Hi there,
I highly appreciate your input and experiences on this topic. Background: My wife, daughter and I are permanent residents. My son was born after we obtained our PR outside Canada (he is Jordanian, not a visa exempt national). He is now with us here in Vancouver on a TRP (Please note not a TRV ) which was issued for 8 months, expires April 2013) since I've been offered a job at UBC. Now, I would like to sponsor him to become a PR and I’ve been through the CIC website many times and through many forums to try and understand the process of sponsorship, but I'm still confused to say the least !.
I'm trying to understand: 1. What application should I use ? and 2. Where should I send it ?
CIC states if applying from within Canada use the Spouse and common-law partner application in Canada Class (I know a child is not spouse, but you can choose child in the application instead of spouse) and mail the application to Vegreville, Alberta.
Others in this forum mentioned using the family class process for people OUTSIDE of Canada and send the application to Mississauga, and choose CPP-Ottawa as the visa office... BUT the guides for this application states DO NOT PUT CPP-OTTAWA as the visa processing centre, no ?. Others stresses that Buffalo NY should be selected as the visa office if his TRP is for more than a year (not sure why)
Others warned that the application will be rejected either way and MUST be sent to Vegreville on “H and C” grounds, and that this is the only way to become PR from within Canada since the child is on TRP and his visa can’t be processed in a visa office outside Canada.
Can you please help clarify this dilemma! your help is highly appreciated
Thanks a lot
Maen
I highly appreciate your input and experiences on this topic. Background: My wife, daughter and I are permanent residents. My son was born after we obtained our PR outside Canada (he is Jordanian, not a visa exempt national). He is now with us here in Vancouver on a TRP (Please note not a TRV ) which was issued for 8 months, expires April 2013) since I've been offered a job at UBC. Now, I would like to sponsor him to become a PR and I’ve been through the CIC website many times and through many forums to try and understand the process of sponsorship, but I'm still confused to say the least !.
I'm trying to understand: 1. What application should I use ? and 2. Where should I send it ?
CIC states if applying from within Canada use the Spouse and common-law partner application in Canada Class (I know a child is not spouse, but you can choose child in the application instead of spouse) and mail the application to Vegreville, Alberta.
Others in this forum mentioned using the family class process for people OUTSIDE of Canada and send the application to Mississauga, and choose CPP-Ottawa as the visa office... BUT the guides for this application states DO NOT PUT CPP-OTTAWA as the visa processing centre, no ?. Others stresses that Buffalo NY should be selected as the visa office if his TRP is for more than a year (not sure why)
Others warned that the application will be rejected either way and MUST be sent to Vegreville on “H and C” grounds, and that this is the only way to become PR from within Canada since the child is on TRP and his visa can’t be processed in a visa office outside Canada.
Can you please help clarify this dilemma! your help is highly appreciated
Thanks a lot
Maen