Hi,
I'm a Canadian, who will be sponsoring my American wife outland this summer. We are getting our application together. My wife lives in Colorado. Last April, she got a speeding ticket going 27mph (43km/h) over the speeding limit. Colorado has very strict penalties for speeding and she was charged with a Class 2 Misdemeanor Traffic Offense, which is a criminal charge in Colorado. She went to court and it was dropped down to a Class A Traffic Infraction, which is a civil ticket, not a criminal one, due to her previous excellent driving record. She paid her fine for the infraction and received a few demerit points on her license. We spoke to an immigration lawyer in Canada about this and he assured us that this did not need to be declared on the Schedule A, as she was never convicted of a criminal offense and is not currently under investigation for any offense. But after reading some posts in this forum, I'm not sure, and I haven't been 100% confident in the answers the lawyer has provided us with in the past (He didn't think that we needed to declare step-siblings, for example.). Should I get a second legal opinion? It's hard to imagine that a speeding ticket would result in her being not admissible to Canada (and she's visited me here several times since then), but I also want to avoid any possibility of us being accused of misrepresentation if it's something that we will need to explain. We have applied for her FBI background check and expect to receive the results in the next few weeks.
Hoping that some experienced senior posters with knowledge or experience in these matters can point me in the right direction.
Thank you!
I'm a Canadian, who will be sponsoring my American wife outland this summer. We are getting our application together. My wife lives in Colorado. Last April, she got a speeding ticket going 27mph (43km/h) over the speeding limit. Colorado has very strict penalties for speeding and she was charged with a Class 2 Misdemeanor Traffic Offense, which is a criminal charge in Colorado. She went to court and it was dropped down to a Class A Traffic Infraction, which is a civil ticket, not a criminal one, due to her previous excellent driving record. She paid her fine for the infraction and received a few demerit points on her license. We spoke to an immigration lawyer in Canada about this and he assured us that this did not need to be declared on the Schedule A, as she was never convicted of a criminal offense and is not currently under investigation for any offense. But after reading some posts in this forum, I'm not sure, and I haven't been 100% confident in the answers the lawyer has provided us with in the past (He didn't think that we needed to declare step-siblings, for example.). Should I get a second legal opinion? It's hard to imagine that a speeding ticket would result in her being not admissible to Canada (and she's visited me here several times since then), but I also want to avoid any possibility of us being accused of misrepresentation if it's something that we will need to explain. We have applied for her FBI background check and expect to receive the results in the next few weeks.
Hoping that some experienced senior posters with knowledge or experience in these matters can point me in the right direction.
Thank you!