process. We visited Toronto and southern Ontario last September and I feel in love with the area and people, so upon our return to not so bonny Scotland we started the paperwork. I'm very lucky that my partner is very skilled at filling in forms but still it took a lot of running around getting correctly sized photographs, notaries signatures and my medical. By this point Christmas had arrived and it wasn't until the start of January that we got it sent away. Side story DHL won't deliver to a postal box so we had to send to my partners parents in Caledonia who then sent it on to Mississauga. We checked the E-CAS site last night and discovered that that a decision had been made the same day, waiting on some sort of notification to as to if its was successful or not. Does anyone know if they would say if it was unsuccessful at this stage or do we just have to wait to see it in the unreliable post? Does anyone know what kind of time line to expect with spouse sponsorship at this point?
We are both have IT backgrounds, currently finishing off a Cisco CCNP (both unemployed due to the terrible job market in scotland) we will be initially staying in Caledonia though we could end up in Cambridge if my partners 96 year old relative (a really amazing lady, hope i can be that active and mentally aware at that age) moves into assisted living as she plans. Other than RIM is there any other IT employers that we should look for jobs with in those areas or will we have to move closer to Toronto to get IT work?
Looking forward to moving over and have my "Timmy's" fix, if anyone has any advice i would love to hear it.
Chris