What have you asked in your emails? If you can renew your medical to extend your CoPR?
Full list of travel exemptions on this webpage: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/coronavirus-covid19/travel-restrictions-exemptions.html
I think they were referring to travel restrictions in the UK. Given the section of the forum they posted in it seems likely they’re exempt from the Canadian travel restrictions based on being an immediate family member.
But I'm Canadian / British and spouse is British and we are applying outland.
You can enter separately or together, you'll just need to show Canadian immediate family member.
Yes, but actually the link isn't clear, actually, as it says 'reuniting'. At the moment, we aren't separated - we're both in the UK, but it does seem to imply, that due to covid, I will have to go first, rather than landing together.
Even with COVID? The reuniting thing I hadn't noticed before, which rather implies we are apart!
I don’t think the reuniting thing applies here; in the who can travel to Canada section it says foreign nationals who are an immediate family member of a Canadian citizen are eligible, the only other applicable caveat is that they’re staying for 15 days or more.
The 'family reunification' thing is the term for the exemption, it doesn't literally mean that they check that you're reuniting by means of a specific flight.
Apologies, I didn't realise I was in the Family Sponsorship forum. I thought I was in the CEC forum for some reason. Just going from the link I sent, it looks like you might be right. You may need to fly out to Canada first and then your spouse can fly out to reunite with you.
Not so. They can fly together. Or indeed separately in almost any combination, not even required formally for Canadian to fly first. The key is the exemption, spouse à Canadian citizen.
So in theory my UK spouse could do a soft landing on his own, before me, with me still in the UK to wind things down, as long as he stayed for 15 days and followed quarantine rules, as they might apply when he gets CoPR?
As I understand it, yes. But I'm not 100% certain; the intention obviously is to join a Canadian citizen / resident who are actually resident. But I don't think they are attempting to fully check physical presence of the Canadian (incl PR) partner, nor fussed about the timing like in your hypothetical test. They just want to confirm you meet the exemption test - that is, spouse who is Canadian citizen or PR - address and isolation plan, etc. I've certianly not heard anyone claim there was an issue nor even asked about this. And I doubt they'd turn away someone who said their spouse was unavoidably detained but coming in a week. No guarantees, however.
