You should update your status with CRA. Usually you have to do this whether you want to sponsor someone or not, so you should do that. Then you could add this as evidence of your relationship when you submit the application to sponsor your husband.
There is no official marriage registration process in Canada. Once you are married outside Canada, you are immediately considered married inside Canada as well. The only mandatory place you need to tell this, is (as mentioned above) to the CRA for tax purposes. Anyone else you tell (like insurance company, etc) is entirely up to you. Your IDs like passport, drivers license, etc do not show your marital status.
1. Sure, there is no law that says you have to take your husband's name in Canada, you can apply for a change to your PR card anytime you wish.
I just sponsor my husband i didnt change my surname yet but i update my status at the cra
That's what I thought too... 'cause what i know is if i change my PR card first that would take long before I start to process my husband's papers.. and when you said you updated your status with cra, did you mean updating it online?
Update the CRA info online. Or I think you can send in your 2018 tax return with the updated status.
ok thank you very much for responding to all my questions
and one more thing, while the papers are on process, can my husband come over once in a while to visit me? that wouldn't make ny problem or does it?
