Mar/Apr/May/June 2011

This timeline, however, is not up to date, but here is some extra info.

This letter I was sent May 8, 2012 was a Residence Questionnaire. I was supposed to send it back within 45 days. One of the documents it requested was my travel history issued by CBSA, and as most of you may know, it could only be requested in written via mail. So I called them to know how long it would take to have it back and they said 55 days. At that time I was struggling with some health/personal problems and I realized I would never be able to send everything within 45 days. I lost total hope when they 45th day came and I figured by the time my application had been closed. I failed by not checking with CIC. I assumed it was closed and that was it. I was already preparing myself to start all over again when a friend suggested I should check with them because she was pretty sure it was still open since I had not received any final notices from them. So I called CIC and the agent said it should still be in progress and that I should send all the documents right away. Since I knew my travel history document would be a while to get to me and I thought they could close my application any minute now, I thought I would send CIC a letter explaining what happened and telling them I was waiting on that document. I sent both the CIC letter and the travel history request December 18, 2012.

January 2, 2013  CIC sent me another copy of the RQ by registered mail. This time it was a final notice. The RQ was very similar with the exception it did not ask me to request the travel history myself, but just to simply sign a consent for CIC to get the info themselves. The letter said I should send everything within 30 days from the date on the letter and if they did not receive it by February 13 , 2013, my application would be declared abandoned.

I sent RQ with supporting documents including travel history February 1st, 2013 and they should have received it yesterday, February 5th, 2013.

I guess what I would like to know is how long it would be until I hear from them. I have been reading posts on several  threads and I guess it could take 17 months or so. Is that correct ?

Another piece of information I would like to add is the possible cause or causes for my RQ.

When I received the letter informing me about the citizenship test, I was given a list of documents. I took all of the documents with the exception of my expired passport which I had not been able to find and I thought it had not been given back to me when I applied for the new one. 

When I was speaking to the officer and he asked me for the passport, he asked me if I had the passport in my possession and I said "no", then he asked me if i had to hand it in when I requested my new passport and I said "yes". I tried to keep my answers to a minimum and I guess it did not help at all. So, I did not tell him I think they kept my passport, but that is kind of what I made it sound like.

A friend of mine whose process went really quick, she took a whole lot more documents than those they had asked for on the letter. She took everything you could possibly imagine including rental leases and all which means she was ready to prove everything she was claiming. As for me, I literally took only the documents listed and when the officer was asking me questions I felt like he expected more documents than the ones I brought. If that is really the case, then why dont they tell us to bring everything we have instead of giving me a very limited list of documents?? 

I ended up finding the passport I thought I did not have anymore and I explained so on the letter I sent them December 18th, 2012

Anyways, I frustrated because I wish I had handled this whole thing a whole lot better than this. I feel like I was not well informed and well prepared at all and made stupid mistakes.

What are the odds I may need to see a judge? Does being married to  a Canadian, owning a house and being pregnant make a difference?

Anyways, thanks guys and good luck to us all.