IR-1/CR-1 Montreal DQ'd private message group goes public

[Hawk Riders 814]

1 minute ago, bort_s said:

I am not getting it done before interview date is received just seeing if anyone has experience with this office or if I am better to travel east for the medical is all.  

Go read the reviews section of VJ; you will find many.

[Japples 31]

1 minute ago, bort_s said:

I am not getting it done before interview date is received just seeing if anyone has experience with this office or if I am better to travel east for the medical is all.  

Yes. He sends medical to consulate electronically. You should be able to have everything completed and sent within a week. You still need to pick up the packet that you need for the border crossing but he had that ready for us in 4 days.

[gavinski91 102]

15 hours ago, US-EH said:

My husband brought his cell phone today and they kicked it up for him. 

I just read this and imagined the security guard outside taking his phone and drop-kicking it up to the 3rd floor window after he took the elevator up 😂

[gavinski91 102]

2 hours ago, rafale1973 said:

Hey guys I have a question for y’all. If I have the 1040 forms of my two co-sponsor is that enough or I really need their W2? I never uploaded their W2 to NVC and was still approved. The last W2 I uploaded was for my husband for 2016 as he haven’t been/worked in the USA since then. He worked here in Canada on a student visa. So should I request my sponsors the W2 or their 1040 forms should be enough? 

You need the W-2s if your sponsors file their taxes as "Married Filing Jointly" so that they can determine if the income listed on the 1040 is from the sponsor, or from their spouse. If the sponsor files as single, then you don't need W-2s.

[Kimchi 190]

1 hour ago, Akaur said:

Hey guys just a question is it true does anyone know if there’s still cases at consulate waiting to be scheduled (ones without interview dates yet) but sitting at the embassy? Someone posted on fb soo I got confused...

K-1s maybe. But their process is different. 

[pooj97 89]

1 minute ago, MWhite said:

K-1s maybe. But their process is different. 

Pretty sure that’s for us K1‘s. For us, NVC is just a transit point from when our petition gets approved to when it reaches the consulate. NVC sends cases to the consulate after they generate our case number (no DQ for us). So there are some K1 cases that are currently at the consulate and have been since March/April, waiting for a new interview to be scheduled. NVC however stopped sending K1 cases to Montreal after March 20th so most K1 cases are still stuck at NVC

[ONtoHOU 228]

38 minutes ago, pooj97 said:

Pretty sure that’s for us K1‘s. For us, NVC is just a transit point from when our petition gets approved to when it reaches the consulate. NVC sends cases to the consulate after they generate our case number (no DQ for us). So there are some K1 cases that are currently at the consulate and have been since March/April, waiting for a new interview to be scheduled. NVC however stopped sending K1 cases to Montreal after March 20th so most K1 cases are still stuck at NVC

Thanks for sharing that insight into how the processes differ. 

[DGF 730]

51 minutes ago, gavinski91 said:

You need the W-2s if your sponsors file their taxes as "Married Filing Jointly" so that they can determine if the income listed on the 1040 is from the sponsor, or from their spouse. If the sponsor files as single, then you don't need W-2s.

Added this to the FAQ, thanks for clarifying the situation!

[rafale1973 141]

3 hours ago, jackanddeona said:

from what I gathered during my dq phase people were getting qualified with less then optimal paperwork due to covid. Chances are if other people in the past have had to do it and you didn't during covid then you probably will need to still. I'm curious for rafale. Shouldn't he have had to file anyways to prove that he wasn't making too much? I thought American citizens had to file anyways even if they weren't working in the USA

We talked to IRS and as he barely made anything here, he is not require to file. 

[kburbasaur 60]

11 hours ago, JenTex said:

That is correct. Her medical originally expired on Sep 25 and they had to go in and change the expiration to Oct 25 to add the one month extension. So she technically has 27 days validity left on her medical until she has to enter the US. You will only have 9 days validity left (your interview is OCT 7, correct?) so that'll be cutting it close for them to get the visa mailed to you and for you to cross the border. Hopefully they'll send the visa to you asap instead of making you do another medical but I'd be prepared for the latter.

thanks for the insight @JenTex - I've been staying with my mom just 20 minutes from the border and have confirmed with the US agents there that I can drive and activate the visa (Kingston/Ogdensburg). I'll then return back to Canada and get back to my husband via air later in October. 

[rafale1973 141]

Okay, just to be sure. I understand that if  my sponsor is filling their taxe as married that I need to join their W2 to distinguish their salary. Although do I still have to if my 2 sponsor are married to each other and I provided their joint 1040? 

Edited September 29, 2020 by rafale1973

[mam521 2,018]

1 hour ago, bort_s said:

I am not getting it done before interview date is received just seeing if anyone has experience with this office or if I am better to travel east for the medical is all.  

To save money, we just went straight to Montreal and had everything done there.  There typically isn't much time between when you get your interview and a chance to schedule the medical, especially if your PD is "older".  I think I had 10 days all told after receiving our interview date.  We had immigration medicals at Medisys on a Tuesday, results picked up Friday and consulate interviews the Monday.

Flying YYC to YVR, medical, YVR back to YYC, to turn around and go to YUL was too much of a headache when we actually thought about it and that was before tons of flights were being canceled because of covid.  

 

That said, Medisys has been having issues with phones and internet connections this past month and I am sure someone can comment as to whether they finally got it sorted.  

 

24 minutes ago, kburbasaur said:

thanks for the insight @JenTex - I've been staying with my mom just 20 minutes from the border and have confirmed with the US agents there that I can drive and activate the visa (Kingston/Ogdensburg). I'll then return back to Canada and get back to my husband via air later in October. 

I haven't seen any real cases of people being turned away when activating the visa for the simple reason that you're considered a PR at that moment and countries are (re)patriating their own citizens and permanent residents.  

[Rose__ 303]

13 minutes ago, mam521 said:

To save money, we just went straight to Montreal and had everything done there.  There typically isn't much time between when you get your interview and a chance to schedule the medical, especially if your PD is "older".  I think I had 10 days all told after receiving our interview date.  We had immigration medicals at Medisys on a Tuesday, results picked up Friday and consulate interviews the Monday.

Flying YYC to YVR, medical, YVR back to YYC, to turn around and go to YUL was too much of a headache when we actually thought about it and that was before tons of flights were being canceled because of covid.  

 

That said, Medisys has been having issues with phones and internet connections this past month and I am sure someone can comment as to whether they finally got it sorted.  

I had a similar timeline scheduled for my interview in April (then both the medical exam in the interview were cancelled). This time around they don’t seem to guarantee the 3 days turn around anymore. They promised 5. I got my results in 6 days but delivered straight at home. 
It did take me over a week to actually get my exam scheduled because they had a massive shutdown... Which hopefully won’t happen again, that was very stressful. I think it’s all back to normal now.

[SAsal 60]

3 hours ago, Hadarah said:

So basically the Case Number in my passport on my visa is MTL plus 12 digits, after googling I believe it should only be 9 or 10 digits. Anyone else have this problem while trying to complete the Imigrant visa fee form to pay online?

I was wondering the same 

Edited September 29, 2020 by SAsal

[DGF 730]

New visa issuance stats are out, Montreal issued 32 IR1 visas in August! And only 2 CR1 but I guess that's because most of us level up during the wait. 

Edited September 29, 2020 by DGF