Did anyone here already apply for a Family Class Common-law sponsorship (Outland) even when the principal aplicant was living in Canada? I am the principal aplicant and I have a work permit, I do not intend to move out of the Country. I had a call with a consultant who told me that I could not do it, she said it would be risky and it would not make sense to immigration that I applied to Outland when I am Inland. Help please!
Apply to Ouland process for common-law sponsorpship while living in canada?
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Ignore your consultant, fire them - immediately.
Hint should be that the forms you fill already have this precise option (family class with principal applicant in Canada). I doubt they'd put that option on a form if it would not make sense to them.
The current processing time is 10 months while the Inland is 29months. There is also the fact that I want to feel more free to travel out of the country (nothing out of normal, just vacation)
Excatly! I told her that and she said ''oh that is for very specifc cases, like someone who needs to travel a lot for work ..''. Are they gonna even check that? I honestly feel that she is wrong but at the same time I'm afraid of doing it and not going so well.
The posted processing times are not actually reflective of the processing time people are experiencing so would not apply Outland thinking you will be processed faster. How much time do you want to spend abroad? If it is 2-3 weeks then that is typically not an issue applying inland.
That's a reasonable point - but as we've had come up here many times, there is also not really a compelling reason for many to apply inland instead of outland.
In the case of the OP here: already has a work permit, access to health care in most provinces therefore assured. So why apply inland? Would still be eligible to apply for an open work permit (in case any concern about a closed work permit/employer), and no reason to worry if need to leave for longer period happened to occur.
The thing that concerns me is that the processing times changes very recently and by a lot. Within just 6 months, it went from 1 year to almost three years. And the people who are currently saying or experiencing less processing times (<12 months) might fall into the pool who applied when the processing time was less (<12 months) and now that time has increased, can we still say that the time for inland processing would be faster when the outland processing times? which shows 10 months while the inland shows 29 months?
Short form: go ahead and apply outland. It's by no means a guarantee of it being faster, but won't hurt either way.
[Many here think those estimated time differences between inland/outland are a sort of statistical mistake. But we don't know for sure.]
If you are purely making a decision based on posted processing times that actually doesn’t seem to be an issue. If you want the ability to travel out of Canada for longer periods of time or need to Iive in a different location than your partner then Outland is the best option. Would look at recent posts from inland applicants and you’ll see that processing is typically between 6-12 months.
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