Spousal sponsorship

[dcowboys]

Hello, for one of the question it asks when did you retain your citizenship. I am not able to find the card with the date on it. I know it was in 2002, how strict are they with the month when answering the question? I don't want to have to pay to get a copy of it with the correct date?

 

[luckyrabbit13]

Maybe a strange question but: if checking application status on the IRCC automated phone system, the pre-recorded statement gives a date (usually about a year previous to the current date) and says “if your application was received after this date, processing has not started yet.” But that’s clearly not the case — some people who applied before that date (today it was 18 May 2018) already have PR and many others have some sort of evidence of processing (medical or SA or AIP) so I’m confused: what does the message mean? Is there a specific meaning to “processing” as used there?

 

[Livanshaqwan]

Hello this is my timeline does anyone have any info what will be next btw it was forwarded to Bucharest visa office on November-15-2018.... and pre-arrival on December-15-2018..... thank you

1. We received your application for permanent residence on July 9, 2018.
2. We started processing your application on December 5, 2018.
3. We sent you correspondence on October 29, 2018. If you have not yet provided the information or the requested documents, please do so as soon as possible. Please wait until you receive the correspondence before sending us additional information, as the correspondence will outline all information that is required.
4. We sent you medical instructions on November 6, 2018. To avoid delays, please provide us the information requested in the letter as soon as possible. Please consider delays in mail delivery before contacting us.
5. Medical results have been received.

Best regards

 

[singleman]

Hello this is my timeline does anyone have any info what will be next btw it was forwarded to Bucharest visa office on November-15-2018.... and pre-arrival on December-15-2018..... thank you

1. We received your application for permanent residence on July 9, 2018.
2. We started processing your application on December 5, 2018.
3. We sent you correspondence on October 29, 2018. If you have not yet provided the information or the requested documents, please do so as soon as possible. Please wait until you receive the correspondence before sending us additional information, as the correspondence will outline all information that is required.
4. We sent you medical instructions on November 6, 2018. To avoid delays, please provide us the information requested in the letter as soon as possible. Please consider delays in mail delivery before contacting us.
5. Medical results have been received.

Best regards

PREarrival is a v good thing means no more interview basically approved. Some VO are taking more than a month for next step. Try sending a webform CSE . It may help Here is link for you;-
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/contacts/web-form.asp

 

[singleman]

Livanshaqwan
USE "tell us more" >> then >>YES>> outside Canada=YES>>chose Embassy>>then clearly explain in few words all.

 

[Livanshaqwan]

Livanshaqwan
USE "tell us more" >> then >>YES>> outside Canada=YES>>chose Embassy>>then clearly explain in few words all.

Thank you for the information

 

[russ6970]

Is a basic Disclosure check from Scotland sufficient for PCC check?

 

[KRahman]

Hey Guys, hope you all are doing great! I am applying for my wife's inland spousal PR. Almost done preparing the documents. Just wanted to know few things -

1. Should i put a cover letter stating what the supporting document is ? Like i am adding a document showing my work benefits where she is declared as my wife. It's a two page document and has no titles in it.

2. My wife holds dual nationality, one of her passport still has her ex husband's name mentioned as spouse (We are adding her divorce certificate and our marriage certificate though) Since we have to add both of her passport's first pages so is it gonna make any problem ? Correcting the info on the passport would take long time now. Don't want to delay anymore.

Thanks so much for the help!

 

[Rosanna123]

Hello Everyone,
Please clarify my question.
I submitted my application to sponsor my husband on March 28,2019.
Received AOR on April 25th.
Received sponsor approval letter on May 16th.
My husband received medical and biometric request last week.
CIC has sent a letter to his address, but it was sent through mail on may 15. Does anyone know what that letter is about??
He has completed his Medical, biometrics appointment is on next week.
It will be great if any one of you guys can give me an idea about the letter PA will receive from CIC?

 

[Casablanka]

So you are in the situation that you want to sponsor your foreign spouse for permanent residency of Canada and don't know where to start. Here are some tips:

Married, common law or conjugal partners

First you need to pick an application class. There are three of them: married, common-law and conjugal. For all of them, you need to prove the genuineity of your relationship. For common-law, you need to prove that you have lived together for 12 months or longer. For conjugal, you need to prove that you have combined your affairs as much as possible but there are real immigration barriers or other barriers preventing you from living together or getting married. Conjugal is the hardest to prove. For example, if your partner could get a visit visa to come to Canada for 6 months and then apply for an extension to get the full year, even though they will not be allowed to work, that is not considered an immigration barrier. An immigration barrier is if your partner tries to get a visit visa to come to Canada and is repeatedly refused. Some people have had luck with the conjugal class but try to avoid it if possible.

Outland or inland?

Now you need to decide if to apply outland or inland. If your spouse is not in Canada and can not get a visa to go to Canada, you must apply outland. That means that you will send your application to Mississauga and they will approve you as a sponsor. The time that takes is usually 1-2 months to but current processing times can be seen here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/canada/process-in.asp#sponsorship After that, the application is forwarded to your local visa office. If your spouse is residing in a country other than the country of their nationality, you can pick which of the two visa offices you want. Otherwise it will be processed in their country of nationality. You can see the processing times here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/international/05-fc-spouses.asp

If your spouse is staying in Canada as a visitor or on some other visa, you can pick whether you want to apply outland or inland. Outland is generally faster and has appeal rights but a downside to outland is that if an interview is required, your spouse will have to travel to the visa office in the country where it's being processed. Inland has the downside that it's generally not advised that your spouse travels while you are waiting for your processing because it is a requirement of inland that they reside in Canada and if they are denied entry at the border for some reason, your application is gone. If an interview is required for inland, you may also have to wait a long time for it. The inland application would be sent to Vegreville and if all goes well, you would get a first stage approval, usually in 6 to 8 months. The current processing times can be seen here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/canada/process-in.asp#perm_res Then the file is forwarded to your local CIC office where you live and they will contact you for a landing appointment. Getting the PR with inland usually takes 12-18 months. If an interview is required for inland, Vegreville will not give first stage approval but instead will forward the application to the local CIC office without it and you will have to wait for them to have time for your interview. In some cases that can take a year or two. If you do get the first stage approval, your spouse will usually be eligible for health care and an open work permit. It is actually a good idea when applying inland to send an application form for a visit visa extension as well as the open work permit to be given at first stage approval all in one package so it's tied together.

