Additional docs...

[tHund3r 0]

I will post my review when I get back to Toronto...I passed my interview but i need to submit additional docs...

[sdw 10]

Congrats! Hopefully the process the additional docs. quickly.

[BH45 0]

Congrats.

[Dan and Ali 3]

Congrats on passing ... looking forward to reading your review!

[tHund3r 0]

Got back home safe and sound.

I will try to write my review as detailed as I can.

6.45---waiting outside at the consulate building and we ( my husband was with me) were 6th in line..2 of the guys who were infront of us did not have an expresspost envelope so they went away to buy it...that's why we got letter D.

7.35--- the door was opened..after the security check, we were directed to go to the elevator where there was a security guard who waited us and asked our designated letters and ushered us to the waiting room.

8.45----I was called in window 11. She was nice. She asked me about my medical result, and asked about my status in Canada and told her that my visitor's visa got approved last Feb2nd and I am still waiting for the visa on the mail. ( Thankfully, I got my tourist's visa on the mail today and I am given 10 months to stay in Canada!!!). Did the fingerprinting and after that she told me to go back to the waiting room and wait for my name to be called.

9.55---- I was called in door 7 and when i entered the room, the lady examiner ( she's nice,too) told me to put my bag on the chair so that my hands are free to swear in ( I had tons of papers/proofs of bonafide marriage like chatlogs, call logs,etc ..etc..plus I had a scrapbook ( 25 pages magnetic album) and the xray film--there were put in a large plastic bag:-). After I sworn in, she asked me about my status in Canada,, i explained to her that I got approved, i am just waiting for it to be mailed and told me that she needs the prrof my my status.... few questions were asked about how i met my husband, where did we met, about our age difference and seemed like she was satisfied with my answers. She went outside the room and told me to wait for her because she will just get sheets of papers. wen she handed the papers to me, it was the refusal worksheet because I need to submit/mail my visitor's visa(copy), and Certificate of No Marriage which i still have to get in my home country. I she told me about the CENOMAR, I was so shocked because even our lawyer did not ask this document to us. The examiner gave me instructions on how to mail them and I left room 7.

10.10--we left at the building and walked back to our hotel ( La Tour---no indications that we were bitten by bedbugs--Monday night, the fire alarm sounded because the basement's hotel was on fire--not a huge fire though and we had to use the stairs..too bad we were at the 11th floor! We were outside the hotel building for like 10 minutes and then we just heard one of the firememn saying that we can stay at the hotel's front desk /waiting area).

Well,that's what happened on that day---

Hopefully, I can mail the additional document to Montreal next week. I already called my sister back home to get the CENOMAR and she will mail it to me on Friday.

[TimandJoyce 1]

wow! Amazing about the documents you didn't know you needed. Glad they helped you out at the consulate about all that. Sounds as if it shouldn't take too long to get everything together, and you'll get that visa mailed out to you!! Hooray!!!

Great review, and congratulations!!

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Very useful review - and congratulations. Wow - a fire alarm in the middle of a Montreal winter? Brrr!

[trailmix 77]

Congratulations!

[Hugglebuggles 60]

At least the additional documents they have requested are fairly simple for you to obtain and send. Congrats on an otherwise successful interview!

[Carlawarla 1]

I'm not surprised you'd need some paperwork surrounding your marriage certificate, and your visitor's visa. I didn't know, nor did I'm sure anyone about the CENOMAR. Your situation is a bit unique. I'm surprised your lawyer didn't advise you on this. I'm sorry you were disappointed after your interview. Ensuring you get the correct paperwork to them asap means your visa will be sent back as quick as they're able. Best of luck!

[tHund3r 0]

I'm not surprised you'd need some paperwork surrounding your marriage certificate, and your visitor's visa. I didn't know, nor did I'm sure anyone about the CENOMAR. Your situation is a bit unique. I'm surprised your lawyer didn't advise you on this. I'm sorry you were disappointed after your interview. Ensuring you get the correct paperwork to them asap means your visa will be sent back as quick as they're able. Best of luck!

We were so confident that they will not ask the CENOMAR because when I applied for marriage license in Halifax, I was just asked verbally if I am married or not and I told her I've never been married and then she just asked my passport. Got the marriage license a week after it was applied. Of course, US laws are different and from Canadian's in terms of applying marriage licenses.

Should we have known that they will need CENOMAR, i should have obtained it together with my police clearance and my birth certificate which the lawyer asked me to comply back in August last year.

But,again, we are still grateful that we are almost done with this process!!! The waiting is killing me!!! Hubby was expecting that I can be with him before V-day! It won't happen this year!

Thanks for the words of encouragement, helpful tips from all the members in this forum. I am really thankful I come to know on this site.

[darkchilde794 5]

Congrats thunder! Im sorry to hear about the delay to your visa, but hopefully it wont be too long.

Im surprised they asked for a CENOMAR too... because you hadnt been married before, and I havent read a case on VJ Canada about that.

Goodluck with the rest of your visa journey and hope Montreal will give you your visa asap!

[OBX 51]

Congratulations on the successful interview! Best of luck for a quick resolution with the missing documents.

[Hugglebuggles 60]

Is the CENOMAR specific to citizens of a particular country or region? Just because I haven't heard of this either.

[tHund3r 0]

Is the CENOMAR specific to citizens of a particular country or region? Just because I haven't heard of this either.

Hugs, I am from the Philippines. So, to answer your question, it's yes.