@mayurd I know you only wanted to understand the requirements and process of adding your spouse to your application, but all queries, I believe, had been answered by the good members of this forum.
1) Basically, you will only inform CIC about your marriage
after the actual marriage, be it a court/civil wedding or traditional marriage ceremony.
2) Raise a CSE, or email
CPC-CTD-Ottawa@cic.gc.ca or your local VO (if known), then wait for their reply on how to send your spouse’s documents, either by email or through your CIC account. Wait time will take 1 day to 1 month. I got mine in less than 24 hours.
3) More or less, this will be the reply you will receive, and the document checklist too:
To advise us of a change to your family composition, please send us a signed letter via mail or email, providing us with all required changes to your file. The following information must be included in the letter if we are to make the changes:
- full name,
- date of birth,
- file number [Letter followed by a nine-digit number],
- telephone number, including area code,
- mailing address
As we require your signature on this information, please note that your current family composition has not been amended in our records.
How to add your spouse to your application:
In order to add your spouse to your application, we require the following documents:
· Updated IMM0008 Generic form and updated IMM5406 “Additional Family Information” form for yourself
· Schedule A Background Declaration form, and a Family Information form completed and signed by your spouse
· Processing fee for your spouse (if accompanying you to Canada)
· Notarized copy of the birth certificate of your spouse
· Copy of your spouse’s valid passport
· Two recent passport-size photographs of your spouse according to the specifications
· A copy of your marriage certificate and marriage registration
· A few wedding photographs
· Police clearance certificates for any country in which the spouse has resided in for 6 months or more since turning 18
(see http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/security/police-cert/intro.asp for more information)
· The Right of Permanent Residence Fee will need to be paid before a visa can be issued to your spouse (if accompanying you to Canada)
· A “Certificat de Sélection du Québec” for your spouse ( in his or her name), if you wish to immigrate to the province of Québec (http://www.immigration-quebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/index.html)
Copies of the original documents with original certified translations into English or French are required.
The required forms can be downloaded at:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/forms/IMM0008ENU_2D.pdf
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/forms/IMM5406E.PDF
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/forms/imm5669E.pdf
4) The wedding photographs that you have been asking around the forum are any picture taken during the marriage ceremony (traditional, court, etc). If you do not have any single picture taken, explain it.
5) Medical exam is not on the list but your spouse can take an upfront medical exam just like when you had your medicals. Upload the Medical Information Sheet with the documents above. Otherwise, you will be ask to submit it at a later time.
I hope this helps you and other members adding their spouse in the future. All the best to you.
