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No, temporary status is unaffected by an open application for permanent residency. You can still "temporarily reside" in Canada on a work or study permit without impact. This is in contrast to the United States, where many temporary visas expressly forbid "dual intent" and can be revoked.

No. When an application includes only a spouse (no children or dependents), then Québec does not have a minimum income. However, just as with CIC for other cases, Québec needs to establish that the sponsor is not bankrupt, in default, or dependent on social services for reasons other than...

CIC's objective is to check for relationships of convenience for the purposes of immigration, not to pry into the details of your personal life. It's not supposed to be an adversarial process. Cultural assumptions work in your favour. It's a great deal easier for a CIC agent to believe a...

It means that they've looked at your file, which is good. Asking you to pay the RPRF is also good, as it tends to mean that they do not see any "red flags" that would warrant rejection. Obviously, you should submit the documents and RPRF with all deliberate speed.

... provided the CBSA lets you through in the first place. "I'm arriving to temporarily live with my spouse while applying for permanent residency" really doesn't demonstrate intent to return to the US. I believe that many users have had success with this approach, but technically a CBSA agent...

Yes. There is an ongoing pilot program to offer open work permits to inland ("in-Canada") applicants after their application is received. That is the part that takes ~4 months. The downside is that the "in-Canada" sponsorship program requires that you reside Canada *first*, and more...

For fingerprints, and for jurisdictions that do not freely exchange appropriate records with Canada. The fingerprint check most importantly establishes that you were not arrested under any other name, or that if someone who shares your name was arrested it is not unfairly associated with you...

Yes, you should. If they are a member of the regulatory board (which they should be if they were accepting money), then you absolutely should file a complaint. Fortunately this is only a delay to your application.

At least that's good news. The current guidance suggests that they will only ask for a re-medical if that's the only thing blocking an application.

Unfortunately, the FBI clearance will probably add a substantial delay to your application. There is another thread regarding the FBI's timeline, but in short their background check office is approximately as slow as Ottawa: some forum members are just now receiving the report for fingerprints...

It sounds as if she would quality for Express Entry via the Canadian Experience Class, provided you do not live in the province of Québec. She will need to complete a profile to see how many points she would receive, to estimate her odds of selection. Her odds are greatly improved if her...

This is a good thing. Because of policy and privacy regulations, CIC does not want to make the details of the process available online, especially in advance of more detailed instructions from the visa office. However, we know that visa offices do not usually reject applications out-of-hand...

Unfortunately, the Ottawa spreadsheet really can use a maintenance pass. The root issue is that spreadsheets don't make for very good databases, but that's what we're using this (and the monthly sheets) for. However, I think "10-15" is a vast overestimation of Ottawa IP/DMs (I was counting...

I don't think the spreadsheet supports this. First, the commonly-reported figure is the 80% processing time: Ottawa won't be able to reach "5 months" until the full backlog of routine 2014 cases is cleared out. Second, we haven't seen preferential processing for post-January applicants. It...

My suspicion is that the out-of-order processing is a good thing. As far as we know, applications at the visa offices are processed topic-by-topic, with different "due by" or "bring forward" dates. For example, an immigration officer will send out for security checks, then not look at the file...

Look at the CIC operational manual (pdf) for outland family-class applicants. The "service standard" for spousal applications is indeed that 80% of applications should be processed within six months, however CIC has obviously not met its own target here for quite some time.

You may wish to address this legal status issue. Sponsorship by a conjugal partner is extraordinarily rare and suspect, as there has to be a good legal reason why you and your partner could not at least be living together in a "marriage-like relationship." Furthermore, still being legally...

As I said, I am aware of no such legal limit. The new immigrant could in theory take the next flight to India after landing, but in practice it would probably be best to wait for the PR card to facilitate re-entry. However, please keep in mind that such an application may look like a...

There are no special rules for sponsoring a spouse from India. In theory, an immigrant to Canada could land, immediately fly back to India, marry, return to Canada, and sponsor their new spouse. However, CIC would understandably have questions about the legitimacy of that relationship and...

You should look at the range on the Ottawa spreadsheet. The last few people who reported receiving their landing visas had total processing times of about 240 days, so 8-9 months. However, processing times can and do fluctuate over time. Those who applied at this time last year (May 2014) had...