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"Card Production Ordered" means you passed! Congratulations! That's awesome that you got approved - that while they found your case slightly suspicious, they weren't confident enough to Stokes you. You dodged a real bullet there. I'm very relieved for you. Thank whatever Gods you worship, repeatedly.

As I said, you've dodged this bullet. What follows is primarily for the benefit of future readers of this thread:

They pretty much only order a Stokes interview if they're dead certain you'll fail it. The Stokes Interview process is designed to grant a clinical objectivity to the interviewer's strongly held intuitiont that a denial should be issued. Each spouse is asked the same few hundred questions [some of them VERY personal]. If your answers substantially agree in a certain (fixed, but secret, and not known to us) percentage, you are (grudgingly) passed. If even one too may of your answers disagree, you are (gleefully) failed. In a Stokes interview situation, you must assume the interviewers are hostile, want to fail you, have already decided to fail you, and are simply going through this exercise to objectively justify failing you.

Stokes interviews are very, VERY serious. Serious like a corpse. Even if you feel you know each other's lives backwards and forwards, the first thing you need to do, the instant you get a second interview notice, is hunt up a good immigration lawyer with experience with Stokes interviews and get several hours of professional interview preparation training. It'll be several hundred dollars VERY well spent! If you go into a Stokes interview with inadequate preparation, the results can be very very bad. Do NOT go into a Stokes interview assuming it will be easy, and do NOT attempt to do one without professional preparation! Even innocent tiny little discrepancies can totally hose you, if there are even one too many of them.

DON'T PANIC

"It says wonderful things about the two countries [Canada and the US] that neither one feels itself being inundated by each other's immigrants."

-Douglas Coupland

 
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