Managed to read the OP before they edited it. Basically, it's someone on a student visa that quit school (or was kicked out due to failing grades), and has been in Canada without status since 2017. Apparently OP got married a month ago in Canada to someone with status of some sort and wanting the know the risks of filing for inland spousal sponsorship.What seems to be the issue?
Not true: https://www.cicnews.com/2021/03/canada-accepts-spousal-or-common-law-sponsorship-applications-from-out-of-status-foreign-nationals-0317365.htmlTo apply for spouse sponsorship you have to have a legal status in canada, without that I don’t think he is able to apply for it.
This isn't true at all. You can apply without status. Lots of people here have done this successfully.To apply for spouse sponsorship you have to have a legal status in canada, without that I don’t think he is able to apply for it.
I looked again at the article I found - from this perspective the content is entirely neutral as to when this was adopted as policy, although text talks about covid stuff (really just meaning 'more people got stuck.').I find it interesting that the sources cited by armoured and Ponga as support for the view that out of status persons may be sponsored suggest that this is a change of fairly recent origin.
I know from experience that this was being allowed as early as 2003.
Could you provide a link to that law/policy and when it was actually implemented?I find it interesting that the sources cited by armoured and Ponga as support for the view that out of status persons may be sponsored suggest that this is a change of fairly recent origin.
I know from experience that this was being allowed as early as 2003. My wife came to Canada in 2002 under a class of visa that no longer exists. She was given 3 months and we extended by 3 months. She then ended up having to stay due to injuries precluding a return home. She was given a 3-month extension on compassionate grounds. We were married in Canada in 2003, about one month after that extension expired. I thought there was no need to seek a further extension, since we were getting married and we would start the sponsorship application (which in those days was filed first, before the permanent residence application).
The IRCC saw things differently. They said, sorry, she had lost status by the time you applied, so she must now return to her home country and apply from there. I tried arguing, tried involving my MP, all to no avail. We were about to move back to her country (I had been living there anyway before 2002), when the law - or at least the policy - changed. She was allowed to stay pending a decision on sponsorship/permanent residence, despite her lack of status.
Wow...my bad for not expanding upon the first sentence in my previous post. I was merely hoping to educate myself, not doubt the validity of what you were saying. My apologies.I am sorry, but I lack the time to undertake on your behalf the historical research requested, so I can provide no link as requested, assuming such even exists.
I did not say that you implied anything at all. I said "the sources cited by armoured and Ponga" did carry that implication. You would seem to agree, saying that your source was from May 2015, which I noticed, and which caused me to comment as I did.
Whether you choose to accept my word or not, a matter of no concern to me, I recall most vividly what my wife and I went through in 2003/2004.