China Romance
All About China => Visas, Immigration and Emigration => Topic started by: Neil on February 09, 2012, 11:26:23 pm
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Dear applicant,
You are required to attend an personal interview on 11 April 2012 at 8:30 am. Please refer to the attached instructions.
Yours truly,
Immigration Section
Consulate General of Canada, Hong Kong
12/F., Tower 1, Exchange Square
8 Connaught Place
Hong Kong
Web Site : http//www.hongkong.gc.ca
email: hkong-im-enquiry@international.gc.ca
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Lucky guy..... Congratulations !
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Good news Neil.I wish your wife and you the best of luck at the interview.
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Contratz Neil. Best of the world to you and your wife.
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Thanks guys. My wife is super excited and also very nervous. She received this as an email - nothing was sent to me (though I haven't checked my regular mail yet). Also, our online status on the immigration website hasn't changed either.
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(though I haven't checked my regular mail yet). Also, our online status on the immigration website hasn't changed either.
Neil chance are you won't receive any letter for the interview, just her. Also our update on line was about a month later from her getting the interview request by mail.
But good news for the interview for the both of you. Now is the time to prepare for the interview questions.
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Congratulations to you and your wife Neil, all the best, MinYing and John
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congrats to you both :D :D
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(though I haven't checked my regular mail yet). Also, our online status on the immigration website hasn't changed either.
Neil chance are you won't receive any letter for the interview, just her. Also our update on line was about a month later from her getting the interview request by mail.
But good news for the interview for the both of you. Now is the time to prepare for the interview questions.
Which is what I was planning to ask about next: what is the timeline like following the interview? If things go well, theoretically, could she come home with me?
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Good luck to you and your wife for the interview Neil, my wife has her interview coming up soon.
Cheers
Leeroy
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Congrats Neil, and Clayton too !!! We are still waiting to hear from Beijing.... :)
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It's nerves all round Neil, I just got word from my missus, she has her interview in Guangzhou on Tuesday.
Cheers
Leeroy
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Good news Clayton, hope things go well for the both of you, MinYing and John.
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Good luck Clayton.Hopefully the waite isn't to much longer.
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May goodluck come to you all , had an interesting day yesterday at one of our must see attractions islands [ Philip Island ] , 16 hours nonstop , on the way home Sujuan had noted just how many nationalities were visiting the various places and at the last which was the nightly Penguin Parade at which there would have been over 1000 on the beach and probably 60% Asian 30% others from around the world and 10% Aussies , even Sujuan was amazed at how many of the Asians were in fact Chinese , I think she thought I had transported her back home ha ha , regards Sujuan and Robert .
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Which is what I was planning to ask about next: what is the timeline like following the interview? If things go well, theoretically, could she come home with me?
Neil I see you got married last year in February and I am not too sure when you submitted your documents. An April interview time means that it looks like you are ahead of the average timeline for Hong Kong. That is good news for you. Much depends on when your wife did her medical, as it is critical to see if you have another 2 months to wait for her visa. The medical is good for 1 year and if she passes the interview with a few months before her medical expires, then I can see springtime for her visa. However, if her medical expires, then she will have to wait for a letter from the consulate asking for a new medical.
It took us a bout 2 months before she received her passport back with her visa in it. And from others who needed their spouses to redo the medical, asking for the letter when at the consulate for the interview, or asking if possible to just do the redo ahead of time, has always been answered with a retort - "just wait for the letter"!
If your wife still has time left before her medical lapses, then I am not too sure of the timing or if you can pick up the visa. From what I gather, the policy now is that they mail the passport. I think that only Hong Kong residents have the expedited service of being allowed to pick up the passport with visa issued at the consulate, while mainland China waits for the post.
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Since she needs her passport to go to Hong Kong, I would assume she needs it to return home. That would mean she either has to send it to them from China or have a visa installed while she waits. Fingers crossed for the latter.
Thanks Rhonald.
Oh, and yes, if we had waited the 19 months, we would have to wait until next January (2013). I don't know the exact date her medical expires, but I think we'll be in good shape for that.
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Can anyone recommend an affordable hotel in Hong Kong? I noticed the Four Seasons Hotel is close to the consulate, but the price is more per day than I pay for a month's rent here. Yikes.
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Neil, I always book hotels through www.chinahotels.org (http://www.chinahotels.org), look on their web site, John.
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Thanks John. That's a great site.