Another Eval Question - Date planning to return

[poisonive]

As I continue through the evaluation form - question 11 asks when I plan on returning to Canada. I don't know - it depends on whether I receive a job offer sooner as opposed to later. Do I need the job offer before we send in the application?

We are living in the US and applying for processing out of country. Could I/we move back and rent a house and provide that as evidence while I/we search for a job? Could I use the rental contract as the evidence for application purposes. I know he needs his Canadian permanent residency before he is employable. We consider ourselves very employable and we have the finances/savings to provide for our support while we job search.

Jeez - its a chicken egg thing eh?

 

[Leon]

When trying to sponsor while living in a different country, it is your job to convince immigration that you will both be moving to Canada when your husband gets PR. You can do this by renting a house, buying a house, showing that you have a place to stay at least, showing that you have a job waiting for you, a job offer, a possible job offer or something like that.

If you move to Canada before you sponsor, you will not need to prove those things as you are already living here. You would then already be living in Canada and looking for a job and your husband could still be living in the US and visiting you in Canada until his application goes through.

 

[thaihubbie]

I'm very curious about this 'chicken and egg' thing too and have started many threads about the topic. I don't know how I can get a 'job offer' when it is not clear when I will be returning to Canada. I feel that I am employable, I have a University degree, I have experience etc. I want to sponsor my husband while living in another country (Thailand) so that we can move to Canada together with our daughter. Why is it so important to 'convince' CIC that we will both be moving to Canada together? What is the alternative??? What is CIC afraid is going to happen? Are they afraid that the spouse gets sponsored and then they will just come to Canada alone? That makes no sense, unless the marriage was a fraud.

 

[PMM]

Hi

I'm very curious about this 'chicken and egg' thing too and have started many threads about the topic. I don't know how I can get a 'job offer' when it is not clear when I will be returning to Canada. I feel that I am employable, I have a University degree, I have experience etc. I want to sponsor my husband while living in another country (Thailand) so that we can move to Canada together with our daughter. Why is it so important to 'convince' CIC that we will both be moving to Canada together? What is the alternative??? What is CIC afraid is going to happen? Are they afraid that the spouse gets sponsored and then they will just come to Canada alone? That makes no sense, unless the marriage was a fraud.

Not really they get hundreds of applicants from the Gulf who are guest workers there, who sponsor their spouses abroad, the spouse "land" in Canada, while the spouses continue working in the Gulf. The spouse gets all the services in Canada and no has no income in Canada, claims child tax benefits (even if the have returned to the Gulf) Children get free schooling. That is why Canadian offices in the Gulf insist on seeing a resignation letter and cancellation of residency visa. Consider yourself lucky that you only have to CHC a vague plan of what you intend to do.

PMM

 

[med]

thats exactly true PMM

 

[thaihubbie]

Well, I'm glad to hear that I'm 'lucky' but I'm still in shock that my husband didn't get a tourist visa this year after we applied twice. Since I have been in Canada I met another Canadian woman who has a Thai husband. Her husband has a grade 6 education, owns nothing, no land, no car, doesn't have a job and he was granted a multiple entry visa by the Canadian Embassy in BKK. My husband has a University degree, owns land, has a job, has a car, has car paymentsall in Thailand AND we have a daughter and they didn't give him a visa. Now, I have been separated from him for 6 months and am supposed to return next week. Have you seen the news in Thailand? Now, what do I do.....? I don't feel so lucky all the time.