A sample letter to complain about the wait period for the Montreal interview

[Wyatt's Torch 45]

It's too bad that you guys didn't send your letter... would have had some good impact ( or even a little impact) for a whole pile of well written, polite but thorough letters would have shown up at the consolate...

Whoa whoa whoa...I sent one!

[lgg 2]

becky07???

It confuses me when you call yourself Rick...

Okay and Wyatt... my apologies -- i'm glad you all wrote letters and stuff... i hate it when the paths get beaten down with indignation and then as soon as relief is in site, all of a sudden you lose the troops!

Course i say that but I'm preeeeettty sure that if I'd gotten an interview, I'd be all like, yeah, yeah, letter... see you, bye!

Yepper, I agree there. I wrote my own letter (s) and said what I wanted/needed to say -- took a little advice from here and a couple of friends nad was good to go.

It's too bad that you guys didn't send your letter... would have had some good impact ( or even a little impact) for a whole pile of well written, polite but thorough letters would have shown up at the consolate...

Oh well... I wouldn't expect any 'blacklisting' or anything from a simple, concise, polite letter anyway... like they'd even have time to read them!

Following your lead, I wrote all in my list and have had very good response from a senator and a congressman. Both are no giving up and have promised to look into the manning of the embassy.

Now , wait and see.

Rick

[trailmix 77]

i hate it when the paths get beaten down with indignation and then as soon as relief is in site, all of a sudden you lose the troops!

I like that

[Old Dominion 26]

As best I can tell, the Consulate problem in Montreal is in the hands of the U.S. Department of State in Washington, headed by Hillary Clinton. The Canadian Consul General can't increase staff without authorization from Washington. Until a few years ago, the Consulate in Toronto also processed immigration visa applications, but no more. I suspect that is once source of the overload in Montreal.

[Flames9_RN 358]

Squeaky wheel gets the grease as they say! But immigration is not a huge thing in the USA, I think many would like less immigration. So one may write their congress person stating they represent you and they need ur vote, but they probably have 100 other people who want less immigration, thus they will send you a nice letter, saying they feel your pain, blah blah blah, you know the story! But on the other hand if you don't try, for sure nothing gets accomplished, so it doesn't hurt to try.

It has been longer than a few yrs since Toronto handled them, they didn't back in 2004 when I went through the CR-1 process.

I haven't checked, but how does the wait times differ between Canada and other countries, such as China, or India, etc etc etc??? Well, off to work, cheers

Edited October 24, 2009 by Flames9_RN

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

Squeaky wheel gets the grease as they say! But immigration is not a huge thing in the USA, I think many would like less immigration. So one may write their congress person stating they represent you and they need ur vote, but they probably have 100 other people who want less immigration, thus they will send you a nice letter, saying they feel your pain, blah blah blah, you know the story! But on the other hand if you don't try, for sure nothing gets accomplished, so it doesn't hurt to try.

It has been longer than a few yrs since Toronto handled them, they didn't back in 2004 when I went through the CR-1 process.

I haven't checked, but how does the wait times differ between Canada and other countries, such as China, or India, etc etc etc??? Well, off to work, cheers

I heard they last did it in 1996, but that's besides the point. I must respectfully disagree with the idea that there are 100 other folks writing to their representative complaining about immigration levels. There are a surprising few who bother to take the tiny effort to put pen to paper. Talk is cheap. The mood in the US is ambivalent towards immigration at the moment so I would write and write often. I would emphasize the fact that we are dealing with Canadians. It sounds terrible (actually, it is) but we sound like they do, we speak the same language and have similar backgrounds. Unless we make the effort nothing will happen. Can we change the waiting times at Montreal...YES WE CAN! I agree with what many have already posted and please try to avoid using a cookie-cutter approach to the letter, such documents lose their impact and do little but embellish wastepaper baskets. NOW GET TO WORK, THAT'S AN ORDER.

[Flames9_RN 358]

Well one could ask the average USA taxpayer, how do they feel about spending more $$ to decrease the wait time for people coming to the USA, and what do you think their response would be? I think you already know mine,lol

Again I think it comes down to wait times other countries are facing. I belive everyone should be treated the same, not just because were next door neighbors to the USA gives us special treatment. But my opinion are not popular with the majority here,lol So i will leave it at that,lol But as i stated above, in many occasions its not the worthy person getting the reward, its the squeaky wheel,lol

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

Well one could ask the average USA taxpayer, how do they feel about spending more $ to decrease the wait time for people coming to the USA, and what do you think their response would be? I think you already know mine,lol

Again I think it comes down to wait times other countries are facing. I belive everyone should be treated the same, not just because were next door neighbors to the USA gives us special treatment. But my opinion are not popular with the majority here,lol So i will leave it at that,lol But as i stated above, in many occasions its not the worthy person getting the reward, its the squeaky wheel,lol

I think that if we use your model, if I said better allocation of resources as opposed to more spending what would you say? While I am personally opposed to special treatment, the fact is that immigrants from Anglophone countries are less likely to need time or resources to become ameliorated to the American landscape. Canadians are far more familiar with America than immigrants from any other country. This is one of the many reasons cited to limit immigration so this is one response to that issue.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Well one could ask the average USA taxpayer, how do they feel about spending more $ to decrease the wait time for people coming to the USA, and what do you think their response would be? I think you already know mine,lol

Again I think it comes down to wait times other countries are facing. I belive everyone should be treated the same, not just because were next door neighbors to the USA gives us special treatment. But my opinion are not popular with the majority here,lol So i will leave it at that,lol But as i stated above, in many occasions its not the worthy person getting the reward, its the squeaky wheel,lol

I think that if we use your model, if I said better allocation of resources as opposed to more spending what would you say? While I am personally opposed to special treatment, the fact is that immigrants from Anglophone countries are less likely to need time or resources to become ameliorated to the American landscape. Canadians are far more familiar with America than immigrants from any other country. This is one of the many reasons cited to limit immigration so this is one response to that issue.

Hermano, I beg to differ. Although, in practice, some countries do get preferential treatment. Or, better said, ####### treatment (i.e. Middle East, China).

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

Well one could ask the average USA taxpayer, how do they feel about spending more $ to decrease the wait time for people coming to the USA, and what do you think their response would be? I think you already know mine,lol

Again I think it comes down to wait times other countries are facing. I belive everyone should be treated the same, not just because were next door neighbors to the USA gives us special treatment. But my opinion are not popular with the majority here,lol So i will leave it at that,lol But as i stated above, in many occasions its not the worthy person getting the reward, its the squeaky wheel,lol

I think that if we use your model, if I said better allocation of resources as opposed to more spending what would you say? While I am personally opposed to special treatment, the fact is that immigrants from Anglophone countries are less likely to need time or resources to become ameliorated to the American landscape. Canadians are far more familiar with America than immigrants from any other country. This is one of the many reasons cited to limit immigration so this is one response to that issue.

Hermano, I beg to differ. Although, in practice, some countries do get preferential treatment. Or, better said, ####### treatment (i.e. Middle East, China).

You clarified your position so I won't need to crush you like an insect. *dives under his mattress and hopes the bad lady doesn't find him*