Useful advice...

I have to post this link.

It's a really useful blog (hopefully ours will grow up to be one too) that takes you through the "spouse importing" process, step-by-step - in this case a guy is bringing his wife in from Nicaragua but the experience is essentially the same.

He has checklists and gotchas - If you're just starting out, plodding along, caught in red tape or even near the end of your struggle, I urge to you go and look at his site.