Which method to pick depends on your situation. If your spouses country of nationality has a long processing time or your spouse does not want to have to travel there for a possible interview, then inland is the way to go. For faster processing and freedom of travel during the processing time, outland would be better. You can find the application forms for inland at http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/spouse.asp and the application forms for outland at http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/fc.asp

Avoiding potential problems with your application

The most common reason for people to be called for an interview is that the visa officer has doubts about the relationship being genuine. It is up to you to send immigration some quality data, emails, chat logs, phone records, photos, letters and other material to prove to them that your relationship is the real thing. Other reasons you might have problems with is eligibility of the sponsor. The sponsor can not be on social assistance, can not be bankrupt and can not have a record of violent crimes or crimes against family members. If that is the case, better talk to a lawyer and get that cleared up before attempting to apply.

Dependent children

If your spouse has dependent children, they must be included in the PR application, even if they are not coming to Canada. They will need to have medicals as well to keep the option open to sponsor them later. The only way that immigration will accept the application without those medicals is if the children are no longer minors and refuse to have it or if the children are in the full custody of their other parent who refuses to make them available for medicals. In that case, your spouse needs to sign a statement stating that they know that they will never be able to sponsor these children to Canada in the future.

Dependent children are classified as single and either under 22 years of age or if they are older, they must have been full time students since before age 22 or dependent on their parent due to a disability or medical problem.

Refusals due to income and medicals

You will be asked to provide information about your income but you will not be denied to sponsor your spouse and dependent children because you do not make enough money. It is possible though that if you make absolutely no money at all that immigration may ask you how you plan to support yourselves.

Spouses and dependent children are also exempt from the clause about excessive demand on health care so you do not have to worry about them being refused for that reason.

Sponsoring your spouse while living in another country

If you are a Canadian citizen, you can sponsor your spouse without being in Canada but you do then have to prove that you are planning on moving to Canada when your spouse gets approved for permanent residency. Such proof can include having arranged jobs, being accepted to college, having arranged housing or letters from friends & relatives stating that they know of your plans and that you can stay with them while you look for housing etc.

If you are a PR, you must reside in Canada in order to sponsor your spouse. You can chance short vacations (remember that a Canadian vacation is generally no longer than 2 weeks) but if immigration finds out that you are not in Canada, you risk getting your application refused.

 

[Casablanka]

Hi everyone! I need some advice, don’t know what to do((( I am protectet person in Canada and I am waiting for PR, I got married month ago and I want to add my husband to the application, the problem is that he overstated inCanada few years, he is an European citizen, my question is should he leavethe country during all aplication proces and than come back with legal statuslike a visitor or better if he stays here?We don’t know what to do,

 

[Copingwithlife]

Leaving will not reset his status It might show that he is abusing the system by trying to reset his stay.. By leaving, and returning the CBSA could potentially turn him around to his home country, because by overstaying without authorization it has shown disregard with following the rules for visitors . And regardless if he is a European citizen, aka visa exempt, he is still expected to follow the rules. He is allowed to visit, but he has lived here, and overstayed. I would stay put
Has he reached out to the IRCC to become legal again ?

 

[Casablanka]

Leaving will not reset his status. By leaving, and returning the CBSA could potentially turn him around to his home country, because by overstaying without authorization it has shown disregard with following the rules for visitors . And regardless if he is a European citizen, aka visa exempt, he is still expected to follow the rules. He is allowed to visit, but he has lived here, and overstayed. I would stay put

Is he qualify

Leaving will not reset his status It might show that he is abusing the system by trying to reset his stay.. By leaving, and returning the CBSA could potentially turn him around to his home country, because by overstaying without authorization it has shown disregard with following the rules for visitors . And regardless if he is a European citizen, aka visa exempt, he is still expected to follow the rules. He is allowed to visit, but he has lived here, and overstayed. I would stay put
Has he reached out to the IRCC to become legal again ?

No he hasn’t, Unfortunately... and what about public policy A25(1),? It says that spouse or partner being sponsored by a Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident doesn’t have to have a legal status.. but I am none of above yet, can he be deported during the whole process? Thank you for your answer)

 

[didars]

Hello folks
Timeline 10th August 2018 app recd. Medical passed 5th November file transfer to NDVO in January
Interview done of my wife in delhi on 22nd may 2019 ..I was present. And approved. Anyone knows how much long it gona take to complete when they ask for submit pp

 

[savemaria]

Hi all,

With respect to the photographs being sent as proof of relationship, can they be color printed on regular paper? Also is it necessary for the pics to bear a date stamp? I'm considering sending color printouts of pics captured on cellphones.

Or pics must be clicked on a digital camera only?

yes.. photographs as proof of relationship can be printed on regular paper but they have to be clear enough for VO’s review. Yes, photos from mobile phones are acceptable as long as they are clear.

Also, write the name and date of birth of the Principal applicant at the back of each photos, also write the date when each photo was taken and a short description of each photo (event, place, taken with whom, i.e. family, friends ).