Hello first time here been looking through and getting the help i needed by reading .now im need .
I sponsour my wife and child .Child i applied for proof of citizenship cause i am a canadian and was told this was gona be good and fast .now wife has visa to enter canada and just got the psu letter . had applied for a ETA to enter canada while waiting for this process . now my situation becomes tight .Wife has to come by end on month as in end of september and dont want to leave child in africa.
Canadian citizens are not eligible for eTA.
A Canadian citizen abroad without a Canadian passport needs to apply for and obtain a special Travel Document for Canadian citizens. This is probably what the child needs. And, yes, you need proof of Canadian citizenship to apply for that. See posts by others for more information about how long the
Program Support Unit takes to process applications for proof of citizenship in such circumstances. However, I doubt there is any way to accelerate how long the
Program Support Unit will take.
If your spouse now has a PR visa, yes she must travel to Canada BEFORE that visa expires. This is important.
If all of you cannot make the trip together, she needs to do what she can to make the trip. She needs to come to Canada and do the "landing" to become a Permanent Resident. But she can come and stay only a short time. She does not need to stay for long, not right away.
Thus: If you can financially afford for her to make the trip, do the landing, and then return to Africa while the child's application for proof of citizenship is being processed by the
Program Support Unit, that would be OK. Then, when you and the child have Canadian passports or special Travel Documents for Canadian citizens, all of you can travel together.
If your spouse cannot stay long enough in Canada, on her first trip to Canada, to get her PR card, she may need to apply for and obtain a PR Travel Document when you all plan to come together to Canada.
Good luck.
(and ignore the rest of this post)
This is getting really annoying.
The topic of this post is not just Proof of Citizenship, but rather those specific cases that are sent to Program Support Unit. One would think that if you read the title of the post you'd get that much, but no you can't count on the random forum participant having that much intelligence.
If you want to just discuss a Proof of Citizenship case you need to create your own thread now.
HUH? Or,
REALLY?
Or, did you think the "psu" letter was from Penn State University? or . . . perhaps . . .
punk slugs united (at its best a rather slimy rock band with no percussion)?
Or, might one say
annoying is what annoying does . . .