Frank & Kim

Any outstanding money you owe to the IRS will obviously reduce your ability to meet your obligations as a sponsor. So to that extent, it is relevant. Obviously, if you have a certain income level, but the IRS has a "first claim" against some of that income, then your income level will likely be reduced accordingly for the purposes of determining whether or not you can meet the sponsorship obligation.

Hi:

I'm finding it difficult to figure out exactly where we are in the process. Maybe some of you experts out there can fill me in a bit. Our timeline doesn’t seem to be following the normal pattern.

We brought our I130-application in to the US Embassy in Ottawa on June 24th of this year. We paid our fees, they stamped everything, and sent it on to Montreal.

The next time we heard from them was when we received an envelope called a “packet 3” on August 6th. We filled out all the forms therein, and sent it back August 8th. The only form required was a Biographical Information one for each of my wife and two daughters. The instructions said not to send the remaining documents, but rather to fill out a checklist attesting to the fact that we had them ready.

About a month later we sent an e-mail confirming that the documents had been received. They responded that they had, and that all that remained was an interview.

I have a couple questions, though:

1) Why didn’t we have the intermediate steps listed here (packet 2, etc.)

2) Any idea how long it will be before the interview comes through? The “timeline calculator” on this site says there is not enough data to calculate.

3) Is our experience normal for a Canadian DCF filing?

Any insight from you fellow experts out there would be helpful.

I have been in the same boat, filing six years of back taxes on my Canadian income.

There were no obligations like the ones you suggest. I think the person who gave you that information was misinformed.

Hi all:

I found this forum very helpful, and wanted to put our experience in--primarily because there appear to be so few Canadians doing the DCF route. It is really hard to determine what pattern, if any, is being followed.

I'm American, my wife is Canadian. We have both lived all our lives in Canada.

We dropped our I-130 application off at the embassy in Ottawa in late June--it was meticulously complete. We paid our money (times 3 because we also have two children). I proceeded to the US for my new job, and my wife heard nothing, then received a "packet 3" in early August, about 5-6 weeks later. She filled out all the forms provided, and mailed them back two days later, and now we are just sitting waiting for the next step, which I am guessing will be an interview appointment.

My "auto-calculation" of timelines from this site suggests that this might happen between November 3 and December 18th, but I have no idea how this is calclulated, since there seem to be so few people in our cirsumstance (DCF in Canada).

Does anyone have any idea how these numbers are generated? Does anyone have any experience as to how accurate they are?

Frank