Wednesday, November 7, 2007

E-cas

Browsing the immigration.ca forums I found a thread started by my people - others who have started the application process in October 07. This three-legged race seems to be measured by electronic client application status or e-cas statements, which are valuable yet painfully incomplete little crumbs and fragments of information provided on your file. To access your e-cas you need a client ID number, which I don't have, but that I can apparently get by calling CIC. I'm also expecting a letter of some kind confirming the receipt of my application, that should also state our case number, but who knows how long that might take to arrive.
Now is when I get paranoid about not having my tax forms from Canada, and being rejected as a sponsor on that basis despite my polite letter and Finnish substitution. At least the forum peeps are relatively optimistic about the whole thing, and it will be interesting to see how we all fare in the coming months. Most of them had an update from "received" to "in process" within a few weeks. Let's get this Mr. O show on the road, hmm?

3 comments:

Karri said...

This is from http://www.canadavisa.com/immigration-financial-ability.html:
"A Sponsor must demonstrate a level of income that meets the minimum necessary income or low-income cutoff (LICO) for a given family size..." BUT "The Sponsor is freed from this requirement if:
The individual requiring sponsorship is the spouse, common-law partner or conjugal partner of the Canadian Sponsor"

So information about your income (incl. tax forms) shouldn't really matter?

Chrisinha said...

yeah--carey could be broke and still sponsor you. which is cool.

Careygirl said...

Well that only makes sense, however they still ask for all the tax forms etc., so we'll see.